Paradoxish

One thing I don't like about the current system is that you can see all the planitery upgrades (buildings) without high espionage by pretending to put a spy on the planet. Totally agree. I actually just used this tactic to win a war in my last game much more quickly than I should have been able to. I used the place spy window to figure out which planets the AI was using as its main manufacturing hubs and just made a b

My biggest problems are with the UI. Even as I'm typing them out they seem kind of trivial, but these are the kind of games I tend to play for a while so little UI problems really add up over time. In particular, navigating just about any list is a total pain and takes way, way too long. This is especially annoying with things like starbases or research, where you're forced to constantly go back and scroll through the lists over and over aga