[Sponsored] (4-A) (QoL) Add Open Door / Sphere of Influence Graphical Indicator To Spy Screen

[Stalker0]

Proposal: In the spy screen (noted below), place a small graphical icon to the right of the civilization name (left of the CS name). There will be two icons:

• One icon indicates the CS has open door.
• Second icon indicates the CS has a sphere of influence

Note that there is already a little spy icon for Bucharest. These icons would be to the left of that spy icon visually on the screen.

Rationale: In many scenarios, you don't want to send spies to a CS containing Open Doors and Spheres of Influence, as you can't coup them and the rigging isn't as important. However, its difficult to get this information easily, you have to leave the spy screen, and either look through the rightside list of CS or go to the CS directly and check it, which is time consuming and tedious. This small QoL improvement will greatly improve spy use against CS.

 

[azum4roll]

Also add own influence and current ally's influence to the tooltip please.

 

[Enginseer]

If you would like to see how big of a QoL change this could be. I have uploaded two files for anyone to test out.

Proposal: In the spy screen (noted below), place a small graphical icon to the right of the civilization name (left of the CS name). There will be two icons:

• One icon indicates the CS has open door.
• Second icon indicates the CS has a sphere of influence

Replace (2) Vox Populi\Core Files\CoreLua\EspionageOverview.lua and (2) Vox Populi\Core Files\CoreLua\EspionageOverview.xml
Open Door Policy

Sphere of Influence

You also noticed below on Kyzyl that having a spy there will not remove the indicator of these Open Door policies or Sphere of Influence.nt ally's influence, but jury-rigged the City-State's tooltip to be based off this instead.

Also add own influence and current ally's influence to the tooltip please.

Did not add its own influence and current ally's influence, but jury-rigged the City-State's tooltip to be based on this instead.

Yes, these file changes are save-game compatible as they are only UI files. Please back up your old files in case bugs are likely made (I am using them for more than 3 hours without any issues so far).

 

[Stalker0]

@Recursive should we consider fast tracking this? If its just a UI update and its not conflicting with anything, seems a gimme improvement.

 

[Recursive]

Yeah this can be fast tracked if sponsored.

 

[Recursive]

@Enginseer Do you want to sponsor this?

 

[Enginseer]

ok

 

[Recursive]

Proposal fast-track accepted on April 12, 2023.

 

[Recursive]

Timestamp post to arrange all the threads in a neat order.