Please focus on the UI in the future

[drefurion]

People will often complain about change, and I am one of those people. However, I was in favor of changing the I:R UI as it was objectively disgusting... but this is not good. This new UI is probably the worst in any paradox game, even worse than the convoluted, bloated, mess EU4 has become. Some of the more super-visual aesthetic changes are good, but please focus on making this more user-friendly in the future.

 

[Bovrick]

Any specifics?

 

[Kadanz]

What is wrong with this one? The only nitpick I have is the brightness, if you stare at it long enough and close your eyes you can still see the contours of the UI on your eyelids. It's quite freaky.

 

[Arbus]

I like it.

 

[Synen]

My only UI issue is that I can barely move around in the invention tab.

 

[foll5]

I love it tbh, vast improvement over the last one.

 

[Wesum]

My only UI issue is that I can barely move around in the invention tab.

You can move around by holding the Middle-mouse button. It works fine for me.

I think the new UI is very good. It is pleasing and usable and it is obviously much much better than the 'decorated spreadsheet´ that we had before.

 

[master_kong]

My only issue with the new UI is, that cyan -or whatever- color is not suitable for the selection screens. It's too dark for the text there. Maybe a more light version of blue such as turquoise or just white should be used. I favor white.
Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Imperator/comments/ll3t2i
Other than that it looks like an enormous improvement over the former one- which was a nightmare to me.

 

[grandad1982]

They really need to add tonnes of functionality to the macro builder imo.

 

[Rabid]

It baffles me that anyone could make a post like this immediately after they've done a total rework of the UI without even giving an example of something which they feel needs improving. They obviously care about how the UI looks otherwise they wouldn't have just almost completely redesigned it!

 

[trjacobin]

My only issue with the new UI is, that cyan -or whatever- color is not suitable for the selection screens. It's too dark for the text there. Maybe a more light version of blue such as turquoise or just white should be used. I favor white.

Other than that it looks like an enormous improvement over the former one- which was a nightmare to me.

Yeah I'm hoping a modder will come out and replace that cyan with like a light color bronze or copper shade...

 

[Ares Enyalios]

You can move around by holding the Middle-mouse button. It works fine for me.

I think the new UI is very good. It is pleasing and usable and it is obviously much much better than the 'decorated spreadsheet´ that we had before.

Using the middle-mouse botton is in any game one of the worst choices for anything. It's just awful. Out of the many, many good things that come with this update, this is was i really dislike.

 

[Rabid]

Using the middle-mouse botton is in any game one of the worst choices for anything. It's just awful. Out of the many, many good things that come with this update, this is was i really dislike.

MMB for screen panning is fairly standard isn't it? I've played plenty of games where this is the default.

 

[Ares Enyalios]

MMB for screen panning is fairly standard isn't it? I've played plenty of games where this is the default.

Really? Isn't it in the most cases optional? I can't remember a game where i use it and i play a lot of games.

 

[Ellye]

My only issue with the new UI is that more tooltips should have linked concepts so we can read about them, like in CK3.

But overall it's pretty good.

 

[Super Poulet]

Overall it's an improvement over the previous UI.
The only exception is the import UI : there's no indication of which trade goods have a route available. You have to click on each trade good to check if anyone will accept to trade.

 

[Ares Enyalios]

Overall it's an improvement over the previous UI.
The only exception is the import UI : there's no indication of which trade goods have a route available. You have to click on each trade good to check if anyone will accept to trade.

Although i like the colouring etc. in my opinion after playing for two hours: It's a step back. I might get used to it, but managing large nations becomes very hard, because the UI got a lot more confusing and complex. A good example is the trade menu as you mentioned, but i would go even further and say diplomacy, characters interactions, it all became more confusing. Might be just the colouring, but i am lost.

 

[ruzen]

Where is the small list at the province window where I can see the list of the cities/villages of the province.
It was quite useful to see which city belongs to who, resources, population and city status.
I don't want to believe it is removed
Please tell me where is it.

 

[Will Steel]

My only few issues with the new UI is that the bright white is something my damaged eyes aren't accustomed to, and that giant but rather unnecessary "open for multiplayer" banner that covers the left of the screen in the nation selection screen. And a few small quirks here and there.

Another issue is that characters don't show enough info as they used to. Especially things like what faction the incoming candidate in a republic belongs to, or the differentiation in family colours.

Otherwise I love the new UI.

I loved the look of the old marble UI as well (it was a bit like classics such as Caesar 3), so it was not "objectively bad" either, at least when it came to looks.

 

[AggaWackTan]

My only UI issue is that I can barely move around in the invention tab.

I thought this at first, but you have to hold down the middle button on the mouse to move around