A lot of good ideas, and bug reports here.

The things that I emphatized the most was the problem with ship stacks fleets and working with individual ships (like upgradings a ship in a stack/fleet, can't do it easy)

And I did notice that AI sending in transports (and constructors) unescorted on a challenging difficulty first campaign mission.

Updated based on the 1.01 patch notes. Sadly, I could only find one issue that was fixed. Let me know if I missed any.

Double post, sorry.

I believe trade good works like this.

You have the trade good micro repair bots. When you give it to another race, you gave them the percentage bonus while you still retain the original bonus. (Thus it still takes up space wherever you build it).

If you built the repair bots, no one else can build them. You alone have the bonus.
If you offer it in a diplomacy screen. The other civilization will have the same obnus.

So it's like a technology that you can have monopoly over unless you choose to share it.

At least.. that's how I think it works. Not sure what would happen if someone take over the planet in which the trade good is build.

I traded some tech for Micro Repair Bots last night. I assume they were working, but there's no real way to see the bonus from these that i could tell. At a later point, i tried to trade them to another race.

Only the race that created the trade good can trade it, so you can't tell if you have the trade good's effects by looking in what is available to trade.

The only minor bug I've found not covered in this impressive list :

When the popup for the random event regarding the "solar slammers" shows up, the text at the bottom is cut off.

When the popup for the random event regarding the "solar slammers" shows up, the text at the bottom is cut off.

The text should be in a scrollable text field. Have you tried scrolling down?

1) Galaxy Setup
i) If not replace, at least add the option of drop down box for habitable planets, number of planets, and other settings. It makes it easier to see at a glance what choices the player have and make a choice.
ii) Add the option of how often random events occur, build rate.
iii) Besides the current set up of game difficulty and AI intelligence.
You might break it down into categories like
AI starting fund
Player starting fund
AI penalty (economic)
AI intelligence (algorithm enabled)

2) Improvements
i)Instead of ordering improvements alphabetically. List the crucial and basic improvements on the top in the same order. For example, if basic factory is the first item on the list, it will still be the first item on the list after Xeno Factory Construction is discovered. This way, we wouldn't have to go up and down the list to hunt for the improvement we want to build or have to know all the improvement name by heart.

ii) A even better (but more lengthy way) would be to allow the player to have the option of building the basic improvement even when the new version is available. The player would still have the option to purchase the new version if he/she so desires.
Building a basic factory first and then upgrading to a xeno factory will be faster then buliding xenofactory by itself.
Furthermore, the player can plan out what the planet would have and let governor take care of the rest.

I would prefer the order below for game play reasons but others might not agree.

Basic Factory (usually the first thing I build)
Basic Lab
Market Center
Basic Farming
Entertainment Network (entertainment is right after farming because they usually go together, at least in the game now)
Embassy
Starport
(other improvements like orbital fleet manager)
(super projects)

then for the second idea
Basic Factory will be followed by a tab that will show Xeno Factory Construction and another tab that will show the next appropriate upgrade.

Basic Factory (tab) (tab)


3)Governors
i) build the improvement that will finish first
ii) build soil enhacement only if no other upgrades are available. Immediately bumped off the list when new upgades are made available.

That sticky explicitly asks for small tweaks that can be implemented and tested in under an hour. I went through my list, found half a dozen that fit the bill, and posted them.

Now granted, most of the suggestions people have in that thread don't fit the requirements. I'm amused by the number of requests for things people seem to think are simple, but in actuality would take over 10 man-hours to implement, let alone test.

Pulling these lengthly suggesions from that list into this one sounds fine and dandy, but it requires reading 185 posts, most with more than one entry. So lets say 400 suggestions. Then I have to get rid of duplicates, or list duplicate opinions as I did in this thread. Then I have to categorize and post them. Oh, and make sure they don't conflict with any current entries. Not to mention there's going to be a patch next thursday in which is supposed to incorporate tweaks from this very thread. That's more work to do marking off 'completed' suggestions.

In short, that's several hours of my life. No

- When you create a metaverse character, it should automatically set that character as the 'Default' without having to click on the Default button. Setting it as default lets the forum use your badges when you post, perhaps other things. Forcing people to figure out that they have to click that button on their own is a bit much. Also, the button looked greyed out when I first saw it, leading me to believe it could not be pressed. After I selected it, it lit up.

well here's a small and purely cosmetical bug: in the lower part of the "basic farming" image, it's written "unfinished image". it annoys me a little when i look at it. still on the cosmetical aspect of the game, the bink video that shows up when you first build a base has obviously been recycled from galciv 1 and it looks (and sounds too, because you can hear galciv 1's theme music when it shows up) plain weird to me.

besides that stuff i love the game