Explorminate

Likes

The radial bar around the sectors being reworked to only indicate met civs, rather than all civs present.
Likes the unique asymetrical nature of the nocturnal ability
Really likes the Phalenoid map colors
New tile Icons

Doesn’t understand what the point of locking civ screen behind colonial policies tech turn 1, and honestly, I don’t think most people do, unless we incorporate it into a tutorial as the first tech for example purposes
Does not clearly denote when seasons change, was not indicated on any events or U.I after the first season.
Misses Tile color coding (so do most people)

If the Phalenoid advance have an ability revolving around changing seasons, that needs to be more clearly denoted in the U.I
He noted that the long ship names don’t fit in the ship tooltip, I suggest making ship names an auto scrolling text to remedy this.
Trade license totals should be more readily displayed, maybe in the diplomacy screen or on the resource bar up top
If colonial policies will continue to gatekeep civ menu, than cost should increase to 3-5 since having it at cost 1 feels redundant
Events with other factions/civs should not trigger until you have a universal transmitter to communicate

Takes a moment to overview the new civs that were unlocked, and decides to go with moths
Immediately notes that the season correlated with the phalenoids unique ability are not easily denoted anywhere on U.I
Doesn’t understand what the point of locking civ screen behind colonial policies tech turn 1, and honestly, I don’t think most people do, unless we incorporate it into a tutorial as the first tech for example purposes
Assigns explains Minister benefits
Was having trouble tracking down details such as number of trade licenses
Since he’s more familiar with the games, he tends to skip past cutscenes
He does a good job of explaining his choices and what most are like the different policies available at the beginning