19 v 19K troop numbers

[Quaade]

It only shows the decimal if the unit isn't full strength. The 'K' (and 'M' if you ever manage to get a million troops) is for visual clarity and to more easily distinguish fleets and armies. Judging from our experience with testers and betas, after a very short period of 'this looks cluttered' people quickly got used to and liked the change, so we'll look into adding options for it if anyone actually still cares a while after release.

The pictures from the diaries shows the decimal with units at full strength??? on picture austrian army is 19.0K... But I´m not the one thinking it´s a totally bad move and with the m involved... not knowing how many times that will be used, it makes more sense in terms of easy reference

 

[Wizzington]

Those are older screenshots.

 

[Quaade]

Those are older screenshots.

Sry for the off-topic... But any ETA on the patch-notes?

 

[User4035]

It only shows the decimal if the unit isn't full strength. The 'K' (and 'M' if you ever manage to get a million troops) is for visual clarity and to more easily distinguish fleets and armies. Judging from our experience with testers and betas, after a very short period of 'this looks cluttered' people quickly got used to and liked the change, so we'll look into adding options for it if anyone actually still cares a while after release.

Can you post...or leak a screenshot that shows the visual clarity or however you described it?


Forum trolls need to eat after all.

 

[captain zulu]

The 'K' (and 'M' if you ever manage to get a million troops) is for visual clarity[..]

well the old troop counter was the total visual clarity, with the new system i could more simply hoax people if i should build one 1M troop and a lot of 1k troops, they will all look at first sight just as 1k troops~


but after all the k should be an small letter and not a capital letter..

 

[Tacticus101]

I actually like the change, I tend to refer to my armies as "20k" anyway.

Also, big K is absolutely fine. It is more consistent to use that rather than a small K.

 

[Thrake]

Yeah, it looks bad, but it's just a detail. Why does player feel the need to appeal dev for such trivial details every patch?

 

[Wizzington]

Yeah, it looks bad, but it's just a detail. Why does player feel the need to appeal dev for such trivial details every patch?

I don't think there is a problem with people disliking a change and stating so, even if it's a small detail. If I didn't want to comment I'd just ignore the thread.

 

[Quaade]

Yeah, it looks bad, but it's just a detail. Why does player feel the need to appeal dev for such trivial details every patch?

The human error of disliking any change ;-)

 

[aitaituo]

...and to more easily distinguish fleets and armies. Judging from our experience with testers and betas, after a very short period of 'this looks cluttered' people quickly got used to and liked the change,

I have to say, I immediately disliked the change, then immediately liked it when you pointed out the fleet/army distinction utility. It's easy to start looking past the shield/flag distinction after a while and I often misclick in places like Venice.

 

[tahlaskerssen]

I feel sad and alone right now, am i the only person that likes the change?

 

[Quaade]

I feel sad and alone right now, am i the only person that likes the change?

Don´t mind the change... just found it odd, since I saw no reason to it... Even after Wiz explained it... But now I at least understand why, and can respect their choice... It doesn´t really change anything for me really and if they deem it helpful for others who have complained about it, then go right ahead and change it

 

[moglus]

The K should actually be k. Or, better, should not exist at all. Decimals are fine though.

have you ever seen a lower case letter on the map? i'm pretty sure everything that goes directly on the map is displayed in capital letters, regardless of how it's spelled elsewhere in the game.

 

[gronak]

I like the addition of K. Guess I'm the one of the few here :/

 

[SolSys]

Paradox, can we at least have a rationale for this change...

Nice to complain without looking for the reason first:

1. To distinguish armies form navies.
2. To represent fractions [wounded units].

 

[Todenpuhuja]

1. To distinguish armies form navies.

Oh right, the swimming army bug...

 

[Celtic Emporer]

'K' is horrible. So are those '.0' decimals in front of every unit. They should remove it. I hope they only made it for debugging purposes, because it serves no purpose other than to make the UI harder to look at.

Besides, 'K' is incorrect modern slang term to me. 'Thousand(s)' is the correct term. So instead of 35K, it should be 35 Thousand. But that would make the number even more unreadable and longer. So please, leave it as it was.

Is it because they are adding M for millions (and probably K) in Hearts of Iron 4 at the same time?

Quite simply, K is just an abbreviation for the English term "Kilo", which is derived from the Greek word "Chília", which meant thousand. Seeing as how the Greek language is much older than the English language, saying Kilo isn't wrong.

 

[Quaade]

Oh right, the swimming army bug...

Made the game unplayable to me, stopped playing

 

[SolSys]

Oh right, the swimming army bug...

You encountered that too 0_0
Makes conquest real easy though...

 

[Todenpuhuja]

You encountered that too 0_0
Makes conquest real easy though...

No, but I have seen several screenshots.