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Everything looks beautiful, but the UI with the units seems very awkward. Is there a…",{"id":55,"by":56,"text":57},"7986314","wtracy","Glad to see this is still making progress! I've actually toyed with the idea of building an indie game by starting with the HTML5 FreeCiv UI and commissioning some professional…",[59,66,70,74],{"value":60,"source":61,"evidence":62},"JavaScript","maker",[63],{"id":64,"by":11,"text":65},"7986244","Thanks for the kind feedback, phaer! > Maybe someone from the team could say a few words about the projects organisation, plans and communications. The Freeciv web client started…",{"value":67,"source":61,"evidence":68},"Java",[69],{"id":64,"by":11,"text":65},{"value":71,"source":61,"evidence":72},"Python",[73],{"id":64,"by":11,"text":65},{"value":75,"source":61,"evidence":76},"C",[77],{"id":64,"by":11,"text":65},"open_source","launched","team",{"praise":82,"objections":99,"requests":118,"questions":137,"alternatives":149},[83,92],{"value":84,"source":85,"evidence":86},"Looks beautiful and is a fantastic, inspirational project","commenter",[87,88],{"id":51,"by":52,"text":53},{"id":89,"by":90,"text":91},"7990145","cmdrfred","A fantastic and inspirational work. This makes me believe I can too can make high quality games someday.",{"value":93,"source":85,"evidence":94},"Great game",[95],{"id":96,"by":97,"text":98},"7985371","Alupis","Damn, this is a great game! Keep up the great work!",[100,114],{"value":101,"source":85,"evidence":102},"Unit controls are buggy and awkward, hard to play",[103,107,111],{"id":104,"by":105,"text":106},"7986262","argc","Pretty cool, but unplayable unless I was doing something wrong. I couldn't move the minimap unless I was careful where to click (dragging doesn't work) and everytime I tried to…",{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"7987740","robbiep","I had the same problem, iPhone 5. Couldn't end turns, couldn't exit city window once I founded one, units were trying to move everywhere and it wasn't clear which one I had…",{"id":112,"by":52,"text":113},"7991702","Okay, actually the reason I was confused is the web interface seems to be very buggy. 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