Grand Century 1.4.0 — The Chancery

The chancery

Diplomacy was a wall of buttons. Forty eight countries, each with six identical
parchment buttons stapled to it, sitting under a war form that filled the whole
screen. On a phone you could not see a single country without scrolling.

It is now three bands, in the order a foreign minister actually works in.

• Your standing, at the top. Points, infamy, rivals and influence as four
  gauges. Every number opens to show where it came from. Fabrications you have
  in flight are listed here, so committed points are never hidden.
• The roster. One line per country: flag, name, a wax seal for the
  relationship, and a bar showing how they feel about you. No buttons. Filter by
  Relevant, Powers, Near or All, each with a live count, and search reaches every
  country on the map whatever filter you are on. That is the answer to a long
  list on a small screen. You type three letters instead of scrolling.
• The dossier. Pick a country and everything about that country is in one
  place, including the war console. The target dropdown is gone because the
  roster is the target picker. Buttons you cannot use now say why in plain
  words, for example "Alliance: Would refuse: score 20 of 70" or "Rivalry: Cap
  reached (4 of 4). End one first."

Great Powers got the same treatment and now links straight through to a
country's dossier, so you are not holding two screens in your head.

Everywhere else

• Panels are taller on phones. The old ceiling left a band of dead map above
  every sheet.
• Section headings stick to the top as you scroll, so you always know which
  ledger you are in.
• Every kind of notification now has its colour. Eight of them never had one,
  and two colours were defined for kinds that could never appear.

Under the floor

Groundwork for the economy rework, switched off by default so nothing changes
yet. The market has been paying producers for everything they make rather than
everything they sell, which quietly created money out of nothing: by 1825 it was
paying out seven and a half times what buyers spent. That is why taxes have
never had any bite. The replacement is written and measured, and turning it on
comes with the rebalance it needs.