I've been rolling this idea over in my head for a while since I am simply addicted to creating new custom races with their own logos and portraits... And making them individual ship types and all that good stuff... Yay for sandboxes!
Anyway, my actual ideas are as follows:
- At the screen for determining your opponents, have an option that allows for the selecting of custom made races to be opponents...
Example: The Uber-GalCiv2 Empire! (me), the Galactic Empire (think Star Wars... opponent 1), Rebel Alliance (opponent 2), and ... the Borg!!! (opponent 3)
... And I add the Drengin in just for fun.
Furthermore, in the color pallette selection, perhaps a way to look at the previous colors you've selected (since some of us actually do modify the bars and don't use the preset vanilla colors) to pick and choose while editing our custom races' goodness.... And, can't forget the possibility of further customization of the races!
Such as...
- Defining the race as good or evil (maybe I'm overlooking this if it's already in?)
- Determing (for opponent custom races) their general behavior... For instance, for beings like the Borg, they are incredibly aggressive and love to create large cube/spherical superships that conquer EVERYTHING!
- Perhaps a way to more easily import portraits/logos (IE, a selection to import a gif, jpg, or whatever through the custom race button...)
- A way to write a description for custom races!
- An option to use the ship builder from the menu with all techs available... That real sandbox creation mode so you don't have to worry about it while playing the game
That's all I have boiling around in here for now... Anyone else?
Merku
