[Suggestion/Frustration] City Leveling & City Details

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Choosing the appropriate upgrade for a city is very important to the game and strategy but I am frustrated that sometimes I don't know exactly the purpose of that city when I have a lot of cities.  This sometimes leads to choosing the wrong type to upgrade to.  This is especially important when the first level up occurs.

I would suggest that when a town levels up a few things happen:

1. The City Details screen is brought up so I can see exactly what is going on for that city.

2. The mini map is shown with this specific city highlighted in some way.  (Does not happen today - see below)

3. Just like when choosing a building I would like to see what effect the upgrade will have on my city. 

 

Also City Details should include a few features that will make this screen more useful:

1. Do not hide the mini map when the City Details screen comes up.

2. Highlight the current city on the mini map.

3. Indicate what type of city it is (Concave/Fortress/Town) and what choices were made as the city was leveled up further.  I know space is limited on the CIty Details screen but maybe use some of the room where the picture is.

4. Indicate what is currently be built/trained or if it's generating extra resources

 

Using version .950

Thanks - love the game so far!

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Is no one else experiencing this frustration with City level ups?

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting rsterlac, reply 1
Is no one else experiencing this frustration with City level ups?
End of rsterlac's quote

Good points. I think the icon over the city changes to represent what type of city it is now?

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top


You're perfectly right of course. It may catch you by surprise, and you're supposed to deal with it with the photographic memory that you're also supposed to have.

It's always bothered me as well, and it should be a pretty basic UI feature too... but after WoM's UI, you can see why people feel already blessed with what we have now. Also you don't see such issues mentioned a lot because there are deeper ones to fix. Maybe in the expansion?

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting rsterlac, reply 1
Is no one else experiencing this frustration with City level ups?
End of rsterlac's quote

 

It's one of the most often requested features dating back to EWOM.  It's not that people don't share your pain, it's just that long time players pretty much consider it a given as a requested feature. I think theres a thread asking for the same thing further down the page. Never hurts to bring it up again, though.

 

In the meantime, you might consider naming your city with some sort of indicator that reminds you of the path you want to take with it.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

I played EWOM when it came out and suffered through the pain until I had to give up on it.  FE is a more polished product already but things like this will make a good game a great game.  I understand that the developers have to prioritize bugs and show stoppers first but features like this polish a game and make it so much more enjoyable.  Additionally some of the suggestions are fairly easy to implement, bringing up the City Details page in it's current state would be a huge improvement as would  showing the mini map. 

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Totally!  Stardock, since I know you are full of great and talented people, it is totally within your power to have the City Details screen come up when a city level-up occurs.  I look forward to this welcome improvement! |-) :D :thumbsup: