After playing a few hours of early access, and I promise, totally not having any fun *shady eyes*. here are a fw observations. It's hard to know what is actually a problem, and what genuinely isnt finished yet, but here goes:
1) ships moving directly up look goofy swerving back and forth between hexs
2) when the galaxy map is zoomed out totally, some of the clouds flicker
3) I colonised a planet, and the surface image was missing (construction places were there, just on a totally black map)
4) on construction tiles, I feel the bonus should be summed (ie, if it gives a +1 research, and then another +2 research, just say +3 research)
5) I preferred GCII's automatically upgrading buildings - please make this an option.
6) I noticed factories can be upgraded, but I found myself having to bulldose and create farm upgrades
7) Alterans should have pink skin.., it looks blue. This ruins the whole 'Just like us due to some cosmic coincidence' fantasy.
8) I miss the start of turn reports from GCII, I want to know whats finished constructing this turn!
9) I can't end my turn until all planets are building, all ships have moved, and everything is done. I want to be able to skip this. Sure, warn me, but let me end my turn whenever I like.
10) a really 'cool' addition to the game would be 'random techs'. Where you point your research at a general field, and it doesnt tell you which actual topic is researched, until it is complete (obviously strongly biasing those fields with lower number of turns to research)
11) about 50% of the planets I colonised had those research pods which cause pain. seems a high number?
I will post more later as I think of them or notice them
Cheers,
Smak