Not wanting to derail the thread, but does anything pick anything thats not "+gildar bonus" when your towns level up? The other 3 options just aren't appealing enough imo.

well, it depends on the resources near the city. If there are one or more lost libraries or temples nearby and no gold mine it would be stupid to pick the +gildar option. In one game I had a city with two lost libraries, obviously I picked the +world research option. Apart from the free guardian unit they are all appealing depending on the resource situation.

Only if it's a tech or arcane research hub.

It's something I'd like to see expanded since right now, if the city isn't a tech or arcane specialist then half the options do nothing and of the remaining two, only the +gildar is useful long term. I'd actually like it to be a tree - sort of a mini-tech tree - that was related to technologies you've researched and/or built in the city.

So you could get mining bonuses, gildar bonuses, food or material production bonuses, etc. So the leveling of cities has more flavor (especially if there are visual indicators) and more interesting choices.

Is there a way to see the city details when that upgrade thing pops up?  I remember being frustrated because I didn't know what sort of city it was before picking the upgrade

Didn't take very long...

Save this as a xml file (e.g. Talent_golddigger.xml) in my documents/my games/elemental/units dir...

Hah, I know what you mean. I have been naming my cities with prefixes. Start with LIB if it has a library

^^^ THIS ^^^

I don't know if there's some mysterious part of the interface which holds this info, but it really is needed.

Also, I just saw the (do you want to quit) message that says something like "are you sure you want to quit? a couple more turns couldn't hurt..." I el-oh-elled out loud when I saw it, but I wonder if they're going to get in trouble for it. It's like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Actually there's two easy ways to get around it. The first is the Adventure tree, there's a tech line which spawns resources. I've yet to research the first level of that tech and not have a goldmine spawn next to at least one of my cities.

Secondly, researching the administration tech in the civilisation tree lets you build a palace, which generates 7 Gildar, more than a gold mine. There's a couple of other buildings which generate gildar too.