Ardanwen Wrote:..., but perhaps it could also be a more worked out version of the (I can't remember the name of it anymore) "eye"-menu of Tropico 1?
While in Tropico 1 you'd only see colours to see happiness-rate etc. This appears to be the same now, as you can see in the first screenshot, but now you also get exact figures next to that.

The white text in screenshot 2 looks to be from the admin/dev console.. That's something you won't see in the finished game. It's as you say, the screens are most likely made in a test-version.

Lyubo_Haemimont Wrote:*Uses the Force* You saw no white text floating messages

The almanac is not presented in the screenshots, but you can see the icon that activates it (above the speed controls).

I write too slow ...

Yes indeed, I missed widely on a couple of points.

The "eye" icon was for the "Info" Mode/menu. I suspect that it was the least understood and/or used of the mode/menus - except for discovering mineral resources. To refresh your memory, the information was presented as Overlays to the map which could be seen at any zoom -- to change between the general and the particular. They for T1 are:

• Ground / Terrain / Area
• Buildings - themselves, not their effects
• People (units) with floating colored arrows over them (freighters also had them in some circumstances)
  

The example showed the building employment level. There seems to have been added warning messages about buildings with no employees - if the player is to see the red text above the mini-map. (I apologize for my limited experience which did not tell me that the white text was from a restricted "console".)

I can not but hope that T3 keeps all the overlays of T1 even though many players do not utilize them frequently or to the best advantage. Perhaps someone who will write a guide for advantageous use of the overlays.