EU IV Toolbar

Toolbar[edit]

Below the Minimap you will find a small Toolbar which contains some Main Map functions as well as several other the game interfaces. On the left edge of the Toolbar is a “+” button which will open the Log, while the right end of the Toolbar contains a “+” button and “–” button, which zoom the Main Map in and out.

There are four other buttons which link to other interfaces. From left to right, these are:

  • More Interfaces – This button, decorated with a cogwheel, can open links to

three minor interfaces. These are History, covered in section 5.3 of this manual, Triggered Modifiers, covered in section 5.4, and Go to Capital Province, a command which centers the map on your capital province.

  • Menu – This button, decorated with an image suggesting a zoomed-out menu,

will open the various game options detailed in section 5.6.

  • The Ledger – This button, decorated with a graph, will open The Ledger, a book

of useful information relating to your country and to your neighbors, friends, and enemies.

  • Find Province – This button, marked by an arrow, will open the Find Province

interface, which makes it easy to locate any province on the map

History[edit]

History is accessed through the More Interfaces button on the Toolbar. This interface pulls up a chronological history of your nation, organized by ruler. It notes major achievements, wars, the successes and failures of your rulers, and usually adds an amusing footnote to each monarch. The history can help remind you of the past history of certain rulers and can be quite fun to read through.

Triggered Modifiers[edit]

If you press the More Interfaces button on the Toolbar, you will reach Triggered Modifiers. With this useful interface you can track your progress towards achieving certain modifiers, which can seriously aid you in the development of your country. These are often nation-specific, and each modifier has a different set of objectives, and rewards you differently. These rewards are outlined on this page as well. The bars on the right bar and the counters above them fill up as you complete the modifier’s requisite objectives. Hovering your mouse over an objective counter opens a tooltip which describes what steps you have already completed – and what conditions remain to be filled, before the modifier is triggered.

Go To Capital Province[edit]

Accessed through the More Interfaces button on the Toolbar, pressing the Go to Capital Province button will reposition the Main Map to center on your Capital Province.

Menu[edit]

The Menu is accessed from the Toolbar, and offers several options. From here you can load a different game or save your current game. You can also access the Game Options, which you will remember from our discussion back in section 2.3. Further, you can configure your Message Settings here, allowing you to customize how the game shares information with you. You can decide what sort of information needs to appear in popups, what requires a pause to the game, and even what information should immediately be shown on the map – or not appear at all. If you are playing Multiplayer, you can also configure how the AI taking over your nation should behave, should you drop out of the game, from this Menu.

Finally, you can exit to the Main Menu or even exit the game altogether.

Find Provinces[edit]

ssed through the Toolbar, Find Provinces opens a simple interface that allows you to type in the name of the province you wish to view. It then finds and centers on that province, opening the Province Interface. Fear not – your ability to spell hundreds of different province names is not being tested here. The Find Provinces interface has a type ahead feature which will bring up all the provinces which match what you have entered into the search bar so far.

The list of provinces you can choose from is both scrollable and clickable.

Log[edit]

If you click the “+” to the left of the Toolbar, a display known as The Log appears, which is a scrollable history of just about every decision and turn of events that has occurred in the known world. Just like the Message Dialogue, you can filter this log so that only certain events appear, by clicking on the filter options for Own Country, Interesting Nations, and Other Countries. The Interesting Nations are chosen through the Message Dialogue

When you have finished viewing the Log and wish to minimize it once more, you will find that the “+” has changed to a “–”. Click on it and the Log will close. So, now that you’ve learned all there is to know about these useful Main Map tools, it is high time for you to take command of your nation.