Hello there,

I'd like to have the ability within the game to launch false flag attacks in order to influence other races against other races, and my own race against ones I want to wage war against so as not to have political opposition and loss of influence.

G W Magpie6

set a maximum number (or make them expensive, cause it should be), but improve their power! (hp/attack/defense)

Fewer but harder.

Super manipulators is 1.
Bribe them in the dimplomacy screen is 2.Thats it

First, it would be great if you could scroll with the mouse wheel on the GNN Breaking News weekly news thing.

Second...The way you get "Planet has rebelled and decided to join your empire" messages has always bothered me. The way they yank you out of what you're doing and force you onto another screen...especially if you get two or three in one turn, you can lose track of all the planets. And given that when a planet rebels, you usually want to modify its build queues, this is a problem! (I like playing games where I build influence, so I get a lot of these events.)

I don't know what the solution is. However, there is one thing that I think would REALLY help: Put planet rebellion notices in GNN Breaking News, and put the events in the event queues on the right side of the screen (along with ship completed and improvement completed). Color them, I don't know, purple or something, so they stand out from the blue ship events and green planet events. If you do these two things, it'll make it much easier to keep track and make sure I've at least taken a look at every planet that comes under my control. You can even keep the notifications that yank you onto the planet, as long as I have a way to get back to them and make sure I've taken care of them all.

*Taxes* are not used to pay for food    So what you mean is that the younger pop (those who don't pay taxes) don't get to eat. How can a planet sustain a pop growth rate with that philosophy?!   

My Ideas:

1. The ability to move your capital around whenever you please, after all what self respecting warlord would want to use a level 14 planet way out in the boondocks when he had a perfectly good level 26 planet right in the center of the map at his disposal.

2. More diplomacy, like kicking all other ships out of your space.

3. The ability to rename stars, after all you are you are the boss.

3. More invasion tactics, like maby cyborg soldiers, disembodied brains in boxes, inside massive haevily armed bodies so they cold just lay waste to your enemies troops.

4. Boarding Actions, allow ships with troop modules to attempt to sieze enemy vessals/

But then it won't be your *home*world anymore, right?
This is just a personal opinion, but I can't understand why there are planets with PQ so much higher than the average HW. If you think about it, the HW is where the native species adapted to for millions of years. Take the example of earth. Granted that ~2/3 of the planet's surface is covered by water, but would the habitability of the planet be that much higher if it wasn't? Probably much to the contrary. The oceans are used for a bunch of vital stuff, including energy production and resource extraction. If we look at other "rock" planets in our solar system they're either frozen solid or extremely vulcanic or mountainous.

All this to say that HWs should IMO be the best PQ planets around, not a mediocre average - as far as the PQ scale goes. A Gaia-type planet once in a while? Sure, but very rarely.

Bigger in size and not in mass would require a lower density, and within our solar system planet density (for rocky planets) is quite constant. Lower density means gas giants. So does much much larger diameters generally. Even much larger surface areas doesn't automatically mean much larger usable space, as the unusable areas (like earth's poles for example) also become larger.

Anyways, checking the ingame representation of planets and their diameters...

Lots of great suggestions. Hope you're able to make some of them come true.

One request I have is:

- Allow hard point indicator arrows to have a specified colour. I want my ships to be red. The arrows by deafult are red. If I make my ships red, I can no longer see hard points to allow for any customization.

This is mainly because I am a fan of the red ship.

As former moo3 player, I also have to say, this comes closest yet to the huge (and completely unrealized) scope of that game.

Thanks.

take care of the death pirates from nowhere random event.

okay, here's a useful small mod. The tech tree is a bit too wide for me. It takes me forever to get to useful technologies (particularly terraforming techs) while trying to keep up with the Jones' next door military-wise. There are so many military techs (and techs in general) that even at 1-2 turns per tech, I can spend forever on military techs alone. So, what would be nice would be to mod the tech research screen so that you (and maybe even the AI players) can research multiple techs at the same time, and manually assign percentages to each tech (or press an "Equivalent precentages" button if they don't particularly care which is most important). For fractional remainders of points, and for purposes of research bonuses from anomalies, one of the techs has to be considered the "primary" tech. All the anomaly bonuses and remainder points would go to the primary tech. For example, researching 5 techs equally would be 20% apiece, a nice round number. Researching 3 techs equally is 33% * 3 = 99%, with the extra 1% going to the primary tech. Researching 6 techs, you can manually assign 15/15/15/15/15/25% (but assign the first 15% tech as the primary - it's the same as putting your best and brightest scientists on the first project). Tweaking the AI to use it would be a bit more difficult, but it'd be great for players who like balanced advancement - you don't have to put the brakes on long-term tech projects like terraforming just because you need the latest missile tech. I wouldn't advocate putting a limit on the number of simultaneously researched techs - if people want to handicap themselves by researching everything at once, then please, by all means do so. Gaining techs 2 or three at a time is much better than 6 or 7 at a time because you reap the benefits faster (and put them to use immediately). Hope this mod makes the cut...I went looking for mod documents, but what I found made this project seem like an engine mod rather than an application mod. Thanks, guys. Great game - keep it up

Change the timing of diplomatic conversations so they dont happen in the middle of the auto information at the beginning of your turn.

More race uniqueness, unique weapons, ships, planatary improvements, technology. and of course all that has to be stealable.

fix the auto mining its useless and dumb as is.

stop my neighbours attempted band.

More icons , ship parts, races, superabilities.

Balance tweaks so evil is as feasible as neutrol or good. all super abilities should be equal.

Change spies cost so they are more plentiful,allow spies to help in ground invasions.

Missle/suicide attackers. units that deal damage to buildings or population or troops or other units at the cost of themselves.

Fix the fog of war bug, make even larger maps then gigantic, allow mny more races.

have the AI fight itself more the universe is way to peaceful right now.

assign alternate colours to races so the blue terrans and the blue custom race dont look identical accept for ship design. I mean let the player choose thier colour and then have every opposing race have a colour assigned to them based on where they joined the game. (race in slot one is blue slot two red slot three yellow etc etc)

have more force in negotiations, Do "this" or "this" (ex: give tech or else war, give planet or else tech for tech, give ship or else leave territory)

have technology improve your standing in the UP so that at higher knowledge and power you can enact different laws or repeal them.

leaving the UP shouldnt cancel trade instead it should cancel all treaties including trade. but new trade can be made >although more difficult since the UP should somehow encourage foreign trade.