Interface suggestion

[Cainehill]

Even with the standard, non-modded banners, you get used to the flags on the map and learn to recognize them after you've been playing a while. That said - Abysia and Marignon look _so_ similar when zoomed out that only a month ago I sent an army strolling into an Abysian province with a fort, thinking it was mine.

Since it was Cohen playing Abysia, I decided I might as well pretend that I meant to do that, and went to war.

What's more of a problem, imo, is the graphs, where I often find it necessary to toggle some of the nations on and off to determine which line was for C'tis vice Man vice someone else, Abysia vice Marignon, Pythium/Ermor, and Ulm/R'lyeh. It's especially bad in the big 15-17 player games.

Ah well - it gives an incentive to quickly eradicate one nation of each color.

And going back to what Norfleet said - if it's purple, and it has a Vampire Queen, it's Ermor. Even if everyone insists that it isn't, it is - it's a conspiracy.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Cainehill:
And going back to what Norfleet said - if it's purple, and it has a Vampire Queen, it's Ermor. Even if everyone insists that it isn't, it is - it's a conspiracy.

Well, not anymore. They nerfed the VQ out of Ermor's selection list.

[ioticus]

Originally posted by Norfleet:

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Originally posted by Cainehill:
And going back to what Norfleet said - if it's purple, and it has a Vampire Queen, it's Ermor. Even if everyone insists that it isn't, it is - it's a conspiracy.

Well, not anymore. They nerfed the VQ out of Ermor's selection list.

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Which is strange. Vampire Queens go with undead like ham goes with eggs, like **** goes with stink, like . . . you get the idea.

[LintMan]

Originally posted by splooger:

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Originally posted by Norfleet:
Well, not anymore. They nerfed the VQ out of Ermor's selection list.

Which is strange. Vampire Queens go with undead like ham goes with eggs, like **** goes with stink, like . . . you get the idea.

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I think the theory is that Ermor kills off all its population, whereas vampires *need* people to feed on. A vampire queen who eliminates 100% of her population has just eliminated her food source (and the source of new vampies as well, I suppose)

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by LintMan:
I think the theory is that Ermor kills off all its population, whereas vampires *need* people to feed on. A vampire queen who eliminates 100% of her population has just eliminated her food source (and the source of new vampies as well, I suppose)

A vampire queen who eliminates 100% of all the population in the world has also become a God and no longer has need of food.

After all, that's Ermor's mode of ascendancy: Kill one, and you are a murderer. Kill millions, and you are a conqueror. Kill all, and you are a god!

Besides, under that logic, Black Forest Ulm would leave all of the vampires similarly foodless, because it is a death-scale theme and as such, will eventually hit 0 population as well.

[Chazar]

Back on topic, I'd say that there is an infoscreen included in the game which puts the names on the flags:

Press F4 to got to the "Pretenders of the World" screen and click on the name of the pretender.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Chazar:
Press F4 to got to the "Pretenders of the World" screen and click on the name of the pretender.

That only regurgitates the nation's blurb data, and the titles of the opposing pretender, if info on other nations is enabled.