Fist of all thanks to Amplitude - this is a great experience. It is also really cool to see Stadia being used for this trial. Of course it sucks that in some countries Stadia is not available, but I think the management decision to try something like this on a google platform I think really is very intelligent. Now having said this, I of course like the play very much. But I have to say the transition to new cultures is too quick for me. I am probably able to build two or so Nubian archers but not necessarly even an emblamatic quarter before the turn to another culture. Perhaps this is all because of game speed and map size etc, but frankly I am a bit worried I cannot really delve into the cultures before a new one pops up..... Any views? 

I agree completely. I felt that I didn't get a chance to really feel comfortable with my culture before I advanced. It made the emblamatic quaters and units feel realyl weak and unininteresting when they really aren't. I tried to prioritize building emblamatic quaters as the nubians but even then I only ended up building a few. Even after playing through the scenario several times, it all happened so fast and it felt like I could be playing any culture.

Yeah, I feel its a bit sad that I cannot even activate the culture's special ability...... within a reasonable time frame . It's not really game changing, but still feels like a lot of ideas of developers went into something that players cannot really activate or make good use of.... 

I felt the same. I wish the game were way slower.

I'm fairly confident that for the Stadia demo the gamespeed was set to be faster. We also know that there will be different speeds at which one can go at release.

Wow, so you can get 21 stars worth of fame in each era?!

That really needs to be made clearer as it's fundamentally different to how other games in the genre play, where you actually want to advance slowly and take your time in order to 'win'. They really need to make the era star screen clearer as it's absolutely not a clean design at the moment.

I'm a bit worried as I would say with more 4xs I want to just play and enjoy the epic story of a nation or whatever I create. Intentionally going slower to get more fame seems quite counter intuitive. I mean, I hardly ever finish a 4x game, so will I even care about fame? I'd rather play a slower game that's more fun than a fast one I always finish.

On the other hand, maybe it's an excellent way to balance the game. More casual people rush through and don't care, but if you're a min-maxer then you have to intentionally hobble yourself to get all the bonus fame, so the game becomes more difficult the more you care about winning.

Obviously, I presume the speed in the demo is the fastest possible as it's ridiculous. It becomes very easy to build everything in a turn, sometimes two things in one turn, which leads to a lot of busy work and less interesting choices (if you can just have everything)

Tainted wrote:
Transitioning at the earliest possible time (7 stars atm) could be an optimal play to get to more important techs (administrators, units, etc.).

But isn't that based on the tech tree itself? Which, from my experience with three playthroughs so far, isn't really tied to the era system?

I'm sure it's just to be able to show us the most things in 99 turns max. It's way too fast for a normal gameplay, especially when I think that I'm in the middle of Civ IV game on 2986th turn on the beginning of the industrial era (I slowed the slowest game speed myself tinkering the files). I can only hope Humankind will allow such tinkering as well.

Eulogos wrote:
By default the game ends in 350 turns, and the current maximum is 600.

I think this needs to be increased at least 1.5x-2x. Right now the game feels too hectic, plus the era stars and era transitions don't feel like an achievement - they just happen regardless of what you do.