ruff_hi
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Can we add a tab to the Espionage screen that is similar to the GLANCE screen except shows EP spend by leaders against leaders and include the delta for the current turn.
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obsolete
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I would like to see that myself
entwood
Warlord
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Can the spying/espionage screen be sorted from high to low showing the leaders that have more spy points over you at the top? This would make it easier to allocate your points against them, especially when you are playing against a lot of other Civs.
duckstab
Child of Noble Family
I'd love to see something like this. I keep pretty extensive notes in an external text editor but it'd be really handy to have some kind of pop-up window where I could write stuff and have it saved off to a text file.
And no, one-line stickies don't cut it.
ruff_hi
Live 4ever! Or die trying
I created a new thread in our BUG forum to discuss the Espionage Screen.
EmperorFool
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The only text-editing control Civ4 has is on the little popup windows and in the options screens. It's a one-line text edit field, the same one you use to create signs. At most the notepad would be a list of one-line notes. At least it could be presented in a scrolling list rather than as colored signs on the map, but we couldn't make multiline editing happen.
As with Reminders, this would never work in multiplayer for anyone but the player that saved the game.
Bushface
Deity
I have added columns for pop and corporations to the Production and Food screens in Dom. Adv. but these get added to the right-hand side of the display. This is OK for corp'ns, but I'd prefer to show pop as column 2. How can I get this, other than by deleting the present columns (taking careful note of their references in the r/h panel), adding the pop column, then replacing all the original columns, and finally adding that for corp'ns ?
duckstab
Child of Noble Family
EmperorFool
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On the edit view click the up and down arrows below the left list to move the selected column(s).
obsolete
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I saw someone had a good idea on the strategy forum, about wishing there was a feature to set up air-ships to AUTO-SCOUT after you set them.
EmperorFool
Deity
I could see that being a mission like intercept except that you'd specify the target point. The air unit would then do Recon on that tile every turn. It would be best done in BULL since it would require a new MissionTypes.
mc-red
King
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That would be amazing, hopefully it would go into a future BUFFY release too.
MadmanAtW
Knight
Something I discovered in my current game: while the latest patch finally added "Wait! Let me look" when you take a city, it still isn't present when a city culturally flips to you. Any way we can get a peek into such a city before deciding whether to accept it?
obsolete
Deity
When ever I try to take a quick glance at the battle-log screen, it's rather hard to see quickly the details because all the text is one crappy mono-tone color.
Is it possible you guys could add colouring to this for easier reads?
Is it possible you guys could add colouring to this for easier reads?
EmperorFool
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I noticed this the other day, great idea. It would have to go into BULL, but I bet it's possible.
All of the text and colors should be in one of the many CIV4GameText.xml files. Use a text editor like Notepad++ that will search a folder hierarchy for some static text in those messages. You can easily modify them yourself by copying those XML files to your CustomAssets folder and changing the values in the [COLOR_XXX] tags. Look in CIV4ColorVals.xml for the valid values. If you create some good color schemes, I'd be happy to include them in BUG.
Bushface
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Emp -post #1149 - thank you very much. However, with "pop" added at the end of the list, it won't move up until I've moved the entry above it down; after that, I can run pop up as I want.
Another point: to add a column you need to select it by clicking in the right-hand panel, whereas to remove one you need to slect it in the left-hand panel. Could this perhaps be added to the "Help" display ? It took me a while to discaover this mechanism.
Another point: to add a column you need to select it by clicking in the right-hand panel, whereas to remove one you need to slect it in the left-hand panel. Could this perhaps be added to the "Help" display ? It took me a while to discaover this mechanism.
Bushface
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It's file Civ4GameTextMisc1.xml: search for "COMBAT_MESSAGE". But the combatants are referred to as "s1_CivName" for the round winner and "s2_CivName" for the loser, and I'd like the messages to be in green if I win a round and red if I lose. This section makes no mention of colour. So is there a way to identify the player's civ as being "s1" or "s2" and set the colour appropriately ?
EmperorFool
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Sounds like a bug. I'll take a look, thanks.
Yes, I've added hover help text to all those buttons in the latest BUG version.
Ahh, so there is only one message regardless of who won? That means it will have to be addressed in the SDK (BULL) rather than BUG. You use colors using [] tags:
Code:
<English>[COLOR_GREEN_TEXT]You won![COLOR_REVERT]</English>Note: the closing tag doesn't have a / like BBCode. It is exactly as I wrote it.
obsolete
Deity
Bushface, you also may want to add a color to the battle-odds modifiers. It seems again Firaxis made this in a very misleading way. Often it shows a -30 when in fact I feel it should be +30, etc.
Bushface
Deity
The odds modifiers other than those from Combat promos are, remember, applied to the defender, so that instead of showing (say) +30% for an attacker who gets this situational boost it shows as -30% applied to the defender. But I agree that who gets what is not always clear: whether it would help to show these effects in colour I am uncertain.
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