I think you can create teams of civs, just not through the start screen.  It's something which you could do as a scenario, if you fire up the tools supplied with TotA, you'll find out quick enough.

Obviously for Metaverse games you can't start out with AI civs at war with each other.

I would like for the "number of turns until completion" of social projects on the colony list to match the "number of turns until completion" on the colony dialog.  Actually, to be more specific, I would like both to be accurate, which at least one of them is not or they wouldn't disagree with each other.

I would like a "% full" or "population capacity remaining" column on the colony list.  I would like to be able to sort by that column.

I would like for the "remove functional components disabled" mode of ship design to auto-upgrade all components to the latest technology, even if it puts me over-budget on space.  I could choose which components to cut before saving the new design.

I would like for the GNN report to appear AFTER any reports of culture-flipped worlds at the beginning of a turn.

I would like for the MCC to either do what it says it does -- culture-flip worlds more quickly -- or have its documentation changed to reflect what it actually does.  I've built one in two games now and it doesn't seem to do anything.

i Just want the fog of war bug fixed

Its fine early on but later on i end up seeing the entire map with makes turns last...a very very very long time waiting on ship moves.

I cannot believe that no one has insisted or complained about this and perhaps it's just my game...  but isn't an implicit nuance of "campaign mode" in RTSes persistance?  Like, shouldn't we be able to expect our technological developments, ship creations, etc be carried over into the next mission?

I submit that you make the campaign a true campaign and have our accomplishments from one mission persist through to the next so that it's not actually a lot of single mission games connected together with bad animation and story line.  You know make the advancements and progress something you can cherish because you getta keep reaping the benefit of your hard work, as if it's an actual campaign.  Not like it is where you have to get the same technological advancements over and over as you accomplish each mission.  The only way I can see that I'll develop the "neatest" things or research the "coolest" stuff is if I purposefully turtle in the game so that I can see the big neato advancements at the end of the trees for once; and of course only to lose all that advancement as if my entire species experienced some mind-wipe or amnesia/retardation where the knowledge is wiped clean from our culture each mission just because we have a new mission.

Make that one of your updates.  Persistant advancement.  That'd be great.  I'm just sayin'.

Recent news about this: https://forums.galciv2.com/398277

I realize I'm quite late to the game on this one, but there's one thing I've been thinking about that I don't recall being mentioned:

It takes a HIGH level of espionage to look at another race's planets; however if I want to search for their Wonders and Trade Goods all I have to do is take an agent and open the "place agent screen" to see what's on a planet.  It won't allow me to see other planetary details, but I still don't think I should be able to use agents this way.

Perhaps require a HIGH level of espionage before agents can be used to look at planets and sabotage buildings.  It makes a bit of sense, I think, that you would need to establish an advanced spy network before you could begin placing agents to disable critical infrastructure.

Oh yeah, and the pop-up civs should be competent and moddable. (I-League, Jagged Knife, pop-up minors).

thanks!

Please consider improving the UI, it gets really unwieldy as the number of planets controlled grow larger.

Some ideas:
* implement multi-select at as many places as possible, e.g.:
1. Planet list, choose multiple planet to produce x, change focus to y
2. Remove multiple queued items in building list (such as when added by auto upgrade)
Thanks

Small update: (Twilight)

- be able to include miniaturization techs in the ship designer.

- first few armor, point defense, and shield techs are kinda useless unless a player researches all the miniaturization techs first.

- my game will crash after a while (Win7).

- bridge the gap between beginner and normal difficulties.  Beginner is too easy and normal is too unfair.

- Lower the cost of ships so we can have more of them.

- Sometimes my income will fluctuate for no reason and I have to scale down to <30%.

- Stronger minor races that don't build influence bases everywhere.

- more pieces for the ship designer

Hope Stardock will eventually work on GalCiv 3, maybe with a better Tech Tree editor (something with a drag and drop feature).  I'd buy it in a heart beat!  I've had a great time with GalCiv 2, keep up the good work!

The reason this isn't allowed is that you could stay one small step from victory and "level grind" through the entire techtree. Then the rest of the campaign is far too easy.

Some simple fixes :

Settings for startup ,  anomalies/asteroids add a "none" option would my my choices.

Starbase modules which increases food production

Starbase modules which increases planet quality(good for making all planets colonizable)

Starbases built around planets just as they wrap resources

Domecities to utilize all unuseable tiles on a given world...

Make the Constructor Module like the Colony Module.   Goes out, builds the station, needs to go back to planet to 'reload'.  

Or, make it so the constructor module is two parts.   1 part that cannot move, and a transport vessel to ferry the equipment, supplies, and manpower to and fro.   This way, a couple ships can be built to ferry an endless supply of modules into place.

Layered Stealth and Sensors.   The further out from the center, the weaker the detection.   So vessels could pass by, relatively close to objects and each other, and maybe blink in and out of each others' screens randomly.   Same with planets and other things.   This would allow enemies to have a chance to get closer to their target undetected.   Makes perimeter stations more valuable!