I am playing a large game I am around turn 350. I own so many shards that I can't se anymore how much money I have because that number has been pushed out of the left side of the screen. Also it ended up overlapping and half covering the first of my characters on the vertical list on the left of the screren (resolution 1900x1200)
I suggest that only one shard be visible for each kind with a number next to it, indicating how many of them I own. (If I can add something my feeling is that by the end of the game there are WAY too man shards in the map, considering that resource is defined as "rare" in the description. By playing one realizes that Sovreigns have hardly the time to recover their mana, and getting more shards would only add to the frustration of having 50 essence but only a few loaded. If shards were helping recover essence faster instead than one each turn, they would be more useful)
I also suggest to introduce a yellow dot for heroes next to city (right now each city in the vertical list has blue dots for improvements and red dots for units) VERY useful to find your characters in large games.
Also I suggest to ALWAYS leave at least the food icon in the top because one may need to quickly know if their food amount is increasing or decreasing. As it is if you have zero growth you don't see what the food is doing because the icon disappears. (food being the main element for population growth is the main resource of the game)