Agreed, especially since the old icons don't always match the new (possibly multiple) benefits.  I had the old food/farm icon on a tile that had a wealth benefit.

That occasionally happened in custom games in GC2 as well.  Still, those are the kinds of things that shouldn't happen.  

In GC2, with research opening up tiles, sometimes your new tiles were in areas where the underlying image looks like water.  That of course means you build something... like a Starport, in the ocean.  

If we can avoid this in GC3, that would be much preferred.

Yep... too many bonuses... some spawning in weird places (but that goes for the whole spawn system... you should not have your capital and starport both in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean).

But overall, the multiple effects, or affects to adjacent tiles, adds some more intentionality to building location management.  I would like to see this area of planet management fleshed out a bit more.  A simple way to create depth is to increase the types of bonus tiles with different effects.  This would make each planet more unique.  Some might be more rare than others, others more common such as a resource rich tile (it seems logical that many planets would have one part of the world that is richer in resources).  

I don't know how many types there are now.  But it seems that adding types or affects would not bee too much extra work.  And, it would really add depth.  

Perhaps thinking bigger... what if there were quite a number of "bonus" tiles, some of which aren't so much bonuses as they are creating tile differentiation.  Others of which are bonuses.  I could envision a system in which planet building management could be like a mini puzzle game in which the player must work to determine the optimal use of the planet given its bonuses and limitations.  I know this isn't intended to be a city building game, or a puzzle game.  But by just adding variety (without overkill), I think you could add a lot (of depth) without adding a lot (of work).

I got my Starport in an ocean.

I have encountered this as well.  There seems to be disparity between the bonus icon, the mouseover and the tile description.  Take the tile with the starport for instance in the above screenshot (in the Pacific Ocean, where else? ) ... the icon in GC2 meant a hefty research bonus; the mouseover reads "+2 to Cultural" but the feature description says "+2 Level to Influence Improvements" ... the northeastern South America/Atlantic Ocean tile's icon would indicate a decent research bonus in GC2, the mouseover gives "+3 Level to Culture, +2 Level to Research, +2 to Adjacent Influence" but the text description for the tile states only "+3 Level to Influence Improvements"

Thanks for the update, mormegil! Love what you guys are doing, keep it up! Having colonies in the middle of prairie oceans with food bonuses is vastly outweighed at this point by all the great stuff going on in colony management, in my opinion. Not to mention the anticipation of what's to come!

I think that having floating starports is actually quite futuristic. Stargate Atlantis pulls it off rather well. There is less of a chance for terrain destruction if a ship explodes above an ocean than nest to the colony. Ditto for noise pollution and general waste effects.