Minor interface improvement: be consistent about where movement point info is displayed. Depending on whether you have a single ship or fleet selected, the info appears at different parts of the screen, in small typeface. The player should always be able to look at the same screenspace in the ship display to see the same info, regardless of whether he's looking at a single ship or fleet.

In general, the ship display portion of the screen is very frustrating, because the selection of info shown there changes with whether you are looking at a square with (1) one ship, or (2) two ships not in fleet, or (3) one fleet, or (4) two fleets. Pieces of information that are useful in all situations (such as movement poibts available) drop in and out with no apparent rhyme or reason. Key point: whenever I select an icon for a ship or fleet in the main ship display, I ALWAYS want to see the selected ship/fleet's movement available, hit points, troops carried, and weapons/defense. My need for that information does not vary with what combination of ships/fleets happens to be in the square, and it is no fun to have to dig through popup screens to find that basic info.

How about having both the "4 starbases per sector" and the "mininum of 3 spaces apart from each other" rules? That'd really make you think about strategy.

Simply, put a cancel button on the diplomatic negotiation to attack another race. I often want to turn a race upon it's nuisance neighbor only to find they don't offer the option due to their relations. Then I have to choose another race which I then have to cancel. It is simple just to clear up some simple hassle.

PS to my previous post:

-being able to "upgrade" exising ship designs would be useful

In beta2 of v1.1:

I still can't log into the metaverse because the metaverse login screen won't accept a '+'. Will someone finally fix this?

Easy one...

I don't understand why I get warnings about other races making peace and not get warning about them declaring war on each other.
Please give me a "war declared" warning.

I have a few tweaks that would make me enjoy the game even more.

1: More info/options on the civ managers colony-screen,

• production points left to completion, and a progress bar, on both social and min production.
• production sliders.
• a status screen at the botom showing the currently selected planets details with the option of focusing/unfocusing production, etc.

2: Surplus production not being wasted but either: carried over, rerouted, or not being paid for. (if carried over then max to the production of one turn)

3: The ability to que research, minor, but it would be nice.

4: A sentry untill wakend by me option.

5: The ability to map shortcuts to selected keys

6: An unobsolete ship option. Last night I obsoleted a ship, but discovered a few turns later that I wanted it back, so I had to design a new ship with the same specs as the obsoleted ship.

Ships should be upgradable in planetary orbit, why do I have to do that in deep-space?

The ability to examin ships in planetary orbit, without launching them. That is: bringing up the detail screen of ships in orbit.

in beta, the bonus "research/social/military is confusing for me. maybe keep it the way it was before, or show bonuses for individual areas?

also quickfix, if there was some space that showed how much each research costs
kudos on the excess research bleeding on to the next tech though

I 2nd AussieRay's suggestion regarding new ship designs. When I "Upgrade this design," I would like it to include all components of that ship, not just the barebones skeleton, as I find myself constantly canceling out of the process to see what I had on the original that I wanted to upgrade. I wish I had a better memory, but I create so many ships for different purposes it gets a bit difficult to remember what they all have on them. Thank you. I love this game.

In the beta there is an option to keep current components when you upgrade. It is under the options menu.

Tweaking Starbases:
When choosing to upgrade it’s hard to know which starbase it is.
It would be great if the name and type of the starbase was in the yes/no-dialog when choosing if to upgrade. It would bee equally sweet if you would make the dialog be in the upper side of the screen and zoom the screen to the starbase in question. This would let you get a look on that specific starbase tactical need. Would also be nice if you could move around the map a bit too see the starbase surroundings a bit before choosing.

When hovering above starbases and special mining resources it would be nice to see what type of starbase or resource it is. I always forget which resource looks like what. A hovering text would be nice. Maybe not on all zoom levels but at least on the closest one (it could be irritating to always have a mouse-over text IMHO).

Tweaking in diplomatic screen:
When choosing money or influence only the right side of the amount-box is sensitive to the scrollwheel. For those of you that didn’t know: You can hover over the bar or the rightmost side of the input field and iterate with the wheel on the mouse (MB3). It would be sweeter yet should the leftmost field have a factor of ten (100 instead of 10 per “scrollwheel click”).

Technology owned by one race only should be displayed in italic. As it is now you have to search thru the other races technology list to find a better deal. If it’s in italic you could easily see that there is no other deal to be made.

AI is far too stingy with weapon technology. It doesn’t mater that you already have zap-o-matic level 19 and quantum-plasma-mega-torpedoes. You still can’t pry Miniballs II from his hands even if you put your homeworld in to split the non existent difference.

Have traderouts available as a tradable item. Could be time based so that another race is allowed to use the route for, say, two years.

Gameplay:
Probably a ten minute job , when winning a victory type the game is over. But I still have the desire and downright need to crush my enemies like the bugs that they are. A simple checkbox with the text “Continue game to crush your enemies again” would be nice. That would allow you to win the game in a different way. Of course, after a complete military victory this should be disabled since there won’t be any more bugs to crush.



