Ahh, much nicer. 

This has been bugging me for awhile...but why cant that Inn be incorporated into the town itself? 

1. Yes.

2. I'm not sure what you mean.  We do want to have buildings that if placed adjacent increase the adjacent building's production. I.e. a windmill next to a farm increases the farm's output. We want to keep these relatively rare and they would be improvements that would come in pairs or groups so that players aren't having to remove improvements because they don't have a spot for the new one.

3. Maybe.

It's coming (cobbled streets).  Cosmetics are something we'll be addressing later on.  

The way things look and are animated are going to get a lot of polishing (particularly fighting and spell related) between now and release.

Glad to hear it, especially with regards to #1 - all you really need are some cobblestone streets or something similar between buildings, and it'll look much more integrated. More like a city than a dozen buildings sitting on the grass next to each other. [Would also be nice if the outside roads connected in to the city's street network, rather than running diagonally through existing buildings as in the screenshot ]

#2 sounds fine as well, I can live with adjacency as long as we're talking about buildings available with the same technology that we can build at the same time, and never end up in a situation like "I just researched these new windmills, now I need to go find every city with an old farm and demolish some buildings to fit them in."

Cool.  It'd be nice to see cobbled streets, with some straw/hay scattered in the corners and up against the buildings so it doesn't look too clean, and have the occasional chicken running around.

This is probably something that will be fixed eventually, but I hope the glaring cosmetic tech level/architecture differences in some of the buildings is addressed. For instance, currently in early games, a temple looks a lot more advanced then most other buildings. In the picture above, the council and command post look woefully lower tech then the rest of the city.

While on the subject of buildings and towns, will there be alternate building styles we can pick out without modding?  So I can, for example, have longhouses and huts rather than the 1600s looking ones we've seen so far?

That is a nice looking town. I'm much more sold than I thought I'd be. Still, I liked the rural feel of gardens.

@bilskis

the same can be said about farms

@Frogboy

don't forget gates in the walls, as of now it looks a bit silly when the road passes through walls

otherwise thanks for your quick reply

I must echo this question because that was the first thing I wondered.  I remember reading previews to GalCiv2 (PC) that stated the reason for going with the building system you did (ie: fixed number of workable tiles to place buildings on) was that you wanted to avoid the "build everything" mentality that appears in some of these turn based strategy games.  It's an idea that I fully agree with, or at least, I agree that building a city should be more involved than simply building every structure available to you, with only the order being the important factor.

He also has an oasis, don't those produce food? (Never managed to claim one, no idea). Also could have other cities producing food to support his housing, we really don't know.