v. 1.23 (tb) - questions and feedback

[Eric.B]

[*]The most obvious change is the frame around the mothly reports. With my resolution (1920x1080) it is way too small to see the bottom of a page. You have to scroll down - and I scroll down a lot in this game. This not only applies to the report, but also to "Gear City Monthly" and "Gear City news". How can I change the size of these windows? 

Are you playing the game fullscreen or windowed? What is the actual resolution the game is running at? Window decoration, such as your taskbar can reduce the resolution of the game. Large report windows are displayed if the height of the resolution is above 1050px, otherwise it will use the small report window. If you upload your log file I can tell you what the game is running at: http://wiki.gearcity.info/doku.php?id=tr...e_log_file

A screenshot might also help.

[*]How can I change the fonts in the reports? I use the largest avaliable size (>> settings) and it is still not optimal. The fonts lacks contrast and simplicity. I do understand that you needed to pick a licence-free font.

You can not change the report fonts of the reports from in game. Since all reports are just webpages viewed in a web browser, you can edit the css files located in the ./GearCity/Sites folder.
If it seems that fonts have been made smaller, this is because fullscreen was disabled for DirectX.

[*]My last question is not related to this version of the game but a more general one: I am always interested in what the competition does. Are there any more information avaliable besides what I can see in the yearly company overview, the stocks and on the world map (world map >> maps >> competition)? Maybe an additional page in the reports, which sums up some information about the competition, would be an idea?! Having one page with the most basic figures of each competitor would be such a great addition to the game (e.g. sales figures, profit/loss , number of branches, debt, market share, headquater, logo). Almost all of these information already exist. 
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There isn't, and probably won't be a centralized report for AI like this. If a company is not public, then most of the information can be found in the stock report as you mentioned.

A feedback on the current version: I experienced some crashes on the latest versions, especially when opening the world map (maybe due to the fact that I am playing AI 300). On the newest version (1.23 (tb)) this only happened once. Which is good. The frame around the reports is a step back, though, imo.

Telling me the game crashes doesn't help any. Logfiles are the only things that help me with crashes. That being said, most likely the crash is related to alt-tabbing or otherwise the game losing focus (like Steam Overlay), especially if you are playing fullscreen.