12-11-2019, 11:09 PM
(12-11-2019, 09:22 PM)Haxus Wrote: Empire Standings
The empire standings page shows a big confusing table of numbers.
Reworked the empire standings page to simplify the information and freshen the appearance.
I'm gonna be honest, I don't like the change here. I think it was pretty neat to see galaxies and population levels. Cutting world count I guess is fine, but either way it gave a nice idea how how an empire is structured. Are they very spread out with a lower population but a lot of systems? Or maybe they are very tall, lots of people and fewer systems. Does this empire have a presence in multiple galaxies? You could figure this out before. Now you really have no idea.
Overall I think the standings should somehow show multiple things, similar to how other games rank empires on "Economy, Military, Technology, Diplomacy" Obviously some of that doesn't quite work for how Hazeron is set up what with the economy currently being bare bones and money being pointless and technology not being a useful metric, but the idea of having multiple categories is good in general. It allows you to really get an idea of how an empire is doing beyond "total system count." It's hard to quantify "Military Power" given ship designs work, but maybe even just 'ships with officers' or something could be a start as a proxy for how big an empire's fleet is. Once the economy is more fleshed out and if money gains purpose, then maybe that could be a metric of an empire's success as well! Diplomacy sorta already exists with grouping allies and vassals, although I think the diplomacy system is a little bare bones a bit as well. I think it's weird how one ally is always 'dominant' over another, there is no mutual grouping.
Linking to avatars is a real time saver though. Also it's crazy how quickly the number of empires dropped, there really was a lot of abandoned stuff lying around.