Number 6, reorder the queue is an essential management tool.

The story feels bolted on to the mechanics of the game. For example The goody boxes are a tried and true mechanism for helping out players at the start. Yet for all the text about an alien race we learn nothing about them during or after the game. The presence or absence of the the towers and observ...

I know a lot of work went into the voiceovers but I listen to them once and then tune them out. They add to the play experience for a first time through. Perhaps the dialogue, with which I find there is room for improvement, affects my perception. In a larger budget world each leader would have a un...

I think that is entirely valid for the developers to let the users write a wiki that would complement the manual. Look at the Star Trek/Halo/Mass Effect wiki's. I grant that the pool of users is smaller but with a little push after launch from the developers this could work quite well.

Those are some great suggestions, thank you. The thing I note for the developers is that I learned a few new things about the game that are not documented or possible to discover.... - you can rename your cities?!?!? how? - there is a 3-tile-border-expansion-limit? I'm sure it's true but where does ...

As a big Alpha Centauri fan I think I brought a lot of old habits to a new game. Nonetheless it was a bit disconcerting to realize that I have lost 8 games in a row to the AI on medium difficulty. Between 150 and 200 turns it's either the aliens or the other factions that attack in overwhelming wave...

Yes, you should be able to develop the ocean, even harvest fungus from it. Great idea...

Played as the gaians and lost in less than an hour. It seems I cannot play my usual build in the early game and destroy in the end game. The faction seems a little underpowered or I don't know how to play to their advantages. I think the surface similarity with Alpha Centauri is actually a disadvant...

*intro music and splash screen with the cloud movement are very nice and suitable *pictures of the leaders seem bland. The outlines of their faces are too soft and airbrushed *the font for the dialog boxes is way too small for my eyes and it does not appear that it can be adjusted by the user *I fou...