Thought to start bit discussion about the latests version.

It seems really solid and I have not discovered any glaring bugs. Sure the turn button does not turn green but thats hardly a game stopper. What I would like to bring up are couple things that have really started to catch my eye, during the development of this game.

1. Many times mentioned, but the Auto Exploring feature is bad. I built 3 scouts in my first 1.3 game and set em on auto explore. What do they do? All three ships go straight into the very same grid in the same direction. And this goes on throught the whole game, its so bad that it aint funny anymore. Iam no coder but could it not be changed so, that the auto exploring ships would atleast take different directions from each other?

2. Tech trading. It has been mentioned that AI does not threat human player any differently but somethings bit fishy here. If I do not iniate a diplomacy with AI and trade tech, they sure won´t in early game. At this point AI has basicly traded all techs between AI:s and nothing with me. It just seems weird, in middle game around medium hulls, Torians traded one tech with me and thats it.

3. Diagonal scrolling is a big improvement, but why is the screen edge scrolling so slow even with 100% speed? Its hardly any use as it is.

4. It should be possible to select a ship in orbit and access its details. Bit frustrating to have launch your ship to get into details screen and upgrade a ship.

5. Still sometimes even if a planet has rally point set, the leaving ships stay next to the planet and do not move.

6. When selecting a fleet from a grid that has multiple fleets the system is not generally sound. Lets say you have two fleets and both are selected. Now unselect one of the fleets and the system shows you the unselected fleets stats. Now should it not show the remaining Selected fleets statistics?

7. Ship Yard component listing is not very constant/logical. The way the system handles new better technologies is just bad. I assume that all components are organized by their names which leads to very confusing situations. Generally the components should be shown in the list so that the best tech/component would be ALWAYS on top of the list, not in the middle or bottom.

These are mostly old issues, but just wanted to bring them up one more time. I did not want to bring up the star base upgrading or diplomacy issues, since it has been confirmed that they will be improved in DA.

AI certainly is better once more and the new game balance tweaks seem to be working ok. I hope people can bring up their "issues" with the game and hopefully they get fixed in DA expansion. Try to keep the posts about gameplay/UI issues and not as "I want cloacking devices" kinda feature requests

I must commend frogboy from hes AI enchantments bit more, now that I have played couple hours of 1.3 . This is actually the first time when AI has sended forces to intercept my incoming fleets even if we were not in war yet. And they also striked at my undefended troop ships that followed the main fleet. Great stuff