I had the exact same problem with Jing. Start Elemental, go to Options->Video. Uncheck "Use fullscreen". I also recommend configuring the Jing preferences to set a Capture Hotkey.
The use case below is written assuming that you choose Altar as your faction, but I've run this through a number of combinations and believe it occurs regardless of which faction is chosen. The opponents are listed in the following order (kingdoms on top, empires on the bottom): Altar Yoren Capitar Tarth Gilden Parriden Resoln Kraxis Magnar Umber Athos Yithril The initial opponents are the leftmost two factions from the kingdom and
Parriden also has this issue along the middle three slots of the bottom row, although the light blue is visible, just not in an sharply contrasting way.
The "starburst" highlight around the selected icon in the Choose Opponents screen for the Kraxis faction can blend in with the background so as to be virtually invisible. <img class="embeddedObject" src="http://content.screencast.com/users/FeathersMcGraw/folders/Elemental%20Beta/media/3197c17d-08e6-4406-b90a-84ebdc38033b/Kraxis-visible.png
This appears to be similar to a previous report: Enemy unit cannot engage
I would also find this enormously useful.
This also occurs with victory. I achieved a conquest victory by killing all of the enemy sovereigns and saw similar behavior after starting a new skirmish game.
These units appear to be leftover garrison units in the enemy cities. Defeating an enemy sovereign causes the city (and its borders) to disappear, but a unit remains on the location of the main city tile. The unit is selectable but moving into its square does not initiate combat.
Is there any way to change the default forum search behavior for the Beta forum to limit search to the Elemental Beta forum only? I really don't want to duplicate bug reports, but when I tried searching, I was getting pages about Galciv II. The volume of posts is actually large enough that it might be worthwhile considering splitting the forum into bug/suggestion/etc. subforums.
Clicking any of the Victory Conditions checkboxes on the Create Your World page causes the World Name to change. In addition, none of the condition buttons will toggle (I assume this is because they are disabled, but I mention this for completeness). Conquest is selected by default. Rolling over the other three condition buttons causes the button to highlight with an X, but clicking on the button does not cause the button state to toggle (i.e. it is impossib