alrighty i'll place my thingy's in here than.

1: being able to call in allies during war, same way we do right at the start of a war were your ally automaticly declares on your enemy. (enemy should also be able to ask my during a war, if i ignore he'll break the alliance).

2: don't have allies automaticly declare on your enemy's in your defens at the start of the war, i want to have the choice of having allies help me or crush the enemy myself.

3: being able to create teams to have custom situtations like 3 vs 3 or 4 vs 5 or whatever you want. or 2 vs 2 vs 3 vs 2.
were you cannot ally with people from another team, everything is done by your team. so in this mode the research victory should be off (unless the techtree is somewhat modified that it takes 3 alliances to research 1 tech and still takes 50 weeks to research so that its still a team victory).
influence victory should be off and diplomatic victory to.

4: one thing, but it might not be possible, is that the game will continou after you win.
so that people that were your ally, will also be your ally in the next game and your enemy's still don't like you if you declared war on them.
if you defeated somebody that declared on you relations shouldn't be hurt to much.
so if you were very strong in the first game but are weak in the second you better watch out and hope you didn't abuse your power in the first game to much.
kinda like a custom campain but with no preset scenario's.
this can be combined with option 3, cause this could result in having to fight several coalition battles over and over again .
oh yea, being able to form coalitions would be nice, ofcourse the IA should counter this and form its own coalition

what do you all think, and what are the changes mods will even see this post and the changes that it might actually implented?

thank you

I really like the first post ... i dont like that part of the game, the surrendering race should then become several minors (same picture as the original race but with different colours???)

anyways, i hope they change this

I would love to have the option to reject a race surrenduring to me, resulting in the creation of multiple minor races, with 2-3 planets each. Then again I'd rather no races surrendered to anyone, it's wreaking havok with my current game, as there have been 5 surrenders so far (only one to me), including one race who surrendered to the Drengin soon after another race surrendered to them to avoid being taken over by the Drengin. Funnily enough, I currently own the Drengin home system and another formerly Drengin system due to flips, but they despise me for my use of influence and I am thinking I need to gear up for war with the only power left that can challenge me at all.

Hi Mystic,

I imagine that a lot of your suggestions might already be possible once the multiplayer function is introduced. I guess we will have to wait and see what's available after 1.2

I'm not sure about being able to 'control' other races bit though.

Part of this games immersive appeal to me, and I'm sure many, many others, is that the 'AI' actually draws you into the game. The unpredictability, and, come to think of it, predictability of a race, once you "get to know them during a game" is excellent.

Ordering them to help / not help, might kinda take away the 'independence' feel to races. Why be allied if you don't want help? Simply breaking the alliance might be an option there. Besides, a race would probably feel insulted that you think yourself so superior to not need/want their help, and whilst it could be introduced as an optional "send message" I think there should be consequences.

I have given more thought to the "Empire Surrender" situation too.

Maybe, and I'm just spit-balling here.. The race about to surrender could ask for sanctuary/protection. They would be in a state of "annexation" (if there is such a term)

Maybe it could work exactly as it is, but the protecting empire would not have access to the planets themselves. A portion of revenue could be diverted to the protecting empire whilst that race attempted to rebuild. Maybe it could last for say 5 years, with the annexed race deciding to stay annexed or not, depending on how they are treated etc. During annexation they might request ships/technology etc.

Of course, any further declarations of war on the annexed race would immediatly be a declaration of war on the protecting empire, so there would (and should) be some risk,. The odd planet may decide to go it alone, spawning a new Minor, and a host of other things might be possible... but it would certainly, to me at least, make a more natural progression through the game than simply beeing handed a virtual "win by default" after a lot of hard (enjoyable) work to get to a certain point.

Maybe the odd planet might 'like' being annexed and want to stay with the protecting empire... the possible options are endless.

I just think on this single issue It's a little like (and this is just a though) like... well a lack of 'end-game.' It's like, "ok you played long enough, time to wrap it up" It all changes so drasticly, and suddenly, that (at the risk of repeating myself) it's a whole different game.

Anyway, enough ranting... I have the "hideous Antarans to crush... oh and that ugly race, you know... the other hideous ones...errr... oh yeah! The Terrans !

Regards as always,
AOD-Bradford

I imagine that a lot of your suggestions might already be possible once the multiplayer function is introduced. I guess we will have to wait and see what's available after 1.2

GC2 won't have a multiplayer and likely never get it i thought?
but it would be great to have those options included (they are just single player options)

Er.....excuse me for butting in but.......did I miss something.....like 1.2?

I'd love to see actual descriptions for techs when researched. Making them race based would be even better.

Also, race specific ship hulls are a must.

No118 is right. I won't look a gift horse in the mouth. Selling them seems like a good move, although it can be hard to override that good old human greed.

There are many suggestions I could make for 1.3, but I'll keep it as reasonable as possible. These are my top wants in the game. Some of them are simple interface tweaks:

1. Allow us to switch off the feature (?) that carries ship designs over to other games. Many of us enjoy redesigning every game.

2. Allow us to disable the "Tech Researched" report window. A simple pop up would be a nicer alternative.

3. Allow us to upgrade ships in stacks/fleets, without having to seperate them.

4. Allow us to rename stars.

5. Allow us to change the brightness of the "area of effect" circle around constructors.

Um... that's it.

The details on 1.2 and possible inclusions for 1.3 are on the Home page of this site

i'm sorry, but i looked and i really can't find them anywere.

other than that thank you for the information
and may release of 1.2 already, sweet