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For my part, there's a series of changes to the UI I'd like to see:
1. Close the battle-view with "Esc" in addition to "q" 2. An option to turn off the "zoom into the province" animation before a battle. 3. Exit buttons placed below scroll-lists, rather than as the Last element on the scroll-list, so we don't have to scroll to the end of the list to press it. 4. Being able to change the sub-screen / report you've opened without going back to the main map view, and then returning to the main view by pressing a single "Esc". I.e. I want to be able to press "r" to open the recruit screen, then "t" to go to directly to the army setup-screen, then "F1" to get to the province overview report and then a single press on "Esc" to return to the main map. (As it is today I have to first press "r", then "esc", then "t", then "F1" and finally a Last "Esc") 5. Be able to scroll through the options in a list with the arrow-keys - both for ordinary lists (such as the list of commands you get for a commander when your press "space") and scroll-lists. Also to be able to use PgUp/PgDown to scroll in scroll-lists. 6. All options in lists should be selectable through the keyboard. This goes for the command-list, the list of Messages to read, the "which nation to play / host game / cancel" list between turns and so on. Preferably both by hot-keys (which ought to be shown in the list) and by selecting with the arrow-keys and space/return. 7. A key to select the next province I control (or a pair of next-province / Last-province keys to cycle through them with) 8. The borders between provinces you control and provinces you don't control, ought to be another colour than the other borders. 9. A key to select the next commander in the currently selecty province. If the commander is part of an army-group, select the whole army-group. 10. A key to select the next province bordering to the start province (the province you had selected when you first started pressing this hot-key.) So, if you have a province Centre and you press this key, you'd select province North. Press it again and you'll select East, then South and finally province West. 11. The # hot-key which lets you jump to a province by its province number would be a lot more useful if in addition to the province name, you also had a filter for showing the province numbers on the map. 12. If you press F1 to open the nation overview and selects a commander by clicking on him, you'll jump to the province this commander is in - but the commander is not selected. He ought to be. 13. The score overview is ... not very pretty, and it should at the least have an x-axis at the bottom with the number of turns. 14. One should be able to change the research using just the arrow-keys. (Choose between the schools with Up-arrow and down-arrow, and increase and decrease the research in the selected school with right-arrow and left-arrow) 15. "Translucent brightness display" on the main map to show the strength of such things as dominions, province income, province production, province defence, unrest and tax-levels. I.e. some sort of coloured alpha-transparency which will show the strength of the currently selected variable by being more or less transparent over each province on the map (an improved Version of the grey-scale map of dominion from Dominions 1.) A couple of non-gui issues. 1. The battle report ought to also include the number of "province defense soldiers" that were killed. (Just a very minor annoyance this, but it always did bug me in Dominions 1 too.) 2. When a commander is killed, there ought to be a text-message about this in the battle-display (i.e. same as there is when a commander casts a spell.) [ October 30, 2003, 18:42: Message edited by: Leif_- ] |
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Unarmored mages and priests should never rush out to engage in melee, even when there are no appropriate spells, unless specifically scripted to attack. Currently, they rush to the front lines.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Select province number 5. Press the magic key (say ":") once, and you'll select one of the provinces bordering 5 - let's say we start with the northernmost province, so one press of ":" will select province 2. As long as we don't press anything else but ":" the "central province" for the selection won't change, and each press of ":" will select the another border-province of 5, with the clock. So, press ":" once and we'll select province 2. Press ":" again and we'll select province 3, and another press brings us to province 6. Now, we press "t" here to look at the forces we've got in province 6, so the "central province" now changes from province 5 to province 6. When we now press ":" again, we'll go to province 3 (due north of province 6), and another press of ":" will take us to province 9 (the next province that borders province 6) and so on. It's basically a "I've now got this province selected, and I want to select _that_ province, but I don't want to move my hand over to the mouse to do so." |
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Leif - I must not have understood what you were getting at with #9 - could you explain it more fully.
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List updated again. If you made suggestions check to make sure I got everything right.
