The Future of Space Empires IV

[Artaud]

capnq said:

The hexes aren't the problem, the 3D implementation is the problem. You constantly have to rotate the map to either find the selected object or figure out which hex you need to click to select it. Trying to get around this by switching to the 2D overhead map doesn't help, because the scale and orientation changes between views, so you've got to scroll around and search for the object again every time you switch between the two. The flags and status icons are sized such that you can either set them to be readable, or to not block other labels, but not both.

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Well said. This was the most frustating thing I noticed when I began playing around with the demo. Very quickly I decided: "This is far more trouble than it's worth."

[Suicide Junkie]

The flags and status icons are sized such that you can either set them to be readable, or to not block other labels, but not both.

That's why I made the flag reduction pack.

All flags are 20% of their original area. The icons are lopped off, and replaced with "BSUP" (bases, ships, units, population) which is thin white letters on transparent.

The flags are more than big enough to tell who it is at a glance, and don't block your view. As long as there aren't two races in the same hex, it looks good. (If there are two, the other race's flag is floating way up in the sky, but that happens even with normal flags)