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[quote who="SchismNavigator" reply="14" id="3842219"] Apart from updating some of the early advisor text do you have any ideas of what might improve the new player onboarding experience? Bear in mind that the advisor isn't really a "tutorial" just an assistant designed for the new player experience. A tutorial would be far more involved and frankly arguably useless in today's age of let's plays and guides. [/quote] I'd say you could use to

Regarding "advisor messages useful to new players", it's definitely useless to just have met another civ and then immediately being told to beware of them - at the beginning of the game when noone has any power to beware of. The "beware" message is fine in itself, but it shouldn't appear before you should actually beware of a civ - like when relations are bad enough to warrant it or they're neighbours of greater power than you. But as it is, your tutorial sy

[quote who="tonymak" reply="30" id="3842172"] Map is generating impassable, contiguous empty space hexes, sometimes they contain anomalies that cant be scanned [/quote] I've seen this in one 0.81 game as the aliens that eat everybody. I haven't experienced this issue as other races (yet).

I'm not visually impaired, but I also find the background effects to be annoying. The purple nebula effect makes you think there's a nebula where you want to move your ships, the shooting stars look like moving ships and the dots of stars make you think there might be something there. I'm getting used to them, but it's annoying and if I had the choice, I'd turn it off and just have a simpler background. Cheers!