Brief confusion looking at the check boxes in Settings. I would personally prefer check marks or dots to indicate selection. When I first went into Settings-> Automation, I initially thought the X's were for removing automation options
Dropdown menus feel like they have a small amount of lag after selecting an option. not serious, but it is slightly annoying. May be because I'm running on integrated Intel 4000 graphics.
The sliders in the audio pane work great. Maybe have the option to click on the number in the center and type in desired levels? Currently great as is
Tab to cycle through buttons?
Credits: it's only 5 of you?! geez
New Game Wizard
Faction leaders faces look a bit too glossy
Slightly disappointed by the lack of a Planet or some fixed map.
Pleased with the difficulty gradations. The dozen or so options in Alpha Centauri seemed a bit overkill
"Ready" should be "Launch" or "Go" or something if either all the other players are really or it's a single player game
I miss the voice quote from Alpha Centauri when you launch
Gameplay
Faction description for University slightly awkward. "Your faction values human intellect, academic virtues, and personal freedom" is more concise and forms a nice triplet. I understand if you want to distinguish the academic nature and the morale effect, in which case I suggest dropping either human intellect or academic virtues
Ahhh. Left drag to pan. Just like Civ V. I'm so glad I have a touch screen
Zooming works so smoothly! (with touch screen)
Issues with not being able to lift finger up to pan more. Maybe button up events not being handled properly for touch
Loving the music and especially the ambient sounds. I do question why this alien world has birds
Text should be more concise! I don't want to read! I want to play! "Colonizers allow you to build new cities..."
Flashing buttons might need to flash brighter
Doing the action suggested by the tips should automatically advance the tips. Minor annoyance
Being the grammar Nazi here: "You can either pay safe by fortifying *it* in your city, or explore by..." current version is verbose and doesn't have the parallel structure implied by "either...or..." Also, my Explorer ATV is an "it".
Panning by moving cursor to the border is too fast when zoomed in. Need to take into account zoom level.
Allow user to hold shift to increase panning speed
All terrain had the same movement cost??? Ok. I can live with that
"Take your time to explore the interface. Every button..."
Liking the Civ V inspired next task button
"The power display above the unit turns grey"
UI sooo beautiful
Window snapping on the city screen would help the OCD among us
Drag to reorder in production queue
"Raze city" button needs to be off to a corner (top right above production options?) and not right above "Return to Map". In the middle there it's too tempting
Surprisingly fast turn processing
Like that you can only see two techs ahead. It's fresh and still maintains the flavor of Alpha Centauri
Would like to be able to select farther out research and have it find the best path like in Civ
Contact with Divine Ascension! Oh no for my University faction!
Dialogue options are genetic. I would like to see the "flavor" of my own faction come across. "Lady, your fanatic beliefs are too great of a hindrance to technological advance! you must be eliminated!"
Maybe also insert "and blind aggression" dynamically, if faction had engaged in combat with another faction in the last five turns
Weird that she would accept every treaty beside non-aggression
Psssh. I'm not giving you a tribute. Better start working my way toward the heavy war machines
Oh. Fungus costs 2 movement points
13 turns in. It's 1am. I'm not quite so dedicated a tester. time for sleep
No default save name? It would also be nice to able to edit name inline without having a dialogue pop up
Love the fade to main menu
Thanks for taking the time to read this. More to come
