I'll continue to list issues that I find...perhaps they'll come in useful someday...

6) Ship routes displayed on the minimap are not updated until the minimap is redrawn by a zoom or other action.

7) Anomalies giving bonuses to espionage success should not occur in games where sabotage is disabled (unless there's some other benefit from it).

Edit: Further reading indicates that +% espionage is actually a cost discount on buying spies.  If that's the case, then these anomalies are still useful.

8) Not necessarily a bug, but the computer players habitually leave their transports unguarded in hostile territory, even on maximum intelligence.  I doubt a human opponent would make that mistake.

10) The AI players do not appear to value ships or starbases rationally.  I've offered them trades that were massively tilted in their favor, and they never accepted them.  The explanatory text says that some ships, such as constructors, are not tradeable.  If that's the case, then they should not be selectable in the trade lists.

11) Influence Points should not be tradeable in games with no United Planets, unless they still do something useful.

True, but rather than try to maintain a separate "tweaks" list in another forum, I figured I'd keep them all together in this thread.  The dividing line between a bug and a tweak is fuzzy in many cases anyway.

13) In Dread Lords campaign mission 10 (the one where it's just you and the Dread Lords), the game crashed when I went to the (blank) Foreign Policy Report tab.

Not necessarily.  If it has sufficient defense, it could be impervious to damage from fighters with attack of 1 or 2.  Battles will end after a set amount of rounds (55, I think, but don't take my word), so those transports would be able to slip past if you didn't have sufficient firepower.

Not saying it's a great tactic or anything, only that it's not entirely worthless.  I do agree that  even a single weapon would improve the design.  Knowing how to use escorts would be best.

If by not moving smoothly you mean that it's hard to adjust by 1% at a time, it's because the sliders are too far to the left.  If all 3 are far left and equal (maybe 33% apiece), then each unit of movement to the right must equal a higher percentage.  Make sense?

Otherwise, the sliders have always worked just fine for me.

Regarding #12 (transports with defenses):

According to https://www.galciv.wikia.com/wiki/Ship_combat, if a battle ends in a draw, the winner is chosen by a formula using a function of attack*2, defense*1, and HP/2, so an unarmed transport has pretty slim odds of surviving.  But in any case, I later figured out that the defense stats I saw were imparted by an orbital defense on the planet, so I'm withdrawing this issue.

Regarding #5 (sliders):

My point is that it shouldn't be possible to move all three sliders to the left at the same time; the position of the slider should always match its percentage.  Since the three numbers must add up to 100%, moving one slider to the left should simultaneously move the other unlocked slider(s) to the right.

15) When governors auto-upgrade the structures on a planet, they should upgrade the structures on bonus tiles first, starting with the best ones.

Ah.  Thanks for the refresher.  It's been awhile.  I've also forgotten about the orbital defense.

One of many countless examples where a player finds proof of the non-existant fog-of-war for the AI.

Still, SD's official position is "the AI needs to scout first". Doh...

Yes, something along that line. The AI is simply playing out a set pattern of logical rules, and by offering different scenarios one can muster the patterns pretty well. Once you've been sensibilized to these things, you will notice them in every game.

In the past people complained hard about the no-AI-FOG, so SD announced in a patch that the AI needs to scout out new worlds before sending Colony Ships there. But, that doesn't really mean he suddenly has to face the FOG too, but he simply was programmed to build some Scouts in the initial part of the game. But of course, that just to easy a solution, and things can go horribly wrong:

1. In a big map the AI's scouts will usually be destroyed - and he will send whatever ships he has directly to their target w/o scouting. I once played a gigantic all-abundant where the AI was defeated after 24 turns, and had no ships whatsoever cause I simply bought them all of. So, basically he knew his homesystem, and maybe the systems nearby. Then I coerxed most of them into oblivion, but re-routed the last one to a single planets in the opposite corner of the map. However, he had one constructor I couldnt trade for - which pretty much came out of range in this sector due to the homeworld change. Next turn the constructor was headign towards an Influence-crystal 3 sectors away from his new home etc pp.

2. AI scoutships have a "strange" pattern of scouting. Most often I will find one following the other in a trail. What for?

3. Start a battle of the gods scenario where his scouts will have very fast engines. They will fly into a system, then move back-and-forth there at the same spot until the movepoints are drained, and next turn fly directly into the next system? Why not simply heading there at once? Quite easy, the AI didn't got implemented to "re-think" what to do once his goal (fly to one system) is reached, because usually, in a normal game Scouts will be on speed +2-+4.

4. Trade Sensors to the AI very early - the AI will then built Survey Vessels instead - who won't scout planets anymore, but go for anomalies. Once built, he will also not sell his SurveyShips - however, you can easily trade for all his ScoutShips -  which is a strange behaviour if one keeps in mind he needs these ships in order to determine if he should built Colonizers and send them en-route.

As an option, I would dearly love the auto-upgrade option to upgrade one stage at a time. My major reason for not using the governors is that I've found (If I'm not positioned to just buy the heavy factories) it's often useful to buy the cheap factory on the *3 or *7 bonus, then upgrade the factories one level each.

Unfortunately the *Governor* happily sets the cheap factory to upgrade in one move to the most technologically advanced factory, a considerably slower process, often overriding my explicit orders.

Jonnan

18) In Dark Avatar campaign missions #2 and #3, the Terrans seem to start with multiple "Civilization Capital" worlds. 

Edit:  I'm seeing this repeated in other missions.  It looks like the AI races start with one Civilization Capital, and then when they found their first colony, it /also/ becomes a Civilization Capital (instead of an Initial Colony), and is set as their homeworld.