Tendencies and More Information

Apart from the chart showing lobbies and territories' interests, we're going to get a colony information screen in the next version. It will be rather bare bones for now, but it'll come in handy for some new features I'm planning for future releases.

At the moment, it displays the economic rating, the stalwart and influenced immigration, and the political tendencies of the colony's population. Consequently, immigration and economic ratings won't be displayed anymore on the map, but then again you didn't even get to see them there.

I'll surely be adding some more stats as I see fit in that screen, but the main purpose of the screen will be displaying the population's tendencies.

The 22 tendencies on display will be the same as the interests that govern the politics (heavy industry, science, fear, debauchery, etc) and their strength values will change during the game. They'll go from 0 to 10 in value, they'll start slightly randomized, and they'll be nudged half a point one way or another as the different proposals affect or benefit them.

For the time being, tendencies only serve to avoid certain silly behaviours I was getting in the politics, but in the following releases new features will revolve around these tendencies. I can't put those features in just yet because they'll require me to go over all of the interactions in territories and make considerable changes, which would delay the release of this version by several weeks.

I'm definitely getting to work on that as soon as the next release is ready and bugfixed though.