Anyway To Disable Dialogue Popups?

[VIGILO CONFIDO]

Mexico is closing its boarders.
Italy is shutting down its airports.
Saudi Arabia is beginning research for a cure to the disease.
Your disease has been noticed.
The Rio Olympic mystery.
Rio Olympics continue despite prevalence of new disease.

Having to click through all these repetitive, pointless dialogue popups makes me want to leave a negative review on that alone.

[Cheek Inspector]

They’re essential for the game and cannot be disabled. Some pop-ups can however. Go to the Options and switch Extra pop-ups to off

It won’t disable the ones you’re describing however as they are an essential part to the game

[VIGILO CONFIDO]

Originally posted by Coolsy101:

They’re essential for the game and cannot be disabled. Some pop-ups can however. Go to the Options and switch Extra pop-ups to off

It won’t disable the ones you’re describing however as they are an essential part to the game

What makes them needed for the game? Why do I need to know a country is beginning to develop a cure when there is a big blue bar in the lower right? I understand some players wanting it but I just want the option to disable it.

[Cheek Inspector]

Originally posted by VIGILO CONFIDO:

Originally posted by Coolsy101:

They’re essential for the game and cannot be disabled. Some pop-ups can however. Go to the Options and switch Extra pop-ups to off

It won’t disable the ones you’re describing however as they are an essential part to the game

What makes them needed for the game? Why do I need to know a country is beginning to develop a cure when there is a big blue bar in the lower right? I understand some players wanting it but I just want the option to disable it.

It’s essential for the narrative. Also, some achievements actually require you to see specific pop-ups so disabling all of them would make getting those achievements very hard.

Knowing which country is beginning to develop a cure is much better than all of a sudden seeing the Cure progress begin to increase and stressing about which country started it. Plus I’d also like to know which country starts to shut everything down so I’m not surprised by a wave of border and airport/seaport shutdowns.

[VIGILO CONFIDO]

I am not saying disable them for everybody. Just have the option to. I can look at the world view if I care which countries are doing research. If I want to hunt achievements or care for the narrative, I can turn them back on. The narrative means nothing to me. I do not want a popup 15 seconds before winning just to announce I am going to win.

[indigofenix]

You can make a custom scenario that only uses the events lab, and just disables all popups.

[JohnTheJuggler]

You can often just hit ENTER to clear the pop ups instead of finding the OK button with your mouse.

[shoten]

I absolutely have to second this. It also makes me want to leave a negative review, because of the strain of clicking all over the place. I already disabled the pop-ups I could, but I still constantly get the ones about the Olympics, Cure progression and so on.

There is no real argument for not providing the option to disabling narrative pop-ups. Coolsy101 is incorrect. Also:

- The narrative pop-ups scale really badly with increased game speed, because other things must be clicked too, just as quickly.

- Narrative pop-ups block the view of some other ones. Such as if there's a mutation in the Caribbean.

- The narrative pop-ups are NOT important when for example you load a saved game and know that a country is close to collapse or another status. It's pure repetition.

- Narrative pop-ups obstruct the ACTUAL gameplay element of gaining more mutation points. Either one has to click that little ok button or use another key, such as the escape key when they come up.

- Narrative pop-ups also strain my eyes due to their sudden appearance actually.

- Narrative pop-ups don't even play a role in multiplayer, where it can also be argued there is a story of some kind. So it can be done.

TL;DR: Narrative pop-ups should have a disable option, because they obstruct gameplay and make playing really uncomfortable, repetitive and annoying. It would be a significant quality of life upgrade for me. There is nothing for the developers to lose by giving people this option.