Although I messed up my name here a long time ago on Gamespot, that does not necessarily mean that Beyond Earth is the same as Civ V (and it is not on the same ol' Earth) or that is that much worse than Alpha Centauri (played in 640 x 480 resolution about 15 - whatever years ago). There is no tree hugger in the game or tiptoeing through the tulips Leader, also there is no Pirates in the game either like the expansion for that game - SMAX for those of you people who do not even know anything about the game.
No, Beyond Earth is between the two games to me so I rated it higher because although not quite perhaps fleshed out, I fail to have all the negativity about the game some other players have. It does also have multi-player so if those players are so great, you think they be playing multi-player games against each other wowing the rest of us with all their Greatness as a Leader of a Civilization on a New Planet, making a new history, and all of that.
Now that the SDK can be downloaded perhaps some players will delve into what that would offer for the game.
No, the only problem so far I have with the game is the Full Advisor in the game or Advisor in the game. It needs a close button to turn it off sometimes because there is no Thank You button to get out of it or you do not want more Show Me More from the Advisor. Sometimes on and on it goes, and there is nothing there to get rid of that computer Advisor whatever it is. But for me in my trying about everything, I use the "Esc" key to turn it off. Of course I could completely turn it off and look up everything in the Civilopedia and do a search in there but still the Advisor can be handy to come up with what you need and still bother you in the game with thinking you need more help than perhaps a player does.
The font below the city screen which has to be dragged around with the mouse seems to be bright pink and too small at a higher resolution (if it is saying anything that important in the game anyway later after playing the game a few times - border will expand in so many turns I think). But I can go down in resolution in this game and it will look about the same and although I wear glasses I still can see 20-20. The Tech Web is different I guess, but since this Beyond Earth is the only game I have like it, I do not mind that I bought it. If it is not varied enough for some people, it still has different maps to play on, and different speeds to play the game through on, and different Win Conditions and smaller or bigger maps to play the game on and it is a turn-based strategy game. Max turns on a Standard length game is 500 turns if it last that long even.
A player can have your frenzied games to play, but for me, I like the slower pace and you can have frenzied native life-forms on the planet you land on after having to leave Earth because of the Great Mistake.
Bye, and I sure am glad I got to leave to start a new Civilization on another Planet one of many of the Exo-planets out there, because sitting on Planet Earth here I know I am less than amoeba-sized compared to the entire Universe, and now with the SDK may be playing this game despite the negativity of some players for quite a while or can dig it out, like some game from over 15 years ago perhaps, or a more recent game that came out and play it once again in the future or something made out of the SDK of the game probably by someone else.