1. Tweaks/Easy changes to implement • Darker colours/textures in unit displays • Alignment of stats in unit info screens • Pre-made Gods for New players • Newbie 'get started' guide • Quick start game for Newbies • End/quit/save/host button remake • Bless effects more prominently displayed when creating a God's magic • Actual effects of scales explained when creating a pretender's scales • Line between commanders and regular units in recruitment screen & titles for each • More details on exactly what different effects mean (e.g. exact benefits of mountain/forest/swamp survival, etc.) • Able to quit battles using ESC • When selecting commander from F1 screen, have the commander be highlighted when it jumps to him • X axis labeled in score overview graph • Message in top left when Commander is killed in battle 2. Additions of relatively minor features • Castle battle results • '?' accessible on main menu • Research point 'lock' for schools of magic • Random nation AI opponents • Map and Scenario triggers [not sure where this was mentioned] • Ability to rename, or at least add epithets to commanders • Enhanced start (starting with more than one province) • Ability to close screens without having to scroll down or press ESC (e.g. Windows-style [x] or 'Exit' button below instead of at the end of scroll-lists) • Unit names with icons/detailed breakdown of mixed squads • Detailed lists of losses (most importantly commanders) • Right-clicking commander gives you list of troops under his command • Build queue for commanders • Shift-click to add higher multiples of units [e.g. 5 at a time] in recruitment screen • Build queue doesn't charge you for units which won't be built that turn • Ability to turn off pre-battle zoom animation • Ability to enter new subscreen (F1, recruitment, etc.) without ESCaping out of the current one • Ability to scroll lists with arrow keys instead of mouse • Keyboard selection (hotkeys or something else) for every command available with mouse • Way to select provinces using keyboard (e.g. entering province #, key to cycle through provinces, etc.) • Hostile borders different colour than province borders within your nations [don't know if this is possible or not] • Keyboard interface for research screen • Number of local defense force killed show up on battle report (even though they're automatically replaced) 3. Additions of relatively major features • SP diplomacy • Increased battle replay functionality (various speeds, etc.) • More than one god for each nation • Moddability • Ability to search for items on commanders • Battle Sim • Enabling/disabling spells (see Windreaper's post in this thread for details) • Translucent filters for map instead of icons (for dominion strength, production, province defense, etc.) 4. Balance considerations • Improve Strategic AI • Bug fixes • Less focus on supercombatants • More regrowth possibilities / less emphasis on population death • Greater 'bless' effects (starting at an earlier level/increasing exponentially rather than by addition/magic cheaper in general, etc.) • reduce effectiveness of artillery-like spells (esp. in hostile dominion) Any more? (I'm afraid http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif ) [ October 30, 2003, 19:31: Message edited by: st.patrik ] |
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"It's basically a "I've now got this province selected, and I want to select _that_ province, but I don't want to move my hand over to the mouse to do so.""
AHH HA! Have we found a 1 handed gamer? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif Anyway since the provinces arn't layed out in a grid I don't see how this will work. Sure you can 'make' it work, but doesn't seem like that big of an advantage... Unless you really are a one handed gamer... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif |
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This is terrible, we're giving IW so much necessary work that they'll never be able to add anything cool, like new heroic abilites http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif
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Perhaps we can kill two birds with one stone (or hotkey... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif )
Use "," and "." to cycle though commanders when a commander is selcted (limited to one province or not?) and to cycle through provinces when a province is selected. Though I'd rather be able to cycle through recruitment screens for all my provinces, I find that F1 gives enough info on the provinces for the most part, at least the info that I can't see right away on the main map. |
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Patrik, I have a feeling! The poll will be HUGE! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
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Here's the latest list [I added that command Leif]:
