The Gaia Vortex gives a bonus to the Planet Quality ability (+10% is about 1 tile'ish), which hasn't ever worked for planets you already colonized.

However, it also seems to be intended to give 10 tiles to the planet it is built on... but it uses "PlanetQualityBonus" (something that is only used by the Terraforming improvements...) instead of "PlanetQualityChange" like Weather Control and such do.

Speaking of that PlanetQualityChange thing... I really wish that it wouldn't be removed if an agent was placed on a building that gives it (but the other features of said building would). There is potential in that ability to make things like faux-global bonuses of things you couldn't otherwise make global bonuses for. Or global bonuses that have to be established first on each world first, much like Soil Enhancement and the other terraforming improvements work.

For instance, put a PlanetQualityChange bonus of 1 on a planetary improvement that gives +10% Planetary Defense, make a tech to give it... and, there you go! You effectively have made a tech that gives a +10% bonus to Planetary Defense to all planets you control without taking up any planetary tiles (at least after the improvement is built, anyway). Sure, it has a side effect of increasing morale slightly, but *shrugs*

The problem with doing this, though, is that, you can't let these buildings be disabled either... otherwise, that planet-quality change will also disappear. I'm only guessing this is the case, but since all the PlanetQualityChange buildings also can't have agents placed on them... it's a reasonable assumption.

We're getting the cart before the horse here guys. Lets let the whining about being cut off from the editors for AFTER it happens. Unless we want to continue to speculate issues in the future akin to card overcharges, hard drive reformatting....etc

Chicken Little, your move.

WOW! Anybody heard of the term 'A storm in a tea cup'?

OK the terminology used by Draginol could have been better and yes i agree that to some point even i was offended by the way the original post was written, but knowing Brad for a few years here in the forums i doubt very much that he intended to offend any of us and i for one can read between the lines and see the devs are worried about the editors getting out before the game is released. Yes, we all know eventually the game and its editors are going to find their way onto various torrent sites but i guess Brad was voicing his hopes (not very well in this case) that they would not appear before the game goes gold.

So please everyone here don't forget how much time and effort the entire Stardock team and brad personally (you guys remember he even works on this on Sundays from home!) has put and continues to put into this expansion. I guess remembering that, we can all cut him some slack and get on with supporting the team and get back to playing this great game!

Please no more negative comments.. Lets have a few positive ones eh?

Thank you fellow gamers and thanks again to Brad and the team

You aren't ENTITLED to anything except a product on release date. From most companies that is what you would get. Stardock is ALLOWING us to help in the beta-process because it helps them make a better game. But no..you aren't entitled to anything before the release date.

I doubt I'll see a rational argument against what is said here.

When they announced pre-orders, it was just a $5 discount if you pre-ordered....nothing else. Later on they said "hey guys that pre-ordered, you'll get to play with the Beta!!!" I was in it to shave $5 off the price of the game and got the bonus of being able to play the new content earlier than expected.

They are probably finishing up the patch instead of following a what will turn out to be something that happened by a misunderstanding. Patience, people, patience...

Customm races being enabled would be cool I am still hoping that the proposed overhaul of the minor races that Frogboy mentioned when TA was first announced is still going to happen..

AI improvement! Gotta love em eh?

I'm intrigued by Brad's comment that the AI improvements are not just intended to make the game harder (by making the AI play smarter) but also to make the game more fun. Having an AI that responds more specifically to what's going on in the game would be very cool, as would having an AI that injects more of its particular race's personality into its dealings.

I've been offered an alliance, I think twice. Not sure what caused it. Sandbox game.

As per 1), you forgot the minors. But I get the idea.

Yeah, I'd also like to see a larger penalty for breaking an alliance. Perhaps a massive Morale hit to your population which takes a long time to wear off? Or perhaps make it a permanent Morale hit, to represent that citizens have woken up to the fact that they're being led by a jerk?

You could also rationalize reductions in Loyalty and Diplomacy, and to a lesser degree Economy, Production and Research (citizens are less motivated after realizing their leader is an arse ).

Yes, I realize that breaking an Alliance can be a step towards ultimate victory, which is theoretically in your citizens' best interests too, but there does need to be a major penalty for doing so. I'd be all for a permanent reduction in any or all of the above abilities.

Another possibility: breaking an Alliance could result in some of your planets rebelling against you and joining the race with whom you broke the alliance. After all, if your two races were friendly enough to make the Alliance in the first place, it would make sense that some of your citizens would be upset with you for breaking off relations, and they may decide to join their friends, instead of sticking with their kin.

I hope that multiplayer Play-By-E-Mail will be just available... I want to play with this game with my friends, but they don't want to purchase it because available versions didn't have this mode...

And I hope that massive packet will be used to destroy armoured enemy planet!!!

Regards
And

This is a singleplayer only game and will remain so.