"bump" moves a topic back to the top of the list...unless you were trying to be funny, now you know

i've said it before and i'll say it again: carriers, or at least the option to garrison fighters on large to huge hulls

Flagships, big huge things, like the Enterprise from Star trek, or w/e star wars has.

Each Enterprise (all 6/7 of them) was just of a 'standard' class of ship. The original NCC-1701, for instance, was a classic Constitution-class. The USS Constitution was the first of this class. The NCC-1701-A was a Constitution Refit (also, the original 1701 was refitted before its destruction) - all surviving Constitution-class were upgraded with the same refit. The 1701-B was built of the USS Excelsior's class. The 1701-C was an Ambassador-class (only seen in one episode of Next Generation). The 1701-D was a Galaxy-class. The 1701-E was a Sovereign-class. Each of these ships was just one of a fairly uniform class. The Enterprise did not get any special systems compared to the rest of the fleet, to the best of my knowledge (though a replacement in the series was often among the most advanced classes at the time - such as the B being an Excelsior or the E being a Sovereign) - however, the crew of each most certainly had to be the best Starfleet could offer.

There is, of course, one exception to all this: The NX-01 Enterprise. It was an experimental craft and was the first of its kind.

Now, on the matter of Star Wars...

Darth Vader's Executor, the 'Super Star Destroyer'.. That was the 'lead ship' of its class (much like the USS Constitution for the Constitution-class). Either that, or the Emperor's Eclipse (which measures about 17.5km, according to Wikipedia).

Hyper gate things, you can make 2 and make a worm hole thing. on a gigantic map it would help.

The 'fluff' (Wiki: "A term for anything shallow or superficial. It can be applied derogatively, such as to describe news media; and neutrally, such as to describe the portions of role-playing game books that are not about rules mechanics.") does mention 'Stargates' which were used, before Humans developed Hyperdrive and shared it among the races, to travel between worlds. The Intro even shows one floating in space as it forms an event horizon and a ship flies through. Why they can't still be used even after Hyperdrive, I have no idea. Kinda silly to just leave a nice, convenient network of gates like that behind.

Hell, the Goa'uld don't neglect the Stargates in SG-1, even though they have Hyperdrive. Why should the races in this game do the same?

I have been thinking. Instead of concentrating even more on the combat area why not focus on more diversity of gameplay? For example, add depth to influence. Right now you just throw up multiple influence starbases but in fact you can explore the mechanics behind the influence.

How are you influencing the other races? Do you do business with them? If so, can you reserach into different product lines to sell them your "brand" of products? Can you research into marketing or distribution? If you can out market, out sell, your stuff then you gain extra influence with the target race. Defensively, you can sell your own brand of stuff to your own people to increase their loyalty with you.

The reason why I like Galatic Civ is because of multiple routes to victory rather than fight fight and fight some more. But the other routes can very much use an improvement. I am glad that espionage will be improved in the expansion. I think the next area next in line should be influence. Currently just throwing up multiple influence starbases are both unrealistic and lame.

1. Offical add on packs from Star Trek, Babylon 5, Dr Who, BSG, Star Wars, Star Gate etc released within the first year. I'll pay whatever they want!

2. Planets currently exist on a 2D grid - lets go for the full 3D effect! I want solor systems to be in true 3D so that some Solar systems are above or below each other (as well as the usual front/back/left/right). I'd prefer "battles" to take place by the system "zooming" into the action in this 3d sphere - but thats optional (the current cut scene woudl still be okay).

3. Ability to load/share ship designs in game (without a degree in modding). I don't care what technology it uses (Ajax or whatever) but here's what I want... from the shipyard screen I can click on "view other peoples designs". Without me being aware of it, a connection to the net is made (from within the game), and I get the facility to load other peoples models into my game. Obviously I can narrow down by "componenets available to me", ship speed, ship type, order by popularity, demands on the processor, etc. And I can share any designs I do with others.

4. StarBases - can be designed just like ships can. Can orbit a planet (and have to be taken out first). Can fire on a nearby planet.

