-The missions system needs a complete overhaul. Implement a new system where the AI requests reasonable things from the player that are both (a) feasible for the player to actually perform and ( and are relevant to the AI's goals.

- Improve the diplomacy system in general. Basically I'm thinking GalCivII's excellent diplomacy model, but in a way that suits Sins.

- Expand on neutral systems. Make them more than just trash that slighty hinder's expansion and is easy levels for your capital ship. Make them their own independent entities that are actually established on that planet, and aren't just a collection of ships. The neutral systems should be able to be traded with and the players should be able to make use of their resources (economic, military or scientific) through various deals (such as protection or financial provisions).

- Some sort of espionage system would be ok I guess, but that sort of thing is harder to implement in a reasonably fast-paced RTS 4X game (compared to a slower pace grand-strategy RTS game like Hearts of Iron or a TBS like GalCivII).

Hmm, for 10.00$ huh.  Well, for ten bucks I love the main two additions of Entrenchment......Starbases and mines.  I know there was much more added than that, but those two additions are why I felt it was worth the money.

So what would I like to see for another 10 spot?  1) additional VICTORY CONDITIONS: cultural/alliance/ascension, whatever.  2) campaigne editor: by campaigne, I mean you could link 2-3 or more maps together that have certain victory conditions that must be achieved in order to move to the next map,,,could add story line and such to enhance the experience.  You would choose the campaigne name in the maps list which would contain the 2-3 or more maps.

Now, this would be dependent upon the obvious overhaul/re-working of the non-existent diplomacy feature of the game because with diplomacy improvements, I am hoping that victory conditions beyond simple "kill everything" will come into existence. Therefore.......

1) Improve diplomacy to reflect greater depth and more victory conditions.  i.e. Economic Victory/Military Victory/ Cultural Victory/....2/3rds alliance Victory/ Controll # of Planets Victory, etc.

2) Campaigne Editor: As I mentioned in a different post a campaigne would be nice but I'd prefer to have an editor to be able to link maps together.  Players could then make campaignes and trade and share them just as we "wish" we could with maps. (Or at least, wish we could have a place that was conveient to trade maps/campaignes)

3) This has been said but bears the need to be stated once again:  More Planet types please!!!!!!!  How can this possibly get over looked again?  I hope it does not.  There should be more planet types.  It is after all an infinite universe, game wise anyway.  I love the extra planet types from Solar mod,,, or Sins +  ...and to be clear.....I only play mods that have the extra planets.  I no longer play Vanila sins or Entrenchment without them.  Especially since some mods have working pulsars and black holes, it is easy to see how much more fun these additions would be.  Or for that matter just look at the moons that orbit the gas giant in ,,,I think it is solar mod..... awesom MOON addition there.

4)Another playable race would be an awesom addition particularly if they were brought in through a diplomatic method...perhaps story wise as some opposite of the Vasari that now wishes to make itself known and ally against their evil enemy.

5)Last but not least, PIRATES......just makem a worthy oppponent that "also" can build and take over planets if the option is checked for them to do so.

But, as I stated previously: For 10 bucks, I would just love to see #1 and #2 on my list in the next expansion. 

Thanks for asking,

                                Valkajin

Individual unit promotions, a simple 4 rank system would work; I just think it’s a little weird for my light frigate that has been in every single battle to not have some veteran abilities as he makes his towards the final battle. Just a simple base stat increase would work, yes it has been done by other games, but it’s a very simple and effective way to make your armies who survive battles stronger.

Here is a good list of possible planet types

http://www.onewest.net/~dollan/ARCpclindex.html

Well, the new militias would already slow the game down, i am affraid add hp to planets would make it unbearably slow for MP and kill rush.

By the way, i love what you said about Rise Of legends. I am a great fan of Rise Of Nations and i think SOASE should steal a few ideas from the Rise Of brand. They are the only successful attempt to mix RST and 4x i ever know with SOASE.

absolutely. two quite fine games, different in their ways, but very cool blands of rts and tbs.sins could borrow some of their stuff or sure. I hope they make some type of sequel some day. with big huge not sold the chances are still alive.

Well I wanted some sort of frigate that helps look for artifacts and is not attacked by militia.  Like a diplomatic misison

I have other ideas about pirates, is that for this expansion?  I would love for pirates to have cap ships.  And abiltiy for us to purchase a cap ship, liek a neutral hero in WC3.  Also ability to purchase some limited amount of pirate frigates from new locatiosn which would be mini pirate bases?  Or just regular roids with a pirate frigate factory.

Maybe you can buy a location of artifacts from pirates.  But it would be any location, so it's not guranteed to be in your territory. This would give you valuable targets to aim and secure.  Planets that you know are worth taking.

Maybe add neutral buildigns around planets that would either have to be purchased.  Like a frigate factory that would cost money in order to get to your side, but it wouldn't take up your logistics, so it would be sorta like free +4 logistics special, but wiht a twist.  Same thing for defense structures.  Maybe you need the diplomatic frigate to be able to activate these.

