I'm hoping it would be possible to improve the FOW.  It would be nice if the city outlines remain on your map one you have uncovered an area, but all other information be hidden.  

http://screencast.com/t/NEzlVwcWNA

In the screenshot its easy to tell what is happening in any given city that Altar has, what they are producing for units, what is being built... It feels a bit too much like cheating.  Ideally it would be nice if cities/towns in the FOW were never updated unless you can get another visual on it.  But at the least it would be awesome if unit and building information were hidden.  (A toggle in options might be nice, I found it interesting to see the variety of things the AI does, like producing shrills, but I still felt like I had a cheat enabled)

One other small request would be to represent the shards in a similar fashion to the other resources and show one symbol followed by a number.  Its easy/possible on larger maps  to get quite a slew of shards and it can mess up the display.  In the screenshot it shows how it was hard at times to tell what available population there is to build from.  

Cheers