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I played for about 2 hours last night and enjoyed it. It was similar enough to Elemental that I knew what I was doing, but definite signs of improvement. I especially like the changes to equipment and research. I'm not sold on the champion leveling up system, but it looks interesting so far. I'm also loving not having to build houses. I used to get cities stuck at X level because I'd forget to build a house, and then have to tear things down. Glad to see that gone. One thi

I'm at work so can't do a fancy screenshot, but on the char screen, have the encumbrance bar change color depending on how encumbered I am. I don't want to have to calculate the percentages in my head. Blue = no penalty Yellow = -1 init Red = -2 init (or whatever the penalty is)

I've started looking for the little Zzzz next to the city name. Those are helpful. Perhaps a single audio sound if one (or more) of the cities has stopped doing something. I tend to forget, which is why I'm upgrading them to do stuff when the production queue is empty.