It's crazy slow. I think I've spent more time looking through the settings and online forums to find a way to speed it up than to play the game itself. It must be a bug on some configurations, right? Nobody could actually want to play like this. 

The speed is absurdly slow and it's obviously been brought up for months. It actually makes me not enjoy playing the game.

Where is the scroll speed slider?

There's a slider to adjust "edge scroll speed" but it doesn't appear to do anything (not to WASD scrolling or to edge scrolling).  Seems like a bug.

This has to be an easy fix. WASD moving around the map is the main way most people move around in these games. Please fix this asap.

It is far too slow. I agree.

Completely agree, even in released game camera movement is too slow. Fix it please!

Adding my name to the list. Far too slow. The max speed needs to be probably 4x higher than it is now for map-edge panning. We also need the existing slider to apply to keyboard keys as well, or another slider for keys. This method is also far too slow right now. (Using keys is my preferred method for panning)

Problem has been known for 8 months, still in game at launch, not even a slider to adjust the speed. This is very disappointing and needs fixed asap.

I've found the click and drag method to be my preferred method because of this.

Bizarre that this didn't get fixed at any point.  This isn't some herculean task that will take massive dev resources.  It's really annoying to have to use the mouse to scroll the screen, and the WASD is so slow that's not even remotely functional.

Two hours into the game, I built an outpost far away from my capital and ran into the agonizing slow scrolling. Good thing that I googled this thread and someone suggested the drag and drop to scroll, because otherwise I might have stopped the game. This is the #1 thing to fix, IMO.

I also can't stand the slow camera speed using WASD. I'd even try edge panning but that's not any better. Click and drag just isn't a solution that I find viable, due to the chance of clicking a unit or city in the process (and the fact that I shouldn't have to resort to using a style of camera movement that feels so unnatural just because the game fails to implement anything else adequately).

The game is interesting and fun, but I've already suffered the slow speed for one full game and I just can't stand to play another one. This game's staying off my PC until I read some patch notes saying the camera pan speed has been increased significantly. No amount of features or balancing matter if the core gameplay, moving around the map and clicking things, is too painful to endure.

You guys aren't doing it right. If you want to get somewhere, scroll all the way out with your mouse wheel, then put your pointer where you want to be, zoom it. I get to wherever I wasn't to be in 1/2 a second. 

Looks like they fixed it. In the current update the scroll speed is much faster.

Looks like I was doing it right after all.

Thanks for listening Amplitude, and fixing a serious quality of life issue!

Yes, thankfully they fixed it,
now we just need the humongous amount of other myriad improvements to make this game the kind of superawesome it deserves to be...

and huge worlds can not be zoomed out far enough.

i miss the civ4 zoom out that deforms to a sphere projection (unrealistically, but good for navigation).