I'd like to see the tooltips fixed so that they appear when you first put the mouse over the object. As it is now, you put the mouse over the object, THEN you have to move the mouse a second time a small distance while keeping it over the object.

Diagonal scrolling would be nice too.

Making the "lights" you add on to ships actually emit their own light would be cool as heck. Probably too much, though...

a label tagged besides ships who you are at war with when your not at icon level zoom. I like the pretty pictures you guys did at the lower zoom levels but find i have to zoom out to find enemy ships. Espcially the small buggers.

Feud: i found that if you togel the Map Grid view ON you can see exactly how far each ship can go if you know the # of moves a ship has left. not as cool as a circle showing range, but will still help w/ the movements...

In the ship designer I'd like a "random extras" button that would randomly choose place a number of extras on the hardpoints of your ship.

I don't know how hard this would be to implement, but I'd love to easily and quickly get some cool and funky ship designs via randomness

There is some odd behavior with stacks of ships.
When you click a stack the first ship is selected. Let's say we want to manipulate a ship deeper in the group.
The combination of selecting and picking a ship are combined causing some confusion.

So if you want to give orders to one ship and you click it you may have to click the first ship in the stack to unselect it and it seems like the currently selected ship has changed. The information on the right will represent the ship you unselected rather then the one you last selected. Most RTS games require holding down a button to multi select ships and this may be somthing most users have as a mental model for selecting units in a group selection.

We need to be able to upgrade fleets or rather have a shortcut key and button to upgrade individual ships when you pick them in the stack or fleet, I find my self moving the ship to empty space so i can click the upgrade button. If they are in a fleet i have to disband the fleet and then move it into empty space going through the odd selection process i talked about above.

When you use a box to select units in many different tiles and then you select another object the graphics representing the selections remain. Seems like a UI bug.

Because I find minor races a great part of the game, it would be nice if I could adjust their capabilities the same way we can adjust the level of the other majors. I don't want them as "smart" or as "gifted" as the majors, but they shouldn't be pure cannon fodder, either. They make great foils, but I'd like them to have a bit more strength and adaptability at times.

Tooltip: Maximum population a planet is able to hold on colony management screen when you hover the planet picture.

Tweak: (or bugfix) Tier 2 types of weapons and armor can be built even if you don't have Battle Stations mk I which unlocks the Tier 1. If there's an order to these things then you shouldn't be able to build the +10 def or attack ones if you can't put the +5 ones on. In the beta it was build it as you research it.

Tweak: UI window for "Do you want to upgrade this starbase?" Yes or No. Initial window says starbase name.

Hi everyone!!!

I am still shouting my corner here!! 3 things i'd like to see:
1. Being able to rotate through the horizontal plane on the tactical map. (put an option on the interface menu)
2. Diagonal scrolling on tactical map and only scroll when the edge of the screen is touched
3. VAPOR TRAILS!!!! (see previous posts) oh oh oh My idea, my idea!!!!!!!

Is there any way to get the mini-map, once zoomed in, to move with the main map so both keep the same central point of focus? I get the mini-map to re-center to the main map focus by a quick zoom out, zoom in two-step. If it followed automatically, that would be great!

Yes! That annoys me immensely, especially on a gigantic map.

4. Also, even though I understand the link to planetary defense, it seems completely illogical that ships in orbit around a planet cannot retain fleet groupings. This makes them less effective when defending a planet than when in deep space. This one really rubs me the wrong way.

5. need a [split fleet] button. Either I missed something, or either I can only merge existing fleets or I have to land them in orbit to get them to separate.

6. I was noticing in forums that starbase bonuses were stacking? I remember very early on (Beta 1) that the discussion was going in the direction that overlapping bonuses would not stack. I haven't had time to notice yet which is the actual case. But if it's a debate between players who want them to stack and not, how about an Options button to toggle the effect between stacking bonuses and non-stacking?

Enjoying it so far! Thanks for all the hard work!

1) Ban trading for technologies when a race lacks their prerequisites. It breaks the tree and is illogical. For example, giving hunter-gatherers in Borneo VLSI silicon fabrication technology should not let them build Itaniums, and subsequently develop optical computers.

2) Ideally (long term) replace tech trading with 'blueprint trading' that cuts down research time, rather than giving a tech. In the short term, banning a race from trading any technology they were given for some number of turns (until they 'understand' it) would relieve players from the non-choice of trading to ALL computers on the same time, or trading to none at all, since trading to only one means the rest get it without compensating you. The real world doesn't work that way... there is percolation, but it takes years from tech given to an ally to make its way to an enemy (and be used effectively).

How about the ability to rename Stars, and so that it automaticly renames all the planets around them accordingly? It shouldn't be that hard do(though I have no knowledge of such things). It sounds like just a minor tweak that could ease up the naming process of planets significantly...

Yeah, some good suggestions here.
'Launch All'-button on planets and scrolling via arrow keys are the things I've been longing for, too, so: Yes please!
Plus, somehow make more transparent what's going on with customization of the default races - right now, I'm quite confused about which abilities suddenly vanish when I change something and which don't.
Plus, make some auto-reset or reset-button to set the races back to default so we don't have to delete files manualy to get the original races back...