Rygel XVI - Dominar to over 600 billion (more or less) loyal subjects.

I would really like to be able to name my starbases myself. Even the AI complaints my names are not creative!
The practical reason is that it's very hard to remember which starbase was located where on the map with what puspose. It's very annoying when you accidently upgrade trading economy starbases with planetary production upgrades with no planet near, and even more annoying to press no, just to find which starbase it was again and send your construcor in again... (this should go together with Rygels plan above to display the name of your starbase when asked for upgrade)

It would also be nice if the rallypoints can be sorted by name (standard or as option). I use rallyoints a lot, as it saves me lots of time scrolling the entire galxy. But when I want to send my ships to one, I need to google the list of rallypoints to find the one I want. If they are grouped by named I can use prefixes to group several together so they're easier to manage.

It would also be nice if you could send your ships from your shipyards to (known) planets and starbases the same way you can send them to rally points. I don't understand that when I want my ships to go to Earth I litteraly need to point it out for them, but when I send them to 119,846 thy know exactly what I mean!

For v1.1 beta 2:

Make the rally point window 'T' bigger; it only has 5 lines now. In this window, also display # colonies and # ships already going to that rally point.

With "advanced" espionage, I should always get a popup notification when two AIs go to war.

The game says "with advanced espionage, no futher spending is needed". Then why do you allow the player to spend more on espionage after receiving "advanced" level? Turn off that spending in that case. (I thought you needed to keep some espionage spending if you wanted to be able to steal tech?)

You added a feature to display AI techs on one of the espionage screens. There should be an option on this screen to list only techs that the AI has but the player does not.

With "advanced" espionage, I should be able to view the AI planets in the governor screen. (I.e., same info as in colony governor screen, but with the AI planets.) In other words, make a summary screen like the colony governor screen available, but listing AI planets for a given race only.

For minor races, it frequently says "more espionage needed", but it is impossible to spend espionage on a minor race.

When I trade for a resource starbase, I should be able to find out what type of resource it is on the trade screen. This matters if I am trading for a resource starbase still in the fog of war.

Allow more characters in rally point names and ship names.

On the colony governor screen, display the rally point on this screen (or add a new screen where this is displayed). All the icons visible by the planet on the main map should also be on the governor screen (hammer, skull, etc.). On the colony governor screen, let the player click on a planet to center the main map on that planet.

With several ship set to "auto explore", they should not all go to the same square.

The '[' and ']' prev/next rally point feature does not work as described in the manual.

The "3.5 weeks" comments that indicate when a ship arrives at a destination sometimes disappear, especially after loading the game. The comments should be displayed with a greater contrast, because they sometimes are the same color as a planet (when sending a colony ship to a planet) (giving them a black border should be sufficient). When multiple ships are scheduled to arrive at the same destination, only the closest destination should be displayed (with an indication of the # of others).

Sometimes, a ship set to "auto explore" suddenly stops auto-exploring even if there are still unexplored squares.

You should be able to sort the rally point window by name, in addition to sorting by the order they were created.

"Auto explore" should be more intelligent, going to closest unexplored square rather than always heading diagonally in the same direction. Several ships set to auto explore should not all explore the same area.

On the "ships" pane of F1, there should be an icon to indicate whether the ship is in orbit around a planet or heading towards a rally point.

For the blue and yellow "production complete" icons, the colors should be more descriptive. If a ship is launched to a rally point, it should be a different color than if the ship is staying in orbit. These icons do not work correctly for the first turn or two after loading a saved game. The yellow icons should have a different color depending on whether or not that planet has unused tiles.

There should be another governor screen where you can display "# used/unused tiles" and a displayed list of ships in orbit.

The PQ of a planet is not appropriately updated when you build soil enhancement/habitat improvement/terraforming. Habitat improvement should not cost less than soil enhancement to build. (It should be soil enhancement
When you build a trade good or achievement on a planet, a new tile should be automatically freed up for use. The current system penalizes you for building trade goods and achievement, because they permanently use up a tile on your good planets.

When a planet's shipyard fills up, the new ship should be auto-launched instead of silently changing the production to nothing.

The "starport under construction" message should appear on the colony governor screen just like it does on the colony screen.

The military production and rally point should be changable from the colony screen without forcing the user to go to a separate screen. The rally point should be visible on the main colony screen.

The AI should be smart enough to know if I'm giving ships to its enemies. (and the player should know when the AI does this)

In GalCiv 1, you could set/randomize the AI alignment tendency. You can't do this in GalCiv 2.

With "focus", you can get lots of social production even though you have only research centers. Focus should affect % of capacity use. "Focus" should not let you convert research points to social production points.

Display "focus" on the governor screen.

What happened to the 9% bonus for setting a planet as a "social" planet? This was mentioned somewhere, but I don't see it.