Suggestion for the first Patch

[columbusbobby23]

While watching one of the streams I had an idea after seeing Daniel flip back and forth through his and another countries diplomacy screen to compare the intelligence numbers.

This is the screen I'm referring to.

I was thinking it would be nice to have your own numbers visible on this screen when looking at another nations intelligence information. So you wouldn't have to flip between this screen and your own several times for a good comparison.

Since you always know exactly how many ships, divisions and factories you have, it would only be a single number in parenthesis to the right of the enemies numbers.

It could also make your numbers:
Red if it's lower than the estimated enemy strength.
Blue if your number lies between the estimated enemy strength.
Green when it's higher than the estimated enemy strength.
This way you could tell at a glance how your numbers stack up to the nation in question.

So what do you guys think? Would this be useful?

 

[Merrivale]

This would be nice, but hopefully we have a ledger where all of this information from every country is in one place. Hopefully ledger hasn't become a dirty word at PI, it would be ridiculous tedium to force the player to click around the whole map and either memorize or write down all of the numbers just to be able to make comparisons. But that's what you have to do in Stellaris, so...

 

[Sleight of Hand]

Hopefully ledger hasn't become a dirty word at PI

 

[columbusbobby23]

Hopefully ledger hasn't become a dirty word at PI, it would be ridiculous tedium to force the player to click around the whole map and either memorize or write down all of the numbers just to be able to make comparisons.

I haven't even thought of there being a ledger or not. I guess I have always just assumed there would be one. But I don't recall seeing one in the DD's or WWW's. @Merrivale Does Stellaris have a ledger?


Maybe @podcat or @Johan could tell us if HOI4 has a ledger. If not, why has it been left out?

 

[wright1331]

While watching one of the streams I had an idea after seeing Daniel flip back and forth through his and another countries diplomacy screen to compare the intelligence numbers.

This is the screen I'm referring to.

I was thinking it would be nice to have your own numbers visible on this screen when looking at another nations intelligence information. So you wouldn't have to flip between this screen and your own several times for a good comparison.

Since you always know exactly how many ships, divisions and factories you have, it would only be a single number in parenthesis to the right of the enemies numbers.

It could also make your numbers:
Red if it's lower than the estimated enemy strength.
Blue if your number lies between the estimated enemy strength.
Green when it's higher than the estimated enemy strength.
This way you could tell at a glance how your numbers stack up to the nation in question.

So what do you guys think? Would this be useful?

I was comming in here to laugh at a suggestion before the game it out... But this makes some good since and probably would be simple to put in.

 

[Bridger15]

That's a great QOL improvement. Perhaps when you hover over the numbers it would give you your numbers and an estimated % difference "like if it said 25-40 divisions and you have 20, it would show our "20" and say "Spain has 28% more divisions than us."

 

[Merrivale]

I haven't even thought of there being a ledger or not. I guess I have always just assumed there would be one. But I don't recall seeing one in the DD's or WWW's. @Merrivale Does Stellaris have a ledger?


Maybe @podcat or @Johan could tell us if HOI4 has a ledger. If not, why has it been left out?

Stellaris does not have a ledger. On the other hand, it's a quite different game and being the first in a new IP maybe they wanted a ledger and just ran out of time to add it.