Doubt there will be carriers. The campaign for expansion is played as the Drengin, with terror stars (planet nukers) and a LOT of espionage.

I wish for tactical combat. We've got a great combat viewer, great animations, ability to make cool looking ships, we just can't control anything at a tactical level Otherwise, the game is fantastic.

Gargh! Grifman, no tactical combat? what would be the point of research if you have skills enough to change the outcome of a battle? Perhaps an option to "Set flagship" and have it gain special bonuses.

And espionage missions are, I think, coming in the form of agents.

How about races you create yourself?

I.e. create a custom race, save it, then play against it.

I would like to see some real use for the Influence points outside of the UP. Right now, they are useless as a bartering medium.

Perhaps you could spend points to set the agenda at the UP meetings?

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I.e. create a custom race, save it, then play against it.

I've been wanting to fight against the race I made, so saving it and fighting it would be great.

(In rambling form, keep in mind)

I would like to be able to terraform and colonize uninhabitable worlds, and live underwater ,with the snorks. Espionage would be sweeeeet, but I'd also like to see things like carriers, command ships, larger fleets. (Ringworlds and inside sphere worlds sound cool, but what use are they aside from mimicking Halo?) Perhaps more customizablity, races that feel different, different techs, ability to do even CRAZIER stuff with your custom races. Underwater, cybernetic, etc. Maybe some cloaking and sneak attack abilities. (Note, See my post: Dirty Tactics Or Drengin Honor https://forums.galciv2.com/?ForumID=162&AID=111909&cmd=myposts ) I would like to be able to take over races without conquering them, use their racial abilities. Hold worlds hostages or use them as a part of my empire but allow them to use their own racial abilities. Most of this is random crazy rambling but I'd think it'd be cool. I've been told on some of these ideas, especially the racial ones before, that I should just pretend, but it'd be cooler if it was part of the game. If there was some report as to the racial demographics of my empire, and which races I encompassed, that might be cool too. I hate to assume all the worlds that revolted are instantly all the same race as me, it'd be interesting to be a giant multi-species empire. Ah well, most of this is just rambling, I'll quit while I'm ahead.

- Like the idea of terraforming class 0 planets....

- Also like the idea of a command module and a carrier module (for example how it was done in MOO2)

- Talking about MOO2.... In MOO2, you also had asteroid belts in a system.... Why not introduce them here. It could give you a system production (mining) bonus and/or a defense bonus (slowing down enemy vessels, or equiped with defensive measures, etc.) ! Later on you should be able to terraform them....

- Like espionage and counter intelligence. I like how this was done in 'StarTrek Birth of the Federation'.

There you could pick between 'sabotage' or 'espionage' per race and in 4 categories: 'miliatry' (stealing/disabling ships), 'political' (incite revolts/riots), 'economic' (steal from treasury) and 'technological' (steal techs). Also when you got more advanced, you were asked which other race should get the blame of your actions...... For example, When playing Romulans I would steal from the Klingons' treasury and let them think it was the Ferengi.... This is how you gert wars started among your enemies.....


Imagine this pop up: "Our agents among the Drengin Empire have stolen the tech 'Harpoon III' and delivered it to our scientists. Evidence of which empire's involvement you want our agents to fabricate on the scene? Altarian Empire, Drath Legion, Yor Collective...."

- Talking about Klingons and Romulans.... Also I would like stealth and cloaking devices. Some counter measure can be provided with sensor upgrades

- On a 'Trekkie' note, I would really like the 'exploration of the galaxy' to be continuous. (Yes, I posted this before....)This can be done in several ways (or combinations of them) :

- by the popping up of resources throughout the game.

- by "hiding" anomalies on moons and "class 0 planets". Each planet/moon has to be surveyed (which can take x turns each time)

- by opening up certain anomalies only when better sensors are researched. for example: if you have sensors mk 1 you will not "see" an anomaly when your survey ship is in sensor range, but it will see it when you have sensors mk2 and so on. This way, it will pay off to research sensors and to build more survey ships.

I would like to see more distinct differences between the races, and the way they behave in game.

yes being able to play other peoples customs races, and your own designed one would be cool, but for the custom races to be worthwhile you would need alot more traits and behavious to make them distinct, and they would have to behave differently in game rather than as it stands. Which is they sort of merge into a sameness - dealing with one is the same as the others and they behave similarly.

