Please fix the too stingy tech trading system as a result of the nerf patch.

The most important improvements to me are the ones that reduce micromanagement and fix bugs.


1) fix the trader bug that causes the screen to flash around when using the privateer. (best fix is the ai shouldn't attack ships it can't kill)


2) Fix popup screens that are at the beginning of a turn that interrupt each other so you can't deal with one before the next one changes the screen.


3) I want the ability to see the map screen when I am going through the turn screens. I don't recognize planets by name nearly as well as by position, also starbases don't have names, so I have no idea which one it is asking me to upgrade.


4) Allow multiple constructor modules for one ship. Move the ship to the starbase and consume the constructor modules one at a time.


5) I like many of the spy suggestions. I find the current spy system very restricting.


6) Fix the alignment balance problem. Neutral and evil are fixed now, you need to fix good.


7) Universal off switch for the governors on all planets.


8) Be able to pause social improvements on a planet without having to delete the whole queue.


9) Better yet. A screen dedicated to governor options that allows you to tell the governors what you want them to do automatically and what you want them to hold off on. So go to this screen and say upgrade all factories now, but only when I am ready. I would like to have sophisticated options for governing planets without having to go to every one and do this or that. I like the suggestions of being able to create governor plans and assigning a plan to each planet. Then, when I make a change to the global plan it affects all planets the plan has been assigned. I would like to be able to assign plans in the screen that already exists in the game that lists all the planets in a big table. (I don't know it's name) This would allow me to have half my planets in the "production 1" plan and the other half in the "production 2" plan and upgrade the factories in "production 1" and after that mostly finishes, tell it to upgrade the factories in "production 2" so I don't bankrupt myself when I research factories. And hey, as long as I'm dreaming, allow scripts. for example:


if population<18b and approval==100 upgrade farms;
if approval<75 build entertainment(best avail)


(yeah, I'm really dreaming )


10) When a ship is launched from orbit, it should come out selected. (Not sure if this is due to my selections in the options screen. I hate it when after I move a ship the computer moves to the other side of the map to select a ship that it considers the "next" one, so I disabled several settings that looked like they could affect that.)


11) When putting tiles on planets, auto select only tiles that don't have bonuses on them first. It is frustrating to be putting a string of factories or banks on by double clicking, and it select an inappropriate bonus, and I have to switch gears ... again and again.

I wouldn't mind seeing the odd permanent wormhole in the game. I think it might add some interesting strategies.

An option to have the AI play all races for N rounds (selectable) at the start of a new universe. Sort of a random set it up and go make a sandwich accelerated start that works for all races instead of just human.

There are a lot of good ideas about sensors here, but one problem I haven't seen mentioned: Why on earth does ship sensor range stack? In real life, it's not like putting a whole bunch of short-range radars in one place somehow turns them into a single thing with enormous range!

I only just realized that sensors actually work this way in the game, and if I understand it correctly, you could just cram as many sensors of whatever tech level on a cargo ship hull to get much, much greater range than any of your planets could. It's both unrealistic and doesn't fit with other techs in the game.

Yep. Should be a one-per-ship item, and so should life support. It would make researching these techs more valuable.

actually, you're perfectly wrong. some of the most powerful radio telescope arrays are just that: arrays, composed of dozens of much smaller radio antennae. the most powerful optical telescops also work similarly: multiple hexagonal mirrors arranged in such as way as to make them act as a single larger mirror. the advantage of multiple smaller reflectors is that they can be adjusted and fine-tuned independantly, providng a much clearer picture.

but those are passive sensors. an active sensor, such as radar, would need a more powerful transmission (radio wave emitter) as well as more powerful/numerous receivers. but bottom line: it's a game, and it's kept simple for specific reasons.

Nationalities would be a good idea. And ditching the 10 ship limit of orbit.

And sometimes the amounts are, like, 10 Bc! I was actually thinking at first that it might mean "10 Bc PER TURN, FOREVER" or something - else why would the game bother?

I read through most of this like CornHuskerMac. I also dislike most of these ideas.

I would like to vote for Wyndstar's ideas in his/her first reply. They seem pretty popular here anyway. Another vote couldn't hurt though, right? Most of the rest of these ideas would rebalance the entire game, into something worse than it is now.

Do you realise that you've just contradicted yourself, sort of? He is perfectly wrong, but active sensors need more powerful transmitters (higher tech level of sorts, since you can't have a bigger sensor array at the same tech level)...
The "it's a game, KISS" justification also doesn't apply, since what was suggested wouldn't hurt or complicate the game. On the contrary, it's only logical and intuitive. That *that* is against the game's philosophy, that's another issue.
As for the passive sensors, it's you who is wrong. Multiple mirrors are still *one* telescope, an array of antennae is still *one* array, one that can sweep a larger chunk of space, but not necessarily "look" further into space.
But I guess you know all this   

Hi, I love this game and I have a suggestion to make it better.

Ok, I have read that the main map is "too empty" and I agree with that up to a point. But, my idea to improve the game does not necessarily help this commonly made comment.

It does, however, address the main map.

I think that it is too cluttered with ships. If they are just laying around waiting, or on sentry or whatever, there has to be a better position for them. SO this is my idea.

The sectors need to be reworked. There needs to be an additional map screen that focuses on the sectors. Why? Well, you would be able to place ships on sector patrol and they would disappear from the main screen. They would be invisible on the normal map... that is, until an enemy ship or neutral ship entered their sector. See, the ships would be patrolling the sector.

You could put ships that you didn t need on the front line or wherever into these patrol sectors where they would be off the main screen, out of the way, but they would still be around, waiting and "patrolling" the sector (or sectors)that you allocated them to patrol.

If something entered the zone, and their sensors picked it up, then a popup would alert the player that the ship had discovered something unusual.

A new submenu that is a modified galactic map would show you which sectors had patrol ships and would allow the player to add or remove ships as well as change their orders or sector (s) to patrol. Also, these ships could possibly defend trade routes as a part of their order.

Ok, my other idea is to allow ships to orbit space stations. Why not? They are huge fortifications and could certainly be better defended with ships. At least the military one deserves this option.

So what do you think?