I love the idea of race "flaws". That would really add flavour to the game. For more points, a race could have a flaw, like they are unable to use medium hulls, or their life support capabilities are drastically reduced. great idea!

I would like it if the Torians had a soldiering flaw, but they reproduce like roaches. The torians should have some type of farm/morale bonus, because once you hit the pop cap, that reproducer ability doesn't do jack...unlesss it's your transport capital of your empire, which case the super breeder would be lethal. Shove out the transports and the planet is fully pop caped a couple of turns later.

Another idea, if you didn't genocide every race, you could use that races bonuses; for soldiering at least. Lets say the torians conquer the drengin and the arceans. They could load up the transports up with all three races. The use of this would be having heavy, medium, and light races that are good at soldiering. The heavier ones have a low birth rate to counteract their ghastly soldiering ability(like the dreadlords) and the mediums and light are self explanitory.



Like the Bentusi from the Homeworld games!

I know these are mnor annoyances but...

Rename the Super Dominator trait to Colonial Militia, because thats all those corvettes really represent.

Rename Galactic Privateer to Galactic Convoys, since it is all about keeping convoys safe. A true privateer wonder would reduce your enemy's trade and give you a cut of that reduction as privateers are actually licensed 'pirates'

Same thing I've wanted since the beginning. (And the only reason I've owned the game for 6 months and still can't play)
A BETTER TUTORIAL! The videos... those are irritating and dry. In-game tutorial is the way to go. I'll beg if I have to.

I've noticed that when I move ships, I'll move one ship and then another unmoved ship will automatically be selected. That's good. But then sometimes I'll move one ship, then go mess around on a planet...then I have no idea what other ships I haven't moved this turn. So how about a button that's "Select Next Unmoved Ship"?

How about that galactic wonder that says it increases influence 25% yet actually increases diplomacy? Just little annoying bugs and typos like that being adressed would give the game a more clean feel.

Hello;

1 - More mega events/ rebalance. Also, allow for some rudimentary enabling/disabling of specific events that modders can fool with. Lastly, some of the events don't seem that mega. Normal events, like the PQ explosion are more mega than the unlimited range, for example.

2 - Fix diplomacy. Currently, while difficult, the AI doesn't seem too rational. I can understand if an AI values a tech in its eyes and wants a leg and an arm for it, but for more legit deals, it doesn't seem to make sense.

3 - Fix espionage. Simplest solution - Dring back the DL espionage in addition to the Agent system. 2 sliders - one for gathing info (DL style), one for the agents (DA style)

4 - Starbase constructor management. Probably a "Starbase" screen that would let players que the orders that starbases construct.

Thanks for asking for our input. It is a great game overall, and the following suggestions are meant to maximize enjoyment of playing the game, rather than to be taken as a negative assessment of the existing game. Well except for this first one.

* Please Please Please fix the save game bug that does not allow the loading of certain saved games, esopecially autosaves, at a certain point. I have yet to finish a new gaem started in 1.5 because of this.


1) An active perimeter defense option for militar starbases that would allow them to attack any enemy ship that came within range (this wold necessitate that the enemy ship be able to defends itself and fire back from up to 8 squares away for fairness in this case which might be difficult to impliment). Perhaps a specific set of upgraded long range attack modules that would do the same thingbut at a much lower damage rate, the AI doesnt get to fire back and is subject to one round of low damage per turn spent in the starbases' radius.

2) Trading weight revalued. You've heard all the arguments for this in other posts so I wont go into detail, suffice to say currently the AI values certain techs far to highly (iewont trade one colonization tech in exchange for 3 in return) under 1.5X but planets and treaties are valued far too low (ie 2 class 13 planets gets an AI offer of 267bc) for realisim.

2b) AI planet valuation should take into account proximity to Empire. I have seen the AI, on occasion, not sell, at any price, a mid PQ world on my doorstep, about to be won over with influence, that was SEVERAL sectors away from its next nearest planet.

3) Not every AI planet should have a starport, some AI worlds class 3 have the colony center, a starport and a farm... which I suppose is indicative of a larger AI building priority assessment problem where it doesnt tailor planet's build cues to the individual circumstances of each planet.

