City names

[HercMighty]

Turning on the option to have city names displayed on the main map doesn't seem to work.

I am expecting to see the name of the city next to the actual city on the map but they do not appear.


Also does "range circles" and "range finder" work?

Also with the side panels on and a unit selected I get a green bar covering part of the unit name. There also seems to be a gray star above the bar. And what is this bar for?

Also I had a infantry unit selected and then I clicked on "transport options" on the unit pop-up and this green bar partially covers the transports name.

[Domestos]

What happend if you hover your cursoe over the city>?

[HercMighty]

What happend if you hover your cursoe over the city>?

Nothing

[George Geczy]

>"Turning on the option to have city names displayed on the main map doesn't seem to work."
>"Also does "range circles" and "range finder" work?"

A few of the options are not implemented yet, even though the option switches are displayed - on-map city names and range circles are planned in a future update. We should have hidden the option buttons not to confuse people, but hey

>"Also with the side panels on and a unit selected I get a green bar covering part of the unit name."
The green bars next to (and sometimes overlapping) unit names represent the unit strength and also their 'condition'. When a unit gets damaged the bar length is reduced. As well, if a unit is out of fuel or ammo, or supressed, or retreating, or low on morale or efficiency, the bar will start to go yellow and then red.

Unfortunately some places where unit names are show are so small that there is an overlap.

-- George.

[Baloogan]

A few of the options are not implemented

[George Geczy]

Nothing really to about, there were a lot of places where we picked up new ideas during the beta (range circles and city names on the map were actually two suggestions made right here on this very forum!), and so we said "hey, that's a great idea!", but the ideas came up too late in the development cycle to actually hit the code. Since they are on our 'wish list' of new features, we added them to the options menu, but didn't hide the selection when the feature wasn't available yet.

And don't get Chris started on how many options there are, he always thought there were way too many In fact, a lot of the UI tweaking options are only accessible by modding the INI files, not through the options menu itself.

-- George.

[alexgem]

>"Turning on the option to have city names displayed on the main map doesn't seem to work."

A few of the options are not implemented yet, even though the option switches are displayed - on-map city names and range circles are planned in a future update.

-- George.

This may be a dumb question, but I still don't have the game... and this doubt makes me anxious (I definitely want and hope to see my city on the map ), city names currently don't appear on map, no problem, but city names are somehow visible (right-clicking on hex or whatever) , of course???

[Balthagor]

yes, if you look at hex details, the name is there.

[HercMighty]

Actually I use the side panels. This allows me to see a lot of different data depending on what panels are open at the bottom and where the cursor is.

For instance with no panels open I can select a hex and the side panel gives me information on it. Then as I move the cursor around it gives me information for wherever the cursor happens to be. Nice for comparing cities for example.

[Balthagor]

The side panels are actually a long standing arguement amongst the dev team. Half of the team wanted to dump them entirely even before the beta.

This is why we made it an option, not a default

[BattleGoat]

What side panels??? Nothing about them in the manual. (Probably because I wrote the manual... )

Actually the side panels aren't too bad if you're running the game at 1280x1024, but lower than that I always felt they took up to much screen real estate.

fyi --- For those that want to look at this option, use <Ctrl> + <Shift> + <T>

[George Geczy]

From a quick count, I think there are actually 14 different ways to show or find the name of a city The 'on map overlay' will be number 15 when we add it

-- George.