Would it be possible to undo making a ship design obsolete? It's a bit annoying to work on a ship and then accidently make it obsolete instead of the old junker above or below it.

1) How about an option on the startup screen where you can select the overal quality/size of the planets to create.

2) There should also be a random option for selecting opponets.

3) My other comments on the game are here - https://forums.galciv2.com/?ForumID=162&AID=109080&cmd=myposts#840920

Please forgive me for not reading all the 650 comments, so some of these might have been mentioned already

Here we go:

- In some lists, there is a clear "default" action. This should be accessible by a double-click. For example, loading a saved game, or "go to" in the turn event log. I usually double-click those, wait a second, nothing happens, and then I remember I have to use the button...

- When I load a saved game, I always get the report screen, the tech screen and one colony screen (I suppose my homeworld). The first two are ok (to remember and re-check the place where I left). The planet view, however, doesn't make any sense and should be left out IMO. If I hadn't saved my game at that point, I wouldn't have checked this planet either (unless something was completed this turn).

- I would like to see an area-of-effect circle BEFORE creating a starbase. This way, I would not have to guess when I want to choose the right place for a new base. How exactly this should work out GUI-wise, no idea.... maybe the circle could be around constructors all the time, or appear on first click on "construct" while a second click actually builds the thing .... or add a toggle button in a free spot somewhere....

- The area-of-effect discs of bases are sometimes very hard to see. Maybe a solid border around the transparent disc could help?

- Enemy ships in sensor range should have a highly visible marker (like a red circle). I think it's realistic that the emperor does not scan the space map himself, but gets informed of the nasties

- Not quite sure if this still falls into the "minor things" category, but I miss the ability to move a spaceship component after I have placed it, i.e. to re-attach it to another mount point. Maybe it could be detached with a right-click or double-click?

After all these suggestions, compliments on a very nice game.... well done

Ok, this one might be a bit unpopular, and I'm not sure how quick and easy it is (might impact the computer's play), but could I have an option to:

Stop starbases overlapping, or to limit them to one per type per sector, or even just one overall per sector?

I find the whole overlapping starbases thing somehow inelegant. As in, you go to all that trouble of choosing what buildings to put on your planets based on their size, bonus tiles and what you need, and then its messed up because you can just put as many economic starbases as you can fit around them. It feels too much like micromanagement and not enough like making a strategic decision.

I find it hard to locate where my ship is on the minimap. Would it be possible to highlight the selected ship better? Perhaps a stronger blue line would help. It is often hard to see that fine blue line.

Fix the problem where ships gifted to minor races end up with 0/X movement and never recover any movement points in subsequent rounds. This really hurts when I'm trying to proxy-war the major races.

1) How about an option on the startup screen where you can select the overal quality/size of the planets to create. 2) There should also be a random option for selecting opponets.

Dude that is coming in the 1.1 patch, read the news

Dannyboy and Quitch have good ideas, yes upgrading by upgrading, not rebuilding... and having to split fleets to upgrade is clumsy and annoying

For Version 1.1[beta]

- On the ship design screen, with the component list at the top of the screen, I should be able to double click on a component to

just remove it from the ship.

- In version 1.0X, in the ship design screen, if I moved the mouse over a component on the component list at the top of the

screen, it would highlight what that component did (its name). That feature was lost somehow in 1.1[beta].

- On the ship design screen, when I choose to "upgrade" a ship type, I should be able to upgrade to a ship design that already

exists, rather than being forced to design a new ship.

- A colony's "focus" should be visible on the colony governor screen.

- The "shield" that indicates a colony has a garrison should also appear on the colony governor screen. Ships that do not have

any combat abilities (constructors, colony ships, transports), should not count towards a "shield". (so a colony with just an

unarmed transport in orbit counts as undefended)

- After you research "xeno ethics", you should still get "morality events". You should be informed of your decision and the

consequences, but you should still get the bonus or penalty. If you're playing evil, it pays to delay researching "xeno ethics"

so you can still get the bonuses.

