Why are rockets so hard to spot? Everything important in this game is marked fairly well. Nuclear Bomber? Battleship? Gignatic icon on the map, impossible to miss. You can see it at first glance. There is a Battleship approaching your Destroyers? You can see it, its the first thing you see if you even glance over the region.
Rockets on the other hand, are really camouflaged. The game has become "where is waldo":
In this screenshot, there is a rocket attack against me. I can see the rocket after I went looking for it. A rocket attack is potentially very dangerous, I need to know where the rocket attack is. Can you see the rocket? Or do you have to actively look for a tiny icon?
In this image a rocket attack is imminent. I can tell because there is a tiny red point (attack order) on one of my provinces/cities. Can you spot it? Was it hard to spot? Were you able to see something that important at first glance?
If I see a great threat coming at me, I want to see it. If I take a look at my fleet, I don't need to spend many minutes looking for a threat. I take a glance, see enemy battleships approaching? I retreat my fleet. On ground though, I have to actively look for any rocket attacks. Bytro is forcing me to play "Can you find the rockets before they hit your units?". Every few minutes I have to take a very close look at every single province and see if there is a tiny red mark. I spend more time looking for tiny rocket icons and tiny red marks than actually playing the game.
Please make the rocket icons bigger and the attack indicators for rockets also bigger so I can tell that "hey, there is a rocket flying at me" without having to spend minutes finding that attack. Btw, new players might not know that the red attack marks may indicate a rocket attack, making counterplay to rocket even more frustrating.
For reference, here is how visibile a missile is in CoN:
(See the big red flightpath? Its one of the first things you notice, after the big unit icons.)
Rockets on the other hand, are really camouflaged. The game has become "where is waldo":
In this screenshot, there is a rocket attack against me. I can see the rocket after I went looking for it. A rocket attack is potentially very dangerous, I need to know where the rocket attack is. Can you see the rocket? Or do you have to actively look for a tiny icon?
In this image a rocket attack is imminent. I can tell because there is a tiny red point (attack order) on one of my provinces/cities. Can you spot it? Was it hard to spot? Were you able to see something that important at first glance?
If I see a great threat coming at me, I want to see it. If I take a look at my fleet, I don't need to spend many minutes looking for a threat. I take a glance, see enemy battleships approaching? I retreat my fleet. On ground though, I have to actively look for any rocket attacks. Bytro is forcing me to play "Can you find the rockets before they hit your units?". Every few minutes I have to take a very close look at every single province and see if there is a tiny red mark. I spend more time looking for tiny rocket icons and tiny red marks than actually playing the game.
Please make the rocket icons bigger and the attack indicators for rockets also bigger so I can tell that "hey, there is a rocket flying at me" without having to spend minutes finding that attack. Btw, new players might not know that the red attack marks may indicate a rocket attack, making counterplay to rocket even more frustrating.
For reference, here is how visibile a missile is in CoN:
(See the big red flightpath? Its one of the first things you notice, after the big unit icons.)
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