First off let me say to the developers, thank you for making such an amazing game. I get very limited time to play games these days (having 2 toddlers and all) but when I do, its devoted to Galactic Civ II. I never played the first one but the word of mouth this game was getting lured me in (and MOO2 was my all time favorite game.. was.. until now). Its even pulled me away from World of Warcraft which is a feat unto itself. The support you guys are offering and the enthusiasm for your game and the community speaks volumes. So, anyhow, I thought I’d throw in a little bit of my wish list for future versions of the game, be it patches or even for Galactic Civ III.
The wish list..
Threat of Attack / Extortion - All empires (though mainly evil ones) should have the diplomatic option to threaten a neighboring civilization without actually going to war. (Eg. Give me Influence Base 262 that you just built on my border, or I’ll attack you.) Alternately the neighboring civilization can call your bluff and go to war with you.
Planet Killers / Scorched Earth attacks – One thing that gets me is sometimes I’m playing a huge map and I’m going to war. I don’t want to have to conquer every one of the enemy’s planets, I just want to leave them in waste. Having a planet destroyer would be nice. Alternately, I would love it if the damage done from using Mass Drivers / Core Disruption / Tidal Disruption would be inflicted regardless of victory in the land battle. You’d think that if I were going to drop troops on a planet I’d soften it up first with the mass destruction, then land the troops. The way it is now, if they can beat my troops, they also avoid having the mass drivers hit their planet. Or, even just offer planetary bombardment if you have ships in orbit. You can’t take the planet without troops, but you can pummel it to make it useless to the other empire.
New Tech – Carriers – Allow some ships of large or bigger scale to have a hanger component attached that small and little ships could be placed in. Thus allowing the larger ship to transport the smaller ones to the battlefronts on the other side of the galaxy.
Anyhow.. keep up the great work!
