Fleet’s troop and capture strengths superposed and garbled in selection panels

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100thMonkey
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Fleet’s troop and capture strengths superposed and garbled in selection panels

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Platform: Steam
Build version: 1.2.2.0 Beta
Severity: Low-Medium
Annoyance factor: Low-Medium
Confusion for new players: Medium
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As shown in the screenshot below, the fleet’s troop and capture strengths are written in the same space, making both unreadable. User interface size is set to “Standard” in the game settings. But it’s the same thing if I set it to “Small” (which is too small on my current monitor anyway).

In this situation, it's not a huge problem that I don't see the fleet's capture strength. But if I intended to use the fleet to do captures, then it would be pretty annoying...

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Among the possibilities I see to fix this problem:
  • Moving the characters (Generals, Admirals) below the empire’s flag on the top right of the selection panel header
  • Moving the capture strength up one line (Fleet’s strength), and position it on the right
  • Using the troops icon (2 row of dots) instead of the word “Strength” (only necessary if the capture strength is ketp where it currently is).
- Imagine how confusing it is to a new player!
- Tedious is the opposite of fun
- "The welfare of the people…has always been the alibi of tyrants…giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience." – Albert Camus
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Re: Fleet’s troop and capture strengths superposed and garbled in selection panels

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Thanks for the report. This is likely related to the fact that there are a lot of characters that are shifting the UI. This is an area we're aiming to improve on in the future.
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Re: Fleet’s troop and capture strengths superposed and garbled in selection panels

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Hopefully in a not too distant future.

If I'd want to also do captures with that fleet, or any other with troops on-board (I use captures a lot in my games), it would be very difficult, after the first capture, to know what's the fleet's current capture strength to evaluate if it's ready or not to do another capture.
- Imagine how confusing it is to a new player!
- Tedious is the opposite of fun
- "The welfare of the people…has always been the alibi of tyrants…giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience." – Albert Camus
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Re: Fleet’s troop and capture strengths superposed and garbled in selection panels

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We're currently prioritizing the development of the upcoming Shakturi expansion and as such the pace of public beta updates is going to slow down.
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