Difficulty levels

[Ulrick_Maggs]

Is Utopia the lowest difficulty and 1904 the hardest?

[GLawrence]

No, 19Q4 is the lowest and the one I can't pronounce is the hardest XD (19Q4<Utopia<Normal<Hard<"unpronounceable")

[Ulrick_Maggs]

Ah Thanks :)

[Carpe Verpa]

Regarding difficulty levels, what are the main differences between them? I've noticed the starting funds and political power are higher on lower levels. Are those the only differences, or are there more?

[GLawrence]

I've noticed that in lower levels inviting countries to COMECON is easier and US strength falls more quickly. Also, I think you win more money per turn and you have a bigger chance of succes in some events. Can a Dev confirm this?

[Kremlingames (old)]

Yes, comrade Basileus Redow. Also, difficult influences on almost all things in a game.

[Kremlingames (old)]

What do you mean, comrade Joseph?

[GLawrence]

But you can set the budget on 19Q4, you just have to go to the calculator as always :S

[Kremlingames (old)]

Originally posted by Joseph:

Originally posted by Kremlingames:

What do you mean, comrade Joseph?

I mean that it is not possible to edit the budget on 19Q4. Is there any way around that?

You can't edit budget until pregame events will be solved.

[Racocac]

I didn't even know what 1Q84 was until I read it on the forums, and since the default setting is 'Utopia' and goes up to '19Q4' by right-clicking, one can easily think that '19Q4' is the hardest setting. The current setup is very unintuitive and if I may suggest this: if you don't want to just replace these difficulty names with bland names like "Very Easy" and such, then add some other sort of visual indicator that allows the user to easily tell how each difficulty level compares to the others, or at least disallow looping around from the hardest difficulty setting to the easiest so it is obvious when you can no longer go further up (or down) in difficulty.

[Gedsaro]

What Racocac said about, or if you want to keep the names, add tool-tips which clarify what each is, hover over 1Q84, tool-tip should tell you easiest dificulty!

Seriously, add tool-tips to all the things adding some more clarification to everything, I know there are a lot of places to add them, but tool-tips in games like this help immesly, they let you keep the games descriptive flavour, and add more information to the screen without taking up more space.

They are especially important to have in games which don't have full instruction manuals.
(I play a lot of paradox games, they have no manuals, poor tutorials, but they have tool-tips on ALL the things).