Value Watchbox

[deadly4u]

Here's a suggestion for you guys that I thought I could make using the standard modding guides but in the end I could not.

I'd like an additional floating user interface that I can use to add values from the ledger to "watch" throughout EVERY MOMENT of a game.

I'd like to be able to:
- Keep track of France's total unit count and manpower to better track their vulnerability.
- Keep track of the average of all opinions of France's neighbors
- Receive an alert when any of the watched values I specified falls or climbs over or under a threshold value.

These are just a few ideas. What do you think?

 

[Danfish77]

Some of that might be feasible from the console, but if you can add things like arithmetic expressions or control structures, you've basically turned EU4 into an IDE and added a host of security and stability issues. I'm fine with tracking ledger values, though.

 

[deadly4u]

Arithmetic expressions suite my personal intentions for that suggestion just fine. Personally, EU4 could use a little spreadsheet functionality with a couple aggregate functions thrown in for good measure. That way, an experienced player can streamline the intake of vital information and play the game at a higher speed without missing anything.

I'd really love an opinion from a user interface dev on the matter.