- The colony governor screen should display the rally point destination, and the rally point destination should be changeable

from this screen. There should be another colony governor screen that displays influence, unused tiles, social projects by

category.

- A planet should not be "punished" with a -1 PQ penalty for building a trade good or achievement, because the trade good

permanetly uses up that tile. When a trade good or achievement is built on a planet, a new tile should change from unusable to

usable.

- I should be able to manage my ships along with upgrade dependencies outside the game.

- Why does the AI build a starport on every planet? Some of the AIs should be smart enough to not do this. Also, some of the

AIs should be better at building specialized industrial/economic/research planets.

- The AI should not blatantly misuse bonus tiles. When the AI builds a factory on a farming tile, and builds a farm on another

tile, it makes the AI look too stupid.

- You fixed the "rally point window" scrollbar bug. How about making this window bigger so that more than 4 rally points are

visible at a time?

- On the combat report screen, there should be an option to display a blow-by-blow account of the battle. It'll have one line

per ship per turn stating "attacker rolled 3/6 for damage; defender rolled 1/2 for defense; 2 points of damage, 12 HPs left",

etc.

- When a fleet is made of ships of different XP levels, it should be easier to view the XP and level for each ship in the fleet.

- With the "no tech trading" option, I should still be able to view what techs the AI has with sufficient espionage spending.

- The "no production turn after loading game" bug is still present.

- When the AI says "Help me! I'm losing a war!", it should be willing to pay me more than my production cost for military ships

in a trade, especially if the ships are technologically-current. The AI should be willing to finance its desperation purchases

(say over 10-50 turns like in GalCiv 1).

- The human player should be able to say to the AI "Help me! I'm losing a war!" (i.e., if the AI can beg, let the player beg

also)

- From the colony governor screen, you should be able to double-click on a planet's name to center the main map on that planet.

- I still can't log into the metaverse, because '+' is in my user name. The metaverse login screen won't let you type in '+'.

- A better rally point manager is needed.

- All information available on the minimap should be visible on the main map. On the main map, unexplored stars and planets

(with stellar cartography) should show up as darker grey blotches.

Trade - when trading for money, how about a button that just sets the value to the optimal value (the last green amount right before it would shift the trade to red. Or even just default the value to this amount rather than 100.

Trade - show how much money is available on both sides

there is a checkbox "skip left over moves from autopilot" or something like that
i unchecked it because i dont like to skip those moves
at the end of the round after i hit "turn" if there are any autopilot moves left i have the chance to move those ships
great thing - but it has two small flaws:
1. the screen does not jump to the ship with leftover moves, i have to press "find"
2. the turn button is not there, so if i decide not to move this ship i cant simply press "turn" to leave it where it is
i have to set it to guard or something like that

Not sure if this has been addressed/requested, or if it's even possible with the current combat setup. If it not, then please ignore.

I'm not requesting tactical combat, and am not sure if this falls under tactical combat, but is it possible to have a Retreat option in battle?

I realize that if you're able to skip battles alltogether and jump straight to the battle summary then all the calculations must be done before the 1st shot is even fired, so this is probably an unlikely request/option.

I was just hoping that if you already know you're going to lose a battle, as a fleet of Drengin cruisers has ambushed your pair of snubfighter interceptors, if at some point during the battle you could push the "Retreat" button and then have a possiblity of escaping (free shots woould be fired while escape vectors are calculated, and then any surviving ships would jump to safety).

Or, perhaps more realistically, you could have the option to retreat before you hit the play button and calculations are made. This would be your only chance to do so since once you hit "play" the outcome is final. But should you hit "Attempt Retreat" before you hit "Play"; once the battle initializes your ships would attempt to calculate escape vectors while the enemy gets free shots at you.

I realize this would involve some rewriting of the current game mechanics and interphase, so I'm not really expecting anything, just something I thought would be cool to have and to hope for.

It is a great game as is though, and these are just the wishes of those who have tasted a good thing and only want more (You've created monsters!)

ctrl-Z should undo! I keep hitting it when I make a mistake in the ship editor, and it's always frustrating when ti doesn't work and I have to select the component and remove it.