yeah, none of the weapon dmg or firing rates or tactical speed seem to be working correctly, and dont have accurate descriptions. i really think they need a new weapon system... havn't personally seen ships that weren't there show up in the battle log, but remember the battle viewer just came out, it's gunna take a min to get it working just right. it already looks great though.

the trade issue might be caused by the rounding that the game does instead of showing exact figures. it could be, for example, rounding 3.6 and 3.6, making both show up as 4, but then when you add them together it's 7.2, which rounds down to 7 on the screen. less rounding by the game would give people much more accurate descriptions.

it's beta... this is still the test build. and best way for them to fix everything is to just throw it out there now and let people find all the problems they can now to help move everything along as fast as possible. anyone who really doesn't like the bugs can still just skip the battle viewer for now. might be a bit of a pain but it helps fix everything quicker.

Thank you for making this post. We appreciate feedback from games dozens, and hundreds, of turns into. Obviously the Battle Viewer is brand new so we're going to be iterating more on that.

Thank you for this feedback. I love the scrrenshots in particular.

I'm not sure what's going on in your video. If you have a save that reproduces I'd love to check it out directly. It isn't an issue I have seen here though I will keep my eyes out for it. (this applies to the issues around the missing ships).

If you win a battle you can click on the battle notification in the upper left to reopen the battle report, rewatch the battle, etc. This applies if you are are the attacker and close the screen or if you are the defender and win the battle.

I checked these to verify and they are currently bundled in the "Your skill in diplomacy" tag in the the diplomacy modifiers. There are a few reasons why this is confusing:

1. "Your skill in diplomacy" can be modified by several things. Including how late in the game you are. In the early game these modifiers are reduced.

2. It can also be modified by the personality of the different AI players. Some AI's give additional weight to diplomatic skill. Some really don't.

3. These factors add up and its easy to forget where they are coming from because there is no breakdown. For example, as the Terrans I adopted the Foreign Dumping policy as them which gives -2 to Diplomacy. And I was unclear as to why I was getting -1 instead of -2. That was because I forgot the Terrans have  Civ trait which gives +1 Diplomacy.

So it is work, but it's unclear. To fix I'm going to:

1. Remove the personality trait and turn time modifiers on "Your skill in diplomacy" so it matches the aggregate number.

2. Get a dev to breakout the policy modifiers so that you see "-2 Foreign Dumping" instead of aggregating it all in "your skill in diplomacy".

Im unable to repro this, if anyone ahs a save or knows the steps to repro please let me know.

That tooltip is rounding, which is why you are seeing 0 when its 0.1. Thats a bug.

Techapod Mining Unit doesn't give a bonus to Manufacturing, it gives a bonus to Mining (the amount of Durantium/Elerium/etc collected by that starbace). That part is working correctly, but it shouldnt be a % bonus (10% on 0.1 per turn is so so tiny). I'll switch it to a flat bonus to make it worthwhile.

What are the advisor messages that might be more helpful for new/medium level players?

The Torian fleet is damaged. They are playing it safe and repairing while waiting for a third ship to join them before they head back to Torian space. That part seems normal.

But, your save has blocked tiles in it! And we have been looking for them. Our lead dev got very excited when I showed it to her and she is troubleshooting that problem now.

Yes, those are rounding displays. The question is its better to show decimals everywhere or just round. More casual people want rounding, the more OCD people want decimals.

Interesting, I'll test this.

I think global modifiers like that are actually somewhat helpful to cut down on the spam in the tooltip as you stack more and more modifiers. I think it would be good to group more things under an appropriate global modifier and add a screen to your empire summary to let you know what your empire-wide bonuses are and see the source breakdown there.

I think that it's better to show decimals. quick pro/con for rounding...

con: if someone sees 4 when it's not 4 it gives them inaccurate info and makes them think there's something wrong with the game. when you start adding up lots of rounding it becomes more and more inaccurate. this will lead more and more people to think that the game is broken somehow and spend time and energy trying to fix the problem, or post about it, or try to look it up. it can be frustrating for them, possibly take up the time of your customer service people. it can also add to more tooltip problems and people wont realize which ones are rounded and which aren't, which will cause frustration, negative feedback, and could take up more time of your customer service people, forcing them to deal with that instead of bigger problems. it makes everything more complex and harder for me to understand when it's all rounded, personally.

pro: 3.6 is somehow too complicated for some people, but inaccurate numbers from rounding is fine with them because they won't need the use of early elementary basic math skills.

Apart from updating some of the early advisor text do you have any ideas of what might improve the new player onboarding experience? Bear in mind that the advisor isn't really a "tutorial" just an assistant designed for the new player experience. A tutorial would be far more involved and frankly arguably useless in today's age of let's plays and guides.

I'd say you could use tooltips with stuff like colonies increase your nearby core planet's stats - as I said, I missed that pretty big change from Galciv 3. In the old game you went for buildings on planet, in this game (early) buildings on planet aren't that important as getting colonies and asteroids to supply your main planets.

Other than that tooltips hinting that you can change where asteroid mine output goes. And have that robot guide follow you into the shipyard to go through step by step what it wants to tell you - like explaining how to design ships.

Also the first tooltip that pops up when a shipyard isn't producing anything is - "build a colony ship". I think it should be more general - like "your shipyard xxx1 can build a new ship".

 Also maybe a tooltip "your capital's population is decreasing" that pops up if the beginning planet population falls below four pop because of building ships faster than growth allows it. It's really important to build colony ships and such around the sweet spot of maybe 6 pop - faster than that and your planet depopulates, slower and you don't expand fast enough.

 Getting new players into the game should really be a case of doing an actual tutorial mission - a hand-holding demo, where they get to click stuff and see what it means. I've played Galciv since no. 1 - so there's a lot of stuff I just take for granted...

I agree. Get rid of the mystery mechanics and you don't need a tutorial. However, if I don't have a great feel for what the game is at this point. Right now it feels pretty binary. Either you get the fourth commander ship before your most aggressive neighbor or you lose. Gifted difficulty + very fast pace seems like the sweet spot for me. With that combination, I have not yet discovered any strategies for overcoming a mediocre race and/or starting position to either hit that mark or defend myself if I don't. Once the AI acquires a death squad, there doesn't seem to be much I can do.