Things seem to be working better since 1.03 came along, but a few items still have a bit of an annoyance factor.
The scrolling messages telling you what is going on can easily be missed if you are focusing on a different area of the screen when they come up. I haven't found a way to slow them down, even in the Settings Screen, and there doesn't seem to be a way to call them back up. Considering they can be important, telling you about raids on your booze, or other annoyances that can cost you money, diplomatic or other standings, I think it rather important to have a way to review them whether you missed one, or just wanted to look at them again. If such a thing does exist, reaching them is not intuitive .
Considering the amount of commentary about not being able to rename locations of your rackets in the very early releases -- enough that it was asked in the first "tutorial" video -- I would have expected that to change. Not having a name thought up when you first acquire a new racket/building should not prevent you from giving it a personal name later. Again, if there is a way to do this, it isn't easily identifiable.
Last: on the list of rackets opened from the Business Menu (right top of screen) why can't I sort or filter to see only mine, or to put mine together at the top of the list? I've played DOS-based games that had that feature, as do most of the games I play now. Even with my faction listed last alphabetically, I can't click again to reverse the list -- that's even a basic Windows DLL call.
As I said, these are simply annoyances, not at all game breaking. They do, however, cause a level of frustration that limits the amount of time I will play in one sitting. I enjoy the game, but I can't get as deep into it as I have with other real-time titles when I can't find, or have the same issue as I try to track my strategic advances or tactical information.
Those are all the nits I needed to pick. Thank you.
The scrolling messages telling you what is going on can easily be missed if you are focusing on a different area of the screen when they come up. I haven't found a way to slow them down, even in the Settings Screen, and there doesn't seem to be a way to call them back up. Considering they can be important, telling you about raids on your booze, or other annoyances that can cost you money, diplomatic or other standings, I think it rather important to have a way to review them whether you missed one, or just wanted to look at them again. If such a thing does exist, reaching them is not intuitive .
Considering the amount of commentary about not being able to rename locations of your rackets in the very early releases -- enough that it was asked in the first "tutorial" video -- I would have expected that to change. Not having a name thought up when you first acquire a new racket/building should not prevent you from giving it a personal name later. Again, if there is a way to do this, it isn't easily identifiable.
Last: on the list of rackets opened from the Business Menu (right top of screen) why can't I sort or filter to see only mine, or to put mine together at the top of the list? I've played DOS-based games that had that feature, as do most of the games I play now. Even with my faction listed last alphabetically, I can't click again to reverse the list -- that's even a basic Windows DLL call.
As I said, these are simply annoyances, not at all game breaking. They do, however, cause a level of frustration that limits the amount of time I will play in one sitting. I enjoy the game, but I can't get as deep into it as I have with other real-time titles when I can't find, or have the same issue as I try to track my strategic advances or tactical information.
Those are all the nits I needed to pick. Thank you.
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