I recently found the civilization managers Colonies tab which is really great. Even greater would be if I could assign Waypoints for planets in that menu. Thanks

1. Ship/fleet that is active should flash/blink on the screen as long as it has moves left.

2. Where is the old (GalCiv I) button for "automatic ship launch when built" button?

3. Double clicking the ship/enhancement announcement takes you to the appropriate screen.

4.  Highlight Resources option on mini-map, like anomalies.

5. "Automatic upgrade" option in shipbuilding, so that when you research Mark IV Laser, it automatically replaces all the Mark IIIs in the ships being built. The ship's name could automatically change to keep track (Battleship xii becomes Battleship xiii.

6.Destroy/bombard planet option (ala MOO II), without the necessity of having troops present.

 

 

A couple of suggestions:

First, I would like to see the galactic map in the bottom of the planet screen. There is a lot of blackness there and I really think this would be a 30 second fix. Just a matter of putting an extra panel in the window and calling the same map that is used in the glaaxy screen.

Second, I think you should start this thread again after collating all the suggestions. Every suggestion that has been seconded by someone should get a mark (like a + symbol) for every seconder. E.G if someone suggests "Make the mini map centre on the main screen's centre" and then three more people have responded saying that is a great idea it should get three + symbols after it.

Creating SuggestionThread 2.0 has two major benefits: you could let the suggesters know what amount of work these things do actually entail. Some things that sound really simple can be very complex to implement, and it would be great to know that up front; and people would be able to read the previous suggestions quickly. At the moment this thread has become too large to read through everything.

Nemir

AI Improvements

It's just as well that I'm going because I've already thought of some new things for the AI that I think could make a difference in how it plays. And the engine team got my new option in -- "Allow AI to use extra CPU time" that people who are willing to wait (or have really powerful CPUs) can set the AI to use algorithms that are more time intensive.

I would be in favor for giving the AI more CPU time if it meant it would play smarter! Although I think there are improvement that can be made that would not require extra resources.
(1) In v1.1 the AI places more value on speed which is good but it also needs to place more value on sensors. The player who builds "Eyes of the Universe" has a large advantage over the others!
(2) Choosing alignment "Neutral" and building "Neutrality Learning Centers" allows you to greatly accelerate your research! On difficulty level Tough I easily out research the AIs even without NLCs because the AI does not allocate enough spending to research.

For example, one of the most intensive things that the AI does is design ships. Part of that reason has to do with the actual graphical assemblage which I don't fully understand what's involved on that part. But I only allow the AI to design ships once per year right now. If I tweaked it to even 3 times a year I think you'd notice a significant difference, especially early on when human players have better ships because in 2226 the human player has gotten plasma weapons and the AI is still running around with laser 1 or something when it has actually researched Plasma weapons as well.

How about having it redesign ships on turns where it gains some new tech which impacts the quality of its' ships? Human players import ship designs from past games and then research the techs needed to build those ships. Could the AI not be provided with smart ship designs at the start of the game? When you consider the combinations of weapons and defenses the list could grow very long. Although I build ships unique to each game (usually changing things like ship range), these days I find myself always researching Beam weapons and ignoring defenses (defenses are not needed if your fast fleets strike first and hard and then level up). In the pre-1.0 Beta I focused on Mass Drivers because they then were more effective when you consider size/cost/strength (e.g., Nanno Rippers) and armor was less effective.

Thanks for listening to your customers!

I think that something needs to be done to keep the game from crashing every time I play it. Fix that little quirk, and then I will have everything I ever wanted or expected. To answer questions regarding what you should be fixing it for: I have a pentium 4- 3 gb processor , 1 gb FSB, 2 MB cache, dual SATA RAID harddrives, 2 gb ram, and a 256 mb 16 pipeline ddr3 video card from ATI. Yes- all my drivers are up to date- up to the very latest. Yes, I have checked my video card options to overide applications options, so that it doesn't overheat or something. I am running the game 1024*768. I have all the latest patches. I am doing EVERYTHING that has been suggested online, and I have NEVER had problems like this with a game EVER. You want a suggestion--- FIX this buggy shitty little job of programming that you call a game, please. There are according to your figures, about 2.5 percent of us with these problems. That means hundreds, probably thousands of currently dissatisfied customers who cant play for more than 15 minutes without a crash. It has happened so often that even microsoft is well aware of your problems through error reporting-- no kidding. Thankyou.

