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Codex entry requests?

A topic by Hanako Games created Aug 21, 2025 Views: 192 Replies: 5
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Here is a topic specifically to suggest terms/references in the game which should, in your opinion, have a codex entry to provide more information. Obviously many topics are already flagged to get codex entries, I just haven't written them yet, but I want to know if there are other things you're confused about that you'd like to get some of Zorana's basic pre-existing knowledge for listed.

(Please don't use this to suggest completely different kinds of changes to the game or turning the codex into something else entirely because that will make it harder to see the possible entries.)

In particular, do you think there should be entries for planet names? I have, so far, NOT included those because they are generally unimportant flavor text that the player doesn't need to know or remember. You need to know what's going on in sector Tharkas II. You don't need to remember which planet is 'Chakagola'.  I don't want the player to feel burdened by a million planetary popups and think "Oh shit I need to memorise this". On the other hand if for some reason you did want to remember where Chakagola was, having a reference entry might be handy.

I do feel like it would be helpful to have some kind of reference of which sector each planet is in. In particular I know that when I was investigating people's allies and enemies on my first few runs and trying to keep people straight, it felt not very helpful to be told "Zolot is enemies with Oletko of Chakagola" when I had no idea where Chakagola was or how to get there. Eventually I just made my own list of all the electors along with their sectors and planets.

Also my experience! (I didn't make a list, but a reference planet/sector could be helpful)

Yeah—if you're reluctant to have individual planet entries, it might be a good idea to have entries for systems or sectors instead, and list planets there. All the player really needs to know about Chakagola is that it's in the Tharkas II sector, but that much is important. 

It would be very useful at one particular point to know that a trecen is a turn (given that two characters at one point can only stay that long). "Split" and "fivim" would be nice-to-haves but not essential.

I was also initially confused by the term "Logothete", although by the time it mattered for anything, I'd worked out the meaning (which makes me think it could be a one-liner in the Codex about them being the senior Cabinet minister for a subject area).

I support the suggestion for a "Logothete" entry in the codex. Dialogs like this confused me into thinking there is a huge difference between minister and Logothete. Took me a while to realised that the two words are practically interchangeable for game purpose.