Just last night i found my DL cds and just had to play. I dont own DA or TA. I said to myself "atleast i get to play with 2.0,should have lots of improvements and whatnot as i havnt played in a couple years" as last time i was around i was under the impression that 2.0 would be out for all games. I was sad to see its still 1.53. Is it really to much work? Or why didnt that happen anyway?

Having said that, give all your love to the AI though the UI could use some love too by the sounds of it. Good ideas in this thread! Hope many can make it.

Also i dont know if im the only one who feels this way but after seeing 4 years of patches for this game i believe it could go forever and i can say ill still be coming back to this game in 10 years from now. I dont care about GC3 this game still has so much potential. Ive been out of the loop forever though and by the sounds of it your doing this alone on your free time so does that mean that patching for this game is over? !!

PS: After finding my disks and installing i quickly started playing only realizing 2mins later that both my cds were in front of me and not in the comp, dont know how the hell i forgot about that but Stardock is a smile.

Before I went on hiatus, the 2.03 TA update didn't fix what I was coining "archeologists".  Any planetary spies would be refunded to you when a race goes defunct, but passive spies would remain and continue to gather information levels on that race.  You'd loose some spies this way.

How about 1 last espionage hug?

Yeah, they don't get on that escape pod with the sabatuers.  They seem to get out their pick axes and brushes to excavate and learn from a dead civ.

Add a menu for the MP-cheat (#5 from [url=https://forums.galciv2.com/102205]here[/url]) , so even in a game with fog of war every empire can be played from turn 0 .

i.e. when the cheat is entered, a selection box should pop up, presenting a list of the (full?) empires that are currently available (i.e. haven't been wiped out) and asking you to pick one of them.

If this would be done, it'd be a nearly-complete hotseat mode ( of course, one can always think of improvements, e.g. separate ship- & template-directories for different players ; also see my reply at [url]https://forums.galciv2.com/98074/page/21/#replies[/url] ) , AND as long as it is still entered as a cheat it shouldn't interfere with Metaverse (what some people in the non-mp-thread were putting up as a possible problem) .

The answer to all your questions.

Add the ability for techs to have 2 prerequisite techs, at least in a custom (MOD) tech tree.  I wouldn't think the code to check is too difficult, although the code to display might be involved.

For example, I would like to modify the Thalan tech tree to add multiple levels of adaption, in addition to the standard tech requirements.

Make a "build queue" for star port.

IMO, current "build same ship until manually canceled" policy is ineffective, tiresome and counterproductive, etc, etc... (This option can be turned off, but then you have to manually set the planet to build new ship after previous has been completed (which is even more ineffective, tiresome, boring, counterproductive, etc, etc, ...))

After all ships from the queue have been built stop production.

Example. I wish to build 10 constructors and have 3 production specialized planets.

(currently) Since I have no control on how many ships will be built per planet I can end up with god knows how many (since every planet takes different number of turns to complete each it gets very hard to produce exactly 10).

(with queuing) I assign 2 planets to build 3 constructors, and one planet 4. Problem solved.

I suspect the kind of automation MarvinKosh decribed in response would be at least as much trouble as it was help.

The reason I agree with the quote above is that we need to be able to queue small fleets at major production worlds, e.g. three fat troop transports and two escorts.

Beg pardon for the not-small-update digression, but what you type about here reminds me of a dwindling hope I've had for Elemental, namely a sort of Map Room UI that let you leave the main map for a context where you could work with a whole collection of maps, some automatically generated and others you customize yourself. So, for example, in an Immense game, you might have a canned map schema that targeted your strongest manufacturing worlds, which in late game could cover a large part of the galaxy. A custom map could also be manufacturing-focused, but limited to a particular frontier/border area rather than your entire empire. Et cetera, et cetera.

Um...this would be amazing?

How big would these tweaks be?

1: Somewhere, explain the creation of custom ship styles. The system right now is very vague.

2: Fix the alignment issues with lots of ship components. this would make a HUGE difference, as lots of great hulls and components have really weird alignment or symmetry issues with their components that make it hard to use them well.

Sounds great!  I have four minor requests:

1) Allow us to embargo minor civs

2) Allow us to trade with minor civs for resource starbases (so you don't have to go to war with them, which they can't possibly win, over some resource starbase)

3) It may be just my specifications, but one of the Terran ship models (I think it's the model called "Corvette") only has two exhaust trails behind when it should have three (in battle view).  Simply engage in battle with the stock model to see what I mean (though you must have seen it before anyhow).

4) One of the Yor movies has missing frames resulting in jerky animation.

Also, the four bugfixes suggested by Quaternus above.

Many thanks for the awesome game!

I think not. Look, the latest "patch" has catastrophic problems. It locks up in the trade screens, and locks up in the "event" (econ boom, etc) screens. The icons still need to be fixed. The tech trees still need to be fixed. The planetary governor is only half-fixed.

It falls on us as customers to provide the developer with feedback. Therefore, the posts will continue.