7 Wonders

I’ve had this app for over a year and enjoyed playing it — until now. The new update with the new 2nd edition graphic design SHRUNK all the icons, making them hard for me to see. And all the text is gone too, so I can no longer tell at a glance (i.e., without having to hover over the card to see the pop up text) what a card is and what its chaining benefits are. Instead, players have to memorize all the illustrations and/or pictorial icons to remember what a card is, what its chaining benefits are, and what abilities those chained cards will give you. I also miss the text because it added a lot of thematic flavor for me. I liked being able to say, “hey, I’m going to build the Agora!” Or the Pantheon, etc. Right now, I feel like I’m just pushing around a bunch of tiny icons. To the developers: I would love to have the option to go back to the “classic” version instead. But if that’s impossible, then having a “low-vision” option with BIGGER icons would be wonderful. It seems silly to have so much empty wasted space when I’m playing this game on a large iPad Pro screen!

After the most recent update this week, there are errors in military scoring. This bug was not present prior to the update. Revised - I’ve also noticed the science calculation was off once as well. Not sure how often that happens. The one time I noticed it was after selecting science as the last card through the Halikarnassos special action. So hopefully that will be fixed as part of the next release as well. Thanks. Revised 2 - I know what the specific bug is now. It does not occur often in standard play, which is why it was hard to pin down. The issue is this. If playing Halikarnassos, and the very last play is to use your wonder ability that enables a search through the cards, if you choose either a military card or a science card, that card value will be doubled. So, a 3 military will count as 6, and a science card will count that symbol twice. But, again, it is only if that is the very last (18th) turn. I’ve now been able to replicate it, so pretty sure this is the issue. Hopefully, you can get you QA team to review. Thanks.

This is a pretty decent digital adaptation of my favorite tabletop game, all things considered. I mean, sure it’s pretty bare bones right now, but they can always layer ranking and stats on top of a solid foundation. One thing that is an absolute travesty though is the way quick match places you in an open table. It asks how many players you want to play with, and then if it can find that in fifteen seconds it just puts you in whatever. If you back out you’re banned from matchmaking for three minutes. No. I do not ever want to play this with more than 3 players ever. It’s a completely different game at larger player counts and a much, much worse one. I will wait ten minutes for a 3 player match before I will play with more. Please, please, please give me this option. As it stands now, the fact that it asks me for a preference at all just adds insult to injury.