This might be a dumb question, but is there any way of receiving more obvious notification when a unit or buidling is completed (as in Civ 5 or Galciv 2 when the little messages drop down the right hand side of the screen). I often end up constructing/training stuff and then forgetting about it, especially when I have a large number of settlements and when automatic next turn is switched on. I then end up with units sitting around for several turns doing nothing (especially annoying with pioneers). It's only a small thing, but it really spoils my enjoyment of the game.
I know that I could keep opening the city view list to check, but this is a major hassle. I also find it very difficult to read this kind of infromation off the empire tree. Generally, I think that the empire tree is more suited to an RTS like SOSE (where there's a greater need to select units quickly) than it is in a turn based game like EWOM.
I'm keeping my faith with this game, though I must admit that I'm mostly playing Civ 5 at the moment.
There's a unit tab in the upper right under the mini-map that opens up and adds a unit icon every turn when a new unit appears.
Thanks cpl_rk - that's really helpful.
I had the mini-map turned off and the icons didn't display.
don't think they are linked to mini map. I don't use minimap and I get a spam of icons every turn (or at least it did.. haven't played 1.09e yet)
I just click each one, one-at-a-time. Caravans are very useful to be informed, because otherwise you won't be able to start the caravan route without hardship.
Now I'm confused. I've turned the mini-map off and the icons still show up.
Maybe I just didn't notice them before. The icons look quite small on a large monitor, but I can't believe my eyesight is quite that bad!
maybe it's one of the other icons at the top.. can't remember...
There's like three small toggles at the top, mini map is one, one enables terrain window (mouseover a terrain grid and it tell you here what it is), and the third is for production (if enabled it shows unit & building production every turn as to what's built that particualar turn ) .. a spam of small icons might appear if you have a lot of cities & production going on as it usually does at end-game, but you can click each icon one-at-a-time and it'll disappear. Otherwise, the icons just remain turn after turn until you toggle the production button off.
Too bad the manual doesn't explain all this as it should, players have to figure it all out for themselves.
we could definitely use some updates to the notification system ala Civ 5.
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