God, this is huge. Please excuse me if this has been posted before.

There needs to be an obvious way to upgrade core ships. I find myself later in the game designing ships duplicate to what I already have in the 'core' box simply because I can't select one of the 'core' designs and upgrade it. Or, core ships should automatically use the best tech availible. Maybe an 'autoupgrade design' button? It wouldn't place new components on the ships (core and user) if there was space but it assures me that any ship I'm building automatically gets built with the newest laser when I research it. It's annoying to have to scrap 'core' ships or hop into the ship designer just to replace Laser 2 with Laser 3. I should be able to just know my designs are using the latest tech until I hop into the designer to muck with things. It might not be the best use of space and it might lead to 'cost creep', but I'd rather pay the trivial price of the new tech on my designs.

And despite your post on "NO MULTIPLAYER", I'd really like to see at least hotseat multiplayer.

Thanks!

First off, I apologize if this has been said before and I missed it, but I'm in a rush and just wanted to leave my two bc's.

Espionage is a nice touch, but it feels somewhat limited and static. A second slider for counter-espionage would be a nice touch, something the AI could utilize as well. I don't know how long that would take to implement, but I think a relatively small change like that would add a lot of strategy to espionage operations, and encourage players to make more choices when applying funds against a target empire.

I would like a GNN entry when a planet that was building a wonder or trade good can no longer build that project due to a rival completing it.

"Earth was building Diplomatic Translators and could not complete them. Now building: AnotherWonderTheAIWillBeatYouTo."

As it is now, the project is deleted from the queue. If there is more to build the planet goes on to the next project, if there is not something queued up though it just stops social production until I click on it a dozen turns later and realize what happened.

1) Fix the Social timetables. If you're producing X bc of social per turn, and you have Y bc invested in said improvement, and the improvement takes Z bc to produce, then tell us it takes ceiling((Z-Y)/X) turns to produce. Very easy.

2) Tell us how much bc each Social improvement costs, like you do with military.

3) Research Academies shouldn't cost a blasted friggin 200bc to upgrade from a Research Center, only to improve your tp from 12 to 14.

4) Virtual Reality centers should raise Morale by more than a Zero G Arena.

5) 300% influence bonus tiles.

6) Get an Ok/Cancel confirmation before ending a turn without the turn button being green. It's too easy to accidentally end your turn when you really wanted to zoom in on the southeastern portion of the mini-map.

Add tactical tech and items for ships, like MOO had. Cloaking, weapon range enhancements (for first strike), planet bombardment, etc. They should not be cheap or small but if used in the right circumstances, they should be very effective.

Okay, I know a couple of these have already been posted, but want to reiterate them.

1) Colony production always scrolls back to the top of the list after selecting and item to build. Really annoying if I want to build four Xeno Lab. *click* scroll *click* scroll *click* scroll *click*

2) Turn buttons' too close to the minimap. Easy to hit it by accident.

3) The sorting in the colony/ship panel. Any way that could be done with a dropdown instead? I don't have the order memorized and I don't want to have to click over and over to scroll through all the options.

4) Planets dialog that can keep track of explored but unsettled planets. If I find a class 4 I might skip it over, but want to come back it later. In a large game it's easy to go "Where the heck is that planet?"

Approval Rating for a planet I thumped.

I invade a planet. Its approval rating is 70%. I use informational warfare and gain some additional troops on my side. I lose the battle.

(I still believe that all the high attack numbers on my landings are a tease. I will see it flash thru attack values for my troops in the 40's but I always hit attack when the number is 20ish. (Of course I am kidding here, because I have received high attack values but only when I don't need it, I would have crushed the defender with a 20ish))

2 turns later I attack again but the planets approval rating has gone up to 100% (less population). A little counter intuitive as I think approval should also be tied a little to war loss/victory, a loss of population on a planet being a loss. They have lost over 50% of their population, brothers and sisters, and their happy about it? They don't blame their government just a little bit for not providing protection?

However I do agree that informational warfare should be less on the second atack, higher resistence/anger at the attacking civ.

First, I would like to see GNN updates for actual galactic news, and not just domestic updates. Things like if a race conquers another race's planet, or if there is a state of peace or war between two races. There is an update for when you conquer another planet, but I would just like to see that for all conquests, not just mine. And right now I end up constantly having to check the relations screen to see if my not quite allies are at war with anyone and if i should be helping them out or not.

Second, Mars! Would it be possible to make it so that, like Earth, it has some chance of having perhaps just one bonus tile? Maybe limit it to industrial and research, since I'm having trouble imagining fertile farmland . That would be cool, if possible. Another thing about Mars is that there is no capacity for terraforming, as far as I can tell. I would love to see at least one of each terraforming stage tile, or maybe two of one, and one each of the other two?

Thanks for all your hard work, Stardockers!

Sorry if these have been mentioned already, I dont fell like reading 9 pages

A galactic map in the world view to easily tell where a planet is located.

Add more space stuff, Nebulas, black holes, asteriod belts, rogue planets, quasars, pulsars and make them part of the game. Example there could be a nebula in one sector and it would render sheilds and sensors unless in that area. Black hole could suck up anything that gets too close and give extra tech if you build a station nearby.

I've had problems with fleet management (including creating the fleets and launching ships, etc), so improving that would be nice.

I think that there should be an auto constructor feature. You should be able to say like a high/medium/low improvement in each of the different kinds of star bases. I figure this shouldn't be hard to add in because the AI already can do it.

One last thing is you should be able to have the ability to keep all of your ships defending planets where they are and then have every other ship or type of ship go to a rally point. I don't know if that's how it is now, but that's how it should be.

That's like the 10th post I've seen in this thread asking for that.

I'm going to be the 11th. Please please let us use the arrows to move the map.

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Hmm, seems like my quote didn't work. Oh well, you guys know what I want.

Wow... 9 Pages Of Requests... Well, I Hope I'm Not Repeating Someone, As I Simply Don't Have Time To Read Everything Right Now.. But What I Really Really Really Want As An Improvement Is Simply This....


On The Select Amount Popups... A Better System To Choose Amounts.. The Slider Is Buggy When Dealing With Sums... And The Other Options Are Left/Right Click For Values Of 1, Or Up/Down Click For Values Of 10's.. For The Love Of Yor Let Us Click In The "Display amount" Window And Edit It By Key, Or Add More Arrows For Values Of 100's/1000's!


That Alone Would Assist Me In Being The Evil Bartering "hey.. you should attack him 'cuz he won't gimme stuff" Civs