Just started a new game and the signal is starting to fail (lasercom already coming up, yeah). Post your first impressions and such here.

Great that the free affinity level ups are gone. They made things a bit boring. I have not yet finished the new quests for affinity so no word on those yet.

Putting the water refinery in the main tech was a good move. I thought that they were the way they were before to "nerf" coastal cities a bit as they have so many stratetic advantages.

One idea: maybe include a way to build the first lasercomm satellite with a strategic resource to make it a little bit easier? Petrol can be so hard to come by sometimes even with the building quest to make 4 petrol out of algae. Maybe make the first one a national wonder build?