Don't get all jumpy yet, its the alpha. In the Dev Stream yesterday they said they actually reused many of the textures and icons from GalCiv 2 as temporary place holders.

I still find the game to be rather pretty despite all this, even if it is not exactly cutting edge graphics.

Although I second for the zoomed out nebula, those are really an eyesore right now.

While it is an alpha and things will change, it is still important to let the devs know what is good and what is bad at this stage so they avoid unnecessary work.

What people would like to see in terms of graphics is important even if the graphics we have now aren't representative, otherwise 6 months down the line when everyone sees the "finalised" graphics we may well be disappointed and it'll be too late to make major changes...

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Well, at this point, maybe a little. Alpha.

Lots of placeholders, specially in the art area for obvious reasons. Animation won't be as clear as text, imho. Not when dealing with mumbo jumbo technology.

What's the problem? I'm ok getting a 2D map on my screen. Having to rotate the planets looking for the hex I need to build some lab with bonuses, doesn't seem nice to me. I haven't tried it tough. Eye candy flashy building icons... I don't care one way or the other. I care more about them being visually different, that includes better versions of each kind of improvement.

Playing with a GForce 210 with drivers from 2012. It works fine. I have to play with everything down and windowed to 13xx to get some decent (to me) framerate but I play GalCivII in windowed with low settings anyway.

So you want simspeak, right? Because all of them speaking english would be wrong even if Universal Translator. I do agree that it could add to the atmosphere but "boring text" would make "boring speech" anyway. Next is getting a voice to read us the data in the data menus.

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So far, alpha.

I like events as much as any fan of events but a boring strategy game would still be boring with events. Events can be used to spice up things but... to make a boring game fun? 

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

What I saw with GC1 and GC2's Alpha and Beta was they did a lot of graphical overhaul during the external test cycles. So far with GC3 we have only seen Alpha builds 1 and 2. Somewhere in this forum I remember them also pointing out that some of the more esoteric graphics work, such as textures and lighting, are still being worked on, but now I can't find that post. Perhaps this is a case of my fabulous memory coming to the fore (I can even remember things that never happened).

There  is a journal post about the graphics engine still having some features added and have also been mentions that a lot of art assets are placeholders taken from gc2.

But what I would not expect is either the star map or colony map to suddenly go 3d.