I think there are some nice ideas here.

This has been discused a little in past posts. The ideas you have are nice I think. I personaly think that they should just make units for attack and defence of planes. That way you don't have to worry about all the percentages and stuff. A certain amount of population would be killed in an invasion, but no where near 100%. I think they should imitate how Civ III did city capture, but just transate the city to a planet. After an invasion, you could do things like kill the population slowly if you chose. I don't think there should be any way to destroy the population in one turn. It is just rediculous. Whatever they do, I think they should change it from the current system. As far as I am concerned, any change would be better than how it is now.

Well, There is the off chance that FB and co. will look at this thread and go "Hey wow! We have to add this!".

Unfortunatly I think I will take my chances with a lottery ticket instead.

But I like this idea and it is indeed one of the few original ideas out there

Very good points, and very balanced approach indeed.

It would be fitting for each torian to have a drengin slave for each household

Not to be gross here, but don't forget the option, for some of the more "unsavory" civilizations, of actually eating the conquored races. I'm reading a set of sci fi books called, "In Death Ground" and "The Shiva Option" where this very thing is an integral part of the story line. It's very interesting, and would add a terrifying dimension to the game if the losing side's citizenry were raised like cattle to be used as food animals.

Can you imagine the extreme, long-term hatred such an act would inspire toward the perpetrators? Chilling and gross? Yes. Fun and interesting in a computer game? I say "yes". But if they haven't coded the game to do this at this point, I'd imagine it would be very unlikely that it will by release time.

"So this is a human. Your skin looks delicious. I'm sure in time we'll meet for dinner."

Yeah, the Drengin appear to enjoy enslaving their victims, then eating them. Or just eating them.

If your playing the drengin, the more worlds you conquer, the more happier your citizens should be as the meat of other races can be spread amongst the population as a fine delicasy, especially human mmm

This has no point but... shouldn't there be a dedicated Military force?
like depending on a few factors (Devps figure out im too lazy...)
determines citizen (Taxpayer) Milita.
or you can have a dedicated defensive military (which automaticly increases IE:people volunterring or drafting Decreases morale:this guys still live as "citizens" so they still take up space..) this military men have 2 differences
1)they are far better at combat(they have much more training)
2)however, they cost more food to maintain (they are more burly...and also it is a check on your capacity)
so this is a interesting idea to place in...
oh yeh, Mr.Wardell(Frogboy), if sales are good 'nough (obviously) maybe you should make expansion for it with the Enhanced UP Council (propasable Laws sounds good) and some advanced military stuff which can be toggled on and off not to mention other things...(editing tools? see, i can program levels in games like for WC3 i can make good maps after a few days of work alone...though without decent tools it could take far longer)

HL2 is going to have a FPS/Stragt. game mod for it called empires..which originally was for BF1942 but the BF series' engines couldn't be adjusted enough for total conversion. so anyways im gonna work towards getting HL2 with GC2 and some other things...Including a new computer (that may be basic but still the latest stuff ) hear this, with
HL2 (Demo) my 2002 gateway comp (with celeoron CPU and intel extreme graphics cards-latest-and some other basics) was able to play the first level (and to a small level) the second level-never finsihed it:the comp was too slow to handle it. so with a 2005-ahem-2006 i should have a good computer...