I'd love the ability to not lose troop transports, as well as if I choose to not upgrade all at one point, but then decide to the next turn, I dont have to do it ship-by-ship, but can choose to upgrade all.

Thanks for the opportunity to suggest some changes!!

1) Could we get some simple SAUCER hull shapes added so we can make so better Trek ships or Classic UFOs?

2) Could we get some tear-drop shapes so we can do some Klingon or Bird of Prey designs?

3) I love the Warp Engine design but could we get some similar designs including some Square (Exterprise D) Naccells?

4) Some of the weapons are just too clumsey looking when trying to design a "sleek" design. Could we get an option of having a dimple or something innoccuous that will no spoil a design?

5) As tech increases, the size lowers a little but the present system does not allow us to add just 1-2 points on Warp Speed or a Small battery of Point Defenses batteries. Can we get some tech that would we for MINOR upgrades and have stuff we can buy for 1-2 points. PLEASE!

6) Can we not have Starbases marked with the Race Symbol so we know who is WHO? Some ability to mark Star Bases so we can better gage their upgrade condition would be great. A small mouse-over comment perhaps?

7) Can we not have the ability to add some simple markers to our maps like a Blue Circle around our Homeworld or a Red Square around important Starbases that we want to Upgrade or some red stars that mark a territorial boundry?

8) Can you not give alien ships either unique names or else identify them with a short symbol/Abeviation that indicates Race?

9) Can you allow us to change names from the Star base management screen?

10) Please put the NAME of the design in the STAR PORT Screen.

11) When in the STAR PORT screen. please put the NAME of the ship you are launching so you don't have to guesss from the itsey-bitsey icon.

12) Please allow a setting to Auto-launch ships. Some ships (Constructors, colony, transports..) should auto-launch.

13) Can you let us turn off the prompt that asks for % of colonists or troopers in Colony Ships and Transports? I always load the max and the extra clicks are very annoying.

14) One Future Tech should be the ability to upgrade your Star port. This upgrade could be the ability to add defense/offense to the planet.

15) Allow us to add smaller weapons that have DIFFERENT SFX. Our main beams could be standard but we could also add some minor armament that it a different color and much shorter in duration. This would add more realism when trying to spice up a battle scene with Main Phasors and Lesser beam weapons (Star Fleet Battles - Mark 1 and Mark 3 Phasors or Disruptors)

16) Gives us a future tech that allows us to add TWO or THREE engines to a design without paying all our points. Have low cost engines avail to hep us customize a design.

17) Move the Mini-Map away from the TURN Button!!!!

18) Auto center on a ship/fleet/planet so we don't always have to resize to see where we are.

19) Put some simple coordinate markers on the map edges so we can see what "sector" or "Quadrant" we are in.

20) Add some extremely basic hull designs as a race hull option for those of us that want to customize ships w/o having to cover up the basic hull.

21) Add ability to change music. After awhile the existing music drives me up the wall.

22) I like to add details about how a ship is equipped. Please allow us to change theShips Notes before we go to the Save screen and that info becomes unavailable.

23) When a Trade good or Achievement is announced.... PLEASE give us the specifics of what it does for us. This is much more important than the existing "announcement" blurb.

24) Have Anomolies continue to spawn throughout the game so our Survey Ships don't become obsolete.

1) Command and Control Ships -

It would be awesome if you could create a special class of ships that lead your Fleets. I design a Command Cruiser (Ala Star Trek) but there is little I can do to make it "special". Can we allow Sensors to have some affect in battles? Perhaps allowing a ship equipped with Sensors to help the fleet/itself in some manner - perhaps Allowing it to fire 1st or giving it the ability to provide some minor defense for the entire Fleet. This idea would also be awesome for Escort Class ships.

Another option would be some Command/Control function that we could buy that influences who fires 1st.

2) Carrier Ships and Fighters -

Doubt that this change would be simple but it woudl be awesome to create Carriers and have them equipped with Fighters.

