Suggestion | Organizing the projects menu

[Ailurus Fulgens]

Tldr; I suggest organizing national projects in accordion menus to make it more organized and to be “less scary” for new players.

I find the current national projects menu unclear and difficult, so I propose a new system using accordion collapsible menus. In the images below, you can see how I am envisioning it, and I'm open to suggestion and discussion on how to improve my suggestion to make it the best possible for veteran and new players.

In my current idea, I'm thinking of splitting projects into collapsible menus based on what they affect. The categories I've come up with so far are: production, population, expansion cost, war & espionage, policy and misc. (misc will hopefully get removed, as it only contains projects I couldn't organize into the other categories) Of course, these aren't final and can be changed.

Another idea I have is to make it easier for newer players to choose a project. This through the last category I have called “perfect for new nations”. In this category, I am thinking that there are added projects that boost smaller nations early on. Like the activity center which is for nation under 15 cities, and a regional production booster as examples. I'm also thinking that the menu only appears for nations under a specific city count (probably until the activity center stops working)

Each category is split into their name, description, price of building, requirements (removes the need to add in the description), and the status. With this, I'm hoping to make the process of reading through projects to be easier. Below you can see the start of the expansion cost projects, which all aim to reduce the cost expansion of some kind. That could be land, new cities or infrastructure. The look is pretty similar to how it is now but with some of my adjustments.

Under here is a small GIF to show off how it looks in practice. (I wasn't allowed to upload a bigger one, sorry. Also, I didn't add the requirements to all, so only the expansion cost category has it to show off)

 

 

 

 

[Village]

That looks really cool! I'll mark it down on my list for when I get to redoing the projects page and we'll probably end up with something similar or at least derived from this. Categories would be amazing!

[Jacob Knox]

1 hour ago, Village said:

That looks really cool! I'll mark it down on my list for when I get to redoing the projects page and we'll probably end up with something similar or at least derived from this. Categories would be amazing!

Time to add a new column to the DB? 🤪😂