CivWorld is overwhelming

[Unionfield]

Is it just me or does CivWorld seem a bit overwhelming? Granted, I was just given beta access a few days ago but I'm having trouble understanding everything that is happening when there are 4-5 lines of constantly-scrolling, updating text in the middle of watching a ton of animation fly across the screen.

I think I'm getting a hang of most of the basic functions of the game, but I'm looking forward to reading through the "official" guide and waiting for my eyes to stop twitching.

 

[Morningcalm]

They need to deepen the tutorial, for sure. I had to figure out a lot of stuff by myself, and ask a lot of others.

 

[Civvi]

Is it out already? When will it be released?

 

[peter grimes]

I don't think I'd use the term 'overwhelming'...

However, the UI is much more cluttered than it needs to be, and there are multiple redundant info-tabs.

The Mouse-over stuff is way too aggressive (do I always need to be reminded that I can upgrade a Modest Level building while I'm trying to relocate a house???)

A recurrent gripe of mine involves the mouse-moves in the tech screen. When you mouse-over a tech, the icon you mouse onto shifts. This is INCREDIBLY annoying, as you then have to move the mouse to 'catch' the moving icon in order to read the mouse-over text. ERRRRHHHH>

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[Jet]

The real manual is the wiki.
http://wiki.2kgames.com/civworld/index.php/Main_Page

 

[Khaim]

The wiki is often unclear and sometimes flat-out wrong. For example, the domination victory does not work at all the way it says in the wiki.

 

[sadmachines]

It needs a zoom out button!

 

[Morningcalm]

The game needs to give more reasons for people to remain loyal to one nation. All too often, I've seen people constantly leaving for other nations, only to return. People always back the winning nation, it seems, and great imbalances can result from key ministers and even kings (!) leaving for other nations.

When asked why the players did this, several of them replied that they wanted more medals.

-_-

 

[Neeneko]

The game needs to give more reasons for people to remain loyal to one nation. All too often, I've seen people constantly leaving for other nations, only to return. People always back the winning nation, it seems, and great imbalances can result from key ministers and even kings (!) leaving for other nations.
-_-

*nods* there does seem to be little incentive to jump around or just stick with the single biggest nation.

 

[ramz711]

For some reason, it's not letting me leave my nation. I'm trying to jump from the biggest to one of the smaller ones (just for a change of pace), and every time I click 'join' on the one I want, I get reloaded back into my original nation. I'm sitting here going WTH and wondering when that's going to get fixed.