Enable economy overlay by default

You decide your strategy on which mex to take before entering the build commands for mex, and it is crucial to know which of the mex are arbitrarily double the value. Geothermal spots are basically invisible at far zoom without economy overlay. Economy overlay highlights which features are not cosmetic and instead make up the majority of your early-to-mid game economy. Finding out that the overlay exists or how to enable it requires getting lucky with a loadscreen.

I think the problem is more about teaching people how to play this game.

To expand and defend your expansion is a steep part of the learning curve.
Suddenly it is too expensive to have turrets everywhere to defend all those lonely metal spots.
It is like, you need an mobile force... like an army.

It is hard to say what the reward is to switching your thinking from static to dynamic.
The typical game play have trained these turtlely players to just survive... I guess they might think the Bertha or superweapons will win them the game in 3 hours. IN fact, there is more pain when you expand. People hate to see their stuff blowing up when those lonely mex get taken down.

This overlay being ON by default is not going to be super effective. It is already some what obscure how to erase drawings or turn off the drawing overlay all together. So adding another interface thing that needs reading the manual to figure out might be bad?

I like the intention of helping people lose less. When a player lose too many times in a row, they stop playing.
Attrition have been pretty bad but in the long term, as long as we can pay the server fees it should ok right?

I don't know...

Teach people how to play ? Good luck with that. :D

While I personally agree it should be on by default, here's one possible downside:

If people find it difficult to turn it on, then they'll find it almost as difficult to turn it off. They may not know it's optional, and some people may hate it. Others may decide it's ugly, and the overall impression of the game, especially to a new player, may be reduced given how much of the map is highlighted in glowy blue-cyan or has yellow poles sticking up out of it.

I don't care about everybody else, but can I enable it by default in my client.

Can I make it so that I can always see the address on the map my cursor is at?

how can you save this option to be enabled on game start?