The title saids it all, i know galciv2 just hit the shelfs but the sooner we start talking about the next one, the sooner we can see (hope) stardock can take our inputs/improvements of the game and follow up with an expansion or 3rd installment. Trust me, why wouldnt you, especially when sales are high. Time to keep the ball rolling.

So what do you want the next game to be

-Galciv 3? or expansion?

-I would very much like to see the following,

1. Better sound/music - not that it isnt great, but the more epic and grand the better. Also during battle would like to hear people screaming from the engineering department with critical status reports. Shields down to 5%, missle target locked on, mayday mayday we need reinforcements, winger 5 watch your 6, enemy on your tail... you get my drift ^^
----> also i want to see voice over when you click on a unit or when there is a news report or tech research done. A nice female voice in the back giving me war updates or economy status. Just adds to the over all realism and feel.

2. Ship design is great, but would like to see alot more templates and core ships for selection. (not everyone here is a gifted in ship building. Plus ability to edit core design. One idea we can get a ship design contest going and the top ships gets to appear in the next game.

3. Tech tree description/detail , it doesnt hurt but adding this would definately add more depth and polish to the already solid
game, plus anyone notice its kinda akward to view the tech tree?

4.multiplayer. Sure most of us doesnt care about it, but im sure the minority outthere would love this feature.

5.option to manage battles oppose to auto solve with combat viewer? or at least gives us the command to try and prioritize weapons and defense and let the battle show us the end results?

6.If the tech tree is near limitless, then so should our ships. im talking I want to design a mothership here a ship so grand I can dock cruisers, fighers, troopers. or planet size spacestation or moving fortresses like the deathstar (SW). Because space is all about ships and planets., once your there tech wise, that should be the next step

7.Finally, this is my personal desire. although its 3D, but on the star map, it still feels abit 2D especially how the stars in the back drop, and with the grid and all, its like im on a chess board here. it would be nice if stardock and make it such a way that I can feel the infinite deep space. perhaps we can have solar systems to solar systems, when we zoom in, we see planets orbiting around a sun, all in 3D but when we zoom out the the map, its all solar system connecting to each other via black holes and routes and some path you can hyper space some you cannot so you can start making hyperspace gate to guard intruder etc etc.

alright, I'll let the rest of you add to the table.

P.S i havent research all the techs yet. but can someone tell me if there is such thing as the intergalactic steller converter like the one in MoO2? where you can destory planets?