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1) I love the good/evil events. My, I think easily implementable, idea is to have such events when you conquer the last planet of another race and thus eradicated it. I would love if then sometimes a screen comes up
"You have captured their leader (insertname) on planet (insertname of planet). What do you want to do with him?"
Then you would have the option
-to pardon him (-Morale on the planet you conquered, because people could still dream about a return of their empire),
-put him in jail for life,
-or interrogate and publicly execute him (+chance to get more tech, +Approval on planet you conquered due to fear)

It would just be another screen to put in, and would really make wars much more personal to me

2) It would be cool if planets slowly move around their sun, with e.g. one move a turn in a kind of cycle

3) another thing which should be easy to implement and pretty cool: make ships take damage when in a square just next to a star, e.g. 5 hp/turn. The routing algorithm would have to be adjusted for that, but it would open the possibility of cool chases, e.g. when another race chases on of my ships, it could shortcut next to a sun and try to escape.

am I right that trading techs (diplomacy) is not yet in/buggy? I can get them to trade techs, but never seem to actually receive them.

also, when is the time to report typos? I think I saw hundreds of them

Otherwise, good job up to now! Even though it's a beta, it's already sucking up my time and I'm having lots of fun with it!

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ScottTykoski

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1.) I like this one alot. We'll try and squeeze it in

2.) This was discussed when we first decided to take the leap from suns to solar systems on the map, and we decided that it'd be a case of realism being less fun...imagine playing a game on a gigantic map where the map visually never stayed the same. It'd get confusing pretty fast...plus if there was a ship where a planet should move, where would the ship go? All kinds of little oddities like this made us agree on the currect system.

3.) Perhaps this can make it in to an expansion pack, but unfortunatly there'd be alot of code tweaking and interface modification to account for this. Plus we'd probably want to add some techs to counter this later in the game. I think it could be a cool idea, but I don't think we'd have the time to properly implement it at this point.

4.) You can start reporting typos now.

Great suggestions though! Keep em coming and hopefuly we can get some in before the game goes gold!

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