After making a few new empires I thought I'd leave some feedback on the new Empire Creation Menue.
To start off: I think the new one is an improvement over the old one and feels more sensible in general.
I like that most mechanical things are now grouped together to the start. This makes it easier to jump between them to adjust.
I like that the more broad and important things are first now. Tho I usually start with Government and Ethics over Origin, but Origin also makes sense to have first. The portrait coming before that I feel like makes less sense mechanically, but Portraits can inspire the other choices just style wise.
Origins: The new sorting is very nice. Having the old ones at the bottom feels correct. Keeping Prosperous Unification as the first one was also a good choice.
Government & Ethics: I think you slowly can feel how many civics are there and I think there was a missed oportunity to figure out a better selection menue for civics.
Traits: One thing I noticed is that the sorting is swapped when you have selected a certain amount of traits. The one at the beginning only has the traits that you can pick, but later it swapps to just sort them by point value. I think both sorting options make sense and it would be nice to be able to swap between them. I noticed I actually prefer the later even. Personally I'd like the higher point costs ones be at the top, while keeping the ones with the highest - at the bottom.
Names: It is great having all those things here in one menue, makes it a lot smoother and easier. There is one thing that really annoys me here tho and that is how tiny the Biography is. There is barely enough space to write anything interesting and looking at the text amount on the preset empires you know that yourself. The textspace is also still buggy, with switching the line sometimes moving you a symbol ahead or back. Think this is my biggest complaint about the entire new Empire Creation Menue atm.
Name Lists: I generally choose names similar to the list, so for me it would make sense to have this tab be before Names, tho I think a lot of people also choose names first and then choose a fitting list.
City & Room: Big improvements here. I like the new selection.
Shipsets: I think having such an impactful mechanical choice so late (between bio and mechanical ships) feels a bit weird.
On the other categories I don't have much to comment.
To start off: I think the new one is an improvement over the old one and feels more sensible in general.
I like that most mechanical things are now grouped together to the start. This makes it easier to jump between them to adjust.
I like that the more broad and important things are first now. Tho I usually start with Government and Ethics over Origin, but Origin also makes sense to have first. The portrait coming before that I feel like makes less sense mechanically, but Portraits can inspire the other choices just style wise.
Origins: The new sorting is very nice. Having the old ones at the bottom feels correct. Keeping Prosperous Unification as the first one was also a good choice.
Government & Ethics: I think you slowly can feel how many civics are there and I think there was a missed oportunity to figure out a better selection menue for civics.
Traits: One thing I noticed is that the sorting is swapped when you have selected a certain amount of traits. The one at the beginning only has the traits that you can pick, but later it swapps to just sort them by point value. I think both sorting options make sense and it would be nice to be able to swap between them. I noticed I actually prefer the later even. Personally I'd like the higher point costs ones be at the top, while keeping the ones with the highest - at the bottom.
Names: It is great having all those things here in one menue, makes it a lot smoother and easier. There is one thing that really annoys me here tho and that is how tiny the Biography is. There is barely enough space to write anything interesting and looking at the text amount on the preset empires you know that yourself. The textspace is also still buggy, with switching the line sometimes moving you a symbol ahead or back. Think this is my biggest complaint about the entire new Empire Creation Menue atm.
Name Lists: I generally choose names similar to the list, so for me it would make sense to have this tab be before Names, tho I think a lot of people also choose names first and then choose a fitting list.
City & Room: Big improvements here. I like the new selection.
Shipsets: I think having such an impactful mechanical choice so late (between bio and mechanical ships) feels a bit weird.
On the other categories I don't have much to comment.
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