Add the ability to raze economic, political, and other capitals on conquered worlds, as well as any other "one per race" type structures.

Manipulating ships at planets is cumbersome, most especially if you've just moved a fleet there and wish to move it off again.

SUGGEST: Keeping ships that were part of a fleet as they entered orbit "together", and highlighting them in a colored box. If the player wishes to eject such ships, they may use the existing "launch ship" button, OR a newly created "launch fleet" button which would launch all ships of that fleet, and keep them in a fleet once launched.

Further, it would be nice if rightclicking ships in orbit, or within fleets, brought up a small menu of options for the most common things you'd want to do: ie, launch, upgrade, remove from fleet, etc.

As it stands, it's just too darn cumbersome... though perhaps I'm beating a dead horse

If I may add my own suggestions - forgive if I repeat others.

1. I'm playing a game on a huge map on challenging difficulty where only one of the eight AI empires are expanding into other planets, please rectify this.

2. Be able to upgrade ships regardless if they are in a stack or fleet.

3. Be able to Queue ship building in a planet.

4. Show the area of effect of a station when a constructor is selected.

5. To be able to move the mini map center when it's zoomed in, or at least have it reflect the current position of the game screen.

6. To be able to set a class designation that changes per upgrade. It can be any orientation of characters, the important thing is when a ship is upgraded it's class designation changes to the class designation of the new design. So maybe make it a separate text box in the ship creation panel [Class Designation], [Class Name]. That way, a player could elect to use that feature if he wants. Also, if a player uses this proposed feature, it's not modifiable in the ship change name dialog box (or it could be, but it woudl be easier if it wasn't).

7. In lieu to the previous suggestion, have when a ship is created, it reads from a text file to give each ship a specfic name, by ship size and class. So each ship has it's own name.

8. Be able to rename stars

I read through but didn't spot this, sorry if its been said.

Would it be possible to get a bigger map size?

Even on the biggest with all races things are bit squashed.

Holy Crap this is an amazing game!

K ... found a few more things

1) When you are building a structure on a planet, every time you make a selection, the item menu refreshes back to the top of the list, so if you are building xeno farms and you want to select three in a row you select, scroll, scroll, select, scroll, scroll ... its kind of annoying. I believe the same is true of the actual queue as well when you want to remove things. Both lists should not refresh

2) It would be really handy if there was some way in the planet listing (the one selected by the planet tab) if it showed you which planets were focusing on something and one. As it is, you have to keep track mentally. The reason why its important is if you got brand new factories, then you want your factory planets to stop focusing on cranking out ships and to start focusing on building factories.

3) The rally point scroll menu doesn't actually work if you have enough rally points to fill the page. You have to use the scroll button. I know ... its a little thing.

4) How come your relations with another race don't improve if you happen to be fighting the same enemy? I can't imagine the British and the Americans even being on speaking terms with Stalin if they weren't fighting the Nazis

5) If you don't clean out those little blue "message boxes" that announce ships, once the entire screen is fill there is a weird little bug where a blue box zips UP the screen. Seems to happen every turn or so, but doesn't really do anything.

6) I think there might be something wrong with the rally points. I told all my ships that were going to one rally point to go to another (using that very cool utility). Suddenly all the ships lost their autopilot status. It only happened once though.

7) It would be nice if there was a little sound when the turn button turned green. Sometimes I keep clicking on the same ship not realizing that the turn has ended.

8) It would be very handy if there was a mouse over text that showed the research cost of each of the techs in the diplomacy screen. As it is it is very confusing ... is Advanced Logistics better than Expert Logistics? Am I getting ripped off in this deal?

That's all I can think of now ... now back to razing planets!

Dano

An option to change rally points in the colony list screens (One, the ship/colony screen that appears on the left side of your screen, the other, the colony list that is in the graphs menu).

Similarly, more detailed control of ships in the left-side ship/planet display menu would be nice - minibuttons for upgrade, fleet-create, move (really move, not just to here), destroy, etc. would be nice

This may already exist, and I am simply unaware of it, but is there a way to restore the default abilities of the various Races. I have tweaked a bunch of them, but I can't recall the default settings.

Perhaps a button that restores all defaults or simply having the default Races saved in the Custom Race folder would be nice.

Cheers.

In the foreign deplomacy window under "treaties" have the ability to click on the empire icons and select them as the current empire. Just an ease-of-use thing.

I would like to see next previous planet and shipyard tied to either left right arrows or page up page down or something like that.

Ability to create ship templates would be nice also, we can do it on our own by designing emty hulls but it requires files moved copied out of game. And while you are at it haqrd coded design upgrades...

If you save. quit and load a game, all ship designs that you have obsoleted or deleted comes back to haunt you in quick build screen on galaxy map. Pls fix it...

Ability to see area of effet for a srabase when you are about to build it by a constructor would be nice. Having to count those grid squares is annoying, yeah i am a perfectionist...

A starbase management screen just like colony would be nice where you can see current defensive/offensive/other stats how many more constructors are needed and the ability to send constructors there would be splendid.

Now with a wish list like that i better start being very very good and wait for Santa, unless that poxy drengin fleet intercepts him first.

I dunno if this counts as a tweak or a full blown feature...but..

Allow players making a custom race to choose the template for the offical races. So, I could make a race and give them the Drengin abilities and such. I know this is possible by selecting that race and changing their name/appearance etc..etc.. but id like the option to have their abilities, but still play against them .

Don't know if this is in there, cause i admit i didn't read all that, but it would be nice when you create an upgraded ship design and it brings you to the upgrade menu, you could select upgrade all (including ships in fleets and in planetary orbit).

Also,

Some random events (finding a ship) are excessively overpowered. I had a corvette event once that gave me 16 Fleets of corvettes. (It said Corvette Fleet, and showed 12 of 12 logistics points and displayed 5 ships in combat, but I couldn't 'decompose' this fleet into specific Precursor Corvette ships). This is a bit excessive, especially early in a game.

Allow the 'construct' option to show the 'effect' radius of a starbase. I can't tell you how many times I've missplaced a starbase by 1 place.

Put a cost to building a new ship designs. It's a bit unrealistic to be on 'bleeding-edge' technology on all ships, all the time. That's the way the AI seems to work.

I started to read through the list to avoid duplicating others' suggestions but didn't realize there were so many until I got to the bottom of the first page. Hope this post isn't too boring ...

Only two minor points I'd like to have changed -

When I click on an 'auto-piloting' ship it doesn't remove the autopilot label like in GC1. So when I then right-click on the map to change destination I have to go and see that a new target point has been set. A click should either remove the autopilot label or we should be able to see autopilot routes.

The second point is that launching a transport doesn't seem to increase local approval (because of lower population) like in GC1. This was a great way of maintaining morale while also preparing for invasions, but now I have to build more entertainments ...

Otherwise I really liked the Akilians saying they knew I was building up to invade them, and that if their generals had been 'Intelligent' that they'd've done something about it. As it happens it was the Drengins I took out, but I'd found out who'd be next ...

Great game so far!!