Clicking on a province should tell not only name, but also the ID number of province.

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Looking through the beta Screenshots, I saw that on each of the screenshots, there was a "PROV#123" on the right down corner.

Now assumingly this is some legistlation issue, as most of the number codes on those betas are, for security reasons.


Now however it gave me the idea, that all clicked provinces should reveal, not only their name, but also their ID number. This to help the modders and player willing to edit their game.

Just how many EUII players are there who would have never heard of the EUII-province-look-up-tool? Now as Paradox propably won`t have that kind of a program coming with the game CD, I think it would be best to have the whole ID thingie integrated so that all people can see it at all times.


Say the province has it`s name and then #123. (The same sort of hard-coded Alias, as the city names in provinces of EUII)


Not quite that much of a coding issue, I suppose, as that alias thing seems like a regular copy-paste job. Or am I mistaken?

Would be one of them "touches", that we are always shouting after.

 

[HistoryMan]

Press F12, and type "showid" and you can see them anyway

Tim

 

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Yeah -- the casual gamer doesn't need to see the province IDs. and it's generally good practice to keep the user on a "need-to-know" basis with respect to the core game mechanics.

So therefore, they shouldn't show the prov ID on the normal interface, but the console command is fine

 

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Press F12, and type "showid" and you can see them anyway

Tim

What`s that? I mean how does it work? And in what Paradox games is that?

News to me, and if such a function is already in existance, then I humbly apologize for any inconviniencies caused by my thus pointless thread. o

 

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And in what Paradox games is that?

That feature is atleast in HOI and maybe in other Paradox games too.

 

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What`s that? I mean how does it work? And in what Paradox games is that?

News to me, and if such a function is already in existance, then I humbly apologize for any inconviniencies caused by my thus pointless thread. o

It's in HOI, I don't know about the other games since I don't have them, but it shows the id of the province you point at in a corner of the screen. And it is indeed very useful when you're grab.. uhm redistributing provinces among allies .

 

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What`s that? I mean how does it work? And in what Paradox games is that?

News to me, and if such a function is already in existance, then I humbly apologize for any inconviniencies caused by my thus pointless thread. o

If you go to the "chat" screen (F12) and type "showid", it'll show the province #s if you hover the mouse cursor over them.

For obvious reasons, this doesn't work in MP.

Are you planning on picking up HoI, idealist?

 

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Are you planning on picking up HoI, idealist?

At the moment I only have EUII and Victoria. And HOI2 I am sure to buy.

Now if there was a package offer for CK and HOI1 in the E-Butik for say... 20-40$... I would be really interested.

But as for buying HOI alone, separatetly without a considerable discount at this current point of time, I would have to say: no.

By the time I would have learned to play the game, HOI2 would be out there in the stores. But of course discount bins and E-Butik combo-special offers are a different story.