I can relate - I get so excited when I see a new settlement or city builder game announced, right up to the point where they go into great, excitable, detail about how much war and fighting will be involved. Just let me build, people!

The line-less colors really are striking. Is the light green an indication of different zone, or something else? I assumed (perhaps I shouldn't) that the brown buildings were lower economic zones, and the red (tiles?) were the upper.