4) Allow AI players to colonize class one planets

5) Have planet class reflect the END value of all terraformed squares, not the current value. It is hard to plan strategy for empire building ifI have to wait untill all my planets are upgrades fully before I see which ones are goign to be PQ 8 and which ones are going to be PQ 18.

6) Allow users to delete core templates and have such deletions only apply to what is visible on their ship template/build screens (so the corresponding AI player still has those templates to choose from but the player does have to obsolete all those designs everytime a new tech is researched)

7) Improved AI ship component utilization. Mostly for speed/sensors. The AI does not tend to maximize the potential of engines and sensors, to the point of not even researching the technology. It is common to see late game AI ships with a speed of 7 and the standard sensor range, while I, having researching most of the miniaturization techs, which they also don't make a high priority, are able to have twice/3x the speed and double sensor range with the same attack/defense values.

8) Borders should be invioable, if a peace treaty exists between species, except for trading freighters.

8b) Don't make peace treaty automatic upon first contact. A peace treaty should be somethign you ahve to research/earn, rather than automatic. Statuts after first contact would be neither at war nor at peace. Exchanging peace treaties would improve relations but bar you from entering their space to explore anomalies/get resources, etc.

) Your borders, area of influence, should start off much smaller than they currently do, one sector, max. They should grow with time. If we JUST got hyperdive, and haven't explored ANYthing, how can my area of influence extend to a place I haven't even been yet.

9) Galaxy map/explored area should be tradeable.

10) A map editor, preferably accessable in game, should be implimented post haste. I am a big fan of self-customization, and feel such a tool is invaluable for longevity of game enjoyment.

11) Institute a selectable 'repair' command for ship with the toggle on the ship info screen next to guard, sentry, and the like.

12) ALL improvements should destructable, including superprojects and galactic achivements, and subsequently able to be rebuilt elsewhere.

12b) Certain improvement effects should be altered. Ie, the glactic resort should apply either A) empire-wide, or be much higher bonus for the planet. Harmony crystals, ultra spices, frictionless clothing, and VR modules should increase in cost, and benefit from first available to last. Ie Harmony crystals should cost (for illustration purposes) 100 and give a 10% boost to morale (as they are the first available morale tradegood) while VR modules should cost 1000 can give a 40% boost to morale (as they are the last available morale trade good).

13) Graphics should be scaled in the 'Stats and Graphs' section of the Civilization Manager to allow for a viewing of all the stats at once, rather than going back and forth with the slider to view military, then technology, for each race compared to you.

14) If allied with AI A and at war with AI B, should be able to ask AI A to send ships to specific sector, or attack specific planet of AI B.

15) Economic Tile Bonus, as suggested by others, seems only fitting as there are concurrent bonus tiles for every other improvemetn type.

16) Multiple 'special' module ship placement. Thus a constructor (with 2-3 construcotr modules) would be good for 2 or three improvements, or a miner (with 2 mining modules) would be be doubly efficient, or a trader (with 2 trading modules)doubly profitable.

17) Have computer conduct all automoves to destination at same time, rather than individually one by one. In mid-late game I have 10-20 starports churning out ships to rally points every turn, and it takes forever for the computer to cycle through each move before my 'turn' is over.

18) Planet invasion,, if successful, should not kill 100% of the enemy's population of that planet (maybe 60-80%). Not only is every citizen of a planet not a soldier, but at a certain point of combat losses nearly every enemy surrenders.


19) Great idea, copied from previous post:
Maybe make PQ 0 planets something more than just space takers (I don't say that they should all serve a purpose and yes some should just be there to take up space but I believe there could be some use to them, possibly blow them up to reveal a resource or investigate certain planets to uncover bonuses)

20) Great idea, copied from previous post:
Instead of the UP deciding on their problems at random or letting some more influential civ choose for them there should instead be a sort of raffle that lets the winning civ choose from certain categories (so it helps to have influence but it won't guarantee you anything)

21) A MUST HAVE, copied from previous post:
An option to distribute races evenly across the galaxy (or, like star distribution, a bunch of settings: exact symmetrical distribution, loose distribution, random distribution).

