They just need to improve it and I believe they should shift the color palette a bit but it is a solid foundation.100% this.
It needs another huge rework.
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They just need to improve it and I believe they should shift the color palette a bit but it is a solid foundation.100% this.
It needs another huge rework.
Hear me out on this. I love the work the developers have done on the 2.0 update, but there are a lot of missed opportunities with the new UI. More specifically, to remedy the drawbacks of the previous UI which would improve the user experience. The worst part about it is that it is incredibly simple but obvious (to me as a player) stuff.
The purpose of an UI is ultimately to provide control and convey information to the player. While I appreciate the new art, there are various UI elements that are handled in an incredibly nonsensical and counter-intuitive way. These shortcomings just ruined the experience before and continue to ruin the experience now. I have seen them get brought up before, but ultimately these suggestions just did not make their way into the game. With that being said, let me delve into the specifics and show you what I mean.
With the new update there are limits on some buildings and this is communicated in the tooltip. Other buildings however have to be researched. How is the information about what needs to be researched in order for a building to become available communicated to the player. Is it in conveyed in an intuitive manner? Absolutely not. Your first instinct as a player is to hold your mouse cursor over the BUILDING ICON which will hopefully contain such information, right? Wrong.
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Do you see any mention of why I can not build a Great Temple? Such information is nowhere to be seen. Instead, this vital piece of information is separated into another tooltip in the most counter-intuitive way imaginable - you have to hold your mouse cursor over the building counter.....
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The same story when I try to import trade resources. My initial intuition is to hold the mouse cursor over the RESOURCE ICON only for absolutely nothing to happen...
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Of course, you have to hold your mouse cursor over the name instead...
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And I wish that these were my only gripes but they are not. The game is full of annoying cases similar to what I pointed out above. And this does not even include obviously stupid decisions like making it hard to distinguish which resources are available for import or not (this tiny cyan highlight barely does anything, I am sorry) or having green modifier numbers against a Cyan background, making it an absolutely cancerous experience to read/decipher.
I urge other players to give similar specific examples as well. I thought they were painfully obvious but apparently not. A pretty UI only goes so far - it must be functional.
Why do I have to feel like I am fighting the UI? It makes absolutely no sense to me.
In some aspects, the UI is actually a downgrade. A good example is the option to upgrade a city... Why is it hidden away? You can click on the settlement/city section of the art but not on the terrain one... If something looks and feels like a button, then there is a good chance that the player will attempt to click it. The option to upgrade a city is presented as background art, yet the player has to guess and treat it like a button that opens up hidden options. Incredibly frustrating.
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You know a UI feature is bad when players have to post on the forums to ask how to do certain things:
How to create new cities in 2.0 ?
Mission tree for rome says having 3 cities in piscenum, however i dont see any way to upgrade an establishement to a city... Anyone can help an old man finding that elusive button hidden into that "awesome' UI ? Thanksforum.paradoxplaza.com
100% this.
It needs another huge rework.
So Crusader Kings isn't the "mediaeval" game, it's the "character-focused" game, and thus no other game in the stable can have character mechanics, because that would be stepping on CK's toes (??). And any discussion of whether or not those character mechanics would be appropriate for a representation of the classical period is somehow irrelevant (???).
very much summarizes this patch and the UI in generalit looks pretty, but lacks polish, and also falls short on functionality.
I already made a bug report about that, since it still worked in 1.5And while I'm at it, could you please fix the migration animations?
- They get removed every time I switch to a different territory and I need to close and open the Pop Info window to see them again.
- I have encountered situations where the animation shows briefly but then disappears. It could be caused by the amount of pops/migrations but I am not sure.
Anyone know where the raise civilization level is now for a province?
ah my capital is a settlement and can only have 1 slot to build taken, how do i increase civ level to make a city? so i can have more slot to build.I think that's gone, as buildings now have +civ values attached to them (so you build to increase civ value---which makes sense).
My only guess would be to try law reforms to become a settled tribe, monarchy or a republic. You're playing a tribe I take it?ah my capital is a settlement and can only have 1 slot to build taken, how do i increase civ level to make a city? so i can have more slot to build
There isn't. But tribes have some funny laws to further increase the price from 250 to 375. You need 40 Centralisation to change that funny law into something else.Is there a min civilisation value for founding cities? I haven't seen one as the Scordisci.
It's expensive, but tribes have a lot of gold now.
Actually you need 50 centralisation and at 60 you can do tribal reform, thereby loosing it anyway.There isn't. But tribes have some funny laws to further increase the price from 250 to 375. You need 40 Centralisation to change that funny law into something else.
Actually you need 50 centralisation and at 60 you can do tribal reform, thereby loosing it anyway.
Btw, I don't think tribes have more money now. Income is about the same, you just don't have to pay for inventions anymore when you finally manage to tech up.