GalCiv 2 had a great planet summary screen.  I hope / expect they'll get around to something similar for EWoM once they get caught up on urgent fixes.

Thanks for the info. But you can keep the snarkiness to yourself.

I would like to add to this and say that it's definitely needed, and also that I would like to easily see what resources each city is producing.  After getting a new tech like Smelting it's a PITA to find which of your cities are producing ore and build the new building there.  Especially when you've conquered enemy towns.

Also, MOO2 style, there's no reason that you shouldn't be able to change the build queues directly from the summary screen.  Don't make us pull up each city to make them all build the fancy new building we just researched or each crank out a Pioneer; let us just do it directly from the summary.

The only problem with that is building placement.  Unless you choose to just allow the game to pick a site for you if you pick a new building from the city manager screen.

That's only a problem if you insist on some form of build queue control directly within the city list. I use the GC2 list to change ship build orders, but I always go to a system and check the improvement queue even though there's no control over placement in GC2.

My favorite 'fix' for Bryan's request, though, would be changes to make a game with more than three cities under a player's direct control a wildly unusual thing. If the map must be tessellated with towns (which seems, vexingly, to be the case), most of them should be independents or governed by vassals (offspring) and only indirectly connected to player economies. I'm still sad that Scott's 'old' ideas on using champions as chancellors/governors never got traction.