Suggestion: Chronicle
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YES!
I love stuff like this. One of the most awesome (but also completely unwieldy, most likely) suggestions I've heard for the game is a text history for each ship in your fleet. A simple text box with basic information on your vessel like:
BRV Republic
Type: Battleship
Class: Valour
Commissioned: 04/08/2267
Launched: 05/07/2268
Battles Fought: 17
Battles Victorious: 13
Confirmed Kills: 39
Notable Kills: Battleship RVV Imperium, Cruiser USS Enterprise
Etc etc.
So dumb, so awesome.
I love stuff like this. One of the most awesome (but also completely unwieldy, most likely) suggestions I've heard for the game is a text history for each ship in your fleet. A simple text box with basic information on your vessel like:
BRV Republic
Type: Battleship
Class: Valour
Commissioned: 04/08/2267
Launched: 05/07/2268
Battles Fought: 17
Battles Victorious: 13
Confirmed Kills: 39
Notable Kills: Battleship RVV Imperium, Cruiser USS Enterprise
Etc etc.
So dumb, so awesome.
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Sounds like a lot of CPU usage to log all of this, which might be the limiting factor on a 1,000 galaxy map near the end-game.
Otherwise that's a pretty cool idea.
Otherwise that's a pretty cool idea.
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I'm not a software engineer, but I don't think it necessarily has to be. All of the information involved is already being processed (who declares war on who, leader names, planets conquered etc), you just need to save that info to a file somewhere and then have an algorithm to format it when the player wants to view it.
They already have this feature in EUIV and it works just fine.
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I work in IT at a high technical level and we usually find that logging or auditing can (for most systems) put extra strain on CPU/processing times and extra disk space and ram, even though the data is being processed anyway. For systems that are operating at near capacity this extra performance requirement can tip them over the edge.
It can be done fairly efficiently if it's designed correctly and I have seen it done ok. I have faith that Paradox could do something like this and would encourage it to some extent to help us create stories.
I seem to remember games like Civilisation which have various charts, graphs and logs at the end though, but these were fairly limited in scope.
It can be done fairly efficiently if it's designed correctly and I have seen it done ok. I have faith that Paradox could do something like this and would encourage it to some extent to help us create stories.
I seem to remember games like Civilisation which have various charts, graphs and logs at the end though, but these were fairly limited in scope.
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Yep. It still misses out some pretty key events in game.
Endgame can get CPU mental if you've played from the 8th century too...
Plus I put a lot of things like "can" and not "will" as I know it can be done right, but usually a compromise (in either hardware requirements, cost etc) will have to be struck to get this game working on the major of PC gaming systems.
This was the only thing that had me playing Rome II for as long as I did- CA may have severely botched the launch but at least I knew where Legio IX had won and lost all their battles.
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Is that so difficult?
I don't want luxury UI like CK2's chronicle and want a simple text maker.
For low-spec PC, game may have on/off switch at option screen.
If chronicle implements on DLC, I buy.
I don't want luxury UI like CK2's chronicle and want a simple text maker.
For low-spec PC, game may have on/off switch at option screen.
If chronicle implements on DLC, I buy.
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I disagree, because:
...a chronicle already exists in both CKII and EUIV, and in both cases it is unsalvageably useless.
Realising what events are actually important to your Empire is apparently something that is beyond the capacity of an AI to determine - which I don't blame Paradox for, narrative importance is a subtle and subjective thing and if computers could do it every author in the world would be out of a job. But the result is that existing Paradox chronicles are useless messes of "On May 9th 1041, Irrelevant Aunt #7 died of pneumonia" and "On 5th December 1574, Unimportant Skirmish took place in Mainz".
So don't waste your time, Paradox. I appreciate that that you made the effort before, but history shows that this is not a feature which it is possible to make useful.
It's OK, I am quite capable of writing my own AARs.
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How romantic.
Although:
B-baka! Pervert! I found your 'date log' under your pillow!
It says you were 'negotiating an alliance' with K'reel, after we'd started being allied!
What does that ant have that I don't?! Is it because she's a god and I'm only a grand marshal? Is that it!?
I... I thought you were the one! I thought it would be just us, forever! We would settle down and raise uplifts together!
Cheater! How could you do this to me? *sob*
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A chronicle would be nice if it were dumped as XML. With a structured XML log Paradox, or fans, could build a separate event viewer that would let you do things like filter out specific events, specific time ranges, even generate things like "Time spent at war" or "minerals spent enlightening primitives" from the raw data.
I'm thinking some sort of thing like Dwarf Fortresses' Legends browser, but nicer.
I'm thinking some sort of thing like Dwarf Fortresses' Legends browser, but nicer.
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Would be cool. Hardly a necessary feature, but it would be nice to have a record of all your dealings with aliens, when you researched techs, when you colonized planets, when new pops where 'created' (or finished creating, since it looks like you get partial pops in Stellaris rather than the arbitrary jump from 3 to 4 pops), etc. It would help AARs.
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Not a must-have feature but something I'd pay for if implemented well.
Actually, I would be content with just a data text dump of events triggered and choices made, diplomatic actions, tech selection, etc... I can look up the localization files myself.
Actually, I would be content with just a data text dump of events triggered and choices made, diplomatic actions, tech selection, etc... I can look up the localization files myself.
Would love to see a chronicle If they can implement it well.
I was incredibly hyped for the chronicle feature in the Charlemagne DLC for CK II, but imo it was pretty disappointing.
I was incredibly hyped for the chronicle feature in the Charlemagne DLC for CK II, but imo it was pretty disappointing.
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