1. Tweaks/Easy changes to implement • Darker colours/textures in unit displays • Alignment of stats in unit info screens • Pre-made Gods for New players • Newbie 'get started' guide • Quick start game for Newbies • End/quit/save/host button remake • Bless effects more prominently displayed when creating a God's magic • Actual effects of scales explained when creating a pretender's scales • Line between commanders and regular units in recruitment screen & titles for each • More details on exactly what different effects mean (e.g. exact benefits of mountain/forest/swamp survival, etc.) • Able to quit battles using ESC • When selecting commander from F1 screen, have the commander be highlighted when it jumps to him • X axis labeled in score overview graph • Message in top left when Commander is killed in battle 2. Additions of relatively minor features • Castle battle results • '?' accessible on main menu • Research point 'lock' for schools of magic • Random nation AI opponents • Map and Scenario triggers [not sure where this was mentioned] • Ability to rename, or at least add epithets to commanders • Enhanced start (starting with more than one province) • Ability to close screens without having to scroll down or press ESC (e.g. Windows-style [x] or 'Exit' button below instead of at the end of scroll-lists) • Unit names in addition to icons in recruitment/deployment screens • Detailed breakdown of mixed squads in deployment screen • Detailed lists of losses (most importantly commanders) • Right-clicking commander gives you list of troops under his command • Build queue for commanders • Shift-click to add higher multiples of units [e.g. 5 at a time] in recruitment screen • Build queue doesn't charge you for units which won't be built that turn • Ability to turn off pre-battle zoom animation • Number of local defense force killed show up on battle report (even though they're automatically replaced) • Ability to enter new subscreen (F1, recruitment, etc.) without ESCaping out of the current one • Hostile borders different colour than province borders within your nations [don't know if this is possible or not] • Keyboard selection (hotkeys or something else) for every command available with mouse specifically including: • Keyboard command to select next commander within province, even if he already has orders. • Ability to scroll lists with arrow keys instead of mouse • Way to select provinces using keyboard (e.g. entering province #, key to cycle through provinces, etc.) • Keyboard interface for research screen 3. Additions of relatively major features • SP diplomacy • Increased battle replay functionality (various speeds, etc.) • More than one god for each nation • Moddability • Ability to search for items on commanders • Battle Sim • Enabling/disabling spells (see Windreaper's post in this thread for details) • Translucent filters for map instead of icons (for dominion strength, production, province defense, etc.) 4. Balance considerations • Improve Strategic AI • Bug fixes • Less focus on supercombatants • More regrowth possibilities / less emphasis on population death • Greater 'bless' effects (starting at an earlier level/increasing exponentially rather than by addition/magic cheaper in general, etc.) • reduce effectiveness of artillery-like spells (esp. in hostile dominion) Just in case you are interested, that's 14 tweaks, 24 minor feature additions, 8 major feature additions, and 6 balance considerations. - Anyone reading this who wants to vote in the upcoming poll should make sure s/he understands what all these suggestions mean. If not, feel free to post questions so that I, or the poster (or someone else) can explain it/point you to the thread specifically talking about it. Even if you know what is most important to you, you'll want to understand what each suggestion is about. As soon as the suggestions trail off I'll post a very large and complicated poll about all these options http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif , so that everyone will have a chance to express their opinion. [ October 30, 2003, 20:31: Message edited by: st.patrik ] |
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Minor Typo/bug:
The Diseased affliction description says your troop will "loose" hit points each turn, where it should be "lose" |
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Spellcasters with nothing to do should stay put and not move around aimlessly to meet an unitmaly death (check the list game bugs thread for explanation...).
We're listing typos now? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif - Demon description should say "spells that target undead" instead of "spells that targets undead". - When scouting provinces, military report says that "the army is composed mainly of hastatus", while for all other units the plural is used. So, princeps (I think this is wrong in the unit description as well, it's called principe or something) - principes, hastatus - hastati, triarius - triarii. |
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1. Tweaks/Easy changes to implement • Darker colours/textures in unit displays • Alignment of stats in unit info screens • Pre-made Gods for New players • Newbie 'get started' guide • Quick start game for Newbies • End/quit/save/host button remake • Bless effects more prominently displayed when creating a God's magic • Actual effects of scales explained when creating a pretender's scales • Line between commanders and regular units in recruitment screen & titles for each • More details on exactly what different effects mean (e.g. exact benefits of mountain/forest/swamp survival, etc.) • Able to quit battles using ESC • When selecting commander from F1 screen, have the commander be highlighted when it jumps to him • X axis labeled in score overview graph • Message in top left when Commander is killed in battle 2. Additions of relatively minor features • Castle battle results • '?' accessible on main menu • Research point 'lock' for schools of magic • Random nation AI opponents • Map and Scenario triggers [not sure where this was mentioned] • Ability to rename, or at least add epithets to commanders • Enhanced start (starting with more than one province) • Ability to close screens without having to scroll down or press ESC (e.g. Windows-style [x] or 'Exit' button below instead of at the end of