Version 3B - Why did they take a bunch of things out?

I am confused, why did they take a bunch of the customization options out? Like eye colors, pants, etc? Also, why did they take the option out to choose what kind of world you want? I don't see anything for multi continents, etc?

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Reply #1 Top

Back to the drawing board? Maybe they want testing focused on other areas and felt like eliminating that particular variable? That is what I'd guess.

Reply #2 Top

Seems they took out Character inventory screen, and a biggie for me at least.. No way to exit the research screen when it pops up.

Reply #3 Top

The custonization options are still in for men (mumbles) but the new races have only basic stuff. Just change your souvereigns race to men.

The access to the details should robably be handled by the button in the bottom left of that central round thing. This button does not work however for the time beeing.

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yeah the character inventory screen is gone, cant check also the stats of my hero like essence of mana. 

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Character inventory screen is still there - it's one of the two buttons in the bottom right part of the unit portrait.

 

Reply #6 Top

Yeah, and when I clicked it, it didn't show the armor I was wearing in it. Just the cape.

Reply #7 Top

So did they really take out the option to choose islands, continents, etc?

Reply #8 Top

One problem that frequently crops up in betas is when you have several different branches of your development repository bugr get fixed on one branch and never make it to other branches, thus never make it into the final releases.

You have programmers and designers standing around thinking they've already fixed problems, and they, or other people, have to go in and fix them a second or third time, or not at all. And beta testers are thinking "we reported that and they fixed it, why is it broken in final?" or "they fixed this in such and such a way why did they go back to the old way?" types of things. The support people get all the calls but the devs don't always hear the issues, and realize what's happened.

Reply #9 Top

Just speculating, but i'd bet it's intentional. The Sov customization seems lower because there's now 8 or 9 races and art is being split up between them. There's probably still the same amount of options overall.

Islands etc might have been turned off so there's fewer variables to worry about with the random map generator.

The inventory/stats screen still exists, you just need to have an item to equip in order to use it (default items don't count.)

Reply #10 Top

I did have an item, found a piece of armor but it doesnt show up in the inventory screen.

Reply #11 Top

Quoting BlackRainZ, reply 10
I did have an item, found a piece of armor but it doesnt show up in the inventory screen.
End of BlackRainZ's quote

I have the same problem... was finding items yet no way to view or equip the items.