Diplomatic tree? It woudl be like defense tree but uses civic labs isntead of military labs.  Youc an move some of the civic stuff there and add few more things.  Like new pirate related techs. 

A tech that makes the militia surrender when they are overwhelmed? Like if they take X% losses, the remaining ships surrender.  It woudl seem a worthwhile tech to get if you plan on expendign early, or if your surrounding planets have A LOT of militia.  Like at 2 techs addign up to 15% at tier 1 or 2. 2 more techs for 30% total at tier 3 or 4.

Maybe another tech that spawns militia if you abandon colony?  That way you can really stick it to someone  if you know you can't hold the planet, spawn a fleet of militia at it.  Soemthing hefty like 20 frigates on a terran planet.

ANyway these are my ideas.

For diplomacy, there should be a way of increasing allegiance on conquered planets, maybe by implementing structures like orbital prisons, which give allegiance bonuses due to order, and you can also "hire" from there mercenary fleets. 

Also, for diplomacy, there should be a way of lowering bounty on your race, as well as setting up special bounty missions for pirates that specifiy the amount of destruction you want, what planet, so players wanting more strategy other than overwhelming numbers might call in a precursor pirate strike on a planet prior to invasion.

Also, culture should actually do something other than allow you to see planets and start small rebellions that are easily handled.  There should be a culture meter, that when high enough, the entire planet can join your side, while lower tiers could create havoc by destroying key orbital structures or impeding economic flow from resource asteroids surrounding that planet.

And there should be a way to raise allegiance bu "transplanting" a chunk of a very loyal planets populace, say a 100% planet to a 35%, to permanantly raise allegiance there.

Pirates should start weaker, and progressively get stronger as they collect bounty, with maybe a limited tech tree that gives them acess to some capital ships and maybe even unique units, provided that their growth won't be impeded.

There should also be greater penalties for breaking treaties/alliances, with maybe some unrest happening due to a portion of the populace being of that culture. 

There should be many planet types, but there should be limits to which ones can be colonized by a specific race, say nitrogen planets are inherently toxic to versari so no colonization is possible, or a vulcanic planet may not be colonizable by advent because of their beliefs.

Missions should be more branched out, with maybe a tree that allows you to gain more access to advanced diplomatic options like creating missions or a greater selection of penalties and bonuses that can be selected from.

one more thing:

There should be options for covert action, like spreading disease to lower population, spreading propoganda for a temporary alliegience boost if on own planets, or causes unrest if used on an enemies, also obvious sabotage.  There could also be ship sabotage which could be anywhere from dealing damage physically to lowering the total experience that the ship has earned.

i know it's not diplomacy related but it would be nice if pirates could jump from star system to star system...as it is now if their base is in a different system and their raid target is in a different system no raid occurs which seems to remove the whole point of having pirates...also pirates should evolve as the game progress's as it is now once you get to about mid-game pirates a just a joke and no threat to anyone at all i for one would like to see that fixed

Sorry if this has already been posted.

I would like to see the option of being able to control more then 1 race (or two fo the same race) in the same game

Control directly a disconnected player (able to give money to yourself would be disabled. No robbing/stealing disconnected players resource

Disable such things like ability to "feed allies", superweapons, mines...etc

I whole-heartedly agree with the desired mission re-work. I like the idea of offering missions to the computer, and i likethe idea of conditional demands. By this I mean the situation wherein I offer 1,000 crystal in exchange for a peace treaty, or similar.

I like the idea of being able to give ships. I would like to see mostly unfettered ship transfers; ie, vasari able to give ships to the TEC. The limits I would like to see on this are a percentage cap (based on fleet points) of 'forign' ships allowed; say no more than 10% of your fleet points on forign ships. No cap ships can be given, that is a HUGE investment, and probrably contains clasified technology. Last limit I would implement is this: no repairs on forign ships. neither repair bays, not self-regeneration. After all, how should the Vasari know how to fix an Advent cruser? The tech is all wrong! In-game, this wil cause given ships to slowly be phased out, and replaced by omegrown ships.

I also like the idea of voluntarily evacuating a planet. Of course, in the Charlie Foxtrot involved in this I would expect the various upgrades to be demolished.

A few posts earlier, somone mentioned com-sats. I like this idea, that empires must maintain comunicaton lines with eachother, and that those communication lines should be vulnerable to attack. I would slightly refine his idea, however. In a'safe' gravity well, they might take five minutes to build. With enemy ships in the area, I would say 20 minutes, or even simply make them unbuildable. I would have them deployed by any capship, or colony frigate, take up no slots, and be buildable in any gravity well. Possibly have an upgraded version for between-star transmssions.

One mjor thing I would change from the com-sat idea would be to only require my com-sat to reach his com-sat. Possibly require both empires to have one in ajacent gravity wells in order for communications, same gravity wells to share visions. One major poblem with this would be the inability to communicat untill mid-game, at earliest.

Last, I would like an option to simply refuse a mission for a minimal loss of frendlyness. I can't tell you how often i've been ordered to kill ships of a race I haven't even seen yet, or have seen only by scoutship several stars way from my fleet.