Hi,
I don't like the current FF screen because I keep failing to retain overview of what's going on with all these different points, and the horizontal scrolling along with the huge heads doesn't help much. I'd love to have an overview screen, summarizing all five point bars and focussing on information, not big heads.
Unfortunately, I don't have the time to get into Civ/Col modding at the moment, so I just drew a basic concept and hope that an experienced modder will like the idea and feel up for the challenge.
Let's start with the obvious: there are all five bars on one screen, scaled down in x direction so no scrolling is necessary. They are filled according to the points already obtained and contain a brighter colored area that indicates the increase for the next round. Obviously, this only works for predictable points that are built in a city, but that's better than nothing. Along the bars there are the numbers required for founding fathers, which might have a small emblem next to them if they are already taken (the red/blue squared in the image).
When hovering over any of these numbers (my example "screenshot" hovers over the religion 600 guy), the lower left area shows the information about the respective FF, just what you see on the detail screens. The overview section to the right indicates the cost (the red numbers) and the hypothetical new point value for the next round (if any are < 0, the FF is not obtainable). As a bonus, a line could be drawn at the political point bar when hovering over any FF that's not political based, giving a better visual feedback of how many points are missing.
I'd also love to have a "Hire" button there so you can hire FFs that you initially skipped, but I'm not sure if the game balance would... wait, there is no game balance right now, so it should be fine. Does anyone like this idea?
I don't like the current FF screen because I keep failing to retain overview of what's going on with all these different points, and the horizontal scrolling along with the huge heads doesn't help much. I'd love to have an overview screen, summarizing all five point bars and focussing on information, not big heads.
Unfortunately, I don't have the time to get into Civ/Col modding at the moment, so I just drew a basic concept and hope that an experienced modder will like the idea and feel up for the challenge.
Let's start with the obvious: there are all five bars on one screen, scaled down in x direction so no scrolling is necessary. They are filled according to the points already obtained and contain a brighter colored area that indicates the increase for the next round. Obviously, this only works for predictable points that are built in a city, but that's better than nothing. Along the bars there are the numbers required for founding fathers, which might have a small emblem next to them if they are already taken (the red/blue squared in the image).
When hovering over any of these numbers (my example "screenshot" hovers over the religion 600 guy), the lower left area shows the information about the respective FF, just what you see on the detail screens. The overview section to the right indicates the cost (the red numbers) and the hypothetical new point value for the next round (if any are < 0, the FF is not obtainable). As a bonus, a line could be drawn at the political point bar when hovering over any FF that's not political based, giving a better visual feedback of how many points are missing.
I'd also love to have a "Hire" button there so you can hire FFs that you initially skipped, but I'm not sure if the game balance would... wait, there is no game balance right now, so it should be fine. Does anyone like this idea?
