very nice

Funny you should mention that, as it is my only real peeve about the game regarding the combat mode. The laser shots come from what appears to be the middle of the ship not the weapons.

Weapon shots do come from the actual canons. I don't even like to think how much time was put to make sure that is the case.

all weapons fire from the actual weapons on my game, and it looks super cool seeing lasers shoot out from diffrent parts of the ship annihilating my foe muhahaha, congrats to the guys who worked on those, as for 1.1, cannot wait, looks totally awsome

PLEASE give jewelry a basic description of what it is. There is no point what so ever in a multible descriptions like: "Customize how your ship looks visually with Extras".

Thats part of the magic of it, the jewlry is what ever you want it to be! A dome for instance, is it a bridge, observation area, power node, or a botanical area? The answer? Yes! It is whatever your ship needs to make it your ship.

I recommend taking out redundant parts of the screen like the "design a new ship class bar" so as to make more space for other things.

Some more things with the ship designer that kinda bugged me and I'd like to know if any of these have been solved :
- Can you move your designs up and down in the list in the shipyard menu, just like you do with building orders ? (Asked many times, just re-itterating)
- Can you include an option to auto-obsolete any standard designs, because they get obsoleted anyway
- I had a problem of ship designs coming available ingame with a Terran hull when playing with a Yor hull type, which makes those ships look horrifyingly wrong (completely twisted, which is normal as it's a different hull), so will custom designs only show up if playing with the same hull type as the design
- Would it ever be able to add specifics to certain designs such as "Drengin-only", "Yor-only" so they only appear when playing that race to get a unique race-specific list of ships.
- Could you make more custom ship designs for alien AI races ? Possibly even make the AI my own "Yor-only" designs when it sees fit ? Would be awesome from a "create your own universe" point of view.

Edit: oops, looked at the wrong window.

Heres a great idea for the ship edsigner:

Many people like to make symmetrical ships. Thus, instead of having to put each piece 2 times, could you add an option to mirror 1 half of the ship on the other? Kinda like the symetry filter in 3D Studio Max. I think it would be awesome.

Yeah, I hate when the ship I just built is lop-sided and it's not my fault.

I also noticed that some ship hulls don't seem to be even, ie even flat parts sometimes are off hight.

It would also be nice to have more control over the view window in the ship builder. It gets really hard to build bigger ships when you are always looking at the absolute center of the ship.

Are those three small ship icons (show all) (show equipment) (show jewelry) ? If so, Excellent.

If not, a way to filter out jewelry from the mod listing would be neat.

here's something that would also be nice:

i know that the scroll-scroll-scroll hassle of the extras tab is disliked by player and devs alike.

i find that i only use a very small subset of the extras, and use them over and over again on different ships.

what would be nice is when i use an extra, if it could be moved to the top of the extras list. the idea being that the items that i tend to use would all be at the top of the list the next time i go to the extras tab.

this would remove the scrolling hassle, as unused extras would sink to the end of the list.

most ideal would be if the list update happened when the ship is saved, and only the extras that actually are on the ship got their list positions updated... that way i could try out experimental extras without having the ones i decide against cluttering up the top of the list.

of course, all of this depends on the hope that the position of items in the extras list are not hardcoded or meaningful, and that the list can be re-ordered at runtime?

so... would this not go a long way towards reducing the current hassle of the extras menu?

Make it possible to resize a componenty using the slider after it has been placed. This would make it much easier to get just the right ballance between size of different parts. This would be even better if you could select several spaceship components at the same time and resize them all (so ctrl+click to select more components and then use the slider to increase/decrease the size of all of these)

Well, you should look at the 1.1 dev log https://forums.galciv2.com/?ForumID=164&AID=108257. It states:

A couple things new on the ship design screen. First, you can now rotate components on the fly in the X, Y, and Z axis. Pretty excited about that. You can even resize components after the fact once they're on. You can also rotate them after the fact.