How about planets that actually orbit their sun? That would make for some tactical decisions. Each turn is a month so for planets as far away from their sun as Earth is, that would be a 30-degree rotation each turn, and obviously less movement from the further away planets...

Dag

The functionality I most desire would be the ability to control the building and upgrading of farms, so that I could essentially select the pop cap for any planet to be any integral number of Billions.

Agreed, that would be useful. That isn't however what is on the top of my wish list right now.

#1
A folder system to organize all of your ships. You could open, or close them as a means to show, or hide thier contents so you could quickly choose the ships you want. It would allow us to clean up our clutter so game play performance improves, and we wouldn't need to delete all of our favorite designs.

P.S. The obsolete button has long since lost its effectiveness. I just have too many ships. It takes too long to simply obsolete older ships.

This is little but name suns. i will add more later

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Sorry. That was just evil.

I agree with a couple points here.
1: Better upgrade system with planetary improvements. This would have at least 3 parts.
a: the ablility to choose not to automaticly upgrade a factory or whatever on discovering the new technology.
b: being able to choose at a later date to 'upgrade all factories'.
c: being able to put older building on tiles.

2: better fleet management on a empire wide scale.

DivineWrath, are you obseleting ships one at a time or something? Under the shipyard screen you have the obselete button there that will do all ships of that type all at once.

Planet Upgrades.

Not upgrades to put on a planet, but the ability to literally upgrade the planet itself. Ships that bring down asterroids and terraform them on the surface to increase planet size...basically, the ability to make every single square on the surface of the planet usable through terraforming and research that's a veritable paradise.

The ability to build self-sustaining ships at low levels, (can go any distance, carry all things needed to support life)

Genetic Engineering Techs: Let you improve your species

Boarding parties: Capture enemy ships instead of destroying them

Also... Mega-techs.

Dyson Spheres (a sun-enclosing 'space station')

Ring Worlds (like a dyson sphere, but only a single ring, spun for centrifugal force, still ridiculous amount of land able to live on

Station-worlds (Keep adding to a station until it becomes a mechanical world unto itself)

Planet-destroying weapons

Sun-destroying weapons

World-building machines

Very late game-tech that lets you breach the dimensions (allowing a permanant wormhole to connect to another map... probably where every race you've defeated is dominant, and your race doesn't exist any longer.)

Ship-teleporting stations or stargates (teleport to other equiped stations)

The ability to continue post-trancendence with awesome stuff.

The ability to travel back in time and change the past (oh.. wait... load last save, different choices... nevermind. )

A timed-game option: Game only lasts a limited number of rounds, strongest civilization wins

A 'no enemies' option: Really toughen up the micro-management, no enemy players. Basically turn Gal Civ into a galactic sim-city as a result.

A 'no micromanagement' option: All races progress down a set technological path and build order (except for ships) - All combat gameplay

multi-player action, even if its on the same computer

And finally...
A giant ball of dancing sushi event.... okay, just kidding on that one.

Very late game-tech that lets you breach the dimensions (allowing a permanant wormhole to connect to another map... probably where every race you've defeated is dominant, and your race doesn't exist any longer.)

Now THAT would be awsome, keep going on conqering new deminsions getting more powerfull.

I suggest:
- An improved Espionage system, with sabotage and defensive roles, like Master Of Orion2.

- Terraforming non-habitable planets to barren ones and so on.

- Design a raider civilization, like Antarans in MOO2.

As you can see, my ideas came from MOO2, but I found them very interesting in that game.   

Boarding parties: Capture enemy ships instead of destroying them

Now that would be a very cool thing.

"Hey look...that ship has a 100 Laser Damage on it...Lets go steal it!" Of course should the reverse happen to the player...."HEY...That was MY DeathCruiser..."

Could be just like invading a planet, larger ships have larger populations, using each sides soldiering ability. And there could be different ways of taking it causing damage to it in the process. Say, Brute force/Traditional, Sabatoge (gives 30-40% boost and causes 50% damage to the ship cost 500), Self Destruct (gives 60-70% boost and causes 99% damage cost 300), Shock Force (once getting Shock Troops, gives 30-40% boost, causes 30% damage cost 800). If the ship wouldn't survie the damage cost it is reduced to 1. Maybe there could be a loss of equipment associated with capturing a ship too?
Would only work against ships not traveling in a fleet or you have to have enough transports to attach to every ship in the fleet...might end up unbalanced in some way, but capturing ships was probably the funnest thing in HomeWorld.
Ahh...my fleet of stolen Ion Frigates...

This is little but name suns.

Isn't there a STARS.txt file in the directory? You can always add your own names no? May not get them every time but I think thats possible. Unless it kills the MetaVerse games...I don't know, havn't done a Metaverse game yet.

#1 Diplomacy:
Exactly as stated above. The ability to communicate conditional statements to the AI.

#2 Race-specific objects:
Without using the custom tech tree hack. Lots of modding potential here.

#3 'Shipyard-only' flag for ship designs:
Enough said.

#4 Nothing:
I like the new features, but there is a need for another solid round of QA testing. For example, PQ bonus of captured planets, "11string not found", etc.

There is a hotkey F1 that opens the Ship list and F2 that opens the planetlist
Once those windows are open, F2 and F1 do not close them. I often just open the planet list for a quick look, but then I have to mouse over to close it. F2, glance, F2 would make this much more smooth for me.

In the shipyard, I'd like the keyboard arrow keys to rotate the ship. That way I could change the view with my left hand while mousing with my right.

Galen

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