User Interface Improvement Poll

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Which of the following UI improvements would be most important to you?

Option for bigger minimap (200%)
27
15%
More native screen resolutions supported - most common today but missing are 1366 x 768, 1440 x 900, 1600 x 900, 1536 x 864, other big screen resolutions 1600 x 1200, 2560 x 1440, and 3840 x 2160 (implemented already)
24
13%
Smooth scrolling of the city map
21
12%
A scaled UI setting to increase menus and maps size by 50% or 100%
24
13%
Game window becomes OS managed with minimize, maximize and close button
10
5%
Game window can be resized to needs by pulling edges
15
8%
Feedback sounds of mouse and key activity improved
3
2%
Using Truetype fonts in UI to improve readability (the game is already using Truetype fonts)
11
6%
Alternative Keyboard command set with WSAD and/or cursor keys used to scroll city map (implemented already)
24
13%
More mouse-over feedback like highlighting of buttons, better tooltips (look at HOI IV for impressions) (mostly implemented)
23
13%
 
Total votes: 182

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BioBiro wrote: Sat Jul 14, 2018 1:59 pm If you're worried that you don't have enough poll votes to justify presenting an idea to the dev team, you can always use your forum-admin skills to add extra votes to the poll, and boom, we're in business.
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@David, also please gently point the developers towards this API call. More often than not it would be valuable to look into how big an element would be on a user screen than to what resolution it has when building an UI. 4K resolution screens can be 15" or 45", and a menu might have the size of a stamp or a poster ;)
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I have just forwarded it the dev team.
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Update: our programmer has started working on the following two requested improvements:

1) More native screen resolutions supported - most common today but missing are 1366 x 768, 1440 x 900, 1600 x 900, 1536 x 864, other big screen resolutions 1600 x 1200, 2560 x 1440, and 3840 x 2160

2) Alternative Keyboard command set with WSAD keys used to scroll city map
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:cry: :cry: I cant play it on my Surface Pro.It is so sad....My resolution isnt supported.
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In the next post-release beta version, you will be able to set the function of the WSAD keys from the Options menu, as shown in the following screenshot.
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I have qwerty, so fine to me, but for those with azerty or qwertz or other keyboard layouts, the wasd would be troublesome, customizable keys would be useful!
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Post-release Beta version is now available with the following new features:

1) More native screen resolutions supported - most common today but missing are 1366 x 768, 1440 x 900, 1600 x 900, 1536 x 864, other big screen resolutions 1600 x 1200, 2560 x 1440, and 3840 x 2160

2) availability of a new borderless window mode (the window resolution is limited to the monitor's native resolution)

3) Alternative Keyboard command set with WSAD keys used to scroll city map. To access this option, press 'O' to open the Options menu.


You may download it from: viewtopic.php?f=10&t=5291&p=24574#p24574

Also, please note that True Type fonts have been used in Capitalism Lab since version 3.0 long time ago.
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In terms of better tool tips, which tool tips would you want us to add?
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Hey, first time posting, really enjoy Cap Lab, one thing i really wish was included would be an inclusion of the financial information history, like for income statements, besides just the previous one, i would like a little more information in regards to the accounting, obviously that all gets tracked through the software, i just want to be able to see it numerically and organized nice. Is it possible to have this happen?
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hi.
Is it possible in next UI to show size of the buildings?
Number of office space per building
Maximum inhabitants number per building
Number of student per school
Factory/shop size multiplier
Base throughput every factory/shop unit.

Without this numbers it is quite harsh to micromanage for casuals :(
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