Been playing AJE and I am really enjoying the game.
There is something that occurred to me while playing that I think is sorely missing and I think many players would agree.
I was looking at the Objectives screen and it shows lots of great information/statistics that gives a player a vital insight in to the plight of each nation, but I think the potential of this information and what it can offer the player/game has been sorely overlooked. When the thought of manually recording some/all of the key data for each nation shown in that window at the start of every turn (Morale, VP Total, VP Gain, Combat Power, Lost Men) and plotting it on Excel so as I could keep a running track of the fate/fortunes of my and other nations crossed my mind at the start of my new scenario, I realised that the game probably should be doing it for me, like other games I have played.
I think it could be a million times better and give the player a much better appreciation of "what has been happening" and "what is happening" in the game if some of that turn by turn data was actually stored/recorded with an option for a player to press a button on the screen to bring up a graph showing the data turn by turn for each nation.
Imagine how much of an enhancement it would be and how much it would help to give a player a bigger strategic picture/feel of how each nation is faring/has fared if a turn-by-turn graph of the following key statistical parameters could be represented: Morale, VP Total, VP Gain, Combat Power, Lost Men.
These kind of graphs have been used in the Civilization series for quite some time and do help paint a good overall strategic picture for how things have unfolded and the current state of play. The graph typically has filters to show some/none/all of the nations data overlayed on the one graph.
This is the kind of thing I am talking about:
I know lots of this games turn data does get recorded to log files. Does each nations Morale, VP Total, VP Gain, Combat Power, Lost Men also get recorded? That would be a start perhaps, but it would probably be better if the data was amended each turn to one file.
Either way, I think being able to graphically view this information would be awesome. Players could post screenshots of these graphs in their AARs and they would speak for themselves as to what happened in the game and when.
May as well ask now: is any of this data actually recorded in any of the txt logs? There may be potential for a cunning modder to perhaps make some mod to capture/display this information either in game (not likely) or externally (at least saved to a txt file that can be viewed as a graph in Excel for example).
Thoughts?
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