A little suggestion about Business ownership mode view
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 11:27 pm
I know when the minimap is switched to Business Ownership Mode, the color of each firm to different corporations will be shown on the minimap and with they will change accordingly depend on current filter setting. However this doesn't affect the actual the gameplay main city view with different filter, and we constantly get all the information from all the firms regardless the filter setting.
But I notice that, when we filter out seaports, they turned into transparent grey color instead of the full building image in the actual city view. So perhaps other firms could be the same way when they are filtered out, their company logo and building image themselves could turned "grey" or transparent like the seaport, or even just "blend in" with the rest of the buildings with no marking of the logo or showing building type "tag" when the information display mode is turned on. This way, the filter will greatly reduce the search time and allow focus on the city view with filters of your own choosing much easier and cleaner.
And on a separate but related suggestion, perhaps we can have more filter "options" like not just "My Firms" or not, but 3 or more options, like "My Firms", "Mine & Subs", "All", etc. (like "My Controlled" which shows only those corps I owned over 75%, whereas "Mine and Subs" shows over 50%, even "Total Controlled" shows those over 100%, etc.). And Product filter can have group options like product classes, instead of just each product filter (even megaclass filter, that would be very useful for corporate brand strategy to check where are those firms with relevant products are that could ruin the corporate brand after merger)
But I notice that, when we filter out seaports, they turned into transparent grey color instead of the full building image in the actual city view. So perhaps other firms could be the same way when they are filtered out, their company logo and building image themselves could turned "grey" or transparent like the seaport, or even just "blend in" with the rest of the buildings with no marking of the logo or showing building type "tag" when the information display mode is turned on. This way, the filter will greatly reduce the search time and allow focus on the city view with filters of your own choosing much easier and cleaner.
And on a separate but related suggestion, perhaps we can have more filter "options" like not just "My Firms" or not, but 3 or more options, like "My Firms", "Mine & Subs", "All", etc. (like "My Controlled" which shows only those corps I owned over 75%, whereas "Mine and Subs" shows over 50%, even "Total Controlled" shows those over 100%, etc.). And Product filter can have group options like product classes, instead of just each product filter (even megaclass filter, that would be very useful for corporate brand strategy to check where are those firms with relevant products are that could ruin the corporate brand after merger)