Larger fonts? Scaled UI?

[Max Angor ⛏]

Hello. I'm very interested in buying this game (as well as your other game) but I need to know if there's a way to blow up the font/ui so I can... y'know, actually read it.

Is there a mod or option to bump the font up a few points or am I screwed here? I hope this isn't another Paradox Interactive debacle (their fonts are tiny too and I haven't been able to get a response from them.)

[Stone Dog]

Not that I know of, sorry.

[Max Angor ⛏]

Well damn. Is there anyone I could talk to about including such options? I really want a good 4x game and all of them seem to be tiny-fonted nightmares.

[Smiling Spectre]

How big your preferrable fonts must be? Because, well, I am the first in complain queue if speaking about sprites - but I see nothing wrong about fonts, actually...

[Max Angor ⛏]

Honestly, I only need it a few (4-8) points bigger. The current font looks like it's juuust small enough to give me eyestrain while being barely readable. This is nowhere near Paradox territory, like I said.

I will make an open promise though that if there's a font mod (or an update) and I can read it, I'll buy both this game and their other one (Conquest of Elysium 4) on the spot without even waiting for a sale (as they look like they use the same engine.)

I REALLY want to play this game. Its design directions screams "instant classic" to me.

edited to add: I use a 23 inch 1920x1080 monitor and this screenshot should give you an idea of how low of vision I have.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/RKade8583/Untitled_zpsrmiiq3z1.png~original

My wife brought up a good idea: I'll make a video of my buying both games whilst singing the praises of a company/modder who would make the game more accessible for me AND add it to my list of games I stream on my twitch channel (so the games gets a little more exposure.) Maybe it'd be entertaining to watch me blindly (no pun intended) flail around a complex game whilst knowing hardly anything about its intricacies.

[Hawk]

Hmm, I have not had this problem, and frankly, don't think I fully understand it, however as far as the UI goes you can increase the size of the commander tokens by pressing ">".

As for speaking to the developers, they do check these forums and reply from time to time, though it is probably quicker to see if someone can mod this.

Edit: I saw your posted picture, it does seem like the difference is minimal with how it is presented ingame. maybe using a different ingame resolution would make a difference, give me a few mins to test it.

Alright, tested it and although the difference is minimal it -MIGHT- be enough.

checked for your resolution - it is available in full-screen mode ingame, so that shouldn't be a problem.

What you could do is buy the game through steam, check it out for yourself, stay under the 2 hours and refund it if it isn't working out for you?

[Max Angor ⛏]

With my finances, I don't have that luxury. Basically, the bank card I've got the money on doesn't like taking refunds so it's kind of an all-or-nothing thing. From what I've heard about the game, it renders the UI as a percentage of the window size so even if I fullscreen it and reduce the resolution to 1280x720, the fonts would be blurry (and still small.)

Basically, I need to be absolutely sure (which is why I'm promising to do so much.) I really hope the devs see this thread. I've got my wife and two buddies interested in these games too so if we're lucky and the devs are compassionate, there might be more than one sale here.

As an aside, my wife loves all the races, especially the Conan one.

[shygamer]

Who's the Conan one?

[Hawk]

My guess is EA Ulm :)

Sidenote: quickly checked, currently the cheapest reputable (as in recommended by illwinter ) salespoint is http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-DOM4TA/dominions-4-thrones-of-ascension at €24,99. Oh, and do NOT buy it from desura, the price there is slightly inflated there ;)

[Max Angor ⛏]

That's the one, yeah. Ulm. I don't know Conan (I thought she'd go Irish Elves) so that whole thing escapes me.

Does gamersgate provide a steam key?

[Hawk]

Yes, gamersgate does give you an activation key that you can use to activate the product on steam =)

[Max Angor ⛏]

Actually, Gamersgate's price and Steam's price are the same at the moment, lol.

[Hawk]

hmm, my current price on steam is €32,99 whilst gamersgate is at €24,99 - most likely another example of regionalised steam pricing.

[Max Angor ⛏]

$35 both ways here.

[Smiling Spectre]

Originally posted by RKade8583:

edited to add: I use a 23 inch 1920x1080 monitor and this screenshot should give you an idea of how low of vision I have.

Hmm, I see the problem...

Well, that's[i780.photobucket.com] how this game looks _for me_ on my 1920x1080. Check this screen, and if font is too small for you then yes, it is. :(

Game itself really doesn't scale font for full screen - if you'll set lower resolution, font will be blurry, and that's all. But in window it scales to the window size - my shot is "fullscreen window" obviously.

[Max Angor ⛏]

Yeah and I can't read that. I can almost make it out but alas... Thanks for trying to help at least :)

Well, the offer stands, Devs.