So far, I'm impressed. After only 30min or so of playing, I really cannot comment much on the game designs (good or bad) yet, but I'll mention a few initial bugs and thoughts.
1. Economy Screen (Wheel of Spending screen):
A. What exactly does savings mean? Since its in the income section, does this mean interest from savings? Where is the income from my people? Ok, so I moved the thingy on the Wheel of Spending (or whatever its called) into the green area and my savings number increased. So I'm focusing my population to wealth and that means more saving so higher interest from the savings?
But wait, there is a treasury section, shouldn't savings be in that section?
The point is, the wording is confusing. Maybe the terms are correct in the financial world of things, but for the average player, this just creates confusion.
B. In my weekly expenses I have only two categories that currently have expenses: 6 for ship maintenance and 1 for colony maintenance. It says my total expenses is 8. 6+1 does not = 8. My guess is there are actually more to the numbers and they are just truncated (maybe they are 6.4 and 1.4) and all of the numbers are rounded (so 6.4 and 1.4 are 6 and 1 and 7.8 is 8)?
C. Wheel of Spending: Maybe have it snap to the hexes? It seemed like it did a little, but then stopped. After fiddling with it, I found it slightly difficult to get it exactly back to the middle. Also, the blue text for the % when you are moving it can be a bit hard to read on the black background.
2. Main Screen
A. Names of planet like to poke through the UI. I'm currently looking at my mini map and popping up through the areas I have not explored is 'ARTEM III' (the 'IS' was behind an explored part of the map). ALso, if you move to the edge of the screen, the names will start to line wrap to try to stay on the screen. Combined with the overlapping UI problem and you can get:
M
E
N
KA
R
II
on top of the mini map filters (just to the right of the mini map).
B. When hovering over a planet you own, you get a pop up with some information. This information doesn't match what the information in the planet list has (right side of the screen under the mini map, in the colonies tab). For example, when I hover over Earth on the map, it says I have 11.1 population (little green dude icon) and the planet number is 10 (habitability?). In the planet list it has population of 4.8 and a planet number of 12. Additionally the icon for production is missing from the planet list.
C. I've found no other problems on the main screen. Its a good UI as far as I'm concerned. Planet list with production % bar is great.
3. Overall
A. Font. I don't care for it, its a little hard to read. It gets really hard to read when the text is smaller. For example, in the currently producing bar for a planet (bottom left if you click on a planet you own or in your planet lists on the right), if the name of the item being produced is long (like RESEARCH LABORATORY), it gets really hard to read.
(and before you ask, I have no vision problems)
Thats all I have time for right now. While I can't say its super fun at this point, i think it has a lot of potential.
