I voted Fair. Here's why: - Essence is a huge improvement over per-turn mana upkeep and unlimited city spells - Outpost upgrades are a great idea - Re-arranging the build queue and saving the progress on items was sorely lacking! Thank you! Unfortunately: - You cannot rearrange items in the build-queue which require flipping between pages. So, if you have an item on page 2 or 3 of the queue, you cannot move it to page 1
Some additional items that I forgot to mention: 1) We need an alert if a friendly city is conquered. One of mine got conquered three times in one game and I went several turns without even knowing. Once was because an AI declared war and attacked while I had no defenders. Twice more I lost the city because a unit was sitting on the city instead of inside the city and they stole it out from under me. 2) We need an alert when the city runs out of things in its build queue. We do
My impressions so far... First, stability is much better than previous betas. I can play for several hours (usually) without a crash. Could I beat it right now without a crash? Possibly. But only if I just bee-lined right for the enemies and killed them with my sovereign. Biggest stability issue right now is memory consumption. I keep crashing with out of memory errors. Mind you, I have 8 GB of memory (Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit), so memory is not a problem. The game