Yeah, I knew I was forgetting something.

Starport: I'd like to be able to select multiple ships and launch them all at once, instead of just one at a time.

So the fighter that was going to do between 1 and 8 damage is gone and the dreadnought that is going to do between 1 and 50 damage lives for an extra turn because the firepower from your dreadnought that *could* have tried to do between 1 and 50 damage to their dreadnought was used for overkill on an 8 hp frame instead? This is making us think happy thoughts why?

I have to agree with that one. Perhaps the 'option' to change settings not that you would choose it but still have the option before sending your fleet to attack.. "Kill fighters first" "Kill Capital Ships at all cost" "Kill Troop Carriers First" "Kill weakest first" "Kill strongest first " .. just some things I was thinking of. . could add them to fleet manager to change the fleets battle tactics ?

mabye an idea for another update

Also, forgot to mention that planetary siege is easier if you play on a slow computer - more time to see the numbers come up. That seems kinda farcical. And if we're going to have the bombardment attacks, can we see buildings blow up or waves come crashing in?

Being able to generally direct the ground assault would be much more fitting to the level of detail elsewhere in the game.

One more thing for ship movement, have a line (similar to the way trade lines are drawn, but glowing/animated some way to show direction) for the path a ship will take on the way to its waypoint (have the waypoint glow/blink/brighter).

That's in the v1.1 beta, and it is sooooooooo useful!

Galactic Privateer: I honestly think this one is broken or something. It's supposed to prevent attacks on your freighters. And it does, when pirates or Dread Lords try to attack. But, in the same game where the Dread Lords couldn't attack my freighters, the Korx could.

I think that's what it is meant to do, and is correctly described as (prevents pirates etc...).

It would be nice if it would light up the radius of how far a ship can move in the current turn

Not practical later on in the game I feel - with ships having 50+ movement.

When talking to a minor race, their starships/starbases don't show up on their side.

By design to prevent total exploitation of the minors - if you don't like them, you can disable them in v1.1

Starbases: I'd like it show me which modules are currently available for a starbase

It shows what you've got installed, and all the module details with pre-requisite techs are in the manual - so not sure what the issue is here.

wish i could demand they move them out of my territory grrr

I think this would make for a nice UP resolution; something like a 5 year restriced "air space" with the opportunity to pay a "right of passage" fee to travel through another's territory.

But already I can see a major drawback: how pissed would you be if an AI's influence suddenly expanded to surround one of your planets and you could no longer send ships or supplys to support it?


EDIT: Not to mention the negative affect this could have to trade.

Regarding the fleet combat, I think you could explain it by saying that the smaler ships are defending the bigger ones. I know it really doesn't look like it in the combat viewer, but it would make sense for the little fighters to be running interference for the star destroyers or troop transports. Or to use the naval example, you can't just attack the aircraft carrier-- they're in the middle of a carrier battle group for defense: Link

I like the idea of a "ship range" circle. I don't even know HOW to count squares, so I'm usually just guessing how far off my target is.