I think the space in GC is just a liitle too empty. There is so much stuff that's floating in space, why not add some to the game. You could for example add nebulas, which could influence sensor readings, movement speed or even damage ships passing through. Or introduce astroid fields, which would make some space impassable, like a wall. Great use for defense!.
An maybe just some things for graphics, like a passing comet or something.

I'd like to see Heros that give bonuses, ala MOO2 (please not the MOO3 hero system!).

Perhaps a purchase system for the heros, instead of them randomly showing up at your door step.

And a built-in alarm... so I know when to stop wasting my life, and get something constructive done for the day.

Your web site just ate my last attempted submission so I'll try again. This time I'm preparing it in notepad.

First of all, I won't be using a multiplayer option if you provide it. I have no problems with it having multiplayer if it doesn't hurt the single player gameplay though. Single player must have priority unless there ever comes a point where most people are playing it multiplayer, which I doubt will ever happen.

1. Buttons which step through all fleets without orders, or all fleets; buttons which allow me to flag a fleet to be passed by for the stepping through either for that turn or until I change it (sentry and guard don't seem to quite work that way); and a warning if I click the turn button and there are some fleets still without orders. Many TBS games have this and it's desperately needed in this one too.

2. Greatly expanded espionage. Give espionage a chance of being discovered with bad results. Add counter espionage. Depending on the counter espionage level the chance of discovery goes up and the chance of finding anything out goes down.

3. Espionage should be time sensitive. If I know everything about a race on turn 30 and stop funding, I shouldn't know much at all by turn 200.

4. I should have access to more information on races for which I've researched everything. For example, I should know which techs they've researched, have access to all their ship designs, and should know how many of each design they currently have.

5. Add some uncertainty. Allow NPCs to break alliances in some circumstances. Allow conquered planets to revolt (or at least start them out with a horrible morale).

6. More races. Maps bigger then gigantic. Those two make even more sense if both are done.

7. Some way of doing more with those cool ship designs in-game. If not tactical combat maybe something else can be done.

8. Expanded ship designer. More hulls, more jewelry, maybe more components, maybe more design styles. Maybe even expand it so you also use it to design starbases.

9. The ability to blockade a planet. When blockaded you can't buy anything on it and it can't contribute to your research or income (but if it's using up your money it should continue to do so so people aren't encouraged to let money holes be blockaded). As it is now, you can let enemy ships run free in your territory as long as you kill all the troop transports.

10. Also on the ship designer. Give us a place to store basic designs (hulls+jewelry but no actual components) seperate from the ships. That way they are accessible in the ship designer but we won't have to wade through them when picking what ship to build on a specific planet.

11. When ships move over long distances, it would be very nice if they moved closer to a straight line. Also, diagonal movement should cost more then it is.
12. It would be nice if something could be done with some rating 0 planets. Nothing which can be used to base for ship range (that would change the game too much) but something. Perhaps a mining outpost. Perhaps some resources could be on planets instead of free floating in space.

Some form of planetary conquest wherein population are not interchangable with troops, the original population of the planet is not destroyed but rather retains its identity and has to be garrisoned to maintain control. Honestly, the way it is now really kills my enjoyment of the game. Briefly, I see several ways to fix it...

1) Eliminate the troop transports & ground combat (perhaps as a game setup option so those who like it as it is still have it), in favor of a system wherein if you eliminate any defenders at an enemy planet you control it as long as you keep an armed ship in orbit. (a la Stellar Conquest)

2) Troops are something you build, and carry as cargo in troop transports (which don't disappear upon landing). The defender would get a small number of troops proportional to population as "militia". After conquest, you have to keep a minimum garrison proportional to population to avoid an "insurgency" that causes attrition to the garrison. (sorta kinda a la EU/EU2)

3) Troop ships come preloaded with troops (not reducing the planet population), and the ships disappear upon invading. The defender would get a small number of troops proportional to population as "militia". Some structures you can build on a planet increase the ratio of militia to population. (sorta a la MOO2)

4) Like #2 except you design troop units like ships (a la SEIV)