Devlog #3: A First Look at the New Interface

Hello, world leaders! Many of you told us the interface is cluttered and hard to read. We agree — so we've been rebuilding it from the ground up. Our third devlog is a first look at the new interface, which arrives with the next update together with a long list of fixes from your reports. It's still in progress: every screenshot in the devlog comes from the current development build, and details can still change before it ships.

One screen, one layout

• The left side is always your country. A slim icon rail replaces the grid of twelve tab buttons, with a badge where you're needed
• The right side is whatever you clicked. Provinces, other countries and wars open in a dock instead of a big window, so the map stays in view
• Readable by default: solid panels, and in-game text no smaller than 14 px at 1080p
• Every new line of text is translated into all 13 languages the game supports

Problems come with a fix

• Values are coloured by warning thresholds: inflation is judged against your central bank's target, so 58.5 % shows red
• The strip under the top bar says what needs attention, how much and what the target is — and takes you there
• Every status-bar chip opens the page behind it

Find anything

Click the search box in the top bar and type: pages, values, countries, provinces, glossary entries and actions. Nothing changes your game without your own click — "embassy gre" takes you to Greece's card, where you confirm.

A tour of the new pages

• Economy: a Budget that shows the monthly cost of every slider, a Monetary page that explains your inflation, and Markets — all 54 resources in one table, with a trade ticket docked beside it
• Military: one Forces roster, and a Recruit page that tells you why a unit can't be recruited
• Diplomacy: relations grouped from friendly to hostile, in the same colours as the diplomatic map
• Intelligence: send specialists abroad without switching country
• Politics: voters, decisions, and laws whose options you can compare side by side
• Research and goals: a research page in the sidebar, the Knowledge Network and a Goal Board

Fixed from your reports

• Ultimatums have teeth: a refused ultimatum now leads to war, and you can answer AI ultimatums from a pop-up or your inbox
• AI fleets go home after peace; damaged fleets repair in port, and stacks lose ships gradually instead of vanishing on one hit
• Airfields hold 2, 3 and 4 air wings at levels 1, 2 and 3
• Reserve auto-buy covers your monthly shortfall, industrial inputs are no longer charged twice, and trade agreements deliver from the seller's stockpile
• Request Intelligence works, and espionage buttons show their cooldowns
• Shift and Right Ctrl add to your selection, like Left Ctrl

And many more changes

• Stability no longer settles at 100 — each country moves toward its own target
• Processed goods need their inputs, and the global oil shock hits the world once instead of once per country
• New event effects and conditions for modders, and a Validate Mod check before every Workshop upload
• Thousands of translation fixes across all 12 non-English languages

Read the full devlog

20 screenshots of the new interface, page by page: read Devlog #3 on our website.

What's next

Our roadmap is public — see what we're working on. Thank you for every review, bug report and long message — they shaped this update. If you're enjoying the game, a Steam review helps a small team like ours more than you know. Join us on Discord! See you on the world stage.