scroll-lists) • Unit names in addition to icons in recruitment/deployment screens • Detailed breakdown of mixed squads in deployment screen • Detailed lists of losses (most importantly commanders) • Right-clicking commander gives you list of troops under his command • Build queue for commanders • Shift-click to add higher multiples of units [e.g. 5 at a time] in recruitment screen • Build queue doesn't charge you for units which won't be built that turn • Ability to turn off pre-battle zoom animation • Number of local defense force killed show up on battle report (even though they're automatically replaced) • Ability to enter new subscreen (F1, recruitment, etc.) without ESCaping out of the current one • Hostile borders different colour than province borders within your nations [don't know if this is possible or not] • Keyboard selection (hotkeys or something else) for every command available with mouse specifically including: • Keyboard command to select next commander within province, even if he already has orders. • Ability to scroll lists with arrow keys instead of mouse • Keyboard interface for research screen 3. Additions of relatively major features • SP diplomacy • Increased battle replay functionality (various speeds, etc.) • More than one god for each nation • Moddability • Ability to search for items on commanders • Battle Sim • Enabling/disabling spells (see Windreaper's post in this thread for details) • Translucent filters for map instead of icons (for dominion strength, production, province defense, etc.) 4. Balance considerations • Improve Strategic AI • Bug fixes • Less focus on supercombatants • More regrowth possibilities / less emphasis on population death • Greater 'bless' effects (starting at an earlier level/increasing exponentially rather than by addition/magic cheaper in general, etc.) • reduce effectiveness of artillery-like spells (esp. in hostile dominion) - There haven't been a lot of new things recently... If it's quiet between now and tomorrow (friday) I'll go ahead and get that poll rolling. Once again, read over the list and see if everything makes sense to you; ask if it doesn't. I might be good to sticky this topic, as Saber Cherry suggested. Even after the poll it would be helpful to have a central place to post requests - besides, this topic was made at Kristoffer's request (he probably wanted us all to see how much we're asking for http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif ) - PhilD & Chris Byler: Is the current explanation adequate: "Ability to close screens without having to scroll down or press ESC (e.g. Windows-style [x] or 'Exit' button below instead of at the end of scroll-lists)"? [ October 31, 2003, 05:15: Message edited by: st.patrik ] |
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Sorry about adding typos - the topic name tricked me. Will move them to other thread St.P
But these are real ones http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif 1) See Provinces Independent Race Type in Nation Overview (ie Jade Amazon, Feudal, etc) 2) Link Nation Overview to Province Build Queue 3) Prevent Redundant Site Searched (Don't allow search if better mage already searched) 4) When winning a game, you get the "You Win!" message and the game exits. Be nice to go back to the main menu, and possibly prompt for deleting that game (it stays active). 5) Show undead/magic leadership in leader screen (like movement 2/13). [ October 31, 2003, 06:08: Message edited by: geo981010 ] |
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I'd like to see the grid in the little map to position & script comanders.
Sometimes when scripting support mages to cast spells to boost troops/commanders distance is important (as you want to avoid damage auras, but also be in range to cast the spell). |
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Updated list. I don't have the first two of yours, geo981010, because I'm not sure I understood them - see post below. I added back in the one about being able to cycle through friendly provinces with the keyboard.
1. Tweaks/Easy changes to implement • Darker colours/textures in unit displays • Alignment of stats in unit info screens • Pre-made Gods for New players • Newbie 'get started' guide • Quick start game for Newbies • End/quit/save/host button remake • Bless effects more prominently displayed when creating a God's magic • Actual effects of scales explained when creating a pretender's scales • Line between commanders and regular units in recruitment screen & titles for each • More details on exactly what different effects mean (e.g. exact benefits of mountain/forest/swamp survival, etc.) • Able to quit battles using ESC • When selecting commander from F1 screen, have the commander be highlighted when it jumps to him • X axis labeled in score overview graph • Message in top left when Commander is killed in battle • When you win/lose a game, instead of exitting the program, get brought back to main menu • Show undead and magic leadership in unit info screen (e.g. 25/0/10) • Soldiers with "guard commander" orders fire missiles if a target is within range 2. Additions of relatively minor features • Castle battle results • '?' accessible on main menu • Research point 'lock' for schools of magic • Random nation AI opponents • Map and Scenario triggers [not sure where this was mentioned] • Ability to rename, or at least add epithets to commanders • Enhanced start (starting with more than one province) • Ability to close screens without having to scroll down or press ESC (e.g. Windows-style [x] or 'Exit' button below instead of at the end of scroll-lists) • Unit