5. Sector control - with a starbase and ships you effecitvely "own" that space and can deny entry to other races (or vice versa) - perahps allow only your friends to pass through? If anyone breaks it - or you invade their space - then you risk war.

6. Multiplayer. I don't play mulitplayer games - it sounds expensive and scary! If it doesn't cost anything and I can do it from within the game - then I'd be interested in it.

7. Having to research planet environments before you can colonise them (i.e. Space Empires IV) - but I think that the expansion pack is going to have this?

I also think that 3d for GalCiv3 would be fantastic, very difficult to come up with a user friendly game, but it should be tried for. In the current version of the game it is annoying to see ships weaving their way through other ships and planets when they should just be travelling on a different z axis.

GM12

Is it me or are a lot of these wishlist ideas complete nonsense requiring a completely different kind of game?

Instead of making mods of every possible scifi show or a terribly complicated realistic 3d engine I would rather have Stardock improve on the great stuff they're already doing, balancing it right, adding more depth and new features to the concepts already implemented.

THINGS THAT BLOW UP FRIGGIN PLANETS!!!!!!

Ha. Peanuts to yr wimpy planet destroyer.

I want a sun destroyer!

Yes thats right, I want a weapon that u can fire into the sun that would obliterate the sun and all planets in the solar system in a orgy of destruction.

It would be a an end game weapon, by the time u get it u have won the game anyway so balance and would the AI be able to use it correctly would not really matter.

C'mon Stardock not only would it be fun for the players, but it would look really great in screenshots advertising the game. Probably sell u 10% more copies alone...

Supply lines would be nice

Yeah yeah, I second that, more strategy involved  

I read in a recent interview with someone named Brad from the GalCiv2 team that he didn't think GalCiv 3 would be coming out "this decade" because there is so much room for expansion in GalCiv 2 (the design being so flexible).

So maybe you should be asking for all these neat features in an expansion pack instead hehe, but then again, who knows what the future will bring, perhaps they will decide to develop GalCiv3 a little earlier than they anticipate right now. =-).

Is it me or are a lot of these wishlist ideas complete nonsense requiring a completely different kind of game? Instead of making mods of every possible scifi show or a terribly complicated realistic 3d engine I would rather have Stardock improve on the great stuff they're already doing, balancing it right, adding more depth and new features to the concepts already implemented.

Amen! I think it should be harder to win through military conquest, and have deeper treaty, diplomacy, and espionage options - ambassadors, spies, you know, Babylon 5 stuff!

Scripting.

Add something like Lua to the system for the ultimate in modding. (I'm a coder, and I know this is a big change--that's why I put it in a GC3 thread rather than a DA thread.)

There's no way the developers can do everything the players will want, but with a scripting language and by exposing the right API, someone could mod those things (e.g. carriers, supernova weapons, etc.) (v1m is on his own. )

Personally, I'd like to make a script that could be attached to a colony ship or transport that would automatically move people from planets that are nearly full to planets that have plenty of room for more people.

I'd also like to make a script that could be attached to my "freighter killers" that would automatically hunt down freighters of the races I'm at war with and blow 'em away.

Just my € 0.01 (which is US$ 0.02)

Eric

Large Spiral galaxys and spreads star galaxys keep the grid.
Bring back stars from GalCiv1.
Make large star systems that have planets that rotate 9-12 planets.
Star Systems would work just like movement on map. Even though they
would "open up" in a box on the screen. Number of planets would dictate
grid size for star system. Make Space Combat viewer controllable.
Make Ground Combat viewer controllable. Add multiplayer. Add Bombardment.
Make at least 12-14 races. Fuel Cell Techs. Colonise Enviroment Techs.

Go nutz.

Minimum System Requirements Athlon Tbird 1.2 Ghz 512 RAM G-Force 5200


Recomended System Requirements Athlon 2 Ghz Or Pentium IV 2 Ghz 1536 RAM G-Force 6600