I've played 3 games to date. 2 on medium and 1 on large. The medium maps took 500 to 550 turns, and 10 to 12 hours to complete. My large map took nearly 850 turns, and 18 hours to complete. I think that is a bit too long. Especially with the lag. I had to push my way on the last bit of the large map. In GalCiv 3, I could finish a large map in the fraction of the time and turns.

The lag got pretty severe on the last bit of the large map. It at times felt like it was taking minutes for the game to respond to my instructions. At times, I would have been happy for the game to take extra time to do an end turn so long as it promised to provide me with a responsive turn.

The creation of 'core worlds' is problematic, and I have to now echo the complaint of tb801 regarding how the invasion of Core Worlds. In my case I had finally found my dream planet. I established a military starbase next to it with two phantom 105s on board. I also had a heavier frigate stationed near it. I had two colony ships on their way and moved the frigate away and the Mimot Brotherhood snuck in and declared the planet a core world. My colony ship arrived the next turn but the game would only allow transports to attack a core world. Hold on - somehow they have settled the entire world in one turn! I'm not allowed to bombard an unarmed world, and can't invade a core world without transport, which in tb801's case weren't available until turn 300-ish and I'm only at turn 104! 

So, declaring a colony a core world makes it unattackable. 

I would suggest that you need to allow:

1. simultaneous colonization (until the core world population has grown large enough to fill all the spaces). And then when my settlers decide to break away and declare independence I could send in volunteers to protect them
2. interdiction - my spacestation, assault fighters, and firgate should be disrupting their re-supply and links which should starve them into submission. My military seriously outnumbers the Mimot's  so they should already be apologising and paying damages.

Yeah, sorry, I'm a bit pissed off here. The game's really sucking me in.

Turn 300-ish. Finally I have been allowed to research planetary invasion. Time to load the transports with - 1 population? That doesn't seem enough. Does it make a difference if they are soldiers or farmers. Oh well, it's only alpha. Better build some more transports.

Off to the enemy core worlds to bring down death from the skies! Hmmm... this is just like attacking colonies, except with a transport. It is slow and boring. Bring in the reinforcements! What? It appears I can only attack with one at a time. Why? What possible reason could there be?

Turns out this is the most tedious planetary invasion ever. Even the enemy want to get it over with. Peace? There will be no peace. Once I can figure out how to invade you successfully with more than one farmer and his electro-spade you'll be sorry. This is really disappointing. Oh well, alpha, as I said, but I am beginning to lose the will to live. At least the space pirates and monsters were entertaining for a while. Now you just have to send an escort with your colony ship - job done.

I'm just waiting for the invasions to finish and hitting the spacebar. Not as mush fun as I'd hoped.

Not much fun at all, sadly.

I hope something is done about the notification system. Aside from the already reported bug where notifications either do not appear at all or flash and then disappear, I find them too cluttered with notifications that I don't care about and I miss notifications that I do care about.

Not all notifications are created equal. For example, I don't care about a notification that tells me I've just won a battle where I was the attacker and just watched that battle. Similarly, I don't care as much about a notification that tells me one of my worlds has completed an improvement it was working on when in the normal course of the game I'm going to be prompted to build another improvement on that world. However, as another example, I do care about the expiration of an open borders treaty, because I then want to immediately go trade with that AI again to negotiate a new treaty.

As it is now I find myself hardly ever looking at the notifications and thus missing the ones I want to know about.

Agreed. I just mentioned in another thread that perhaps we could have some sort of filter for the notifications so that we could decide which ones we wanted to see.

Hi there.  Don't mean to duplicate but would like to post a link to a post about leaders going AWOL:

https://forums.galciv4.com/505861/leader-goes-awol-without-notification

See for detail, cheers!

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One of the purpose of testers is to try to find crashes, so it doesn’t crash when it comes out. This breaking the game. 

I have entered the shipbuilder trough a shipyard by clicking the plus sign in lower right and designed a few ships with no problems. If you are entering from some where else perhaps that entrance is not yet fully activated causing your problems. 

Now you have really confused me.

No I have not tried to use the GalCiv3 ship designer to design ships in GalCiv4.

I would not expect it to work so haven't tried.

I've played a few games on this version and am loving the updates.

Apologies if any of these notes are listed elsewhere.