names in addition to icons in recruitment/deployment screens • Detailed breakdown of mixed squads in deployment screen • Detailed lists of losses (most importantly commanders) • Right-clicking commander gives you list of troops under his command • Build queue for commanders • Shift-click to add higher multiples of units [e.g. 5 at a time] in recruitment screen • Build queue doesn't charge you for units which won't be built that turn • Ability to turn off pre-battle zoom animation • Number of local defense force killed show up on battle report (even though they're automatically replaced) • Ability to enter new subscreen (F1, recruitment, etc.) without ESCaping out of the current one • Hostile borders different colour than province borders within your nations [don't know if this is possible or not] • Prevent redundant site searching (or have a message like the one you get when you try to preach in a province with high dominion?) • When game ends prompt for deletion of game file • Ability to toggle on/off battle grid in squad positioning screen • New Command for missile units: Hold or Fire • Keyboard selection (hotkeys or something else) for every command available with mouse specifically including: • Keyboard command to select next commander within province, even if he already has orders. • Ability to scroll lists with arrow keys instead of mouse • Keyboard interface for research screen • Keyboard command to cycle through friendly provinces 3. Additions of relatively major features • SP diplomacy • Increased battle replay functionality (various speeds, etc.) • More than one god for each nation • Moddability • Ability to search for items on commanders • Battle Sim • Enabling/disabling spells (see Windreaper's post in this thread for details) • Translucent filters for map instead of icons (for dominion strength, production, province defense, etc.) 4. Balance considerations • Improve Strategic AI • Bug fixes • Less focus on supercombatants • More regrowth possibilities / less emphasis on population death • Greater 'bless' effects (starting at an earlier level/increasing exponentially rather than by addition/magic cheaper in general, etc.) • reduce effectiveness of artillery-like spells (esp. in hostile dominion) - Keep them coming. Poll deadline is approaching http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif |
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One thing I suggested that isn't on the list is to be able to cycle through province recruitment screens. That way you can quickly and easilly set up recruitment in several provinces without haveing to go to each province directly.
Is there a way to do this from the F1 screen? That is to set up recruitment directly from that screen? If there isn't then I'd like to see that added as well. |
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One other thing... can the transfer gems screen be made slightly larger to accomdate more than two commanders at a time?
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All: post bugs in the "list game bugs here" thread, which is stickied. That should probably go for typos too. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Just FYI, my editing partner (the splendiferious Bionic Giraffe) and I are planning to help (as needed) with any grammar problems or other typos that appear in the gold Version. We couldn't edit all the ingame text since a lot of it was imbedded in the game, and there is a HECK OF A LOT OF IT, so any contributions folks want to make by pointing out text issues would be greatly appreciated. Having them in a seperate thread is a good idea too. Organization is key! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif |
Re: Impartial MASTER LIST of issues/problems
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</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Err, yes - but to see either of those you first have to select the province, which means that to use the # hot-key (lukewarm-key?) you have to memorize the province-numbers for all the provinces you're interested in. That makes it rather useless as a hot-key in my book. Well, actually you can see the province numbers of your own provinces in the nation overview too. It's still annoying to have to open that just to jump to another province, and as long as you can't scroll through the nation overview with the keyboard, it's not even a semi-workable solution. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yes I agree with you, the numbers are hard to memorize, except if you have really a good memory. And even then, the hotkey are not that convenient. Hmm, I gather I was a bit unclear in my Last post. *Grumbles* I was not going against your suggestion. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I agree as well: the #+province number system isn't that useful. I just wanted to point out the specific thing requested was already there. Keys to go up/down the list sounds like an ideal solution to me, and it shouldn't be hard to implement at all. Hopefully, I didn't confuse anybody. I didn't mean to suggest the idea should be dropped; I was just trying to point out "#+province number" is there already, for what it's worth. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif |
Re: Impartial MASTER LIST of issues/problems
I'd like to see resource usage in the nation overview screen. That way, you could know which provinces are being underutilized, and need to have some stuff queued, without going to each production screen to check. As per the suggestions below, clicking on the resource usage number would take you to that province's recruitment screen.
