I've been using the minimal UI right from the first moment I installed 1.2 and I really do love it. I have had one tiny little fly in the ointment type problem with it: there is no way to see/alter the time acceleration with this version of the interface. Ordinarily I wouldn't care; it's rather easy to see when the game is running on full acceleration and when it is not, but I have had a lot of trouble getting time acceleration to turn off. I nearly lost one battle because of it; I couldn't get acceleration to turn off at all and pause wouldn't work either. All I could do was watch as a rather large army of Gaulish warbands poured into my nice, shiny, brand new, never used before, pretty looking legion with great general attachment and optional crome extras. It took me quite a few turns to rebuild what was left of that army...

The problem appears, to my layman's eyes, to involve the pause or ctrl+t shortcuts firing twice for each time I press the key, effectively pausing and unpausing at the same time, or accelerating and decelerating. It is not a consistent problem, only occasional. That said I have found it to be a common occasional issue. Nothing works to circumvent it; even taping the keys as if they had nice little spikes mounted point upwards on them does not help. The problem does become more common once acceleration is engaged, however there have been a few occasions where I could not get the game to speed up. This did happen with the original interface, but there I had access to the speed control buttons.

Any possible solutions? I really don't have the time/patience to watch my army march at a tiny rebel army for several minutes before getting into bow range.