Looks good, thanks SD

I asked for ponies Brad.  Where is my Pony, Brad?  PONY!  NOW!

The city list window is good too.  Even if it's not pony related...

Can we get other body models/races to use for created nations?  Like short dwarf bodies?  Or tall skinny ones?  And then fix the armor visuals, Brad.  The armor and clothing, Brad!  ARMOR!  So my Urxen enemies armor fits?  That would be cool.  Please tell me you are working on it, so I don't go crazy...crazier.  I can't wear gloves on my Urxen and they would look cuter with gloves, but it looks goofy when their shirts pop through it. Thank you, Brad.

I agree; Wheeeee!

We will be able to change production and modify queues from this window, yes?

^ This just goes to prove, there's no way to make some people happy.

To be honest I expected this to come with 1.1, for it to be in 1.09 is a nice welcome. Thanks SD.

Good idea.

No no, I'm happy about this.  It's good.  It's one more step towards a game that I'll spend some serious time playing some time in the future.  I'm one of what seems to me (from periodic lurking over the last month or two) to be many who have already paid their bucks and are now patiently waiting for the game that we keep being told is coming.  And that's fine.  It's a bad business model, and I won't be purchasing another SD game at launch, but hey, that's where we are.

It's just funny to see what should be a standard feature in this genre hailed as something amazing, when what it is is late.

Just my $.02 on this matter.  I agree that this game is unpolished and it would have been great if the published 1.00 was about where 1.2 is probably really going to be. 

But there's an opportunity here.  A really rare one for a community that bought this game to give good and pertinent recommendations on how to make this game better.  Klaxton499's advice in this thread is a good example, and other people's follow-ups on how to make that happen may well help shape the design process for this facet of the game.  I think that's an amazing thing about elemental. 

We've got game programmers actively making this game as we're playing it, and we can tell them what works and what doesn't, and every once in a while we might even come up with something that really makes the game significantly better.  Hopefully they read through the ideas forum and the reactions to their journals and really take a portion of the best suggestions to heart.  I know I keep posting here because I'm optimistic that some of the ideas that I suggest may make it into the game and improve it.  I even keep playing (an hour a day or so now, at most) so that I can keep seeing how the game works now and thinking about how it could be better.

This is something of a standard feature, you're right.  But if we as a community can be supportive and advise SD on how to make all of these 'standard features' into the best possible implementations we can, then we'll end up with a game that we can love and play for years to come.  At least that's my hope.

This.  Please don't use colors - I don't want my resource harvesting or influence spreading outpost that I don't want to ever grow past 10 to constantly grab my attention with glaring red numbers.

As others have mentioned, displaying all of the resources, with sortable columns would also be great.  In fact, this screen with those feature is one of the requests I made in the 'what mod do you want' thread:-p.  A similar unit selection screen is in the works, I hope?

I'd also love to be able to initiate building and training from this screen, but no one has mentioned that building placement has relevance.  I'd love to click 'Build' on the screen and have it jump to the main map with a quick zoom to the city building screen.  Once done, a quick zoom back out and you're back in the city list screen (zoom feature toggled in options - exists to place the city in your mind / become more familiar with your empire, and as eye candy).

Thanks!

A city manager was never promised or in the design. You can argue that it should have been but the lack of having a city manager screen is not evidence that the game was somehow not finished.  I don't remember even seeing a single beta tester post requesting one.  It was a feature I requested be put in from my own playing AFTER v1.0 had come out.

I agree it's nothing amazing or wonderful but at the same time, it's not evidence of an unfinished game or something either.  You will find that over the next couple of years we'll be adding a lot of features to the game some interesting and some mundane.

I realize you and others feel the game should have had various other features but it's going to get pretty old pretty fast if every update we do we're going to get people saying "Well this should have been in the original release".  

Another feature could be that  people could click on the defense number of a city and a pop up would show up with the exact units that the city's garrison is currently housing.

Perhaps I've been too busy lately to follow closely, but is there a good way to remind one's self about the resources utilized by and/or near the expanding radius of a city in the process of leveling?  It's sometimes difficult to decide the best bonus to choose, and an extension of this window during bonus selection might be nice.