SIMPLE and EASY Ideas for the Patches

[yin26]

Originally posted by Fosse
Thanks for maintaining the list, Yin.

Sure.

Tiberius: Is that something you had to activate, or is it just built in?

[Tiberius]

To be honest, I don't remember, I'm just using it since day 1. I haven't changed too many settings, maybe one or two; I'll check.

[Lord Avalon]

Originally posted by pauli
add the ability to create folders from the save screen.

or, better yet, expose all basic file management functionality. it's there. it's just a reskinned windows explorer screen. it's just all turned off for no good reason.

And be able to change the default save folder.

[Tiberius]

Originally posted by yin26

Tiberius: Is that something you had to activate, or is it just built in?

I've just checked. I went to my Options Menu and restored the default settings. I played then a few turns and every time the "Press ENTER to end turn" message appeared I was able to end my turn with Space.

[Fosse]

Awesome... I could have sworn it didn't work for me the first time I tried it.... and I just... never tried again? Ah well.

Thanks Tiberius.

[MxM]

[61] When ctrl-i minimized please keep the end of turn button

[62] Please make an option to be able to see minimap when in ctrl-i mode. Alternatively, make a new mini-mode which is exactly as ctrl-i, but plus minimap

[Rogerdude]

[63] - If you enable Terrain Grid, let it remain enabled after you reload the game. (Remember Terrain Grid setting).

[Lemmy]

[15] Being able to select a city from the City Screen (F1)

Not sure if this was mentioned already (5 pages is a lot to read!), but you can select a single city from that screen, you just can't go to the city view. If you click a single city, it will be selected in the interface below and you can change the production there.

[Tiberius]

I assume that by "select" he meant "go to the city screen". This one of the top requests for me as well (and I think for many others).

[Azuarc]

[64] Make units on go-to or automation move last, so if I discover something between turns, such as the movement of enemy troops or that I suddenly need a worker elsewhere, I don't utterly lose 2 turns of movement and in some cases the unit altogether.

[65] When changing between units that involves recentering the camera, pause a moment before accepting movement commands...at least if the preceding unit can potentially move more than once. I hate moving a worker twice through an oasis, only to find that it eats up two movement and I just moved a different unit in that direction by mistake.

[66] Make the city construction window easier to use. Right now it's a little 1/15th of the screen that is hard to use even for being 1/15th of the screen.

[66b] When mousing over a particular item, notably on the build window or the tech tree, make the pop-up help appear instantly and persist until the mouse is moved.

[67] Display the properties of a target unit when moused over, including enemy units. (Only needs apply to the stack "leader".) Yes, we'll learn them eventually, but that doesn't mean I know the difference between Crossbowmen and Cho-ko-nu.

[duodecimal]

Originally posted by Azuarc
[67] Display the properties of a target unit when moused over, including enemy units. (Only needs apply to the stack "leader".) Yes, we'll learn them eventually, but that doesn't mean I know the difference between Crossbowmen and Cho-ko-nu.

This is already the case for me; unit properties appear in the lower left, for the whole stack you're mousing over, and includes promotions, strength, nationality, pretty much everything.

[padillah]

Originally posted by duodecimal

[34] Mouseover information tends to 'fall through' the UI layer and onto the terrain sometimes. If I hover over a leader name, for example, occasionally the dipomatic information disappears after a couple seconds and I get terrain information instead.

[34] yes! Thank you! I hate this and it needs to be fixed. I have bad eyes and I can't focus and read that small text before it falls through and I end up reading about some random tile in the middle of nowhere.

Tom P.

[sabrewolf]

following [67]:

[68] allow the detailed stack list (when holding the mouse over the flag) to be fixable and scrollable (like the SHIFT-click thingy). also clickable... if i have 10 cats of which 5 are specialised on cityattack/withdrawal/collateral damage and 5 are bombard specialists hovering over the small icons is a bit tedious...

[Provost Harrison]

Just a small one Yin. I noticed that when you save a game and overwrite, it prompts you, however there is a typo which says 'This file aready exists'. Shouldn't be a biggie to resolve...

[doodlius]

Many of these are great suggestions.

Personally I'd like to have clickable events which would jump the display to the event's location. Ex: if my religion spreads to a foreign city, I'd like to be able to click the message and jump to that city.

I know, I wasn't supposed to make any additional suggestions. But I'm a rebel.