All,

I've got a few suggestions for you. I'm not sure if they have been suggested before, forgive me for not having read the entire forum.

First up, a bug report:

I was playing as the Altarians the other day in an immense galaxy. I got the report that the Dominion of Korx had just completed the Beyond Enlightenment technology, and they were about to win the game.

Now, being in the endgame, with the largest population, highest overall tech level, and largest economy, I cranked up my massive empire of 87 colonies into technology mode. This lead to me actually completing the Technology Victory first.

I got the message that the technology was complete, and....nothing. Normal game continued. I checked the "victory" section of the UI and found that I was indeed at 100% technology victory. So...I clicked the turn button, and got the "you lose" screen, and the Korx won.

Seems that the technology victory may be bugged. I think it might have to do with if someone is researching the Tech Victory, another person cannot win, if it's being researched by someone else. Just a thought.

In my game, though I noticed a number of things that were frustrating when trying to manage a large empire of 87 colonies, so I have a few suggestions:

1. The ability to select multiple colonies in the Colony Management List. Having to do things one colony at a time is very tedious. Sometimes, I want to be able to set my top ten producing colonies to build assault cruisers.

2. The ability to select a row in the colony screen and be able to set them all to the same thing. For example, say I want to have all my colonies maximize their research in order to complete the Plague Cure Tech.

3. In the management UI for the individual colonies, in the "build order" list there needs to be a "move to top" and "move to bottom" arrow. So when I conquer an enemy colony, and there's 5 things that are a great idea to build, I'd like them to have an Advanced factory, I can build one on a new tile, and click "move to top" and be done with it.

4. In the same screen, could we have a max population slider? So when your farm technology jumps, and you have a farm on a golden tile for food, you can control the amount of population? Having a colony go from 18 billion to 38 or something is often unintended. And rarely can you support enough happiness buildings to make it work. This may be a game balancing issue. I've had to destroy farms because the planet could support too many people.

5. Speaking of tiles, how come there is no economy tile? Like a building that double the effect of an economy building? Say a massive discovered mine of Unobtanium-186? Are there 300% happiness tiles? Or 700% influence tiles? I'd personally like to see an increased variety of those tiles, I think they really add to the game, making different planets coveted and tempting targets adds something to the game.

6. Also on the subject of sliders, could we get a slider in the game setup screen that allows you to control the variety of bonus tiles in the game? So if you want to play in a game where the bonus tiles are more common, you can?

Also, I'd like to let you guys at Stardock know how much I'm enjoying the game. You guys are doing a great job, please keep up the good work.

Thanks
Ishantil