Unless I've just missed it, there really should be a way to easily see where farms/plantations/etc or mines/quarrys/etc are. I'm not enjoying just sorta guessing how many rural tiles there are and it'd be nice to be able know at a glance.
Similarly, I'm desperate for a city building lens to highlight the various kinds of buildings incl. type (food, gold, science, etc), which are ageless/warehouse/unique buildings, and which are from the previous age and therefore need replacing. Tbh I also just think there's too many different buildings lol, a clearer overview of them would help a lot.
Yeah, I got through one age tonight, and I definitely agree that while the map is very pretty, man, it's so hard to use. At least in the city view, I just want some shading on my tiles:
-Show me in a few distinct colors what my rural tiles are. I would love to click into my city and see that I have like 4 plantations, and so my granary is actually like a +6 food building. Honestly, I barely built any, because I couldn't be bothered to count.
-I would love if they brought back the civ 6 little arrows when you hover to place other buildings. Sure, it's great to see the direct yields, but an extra reminder that the +6 I'm getting is because of XYZ, it might help me decide better why to place buildings in a certain way.
-The tech and civics trees also need bigger icons, and more info around them. I'm not that old, and I was just playing with the default UI scaling, and I couldn't tell that buildings and wonders had different borders. In tiny icons, circle vs rounded square is impossible. I would kill for some better details. Like, give me color coding, or a different back, on production vs science buildings, for example.
-Similarly, it would definitely be nice if they could classify the free stuff you get on the unlocks. You have to hover over everything individually to know if it's a codex, a settlement limit increase, etc..
-Let me click on a tech 2-3 deep in the tree and research to there. We've had that in every civ game to date. Baffles me how it's not available.
I'm sure once I have 500 hours into the game, I'll remember where everything is and goes. But honestly, I would love something to just help me out. Like, how about when you have the tech tree open, something I could check or hover over that would basically expand out all the Wonders, so I could scroll and see at a glance what was where? Another option to expand the buildings, so I could scan and check where the Academy is in the tree, to know where to go.
I watched a lot of the previews, honestly that's the only way I at all could make it through. I saw the streamers choose some of the options here or there, so I kind of had an idea where to look. But if you didn't watch them, the game would be practically impossible. I did open it back up after turning the font size up to medium from small, and that definitely helps. But still...