22) The Jagged Knife event should only take planets with less than a certain approval rating, and then perhaps only a percentage thereof.

link political parties to % breakdown of spend - move outside the spend = morale problems, loss of election, new party, with new spend % ie the politics changes to the way you are playing (no penalties in losing the election, just the penalty of having to play with the new spend criteria)

examining spreadsheet increases vs build increases - what i mean is that if you research the life support techs you get an increase in range without having to build life support on any of your ships. on another note, how *can* a ship leave orbit with *no* life support or engine. just enacting this simple rule, would make orbital ships have more firepower, all things being equal, than an interstellar ship. a new strategy. another idea would be to make sensors fair more potent - you can't see unless you build them - on planets they can detect special tiles, or tiles that can terraform.

make the asteroid mines the economic starbases, and merge the trade and influence and military starbases with a view to limiting starbase numbers, but introducing multi-racial starbases (yep, whoever owns the most modules on a starbase is the current owner and reaps the rewards, controls who can join the starbase) and introduce starbase logistics that increases the module limit with research. babylon 5?

make ethics more interesting - have everyone on undeclared/neutral ethics until xeno declares it. have more *tempting* random events that shape your ethics before xeno ethics is researched, so that your choices do have an affect. Have relationships *change* once ethics is declared. shall i declare my ethics, shall i not....?

For UP, have events feed in from the game, say from 'unethical behaviours' eg Destruction of a colony, or, use of weapons of mass destruction in invasion (in fact, planetary invasion strats should have some ethical branding). The UP could then say something like, The Altarian Resistance's destruction of Planet Skowbow 2 has led to demands for economic sanctions - what shall we cut their trade routes down too? etc etc

have universal food, so that 300% tiles can be useful, and an agricultural planet can feed the empire - gives an empire new strengths/weaknesses

get new anomolies happening off battles as previously discussed, so that scavenger cultures can pick up techs etc. or indeed random events such as exploding comet/planet

generally make races more distinct? seperate tech lines? random tech lines?

for people like me with crappy computers and a lack of ship design micromanagement skills, have the choice to collapse the weapon/defence branches down to the basic model only (ie laser, plasma etc), so that ship design is less cluttered. that way i can also hit the Make CPU Use More Grunt For AI without getting the AI bogged down in ship redesign for every iteration of weapon. makes hull size and miniaturization more important.

perhaps have superior hull design, reinforced hull design tech etc make the hulls stronger in HP prior to armor cladding? researching new metals can add to this? perhaps you could dispense with armor altogether? i know, i iz getting too radical

i'm sure there's more.......



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merge galactic resources with non-expanding minor races, so that an exclusive alliance with this race gives you the galactic wide %bonus. this makes this exclusive alliance a tradeable commodity/flashpoint for war. also if a major race invades and destroys the minor race, the galactic resource is lost. shall i gain a planet or gain a resource?

Add the ability to select a bunch of planets (by location or product) and choose the group point. Constructors go here, warships in the Tora system hold off the drengin, warships from earth goto stop the thalans.ECT. Its realy had to route fleets in general.

Non-Party merchants, privateers. and space stations (lev 0 planets?) .
. Merchants goto a new planet each round
. Stations provide tax to the owner of the space influance
. Privateers (kill pirates)
(maybe non-party worlds become pirate worlds in war or non-influance areas?)

Make Millitary starbases differant. They take too long to get up. cost way too much. and are outdated too offten. Maybe make DEF upgrade with technology. Maybe if they can move(deconstruct, reconstruct). Maybe if they attached to astroids and become super production factorys for small/tiny ships.

Wormhole Station / Resource. Find the resource. Build it. and now you can jump to its matching set.

space terrain with sensor fog, + Damage (type) bonus or slow/fast movement bonus

The ability to "suggest" who takes damage in fleet battles (well its the defender ship with +80 armor).
Space terrain... nebulas w+Damage and sensor fog,