3) Long Range vs Short Range Attacks

Being able to buy Long Range attacks that would allow you to fire when small ships were out of Range would be awesome. This could be countered by having tech that allowed for short range but very powerful weapons. ie: Maulers

4) Plasma Torpedos

I really miss Plasma Torps! These slow moving babies have always been my favorite. I would also like a weapon class or tech that allowed a weapon to do Aera of Effect damage to an entire fleet.

5) Cloaking

I would LOVE to have the ability to Cloak! This option could have the same cost as Survey Vessel but allow you to scout w/o being attacked (or decreased chance) as well as giving you the ability to fire 1st when de-cloaking. Star Bases could buy teh ability to detect Cloaked Ships or Sensors could give you ability to detect them.

6) Jump Gates

Why are there no longer any Jump Gates? We should be able to build a limited number of new Jump Gates at some point in the game that would allow instant travel between 2 locations.

7) Terraformer Ship

This mammoth ship could upgrade even a Class 0 Planet into something livable. This would allow us to establisth colonies in a critical sector of space that was previously uninhabital.

8) Constructor Ships

Could we click on a Constructor Ship and see what area a Base built at that location would cover?

9) Star Base Blockade

It would be very nice if you could have a Star Base interdict Foreign Sparecraft travel in its area of influence. It simply makes no sense not to deny access to critical areas to every potential enemy Scout and Colony ship.

9) All Attacks look the same

Most Alien ships in fiction/TV/movies have different SFX than their neighbors. Could you add an option that would give some customization to our attacks? Color or special Sound effect even?

10) Mines

The ability to lay mines (and to sweep them) would be marvelous and add a new way of protecting a territory.

Please forgive if this is a duplicate... my original post seems to have been destroyed by an Iconian Saboteur....

1) Please allow renaming on the Ship Detail Screen. In fact on most of the detail screens, you should be able to rename.

2) When asked if you want to upgrade a Star Base, the freaking window covers up the Star Base and what zione it influences!!! How can we make choices as to what to upgrade if we are guessing?? Please show us a mini-map of what the SB is near.

3) Please give troop numbers on board when you look at a Troop Transport or a Colony Ship. I tried and tried to find this info.

4) Allow the troops on board a ship to be offloaded before a ship is decommisioned.

5) Allow a Colony Ship to add colonists to an existing Colony. This would allow you to beef up a border world and also solve #4.

6) When someone goes to war with you, have some type of announcement and their reason. I just had someone who I was sure I had terrific relations with, attack me without reason. I don't know if this is a bug or what. Even if there is a good reason, a nasty communication would be neat.

Find/search utility for projects. I have some planet building a Spin Control center and I can't remember which one -- it was at 4:00 in the morning, and things get fuzzy at that time of day.

I hope I don't look like an idiot and this turns out to be done already, but shortcut keys for doing things in the shipyard.

"R" - Remove a Piece
"Arrow" to move left and right through the pieces according to the top scroll.
"Ctrl-S" - Save Ship
That kind of stuff,

Section in the shiplist to see possible ships that you need to research additional techs to get.
And I'd have to say quick launch all ship is one of the best I heard so far

1) Unused Military production should carry over to Social Production in same way as it already works in other direction (for 1.1).

2) Doubled growth from 100% approval should be removed
Makes game too easy to me and adds too much micromanagement (by forcing every turn all cities to 100% to get that doubled growth which will increase income in loger run). Why extra 1% loyal people would give doubled growth? Isn't more then doubled growth compared to 50% approval city good enough reward?

3) Finishing missing tooltips in colony screen could be good idea. Now only some of them are availeble (miltary prod, influence, approval)

Here are my votes (some of these have already been mentioned):

-- Make the minimap scrollable and more in sync with the main map; it's annoying to do a zoom in/zoom out to recenter the minimap

-- Allow some means of seeing where a planet is located on the map when in the full planet view (e.g., something like the old Tactical view)

-- When (non-fleet) ships are stacked, let me be able to do something with them w/out having to move them apart (e.g., when two or more constructors end up on the same location, I'd like to be able to build a starbase w/out having to move them apart)

Great game, btw. Check out my review of it at Amazon.com. ..bruce..