I Love the Game, one aspect i dont like is that you see your rulers face when you first start the game, but dont see your rulers face through out the rest of the game.


I wouldnt mind a Governor's window in the Planet Screen, or the Politics screen, or something that shows your Rulers Face.

Or Maybe sometype pf Random event, during elections.

A bug I found... in the late game, sometimes I'll load a troop module onto a sort of medium battleship chassis. I'll put 6 or so of these ships in a fleet and have it rampage across space, stealing planets and killing anything in its path. Anyway, what happens is, when I attack a planet with one of these ships (and it's part of a fleet), when the attack is over (assuming I've won the battle and conquered the planet), the fleet's movement points get boosted back to full. So I can literally continue moving until I run out of ships or planets to conquer.

I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that most people aren't willing to be so wasteful as to sacrafice a fully armed, loaded out, expensive battleship every time they attack a planet so it wasn't found during testing.

I would really like an alert some kind when an enemy ship (an armed ship of a race that is at war with me) crosses into sensor range of a planet. Would only apply to ships that were previously outside sensor range. Maybe a message icon just like the ones that indicate when a ship is built, or production is complete. Click on that icon to jump to the intruding ship. Okay, I guess that's more an hour.

Raise the costs of rush "buying" where is the strategy in the different "payment plans" if the instant buy is though cheap?

I think that the Lucky Ranger event and the one that makes all planet class 13 in 25 sector are a bit overpowering and unbalanced...

Please remove the waste!

Apply excess research towards the tech started on the next turn. (VITAL)
Apply excess social to the next item in the build queue. If there is no item, give a partial BC discount.
Apply excess military production to next ship desired. (Would love a military queue, BTW)

Without these measures, I must do a PAINFUL amount of micromanagement to avoid what would otherwise
be up to 50% waste!


Tell us the cost of builds/upgrades somewhere in the planet view screen. The bar/build time is not informative enough. Why tell us the number of hammers/shields when we don't even know the cost?


Allow us to drag-rotate the ship images in the display window. All of those little buttons are difficult to use.

Greatly reduced frequency for precursor ship events, or potentially a toggle ot turn them off entirely. Super powerful ships appearing out of nowhere (and thus turning the receiving civ into the most powerful military in the galaxy no matter what they've done all game otherwise) are anti-strategic, to say the least.

However military strength is calculated (both by the ingame stats and by the AI's estimation of "can I kill this guy safely or not?"), it needs some work. In all the games I've played so far, even with all the AIs on "bright" (the highest I've dared go so far ^^), it seems to think it can wipe me out with its weak, albeit massive, horde of crappy little small and medium chassis ships. Then they all gang up on my one or two statistically "weak" fleets of 5 huge-chassis massive battleships and get blown to pieces effortlessly.

Maybe the problem would be alleviated somewhat if a race's ships' average HP was factored into the equation somewhere. So that a ton of 6 HP fighters don't equal a handful of 75 HP battleships (since the battleships would clearly dominate) UNLESS the race with the tiny ships has a strong logistics advantage.

The selected ship needs to show up better, I cannot always tell what ship is selected easily.

1. I want click and drag rotation of the ship when in the ship design mode. I don't want to have to hit the little arrows to turn the ship. Left click and hold should slide the ship around, right click and hold should rotate. I've seen that in other games and it works great.

2. type of resource in the starting base name, Starbase Morale 29, Starbase Military 21

3. Info in the techs about the standard ship types. (frigate requires this and 3 other technologies...)

4. GNN needs to have Launch button for completed ships.

I know this is would hardly make a massive difference, but at the moment (as far as i can tell) star names are taken from the 'STARS.txt' file, but it only seems to take the top few ones, meaning you always get the same star names, and the bottom 3/4 of the list are redundent. Would it be possible to make it randomly select stars from the list? (I realise that this might not be possible because of judging where the end of the list would be, etc).

Also, I think someone has already said this, but being able to scroll through the parts already placed on a ship would be a great help, especially for those of us who spend ages adding extras to make complex looking ships.

When ships are stacked, it is not possible to get to the single-ship interface. This means it is impossible to upgrade ships in a fleet, or ships that are all orbiting a homeworld without launching them/disbanding the fleet, moving them a tile off, upgrading them, and then sending them back when the upgrade is complete. Please make this possible.

1) As has been said already, great game folks . Nice to see the hometown represented (born and bred in MI here)
Additions i'd like to see -

As has been stated, a way to custom upgrade with weapons etc the base ship designs. - there are times where i just need a ship, and i dont have a custom one made nor do i feel like making one.

The UP voting needs to be further improved upon, the concept in and of itself is awesome, what would be even more interesting (and i hate to use the word, especially when talking of politics, realistic) would be to inform the player of what is being voted upon in advance, then add to the diplomacy screen when talking to other races a way to sway thier vote (ie, bribe them!) with cash/tech etc.

When upgrading from one type of ship to another, adding weapons etc.. the ships themselves need to change names as well, for instance if i create a "upgraded" Medium hull ship with newer tech, then click on an "older model" ship and hit upgrade on the main screen, the "older" versions keep thier old names, to keep track of what ships have been upgraded and which havent becomes annoying especially when you forget to change the name manually after you have upgraded that ship.

As has been mentioned - Being able to park ships in orbit of enemy planets to claim territorial rights while waiting for transports to show up would be a tactical improvement, and stop the AI's annoying tendancy to follow your fleet's around with transports to "claim jump" the planet. If said planet launches a ship, automatically go into combat screen. This could further be improved/enhanced with a "blockade" effect on the planet, lowering its resourse contribution to the governments totals until the ships are moved out. - although this last might be a programming nightmare at this stage, and would require some balanceing considerations. (how many ships does it take to "blockade" a whole planet?)

Make a starbase's role in planetary defense meaningful when they are close to the planet in question. Seems odd that you can just fly your armada right past that bristling death star in the square next to a planet with out haveing it come to the planets rescue. - this already has a balence to it with the fact that you cannot build starbases close to each other, and would add another layer of defensive possibilities.

Allow starbases to become a (non movable) part of a fleet for more defensive oppertunities, this becomes even more important when in hostile area's with newly created starbases, even with the few games ive run through haveing an enemy armada casually fly by and nuke the starbase while your own ships that are in the same square as the base just sit around is annoying.

Tactical considerations - How exactly does a ship accross the galaxy get upgraded weapons delivered in one -three turns? Allow upgrades only in "owned" space.

Although i belive the current usage of "upgrade ship" and selecting the current model again will repair said ship, an acctual "repair ship" button that takes x number of turns costing y% of original ship value, with options for partial repairs (z% of damage taken repaired per turn) would be keen. ("Scotty, i need thise engines now!" "i'm working as fast as i can Cap'n!")

Edit - as a side note, does Miniturazation play a roll when creating and saving custom "blank ships" and if so, why? seems not all of my custom's are always available when they should be, even when only tricked out with cosmetic's