Also, I'd like certain numbers to change color in the F1 overview menu: Supply usage, if above the province's supply, should become red so it is obvious (without checking your Messages) where starvation is occuring. Unrest numbers above 0 should be orange, and 100+ should be red, IMO. -Cherry |
Re: Impartial MASTER LIST of issues/problems
Ok, I think I have most of the changes in there...check the list to make sure it's right if you made a suggestion
1. Tweaks/Easy changes to implement • Darker colours/textures in unit displays [to make sprites easier to see/look better] • Alignment of stats in unit info screens [i.e. in a column] • Pre-made pretenders for new players • New player 'get started' guide • Quick start game for new players • End/quit/save/host button remake [so that 'end turn' takes you directly to next turn] • Bless effects displayed when creating a pretender's magic • Actual effects of scales explained when creating a pretender's scales • Line between commanders and regular units in recruitment screen • Titles in recruitment screen for unit section and commander section • More details on exactly what different effects mean (e.g. exact benefits of mountain/forest/swamp survival, etc.) • Able to quit battles using ESC • When selecting commander from F1 screen, have the commander be highlighted when it jumps to him • X axis labeled in score overview graph • Message in top left when Commander is killed in battle • When you win/lose a game, instead of exiting the program, get brought back to main menu • Show undead and magic leadership in unit info screen (e.g. 25/0/10) • Soldiers with "guard commander" orders fire missiles if a target is within range • Link from nation overview (F1) to recruitment screen in each province • Show resource usage in nation overview [so that you can see at a glance which provinces aren't being used to their full potential] • Warning colours in nation overview (e.g. red for supply usage when higher than supply availability, etc.) 2. Additions of relatively minor features • Battle results (i.e. list of casualties) when storming a Castle • '?' accessible on main menu (i.e. as a button) • Research point 'lock' for schools of magic • Random nation AI opponents • Map and Scenario triggers [not sure where this was mentioned] • Ability to rename commanders, or at least add epithets • Enhanced start (starting with more than one province) • Ability to close screens without having to scroll down or press ESC (e.g. Windows-style [x] or 'Exit' button below instead of at the end of scroll-lists) • Names of units in addition to icons in recruitment/deployment screens • Detailed breakdown of mixed squads in deployment screen • Detailed lists of losses (most importantly commanders) • Right-clicking commander in main screen gives you list of troops under his command • Build queue for commanders (even though there is only one recruitable per month) • Shift-click to add higher multiples of units [e.g. 5 at a time] in recruitment screen • Build queue doesn't charge you for units which won't be built that turn • Ability to turn off pre-battle zoom animation • Number of local defense force killed show up on battle report (even though they're automatically replaced) • Ability to enter new subscreen (F1, recruitment, etc.) without ESCaping out of the current one • Hostile borders different colour than province borders within your nations [don't know if this is possible] • Prevent redundant site searching [or have a message like the "preaching cannot be used to raise the dominion of this province any higher" message] • When game ends prompt for deletion of game file or • When game ends, automatically delete game file • Ability to toggle on/off battle grid in squad positioning screen • New Command for missile units: Hold or Fire • Keyboard selection (hotkeys or something else) for every command available with mouse also including: • Keyboard command to select next commander within province, even if he already has orders. • Ability to scroll lists with arrow keys instead of mouse • Keyboard interface for research screen • Keyboard command to cycle through friendly provinces • Expanded gem-transfer screen, showing more than 2 commanders • Label in nation overview identifying province types [feudal, amazons, etc.], and therefore the troops recruitable there • Ability to cycle through recruitment screens without exiting to main map 3. Additions of relatively major features • SP diplomacy • Increased battle replay functionality (various speeds, etc.) • Ability to store more than one god for each nation • Modability • Search function for items on commanders • Battle Sim • Enabling/disabling spells [being able to indicate which spells your mage should pick from] • Translucent filters for map instead of icons (for dominion strength, production, province defense, etc.) 4. Balance considerations • Improve Strategic AI • Bug fixes • Less focus on supercombatants • More regrowth possibilities / less emphasis on population death • Greater 'bless' effects [e.g. starting at an earlier level (lvl 3?), increasing exponentially rather than by addition (1,2,4,8 vs. 2,3,4,5), magic cheaper in general, etc.] • Reduce effectiveness of artillery-like spells (esp. in hostile dominion), or provide counters - This is now 21 tweaks, 32 minor feature additions, 8 major feature additions, and 6 balance considerations. It's getting big. [ October 31, 2003, 21:12: Message edited by: st.patrik ] |
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