CustodianV131
07-10-2004, 17:18
List of suggestions / observations and bugs. While playing I’ll keep track of items that are strange or where I wonder about, hopefully they’ll be useful to someone.
Note: only just started out with the game so some items might be plain wrong because I’ve not yet discovered everything. Also its just my view of things… yours may of course be different.
I’ll add and/or edit to this list if I discover more.
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Undefended towns:
Undefended towns should just be conquered, no option to defend. Now if I chose to lead I just see the laughing enemy and then its goes to the you lose screen.
Mini map:
Mini map is really unclear in finding your cities. Would be great if the city location also showed with the political overlay on the minimap so that I can easily select my cities and the surrounding enemy ones. Can’t say I’ve much use for the standard minimap atm. (Zooming that doesn’t make it much clearer. Maybe its also an option to leave the political minimap as it is now and display borders on the normal minimap.Note this is especially difficult when playing a landlocked nation surrounded by others n all sides. In say England there’s almost no problem. For now I’m using the Rebellion risk filter in the political view, which makes it easy to pick the right province.
Looks like there are two buttons to go to the political view now when you’re in the strategic view. Not a big issue but maybe you can change the button above the minimap into a view borders button which overlays clearly visible borders over the strategic and the political view. This would be the best of both worlds imo.
Music:
Would be really nice if we can play the wonderful music at will and pick pieces to play. IE an ingame “mp3-player” would be great!
Zoom option:
To bad its taken out… bring it back please. Would bring a lot of immersion to the game. I’m looking to much at the campaign map atm (wich is good looking in it self, but not as nice and detailed as the close up view.. I know that it has no functional use, but it would add a lot of fun to the game for me. Think the cityview in Civilization… no practical use, but realty nice to look at sometimes. If you don’t want it you can just not use it… so why not include it?
Diplomatic relations:
Relations of your own country + showing all diplomatic stances in the relations tab.
Is there a place where you can see your own relations with other countries in a quick way? Like the relations tab when looking at a country in the political view. Also why is that that not showing al relations? Like trade agreements and no aggression pacts. Would be really handy.
Royal library:
Under the How to section the “…. Build buildings more quickly” is broken. (Its behind the “…. Build an army”)
Vassalage:
Strange results sometimes. I had Germany lose a war with Brittany in the early medieval period. (easy game setting) Germany is one of the mightiest kingdoms starting out and Brittanny a one province kingdom. (they also gave a royal marriege and 250 in gold) Now that must have been a really really bad negotiator for Germany :)
Not really a bug maybe. But if players can make such deals with the AI it might be to easy fast. Still great fun to have such a dynamic worldmap, powershifts are happening all the time.
BTW: The result was that the German provinces fell in short order to her enemies as they had only 50% of their normal income to defend themselves. Brittany grew rich :)
Note: this was between AI nations. I’m controlling the Highlands in this game.
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I'll add more, when find more. I'll be cut off from the internet for a week after Saturday, but i'll be back! BTW make no mistake, I've far more good points about KoH then bad points, i'm enjoying the game greatly!
Note: only just started out with the game so some items might be plain wrong because I’ve not yet discovered everything. Also its just my view of things… yours may of course be different.
I’ll add and/or edit to this list if I discover more.
***
Undefended towns:
Undefended towns should just be conquered, no option to defend. Now if I chose to lead I just see the laughing enemy and then its goes to the you lose screen.
Mini map:
Mini map is really unclear in finding your cities. Would be great if the city location also showed with the political overlay on the minimap so that I can easily select my cities and the surrounding enemy ones. Can’t say I’ve much use for the standard minimap atm. (Zooming that doesn’t make it much clearer. Maybe its also an option to leave the political minimap as it is now and display borders on the normal minimap.Note this is especially difficult when playing a landlocked nation surrounded by others n all sides. In say England there’s almost no problem. For now I’m using the Rebellion risk filter in the political view, which makes it easy to pick the right province.
Looks like there are two buttons to go to the political view now when you’re in the strategic view. Not a big issue but maybe you can change the button above the minimap into a view borders button which overlays clearly visible borders over the strategic and the political view. This would be the best of both worlds imo.
Music:
Would be really nice if we can play the wonderful music at will and pick pieces to play. IE an ingame “mp3-player” would be great!
Zoom option:
To bad its taken out… bring it back please. Would bring a lot of immersion to the game. I’m looking to much at the campaign map atm (wich is good looking in it self, but not as nice and detailed as the close up view.. I know that it has no functional use, but it would add a lot of fun to the game for me. Think the cityview in Civilization… no practical use, but realty nice to look at sometimes. If you don’t want it you can just not use it… so why not include it?
Diplomatic relations:
Relations of your own country + showing all diplomatic stances in the relations tab.
Is there a place where you can see your own relations with other countries in a quick way? Like the relations tab when looking at a country in the political view. Also why is that that not showing al relations? Like trade agreements and no aggression pacts. Would be really handy.
Royal library:
Under the How to section the “…. Build buildings more quickly” is broken. (Its behind the “…. Build an army”)
Vassalage:
Strange results sometimes. I had Germany lose a war with Brittany in the early medieval period. (easy game setting) Germany is one of the mightiest kingdoms starting out and Brittanny a one province kingdom. (they also gave a royal marriege and 250 in gold) Now that must have been a really really bad negotiator for Germany :)
Not really a bug maybe. But if players can make such deals with the AI it might be to easy fast. Still great fun to have such a dynamic worldmap, powershifts are happening all the time.
BTW: The result was that the German provinces fell in short order to her enemies as they had only 50% of their normal income to defend themselves. Brittany grew rich :)
Note: this was between AI nations. I’m controlling the Highlands in this game.
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I'll add more, when find more. I'll be cut off from the internet for a week after Saturday, but i'll be back! BTW make no mistake, I've far more good points about KoH then bad points, i'm enjoying the game greatly!