A clarification needed. In the options menu there are sliders for various icons but no popup explaining them.

Is this a way to adjust the level at which icons replace the graphics on the map? If so which way do I move the slider to make them show up sooner, hopefully while I can still see the Grid?

Derek it is reply 49 that I asked you about.

Per the changelog for .45  This is for version 0.45.188724

AI players won't start as close to the human player...  (Really)?

Is it possible they could have started any closer?

Also states

Decreased the number of players that start in the players starting sector.

I'm still getting up to 3 other factions in my starting sector.  Why is this in the largest of maps with the most sectors?  Is the game not big enough for 16 factions to each be in their own starting sector?  I can understand maybe 1 but not more than that with a game this big...  Please explain.

Gotcha. We have been playing with those values internally. For example, it's crazy that the anomalies show up when you are zoomed so far out. 

You are supposed to be able to change those sliders to adjust when different icons fadeout.

I customized the leader for the terrans, but still shows DL Bradley....

 Lol, you got me.  I guessing that is a rip against my feedback post about the first 100 turns being boring.  However, I do think there may be different ways of doing this.  

@Larsenex suggested maybe creating an option determining how many factions start in your home sector.  I like that option.  Goes along with other customized settings in the game.

Derek, there should be a option, having to fight 4 opponents in your own sector before turn 50 is boring to me. Not seeing Alien Scum till my 500 logistic point fleets can roll over them like a M-47 tank over a Volkswagen Beetle ( GI stole a tank in Germany years ago) is not boring. 

Derek what I am trying to point out is some of us like to and have the time to play 4X Games, not War Games. We should have the option especially since GalCiv is advertised as a 4X game.

If others want to play Whack-a-Mole they can play with more majors, 2K if their puters can handle it. Even play on smaller maps. 

This should be the players option. Want a setup that resembles a NYC sidewalk okay with me. However let me have mine my way, like where I live the nearest towns are 27, 40, 45, and 50 miles all in different directions/sectors and all including my town have less than 10,000 pop. 

I have had several events now that were supposed to give me an new Ideology including the Culture Point needed to do them. However, for at least most of those events, I did not get the Culture Point and so was unable to get the choice of an Ideology.

The Planetary Invasion Tech now lists the possibility of a Passenger Ship design, although it should probably also required the ability to build Medium Hulls. After I researched both, I did not find a Core design for a Passenger Ship, but I already had a personal Design for a Passenger ship that puts a Colony Module and a Troop Module in a Medium Hull (you need 6 slots to carry both Modules, therefore you need a Medium Hull. a Cargo Hull only has 5 slots).

I suggested this design a couple of days ago in the Discord and pointed out that it could be designed and built. It can carry 1 or 2 Population Points (actually they will appear to be Soldiers) and has to carry at least one population. but you can move a net one population point per round trip in either direction. It is still a little awkward to use, but it is better than nothing for moving Population around between planets. Although it is not so necessary in 0.45, since Colonies seem to stop with only 1 population and not several population who were eating a lot of your food.

I used a similar idea in GC 3 where a Colony module could carry 1 to 3 population in either direction, so it could move a net 2 population per round trip in GC 3. OR  2 Colony Modules on one ship in GC 3 could carry 1 to 6 population points.

Just wanted to be sure you were not missing it because of the poor UI in the idol. screen. 

Have seen posts in many forums, and has happened to me ,where things were missed that were in sight if sometimes obscured by the clutter. I have never played Victoria II because the UI is so cluttered with useless garbage as to render it undecipherable to me. Ah well Ricky was better anyway.  

I think that choosing one of the those 3 Options, in the events that I was refering to, also is adding 1 point to one side of one of the 7 tracks in Ideology, which determines which choices are available to you to take/choose when you expend a Culture Point. Without Culture Points, Ideology is unusable.

added: I see that GC IV test branch, has downloaded a new version that is supposed to fix this problem , so that we get the missing Culture Point with these events.

My thoughts after playing a game on 0.45 for 16 hours:

1. Control N does not save custom game settings when used.

2. Spore trait does not seem to work yet or I have no idea how to use charges to bring life to a dead world.

3. Many of the traits with bonus technologies do not seem to have those tech trees in the game. Can we gray out the ones not coded yet.....

4. Ideology selections in anomalies need to be adjusted and more events created. You get the same options over and over. Also the most useful selection is normally not the ideology I am trying to work on. After 700 turns I only have 3 culture points to use. Most of the ideology branches had zero level in them.

5. Add tool tips to ideology selections to show what current level, how much it would improve, and what it would harm. I have a hard time remembering all the ideology branches and which harms or helps my goal.

6. Not happy with the default settings of planet sizes. If I play on a huge map with all max settings I should be able to have a good 8 core worlds in a starting sector. I edited this more to my liking and love the game play but for testing I was told not too.

7. AI does not seem to fleet up. We only get 1 fight per turn now and sitting next to an AI home planet killing the 50 tiny ships they have stacked on each other is boring and a waste of time.

8. The artifact that grants 2 tiles, does not always grant 2 tiles and does not change the class level of the planet.

9. The quest system is not very user-friendly or explains what needs to be done to accomplish the quest. Also not nearly enough quests to grant culture points. A time limit on the amount of turns these are active to help motivate me into getting them done.

10. Also I need a button to click to view my default race selection, It should display all my starting settings. This is how it took me so long to figure out control N was not saving my settings. I have no way in game of seeing if my custom race is built the way I want it.

11. Mass removal almost made me never play the game again. One of the things I love about GC is the ability to build very specialized ships to counter the AI. I am unable to build any of my default combat ships with this new module slot design. I mean I can see why you went there the AI could never build a ship or fleet to beat a good human player. But this new system please tell me if you have plans to add technologies to increase the size of the modules on a ship. Or at least tell me the Hyperion Shrinker adds slots vs lower mass cost in this game.

New bug... Current game, survey ship has lost it's sentry option, It's still there but will not allow me to re-engage it. (was present in previous builds.) https://www.dropbox.com/s/pocbi1ia6v5mjxg/45Test02.GC4Sav?dl=0