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Right now we all now the ending screen sucks. It compares you to a group of historical dynasties to which the game gives an arbitrary score. It would be a lot more fun if, at the end, the game organized ALL branches of ALL dynasties that were actually IN the game you played (that received a score). The branches will be organized by most points; i.e. the branch with the most points will be at the top. You should be able to click on the top 25 and find out their progenitor, their final dynastic branch head at game end (with portrait/other info for both). Only the top 25 would be displayed on the screen to avoid information overload; the exception would be if you finished outside of the top 25, in which case you would be placed at the bottom. It is a lot more fun to compete against your AI rivals then a bunch of randomly generated numbers that Paradox arbitrarily gave random historical dynasties.

Who agrees? Who disagrees? How hard would this be to implement? Please comment.
 
And some kind of post-game statistics screen would be nice too. Statistics like total money collected, soldiers led to their deaths, people in your dynasty total, oldest member, youngest member, and so on.
 
AFAIK, the end screen isn't rather significant for a crowd here, since most of the games are not finished anyway. But comparison with AI dynasties at the end would be yummy
 
Berkis said:
AFAIK, the end screen isn't rather significant for a crowd here, since most of the games are not finished anyway.
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This, very much. It's not liekemany people would even see a new end screen, so it would mostly be wasted effort.
 
Think an EU style history screen would be cool, especially in CKII where there's so much extra stuff that could be mentioned ('King So-and-so was married to So-and-so in 1296, until her death in 1305 from measles' etc). I guess there's probably issues involved, but it'd be a fun way to sum things up.. =)
 
Me_ said:
This, very much. It's not liekemany people would even see a new end screen, so it would mostly be wasted effort.
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Actually, more people might stick around to the end if the end screen were better. Like others have said, I'm not really all that interested in how my dynasty compares to RL historical Dynasties. I want to see how well all the branches of my dynasty did compared to how well the top AI dynasties did in the game I just played.

Also, I would like to see how different branches of my dynasty did.

In one Anjou playthrough, while my main branch continued to rule Anjou, other branches of my dynasty went on to rule France, the HRE, and Sicily. But all I got was a simple generic screen showing how well my family fared compared to dynasties in RL Medieval Europe...
 
I would definitely be more likely to play to the end if these ideas were implemented. Sounds like a lot of fun, especially the comparisons to in-game dynasties instead of historical ones.
 
Fully supported.

I find it funny that some people dismiss it as waste of time, but it's actually one of the most regular screens I see, because there are no other possibility to go to the starting menu (to load another save etc.) but to go through the end screen if you don't want to quit the game altogether and wait it start again... I think I have examined it only once in 1453 but countless times otherwise. In addition, if it was any better, more people would examine it.
 
I definitely think it would be nice, though I'd like to see the score system reevaluated before this happens, perhaps, as currently Seniority gets a huge boost to the dynasty score, what with more rulers and all. It might be good if the score took into account how long a dynasty held the title, rather than just giving a flat bonus for holding it at all.
 
Prince Michael said:
Fully supported.

I find it funny that some people dismiss it as waste of time, but it's actually one of the most regular screens I see, because there are no other possibility to go to the starting menu (to load another save etc.) but to go through the end screen if you don't want to quit the game altogether and wait it start again... I think I have examined it only once in 1453 but countless times otherwise. In addition, if it was any better, more people would examine it.
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Those who play ironman don't visit the menu so often and those who save scum don't (and don't want to) look at the end screen for long. If you don't belong to either of those groups, then you're in a minority.
 
Me_ said:
This, very much. It's not liekemany people would even see a new end screen, so it would mostly be wasted effort.
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Whenever you lose or get to the final date you see it, even on iron man. The game has an unfinished quality with such a shoddy ending.
 
personally i dont think this is priority, mostly because i finish so very very few games. And if i remember the thread discussing finished games correctly then that goes for a lot of other people too. But hey if its something thats not hard to implement then why not, In a perfect world id love to see something like it. Because like you say the end screen we have now is pretty crap.
 
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