Iam sure already mentioned many times but we REALLY need a aption to turn on/off starbase influence. Especially with constructors, you can imagine and probably know how frustrating it is to save a game place a starbase just so that its influence is 1 tile away from you planet etc.

Also why not show when double clicking a starbase what components could be added to the base and not just how much space it has?

My idea from my gigantic galaxy game the last two days:

1. It would be nice to have some way to find your spaceships destined for the same square as the currently-selected item. At the very least, a count of the number destined for there. This would help me in colonization (make sure a colony ship is destined somewhere) and starbase upgrades (keep track of how many constructors I've sent to a starbase).
   


2. A temp pseudo-rally point would be nice. I don't want to place a rally point at every starbase, because that's a bit burdensome. However, when I find a starbase that I want to send constructors to, it's a bit painful to select the ships and then refind that starbase on a gigantic map. It would be helpful to place a temp rally point down, then select ships and send them to that rally point. Basically, I want to rally point to dissolve when I place the next one (sort of like copying a location into the clipboard and then pasting it on the ships I want to move there). Alternative, the ability to place a temporary, visual mark (visible on main and mini map) would be a large improvement.


3. Ship building queues. I often want each colony to build one defender and then start building an attack, constructor, or colony ship.


4. The ability to set a build order for an unbuilt starport to start when it is built.


5. Show the module count for starbases either on the ship list or when the starbase is selected.

I'd like to see when the projects/ships completed list pops up, instead of having to hit goto, how about just being able to double click on the event to take you there, much less mouse work. Also when in the planet screen it's hard to tell what ship your launching, as the little pop up balloons describing the ship don't really work that well. Those 2 would solve most of my gripes. Oh, one more I just thought of, when your in the starport screen, and hit done, it jumps to the galaxy map, when you would hope it would go back to the planet screen. Usually I'm not done with managing a planet and have to click back into the planet screen. Other than that this is THE best game I've played in ages, keep up the good work.

I would like to see a right click menu on the ships list that allows you to do things like upgrade, send to rally point etc. Also make it so that you can select a ship on the list and a marker would appear on the mini map to show its location.

Research should be its own slider. They use tps, not mps. I think I should be able to have 0/100/100 or 50/50/100 or 30/70/100 providing I have the tax/treasury dollars. Only military and social seam to share capacity (mps).

Also, probably slower, the master slider should be gotten rid of and blended into the mil/soc/tech sliders, permitting totals under 100% if you can't fund it all. Maybe add a read-only master utilization display inplace of the 'master' slider.

No game has ever had this (except in MOO3 where it is mandatory) -- optional planet by planet sliders for mil/soc/res , defaulting to the empire settings, and on the planet screen, a button next to the sliders to make it easy to switch between imperial settings and the local override while not loosing the planet-level slider settings. Ultra rich planets need to make ships without affecting the social production of less rich worlds and frequently finish their social projects very quickly.

Orange\red stars, make them 4x larger with no planets (red giant)
Blue\white stars, make them 1\2 smaller with no planets (white dwarf)
Green and Purple stars, get rid of them, make them yellow stars.

Get rid of the need to build a planet improvement to enable planet fleets, if you can make fleets in space you should be able to have fleets in orbit.

Home planets, should always be 20+ size planets. Also you should not have to research to unlock tiles on the home planet, they should be all available for the get go (it is your home planet, you have been there for thousands of years)

Flip side the mars type planets should be 0 until you unlock tiles with research. Also I have mentioned this somewhere else, all habitable 'looking' planets should be habitable and have lots of plots, all mars type planets should require tech to unlock tiles for use. I have seen many times a system where the earth 'looking' planet is a zero and the barren 'looking' planet is habitable.

I think I mentioned this already, when in the planet window add a little universe map to easily identify where in the galaxy it is located. Maybe down in the left bottom corner where the picture of a building currantly is.


EDIT On the stars thing you could add-in binary stars, so you could have two stars together with no planets, a yellow star with a white dwarf together or any other combo of red white or yellow.

1. In the diplomacy screen, show the cost of technologies so you can see whether or not a proposed trade is good value in terms of research points. I would either add the number right next to the tech name, put it in the right-click dialog, or just show the total value of techs on the table.

YES, thats the one I forgot.

Another one, ability to turn off 'visual representation' of the fog of war. Still have fog of war in effect but just remove the greyed out stuff from my screen. (maybe have the greyed out effect only show up when zoomed way out, to easily identify where you cannot see.)

Also: Some of the AI players should follow the "tech whoring" strategy like a human player would, especially those with a tendency towards high diplomacy skills.

Could you in the next fact set default production capacity to 100, I hate changing that on the first turn, and often forget,,,

Include a "reset to racial defaults" option in the racial properties tab. I started out playing the Terran Alliance, and I screwed around with the abilities a little.

Now for the life of me I can't remember the original abilties; hopefully the AI is using the original racial values instead of the values I put in (since I'm now playing a custom race and have the Terrans as AI.)

Biggest request : Make the keyboard shortcuts work. Right now, Tab doesn't go to the next ship, Esc/Return don't close current windows (actually I've seen _one_ window type that Esc closes, but Enter/Return simply goes to the next turn. Bad bad bad!) Very frustrating - have to use the mouse way too much, and finding our active ships is a real pain.

Let us rename planets : when I colonize someplace I have no idea what I'll wind up doing with it, but after I have 10 factories, a starport, and a site that makes ships produced there stronger I'd sure like to name it "Citadel" or "Port Kar" instead of leaving it as "Wardell IV". Same thing goes for ships - what was once "Devastator IV" later could be renamed "Bait IV"

More filters on the Ship list : we probably usually aren't interested in the 15 freighters, so let us toggle the display of freighters off please.

Thanks!

Any way to modify the ship behavior in the eye-candy battle display? Seems once you have a fair number of ships in there they're all concentrating on trying not to collide with each other within the vastness of space instead of trying to blow each other up.

Possibly make Large-Huge hulls mostly stationary in the back, Medium hulls screening, and Tiny-Small hulls moving into the pack.