1/ My rig (gaming laptop) runs on full fan, even when I am doing nothing in the game or in a different window. This starts a few hundred turns into the game, then it just gets slower and slower. 

This was observed on the default galaxy size.

Full rig details available on request.

2/ Text in almost all contexts is overlapping the borders and jumping around the screen

3/ Tooltips seem to show out of date information, especially on multiple-choice dialogs

4/ The limit to 5 random tech choices, especially without a tech tree, is a killer - and for me, one that will put me off the game. The penalty on research for generating new techs which may be worse is unfair - it should be free for the first X tries

5/ There are -way- too many space creatures to be fun and they seem far too powerful - I had to restart many times as my starting ships kept getting killed off when I was surrounded by them

6/ I had an AI spam influence bases which seemed invulnerable, rendering their planets impossible to take as the bases flipped them back quickly

7/ Mentioned elsewhere, but it is really difficult to find how to increase logistics with random tech and no tech tree

8/ Mentioned elsewhere, but the point of control seems highly limited - why aren't control points used to gain leaders instead of much-needed currency?

9/ The game badly needs the return of the galactic trader

10/ AI trading seems very unbalanced right now - offering randomly terrible deals and not accepting seemingly great deals even at good relations

11/ The multi-system idea seems cool, but you end up focussing on your home system and an AI in another system storms to victory before you can get a foothold - players need to be better spread out, and the system travel tech needs to be a default, otherwise a player can be in a system on their own and take it over completely

12/ Ship upgrades are nice, but get very boring very quickly - being unable to do the same upgrade indefinitely feels silly. Crew quarters improving HP also feels silly.

13/ Multi-purpose starbases are really cool., but the need for modules & crystals cripples expansion 

14/ Having a battle take place with the loss of your ships and absolutely no feedback is no fun

15/ I loved the drag & drop prioritisation at first - but it gets very cumbersome - bring back move up/move down buttons please

16/ Why are the keyboard arrow keys disabled for map movement?

17/ Default map movement is very sluggish

18/ Advisors give really bad advise - like telling you to colonise a world you don't have the tech for, or telling you to build a colony ship when you can't see a colonisable planet

19/ Needs a contextual in-game issue report button

20/ The loader returning to the store when you open a game from the library is really annoying when you are restarting regularly

21/ Will early access purchases carry over to Steam?

22/ When will we be able to save the starting trait decisions? It is really annoying having to enter them every restart

23/ I had this in 3 sometimes, but the guns sometimes fire from off the side of the map across the whole map instead of ship to ship

24/ There -needs- to be an option to stop asteroid miners if you are sure you want them to mine!

=> a "mine nearest" option would be cool - explore the automatic ship options for each ship type

25/ How on earth do you invade "core worlds" - I was some way down the invisible tech tree, but still no transports

26/ Why is there a difference between core worlds & colonies for invasion anyway?

27/ It is often not clear what you need to do to complete missions, and when they involve research there needs to be a button to pin that tree as a bonus for finding the mission rather than being at the mercy of the random engine

28/ Is gamepad support planned?

29/ Graphic options seem to be limited - could use being able to lower the minimum a little further with the current GPU consumption

30/ When you capture a planet, the fleet settles in for a rest and drops off your radar. Would be good if it stayed on the alert list until you told it to go to sleep there

Hi gypsy,

Many thanks for your response.

I should have added I was on normal difficulty. Also, it is my choice what difficulty I play on.

I know this is alpha - this is raw feedback to take or leave

As I said, I like the random tech idea but as with all new ideas it needs some improvement such as seeding, or free resets every so often / as rewards.

This is a -very- long thread, so "see my #2" is not helpful - please elaborate.

I'm not sure how your reply to #11 is in any way connected to my post.

#12 I disagree - I suppose you could say engines, but bridge upgrades could help too.

#18 plenty of times. Most of the time. You need to know how to use them - but here, they are just plain wrong, which is bad.

#20 - good for you, but odd - please elaborate - maybe there is a setting.

#21 thank you for your maybe response!

#25 also good for you - but without knowing your tech choices, this is not helpful - and points out the flaw in the current tech system.

In short, please only reply if you are adding to the post I was providing feedback to the devs, not seeking your feedback

JD