I get that impression as well, in the recent stream it wasn't possible to see if production overflow is now working in their version since they spent the vast majority of the time in the battle viewer, although Paul talks as if it is working until I see it with my own eyes I'll remain skeptical.

It's been years since I played Gal Civ 2 but I'm sure I remember building cheap factories just because more advanced ones were so expensive to make so I don't have a problem with Stardock's current Gal Civ 3 method on this if they plan on using a similar building cost model to Gal Civ 2's.

I guess I fall in the very small minority as I think there is way to much production available as is.

I get to the point so quick where I am 1 turning ships the game loses a lot in my mind. So I guess production overflow never bothered me. But I find it incredibly dull being able to 1 turn a large or bigger ship to begin with.

This is a good point, and one I'm going to highlight since it is at the bottom of the page.

To put it into my own words, Paul is quite right that AT THE BEGINNING OF PLANET DEVELOPMENT it is faster to "move up" the building tree in incremental steps.  However, especially in the case of manufacturing based planets (and or planets with lots of population), once planets get up to speed, time is no longer being saved if one has to move up step-by-step.

Once five or six tiles have been fully upgraded, I can see how it can be a "waste" to go through them all one-by-one.

Perhaps having a player option to toggle between Build by Upgrade and Build at Max Improvement could be made?  Perhaps on a planet by planet basis.

Might be difficult to code in so close to release.  But something like this might mitigate a lot of the grousing here while still letting new planets get up to speed quickly.

Well, my 2c is that you should have an option of building any level of a building that you have researched.    But the cost of building the higher level building should include the cost of the previous buildings.

To reference GC2, in that game (unless I have a huge blind spot) you can only build the highest level of building.   When founding a new colony, that can be a problem, especially on extreme worlds where you have a production penalty.  You want to kick start production (if you don't you may have no production at all), but you don't want to spend for the advanced building.  

Give me more options, please.

There have been a lot of suggestions and complaints that go beyond my original complaint about turn-by-turn production overflow. I'll be working on feedback tonight and will address my specific concerns that have been identified by devs as a bug. In addition to a text and screenshots description, I will supply a youtube video, hopefully that is sufficient.

If bluequasar1 is correct (I haven't played the game since my original post so I don't know if it's been patched), maybe this bug has already been at least partially fixed.

Currently (Beta 4 Patch 2), all production queues (social, shipyard, tech) are still fully lossy, same as they've been since Alpha 0.31.

What bluequasar1 describes is a separate (lack-of-)UI for Ideology research grants only.  When you get a lump sum of free research points from Ideology, the game engine does enter a nice (but completely UI-less) for-loop until you use up all of these rps.  You can, indeed, gain 1-2(+?) tech levels from this in the middle of your turn.  This looping applies only to Ideology grants, never to your normal tech rp production each turn.

• [unknown] Will the Shafer button let you end turn while you still have unspent rps from an Ideology grant?
• [unknown] If so, do you lose those rps, or do they just quietly carry over?

Since the current tech/Ideology UI is a kludge and does not inform the player, you may have to manually drill into Ideology, exit, Technology, exit, repeatedly to force the game engine to kick the research progress bar.  Just keep doing that until you no longer get the tech newsbot and your research bar visually updates to partially-full.  Then you can infer that it's done.

There's a large backlog of UI enhancements that are (deep) in the queue, e.g. WASD, edge dragging, hotkeys, isolines in the production wheel (plz), tech grant looping, improvement attributes in hovertips (one-per-X, restriction-by-class), etc.  Since this new UI has some entanglement with carry-1 queues (esp. for tech), probably they'll arrive together.

Thanks Gear and the rest, looking forward to it!