furion1986 wrote:

Yet I feel selecting the culture by each era design is a little weird. It's a good idea, but I feel like we may want to apply some more restrictions?

For example, if we select Zhou to start with, I think we shouldn't be provided the option to select South American cultures like Aztec or Maya. We may be able to choose among Japan, Korea, Ming, and Khmer. Would it make more sense?

Hi ! I get your point, but the way the game is made, I don't think it is going to happen. 

First of, because there's only 10 different cultures/civilizations to choose from for each era, with different affinities (gameplay orientations and mechanics) that are available to allow gameplay balance. The second point is that the game is supposed to have a maximum of 8 players (could be up to 10, still WIP), hence for a given culture, when moving to the next era, there's not always its historical neighbours or descendants, so that would drastically decrease the choice of cultures in this new era (Eras are as follow : you start as a nomadic tribe, moving to Ancient Era, Classical Era, Medieval Era, Early Modern Era, Industrial Era, Contemporary Era).

furion1986 wrote:
Please do keep the building style of each era's culture when they were created.

It is implemented in game, when you select a new culture, your already built cities will keep their City Center and Emblematic Quarter design, so you'll keep track of your cultural path that way. Just as an example, this was my Nubian-Gothic Kerma city (you can see there the Nubian's city center and Meroe's Pyramids, along with Gothic style quarters) :

furion1986 wrote:
Maybe I didn't focus on industry yields but for the 2 games I played I was not able to finish a single wonder. (I was a kind ruler and didn't enslave my citizens to smash the wonder out) Not sure the production requirement for wonders is in a good balance now.

Did you try to attach more than one city to build the wonders ? You could usually decreased at least by half the production cost when attaching another city or more to its construction.

And, well yeah, battles are a bit tricky at first (I had quite the same issues you describe, in the first OpenDev), but were so much more enjoyable with this new OpenDev (guess I was more used to its mechanics).