Big Progress Screen numbers are hard to read

[XVII]

Hello Crafters,

I am playing with a group of friends and we are just passed the Amphibian stage. So far, the game is great.
With larger numbers of heat, pressure etc we find it very hard to read the values per second as they dont change their order of magnitude, are not monospaced and lack separators for every 1000 units.
Is there an option/mod for this?

Best wishes

[starlight78sso]

There is no option or mod for it, I rarely even read the actual numbers anymore myself, and even when I do I guess I've gotten used to the way it is. I dont know if there even is a way to make a mod to change that.

[FineMouche16 [FR]]

4 figures = 1000, 7 = mi/billions, 10 = mi/billard

[XVII]

Thank you FineMouche16, I am of course aware of how the numbers are to be read. It's just more work without the seperators.

I guess we will try the mod that displays the time left until the next stage.

[Meldiron]

I know of no way to do what you want. But I wanted to add in that while I do not have much trouble reading the numbers. I would also like it if the numbers were shown in a more reader friendly way. Add either spaces between every 3rd digit, add some other sort of separator, or adjust the units being used as they get larger.

[Scoob454]

Agreed. A space or comma every 3 digits would be nice. That, or change the scale like the rest of the terraforming values.

[GreyBeard512]

FYI, the little numbers are the scale at which they are added into the overall terraforming index. So a quick comparison of the numbers will tell you which one are contributing more and which less.

[serkalk]

The game makes use of a sci-fi typeface and it is not the most optimal one for numbers. I aggree with you that a thousand seperator is a useful tool for easy reading.

[Bpat]

Originally posted by XVII:

Thank you FineMouche16, I am of course aware of how the numbers are to be read. It's just more work without the seperators.

I guess we will try the mod that displays the time left until the next stage.

i do agree, later on when numbers are huge is hard to see if you have a mil or 10 mil. But as you have also probably noticed yourself when you reach that high numbers it doesn't matter anymore and numbers are just decoration basically, they dont have any scientific meaning, the higher the better hehe

[Meldiron]

Originally posted by Bpat:

Originally posted by XVII:

Thank you FineMouche16, I am of course aware of how the numbers are to be read. It's just more work without the seperators.

I guess we will try the mod that displays the time left until the next stage.

i do agree, later on when numbers are huge is hard to see if you have a mil or 10 mil. But as you have also probably noticed yourself when you reach that high numbers it doesn't matter anymore and numbers are just decoration basically, they dont have any scientific meaning, the higher the better hehe

Scientifically it may make no sense and not matter. However some people get dopamine from seeing numbers increase. It is a pretty common thing. So being able to more easily tell what the numbers are, and how much they are growing, would bring more pleasure to many people.

[Admiral Ikhlas Jr]

My "monitor" is a 48" tv. The data on the screens shows up fine. hehehe

[SmokedHalibut]

Originally posted by Admiral Ikhlas Jr:

My "monitor" is a 48" tv. The data on the screens shows up fine. hehehe

I really want to try that one day :)

But if there's going to be a separator, it should obviously be commas, 1,000,000 and not spaces, since spaces are a silly thing, and don't work in numbers, only words. Of course, it's worse to use a comma instead of a decimal point ;)

But nothing along these lines is as bad as dates in US format.

[EleventhStar]

Originally posted by SmokedHalibut:

I really want to try that one day :)

But if there's going to be a separator, it should obviously be commas, 1,000,000 and not spaces, since spaces are a silly thing, and don't work in numbers, only words. Of course, it's worse to use a comma instead of a decimal point ;)

But nothing along these lines is as bad as dates in US format.

using commas as thousands seperator is the US system too though. they use dots for that in europe.

[serkalk]

Commas in some typefaces are dominant characters and take too much attenttion in a number context especially in the monospace setting.

[SmokedHalibut]

Originally posted by EleventhStar:

Originally posted by SmokedHalibut:

I really want to try that one day :)

But if there's going to be a separator, it should obviously be commas, 1,000,000 and not spaces, since spaces are a silly thing, and don't work in numbers, only words. Of course, it's worse to use a comma instead of a decimal point ;)

But nothing along these lines is as bad as dates in US format.

using commas as thousands seperator is the US system too though. they use dots for that in europe.

Yes, and I was saying they're wrong. Some countries use a space as in 1 000 000, which makes more sense on a computer but obviously is silly because it comes from handwriting so it's completely illegible. Some countries use a decimal point, and then the comma like this €1000,00 which is also silly, because the comma is the thousands separator and the decimal point is a decimal point because it's a point. ;)

And obviously, I'm lightly poking fun for the humourless. They should change, because our system is better, but it doesn't matter too much.

Not joking about the insanity of the US month/date/year thing though. That's true lunacy. Nor about them not being able to spell aluminium or caesium. ;)