In the spirit of Arumba's adjustments, i have a few simple interface improvements I would like to suggest. Now i'm not one of those fancy big city video bloggers, so my submission will be in textual form, but hopefully since i will limit my suggestions to basic tool-tip and interface improvements, they have a good chance of being considered.
The first couple suggestions are about westernization-related UI. I would like to explain why this is important, briefly. If you have a protectorate, you can instantly lose all control over your protectorate if it westernizes, so whether or not it can westernize and especially whether it is currently westernizing is very important information to the overlord.
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Suggestion 1: Show westernization progress of third party nations in the UI.
Right now there is basically no indication that a third party nation is westernizing unless you happen to know to check the revolt risk of their provinces for the "Western Influences" penalty. And even if you know to check for this, it only tells you that they are westernizing but doesn't give you any indication as to how much progress they have made. Showing this directly in the UI will provide much needed transparency to the westernization process.
Suggestion 2: Show whether a country is eligible for westernization and which neighboring western country is allowing them to do so in their technology group tool tip.
This would make it a lot more transparent whether or not your protectorates are likely to start westernizing soon and maybe you could do something to prevent them from doing so if this is not desirable. As of right now, you just have to know the mechanics and figure out yourself if any of your protectorates are currently meeting the requirements to westernize.
Bonus suggestion 2.2: Also show which requirements the country is missing in their technology tooltip
For example, say a particular country already has a neighboring western core but is currently not 7 technologies behind. This information could be very useful in figuring out when that country is likely to start being able to westernize.
Suggestion 3: Separate permanent country modifiers from country modifiers with an expiration date. Sort permanent country modifiers alphabetically. Sort expiring country modifiers by expiration date or alphabetically (either would be ok)
The country modifiers list can get totally out of hand if you have more than say 10 country modifiers. It doesn't appear that they currently display in any particular order, so it is very hard to find a particular modifier you are looking for. Separating and sorting the list would make this list much more useful.
Suggestion 4: Add filters to the subjects screen
The subjects screen is a great screen showing a lot of useful information. However, if you have a lot of vassals, colonial nations, protectorates, and trade companies, it can be difficult to get much useful information out of the screen because they are all mixed together. Adding some basic filters where you can select to view only one category at a time or all at once (it can default to the current all at once view) would be quite useful and hopefully easy to implement
Suggestion 5: Show total province count on the same tooltip with total province warscore cost
When attacking a colonizer nation, sometimes you can not be sure whether you actually know where all their territory is. If you are trying to fully occupy them, it would be extremely useful to be able to count the number of provinces you know of and compare it to the actual total number of provinces they have. It is currently difficult, but possible, to see this in the graphs page in the ledger, but it is difficult to figure out the exact number because you have to figure out exactly where they are between two scale numbers. Plus you have to play with the list of selected countries to get it to only display the one you are trying to get information about.
The first couple suggestions are about westernization-related UI. I would like to explain why this is important, briefly. If you have a protectorate, you can instantly lose all control over your protectorate if it westernizes, so whether or not it can westernize and especially whether it is currently westernizing is very important information to the overlord.
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Suggestion 1: Show westernization progress of third party nations in the UI.
Right now there is basically no indication that a third party nation is westernizing unless you happen to know to check the revolt risk of their provinces for the "Western Influences" penalty. And even if you know to check for this, it only tells you that they are westernizing but doesn't give you any indication as to how much progress they have made. Showing this directly in the UI will provide much needed transparency to the westernization process.
Suggestion 2: Show whether a country is eligible for westernization and which neighboring western country is allowing them to do so in their technology group tool tip.
This would make it a lot more transparent whether or not your protectorates are likely to start westernizing soon and maybe you could do something to prevent them from doing so if this is not desirable. As of right now, you just have to know the mechanics and figure out yourself if any of your protectorates are currently meeting the requirements to westernize.
Bonus suggestion 2.2: Also show which requirements the country is missing in their technology tooltip
For example, say a particular country already has a neighboring western core but is currently not 7 technologies behind. This information could be very useful in figuring out when that country is likely to start being able to westernize.
Suggestion 3: Separate permanent country modifiers from country modifiers with an expiration date. Sort permanent country modifiers alphabetically. Sort expiring country modifiers by expiration date or alphabetically (either would be ok)
The country modifiers list can get totally out of hand if you have more than say 10 country modifiers. It doesn't appear that they currently display in any particular order, so it is very hard to find a particular modifier you are looking for. Separating and sorting the list would make this list much more useful.
Suggestion 4: Add filters to the subjects screen
The subjects screen is a great screen showing a lot of useful information. However, if you have a lot of vassals, colonial nations, protectorates, and trade companies, it can be difficult to get much useful information out of the screen because they are all mixed together. Adding some basic filters where you can select to view only one category at a time or all at once (it can default to the current all at once view) would be quite useful and hopefully easy to implement
Suggestion 5: Show total province count on the same tooltip with total province warscore cost
When attacking a colonizer nation, sometimes you can not be sure whether you actually know where all their territory is. If you are trying to fully occupy them, it would be extremely useful to be able to count the number of provinces you know of and compare it to the actual total number of provinces they have. It is currently difficult, but possible, to see this in the graphs page in the ledger, but it is difficult to figure out the exact number because you have to figure out exactly where they are between two scale numbers. Plus you have to play with the list of selected countries to get it to only display the one you are trying to get information about.
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