I would by it, directly from Stardock too.

I personally am quite fond of the ship editor and would like some more variation. I also hope that work is put into giving each race their own ship designs. It would be nice to see a few more choices in the custom race menu.

My vote is yes.

And could we get a right wing to match this left wing, also the hard points fixed?

would really depend on what is in there (quantity and quality), but as us guys working on the B5 ships/mod are going to use B5 ships only at one point Iam not all that interested in more art.

what I want are: more race-tags for hulls and ships (S6_, S7_, S8_), racial tech trees or more than 3 ethical alignments and tech trees to go along with them and the GC2 engine to not get all screwed up when you add in X-Files with animations (e.g. the auto scaling on the galaxy map doesnt work anymore).

Would hate to have to have a credit card number for me to purchase this in the U.S.

I've seen this around quite a bit, and I'm rather confused by it, being an American.

Do banks in Europe (or other non-America places) not offer debit cards? You know, bank cards that can act as credit cards (deducting directly from your account rather than a credit account)? Because, ever since this wonderful invention, that's the only mechanism I use to pay for things. Except for my rent check (because aparentments tend not to be terribly high-tech).

I don't know how I could live without my debit card...

As to the substance of the poll, would I pay for a $10 jewelry pack? It depends. Does it involve better jewelry handling? Like main ship resizing. Or selecting which ship models to use as which (what a huge hull is, medium hull, etc)? Even just adding the ability to add XML handling to this, so that modders people can come up with specialized styles of hulls. Right now, the only way to do it is to directly add something into the ship parts, and make it a formal hull, rather than making a new set of hull types that can sit alongside the current choices (Human, Drengin, etc).

Also, if you're going to be expanding that structure list with 100+ pieces of jewelry, you've got to have better handling of it so that we can easily find what we're looking for. I don't bother with jewelry in ship construction, partially because I'm trying to play the game, but also because it's just too hard to find what I'm really looking for. Walking through a straight list of 50+ items just isn't fun, and doing it several dozen times doesn't help. How you adjust the menu, I have no idea. But it needs serious work.

Lastly, I want more structural parts that are like Lego. Something that doesn't really look like much, but can be connected together to form interesting stuff without a specific look to it. With the ability to rotate hardpoints and so forth, it only makes sense to go the whole "lego ship from the ground up" route. And the ability to save such designs as basic hulls (possibly saving them as whole .X file meshes that a mod could incorporate) would also be welcome.

Maybe the code stuff doesn't come out in a jewelry expansion, but as a revision, like 1.3. Either way, it needs to happen before the jewelry expansion is viable.

Whats the point to putting more time into designing cooler looking ships when nobody going to see them in action.

Winners forget they're in a race; they just love to run.

If you're doing it for the adulation of your peers, you're doing it for the wrong reason.

Why should anybody have an issue with an optional cosmetic component that costs a little. If you don't like it or its not a market valuse for you, then don't pay.

Many updates that affect the UI, gameplay mechanics or fixes bugs has been FREE from the stardockies.

There is also a strong case for a major expansion that has to be budgeted for (ie. someone has to pay for the developers). Thats a major gamble on Frogboys part.

But is there is a great set of optional ship design designed by real artists out there, please please let me have it, I would gladly spend the 10 bucks. And anyone who doesn't want to spend the extra money should feel bad, because it is an optional component.

For, Chrissakes Make some money on us, or put up a tip jar so we can keep on having you guys improve this fantastic game.

I voted "Yes" as I would be interested. I probably wouldn't just buy it if it only made a giant laundry list of ship parts / jewlery available however... What I would like to come with it is an upgraded (and if possible, separate) ship designer that would make it easier to use as it can already be a hassle looking through the pages of random bits and parts to find the piece you are looking for. Even if it has all the pieces you can possible want, it would be too much trouble if it takes you an hour to find it.

I voted yes but that yes depends on how much I will get for those 9 dollars.
I would also like to see all the wrong hardpoints fixed in a update. I don't know about the others but Yor have quite a few. Shouldn't take too long time for the art-people to do that.

I've seen this around quite a bit, and I'm rather confused by it, being an American.

I'm seriously confused by this as well, and I live in Sweden.

I've voted YES, esp. if each race had custom parts. Oh and because I can get lazy sometimes, can we have some more 'ready-made' ships!

My real answer is, 'Probably, at some point' Sometimes I feel like really playing around with the ship designer, but sometimes I can't be bothered; especially in the later stages of a large game, it almost becomes like micromanagement. If it were easier to keep designs between games regardless of their names, I would care more about my designs. As it is, I usually delete everything in the ships folders between games.

Plus, as it is, the scrolling list of Extras in the ship designer is too big - I just don't feel like scrolling up and down that long list every time I want a part. If there were just some way to filter or sort that huge list, say by "Most recently used" or "Wings" or "Spherical components" or something, I might be more willing to pay to get a longer list of components.

Also, if you're going to be expanding that structure list with 100+ pieces of jewelry, you've got to have better handling of it so that we can easily find what we're looking for. I don't bother with jewelry in ship construction, partially because I'm trying to play the game, but also because it's just too hard to find what I'm really looking for. Walking through a straight list of 50+ items just isn't fun, and doing it several dozen times doesn't help. How you adjust the menu, I have no idea. But it needs serious work.

One possibility is to have a sub-menu beside the main jewelry menu, that you could drag parts from one list to another list, for your ship building needs. And maybe an external .exe program, so that you can organize what jewelry GCII will load into the game.

I swear.... if you guys make the hardpoints on the ships uniform.... I would pay an extra $2 witht he ship/hull expansion pack......

Yes, absolutely I would pay a measly ten bucks for hulls and jewelry. I find the ship designer to be as much fun as the rest of the game. In fact, I think of this as two games for the price of one!

The same folks who want expansions for free just parrot what the rest of our society has learned--that they are entitled to have others labor for them for FREE. Get off your entitlement high horse people and cough up ten bucks for goodness sake. Support the few companies that cater to turn based strategy gamers.