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I hope the troop display on the planet will now tell you the number of troops instead of squeezing a hundred troop icons together expecting me to actually count them.

ORIGINAL: jpwrunyan

I hope the troop display on the planet will now tell you the number of troops instead of squeezing a hundred troop icons together expecting me to actually count them.

lol, me too! Such a tincy, tiny little issue but actually oh so incredibly annoying. [:D]

I crave more...

ORIGINAL: WoodMan

ORIGINAL: jpwrunyan

I hope the troop display on the planet will now tell you the number of troops instead of squeezing a hundred troop icons together expecting me to actually count them.

lol, me too! Such a tincy, tiny little issue but actually oh so incredibly annoying. [:D]

i will top this a little bit.

if we get more intelligence options, we can see after success infiltration the strength of the troops + the number of platoons.

ORIGINAL: darcion
if we get more intelligence options, we can see after success infiltration the strength of the troops + the number of platoons.

Excellent idea of the 'Now why didn't I think of that?' sort.

I hope the troop display on the planet will now tell you the number of troops instead of squeezing a hundred troop icons together expecting me to actually count them.

I can imagine a: "To my dearest enemy, please line up your troops so that I can estimate the right amount of forces to land on your planet. Thank you"

More seriously, the current troop display is fine and quite realistic, but I wouldn't be unhappy with a 'spy on troops' option added.

ORIGINAL: Algoritm
More seriously, the current troop display is fine and quite realistic, but I wouldn't be unhappy with a 'spy on troops' option added.

Fine and realistic???

A planet defended by 50 or 500 or 5000 units; being indistinguishable between them - is "realistic"?

Just so.
The original intent was not to obfuscate the number of troops at high quantities. It was just a design snafu. If they want to keep the number unknown they could just say "over 50" or "50-100" and it would still be superior to the current display. Might as well show no troops at all the way it is now. That would at least settle the matter. But the half-assed display we have now just annoys me.

+1 what jpwrunyan said

I think the folks wanting it to be clearer are wanting it that way more for aesthetics than wanting to know actual numbers. You could even have a simple 'Light' or 'Heavy' icon for troop level displays.

A planet defended by 50 or 500 or 5000 units; being indistinguishable between them

Actually, I don't know about other players, but I can quite easily make a difference between a planet defended by 50 units and one defended by 500. I can't say for 5000 though, the highest I've seen in a game was around 1500.

Having said that, I can perfectly understand that it can be frustrating at high unit numbers (ie: above 1k) where it's no longer possible to see a real difference. But to be honest, if it's replaced by a simplistic 'light' or 'heavy', or 50-100, 100-500 and >1000, it won't make much of a difference to me... not much more than the current system, which suits me.

ORIGINAL: Shark7
I think the folks wanting it to be clearer are wanting it that way more for aesthetics than wanting to know actual numbers. You could even have a simple 'Light' or 'Heavy' icon for troop level displays.

Well, being interested in the military issues, it would be useful to have some kind of estimate of the firepower sitting on a planet and whether to reinforce or not...

@algoritm
I take your point. Personally I would prefer a readable and accurate troop count. But regardless, the current display is offensive to me. I am going to go break something now.

[8|]

It is soon November and not a single gameplay feature has been confirmed.Not cool.

The Announcement is there is no announcement.

Could be that they ran into problems in the beta testing, and honestly I'd rather have it done right than to have it done fast.

There might be issues with the transition of Windows platforms. From Win7 to Win8 for instance.
Just a thought. [&:]

ORIGINAL: ehsumrell1

There might be issues with the transition of Windows platforms. From Win7 to Win8 for instance.
Just a thought. [&:]

As long as it works on XP and sorts out some of the problems and adds a few more I dont mind the wait [8|]

Darkspire

Adding even one new problem is unacceptable!

I'll be posting some news before the end of October. Elliot and I have been working our butts off. [8D]

Regards,

- Erik