First impressions

Greetings. Big fan Played gal civ 2&3 and just got alpha .65 a couple days ago and wanted to share my first impressions...

Overall I really like almost everything, i esp like the new citizen/leader systems and the new way the maps and planets are set up. graphics are very nice too, but it does feel just a little sluggish with the visual movement. it was also just a little laggy at the start of the game with default map size settings. wasn't too bad at first but by like turn 50 or so it had gotten quite laggy and everything had a delay time of about 1sec. made it pretty difficult to play at that point. also clicking many things, like the NEXT button, was kinda tricky because as soon as i hover over them, the description box that pops up often pops up right where the cursor is, and blocks me from being able to click on the button.

I like the new setup of, and all the new options for the ideologies, but being able to level up in the paths you want seems kinda difficult and i think it's based too much on luck for something that important. 

the researching part is the only thing i really dont like as much. what pops up for being able to be researched seems to be way too based on luck in my opinion, even with the 5th slot open, and i think that is really going to frustrate a lot of players in many games. also i found the tech tree system much more comprehensive than the library system that is in place.

In conclusion, i think that the luck stuff is great with the citizens and leaders and planets and anomalies, but when it comes to picking the basic ways your civilization works through your ideology and scientific choices, i think that people really have more fun when they're able to pick how their civilization works instead of relying on luck to give them a small chance on actually getting the type of civilization they were going for that game in a timely manner.

Thanks for all the years of fun! can't wait to see how this game evolves