Seems like a huge oversight to me because without understanding that mechanic it is hard to understand the benefit of making everything else twice as slow. I just finished a campaign as the Riftborn, and I never used those weird time sphere things because I couldn't determine what the planet depletion mechanic was all about. There's a lot of stuff that I find underexplained. But Endless Space 2 has been a bit of a mess.
It's really strange because whatever you thought of all of Amplitude's earlier games, they were all extremely polished in my experience. Personally, I don't find learning about the great heroic exploits of %VodyaniNPC to be a particularly great read. Too often the variable names pop up in these texts instead of the value of whatever the variable is pointing too. I'll add one more irritating bug in addition to the two mentioned on the show: Endless Space 2 has an issue with with its scripting when it comes to the narrative text.
