new intermediate map sizes would be nice too

Large and Huge would be nice

Yeah that would be nice would like a 10x10 map myself.

On that note, one could *consider* an "auto-upgrade" function for ship parts much like the auto-upgrade function in the planet building screen. WarpII becomes WarpIII if turned on, and the ship is saved under a new numeral. (Eg Armored Fist I becomes Armored Fist II.)
If implemented, this could HUGELY improve the AI's shipbuilding, which, as we now know, is currently done only once per year. If the auto-upgrade algorithms can be modest, this might help both human players and AI.

I: The AI still builds planets horribly. There is, unfortunately, no way to attach screenshots to this forum that I can see (am I missing something?), but I have screenshots of truly sad, sad planetary improvement placement. I have no concrete suggestions to improving this, but if you can, please try.

just upload your images to a hosting site like Imageshack or Photobucket and then click the Image button at the top of the posting box and put the link of your picture in it.

even though I only have the demo atm and going to get the full game on my B-Day on June 2nd, I do have one gripe I'd like to put here.

the turn button is TOO close to the minimap because if you try to click the bottom corner area of the minimap you can very easily accidentially hit the turn button. so, I dunno, move the turn button over a little bit on the interface? moving it a quarter inch or something won't affect gameplay since its easier to press enter anyway and it will ease that tendency.

In order to make the "survey" module more valuable (currently, there is a wonder which allows you to get them for free, but this isnt much use once one gets the tech), Anomolies should be objects which appear randomly in the galaxy during the course of the game (instead of at the beginning). Perhaps there are two or three only in a medium sized galaxy at game's begin if they are set to fairly frequent, but at that setting, one could appear in a random empty parsec once every second or third week.

What if you could simply pay some money to upgrade a starbase without having to senda new constructor every time you want a new module?
I dont like that unnecassary micro if i want to upgrade my 5+ bases with a new module after i reearched the tech for it.

Why not make it like one of the folowing ideas:
1) you have to pay 150 bc for a new module
then a little freighter would start from the nearest planet
once it reaches the base, it will get upgraded


2) You pay the money and the starbase will be upgraded like a ship
set to 1hp and after 1-4 weeks the new module will be functional

3) you can add more than one constructor module on a ship

4) constructors are no more "shoot and forget".
constructors work like in space empires 4
so they work like a moveable spaceyard.
they can use lets say 10bc/ round/ number of constructors to build new bases ( a bases would then cost lets say 200bc)

I m sure there are many other intersting ways make uprgading many bases more comfortable.
When reponding to this thread plz keep in mind that these numbers are numbers i just came up with and would mostly likly have to be changed

@Chip56: Although the idea might be nice, there is no way such things can be implemented in a next patch. Let's try to keep things realistic!

One more: I've noticed that with tech trading off, the game is more challenging for me. While I can beat "genius" AI fairly smoothly with tech trading, I find "gifted" difficult with it disabled.
Perhaps it would be possible for the higher AI levels (gifted and above) to treat HUMAN PLAYER tech deals as increasingly smaller increments -- e.g., gifted might see a human deal at (default) 3/5's of its actual value, and an impossible AI at 1/7th of its actual value, or something like that. This could be more interesting for those of us who would like to play with tech trading on now and then.

Perhaps it might be prudent to either remove or have a check-box option to remove "precursor"-level planet bonuses on planets. When I get a planet with a 700% bonus to anything, I almost feel like it is cheating. It is just too random.

Random anamolies are a great idea onomastikon! In my opinion, anamolies should be a continuous occurance and should appear throughout the duration of gameplay, never allowing a loss in that element of fun because you run out of static anamolies to find. In fact it could be a game option: Static anamolies vs. continuous occurance anamolies. Also: Wormhole Levels: Tons, Many, Moderate, Light, Rare

Here's my 1.2 cents (maybe some good ideas for 1.3-4):

The Nature of Wormholes: Wormholes by nature and in my humble opinion should appear and disappear randomly and shift end locations constantly. There should not naturally be stable wormholes. Wormholes are also two way road (allowing enemy civs to instantly gain access to you just as you have access to them) unless technology specifically dictates otherwise.

Wormhole Tech Research
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1.) Wormhole Probes- Off of the "Sensor" tech tree. With the ability to be built into a ship design, A menu will pop-up when a player directs a ship equipped with these probes into a wormhole; the menu will ask the player whether they want to launch a wormhole probe, or enter the wormhole (with the ship). If they choose the "Launch A Probe" option, the Wormhole probe will go through the wormhole and relay back map data about the immediate area on the other side. Great for scouts that you are not looking to dispose of to an enemy civ.

2.) Wormhole Braces- A very high technology that allows a player to "lock down" the location of a wormhole. Since there are two ends to every tunnel, to "lock down" a wormhole with a set start and finish location will require two specialized constructor class ships with "braces" built into the design. Consider that having a wormhole locked down on your end, but without a brace on the other end will allow the other end to "flux" to different locations on the map--allowing you to explore random distance parts of the galaxy, but leaving you vulnerable to attack if the wormhole fluxes into enemy territory.

3.) Tacheyon Flow Control Modules (TFCMs)- Like starbases, braces can be updated with certain techs by (ordinary) constructors. Tacheyon Flow Modules allow you to control the direction of traffic in your braced wormhole. You need one on either end of the hole in order to gain complete directional control. You can even toll alien ships to use your wormhole.

4.) Wormhole Brace Defenses- Braces can be destroyed by enemy ships, so braces need defenses (similar to starbases). A unique defense: if the TFCMs are installed could be "Hypersuck" where entire fleets could be sucked in from beyond the ordinary event horizon through some wierd scientific terminology involving a massive concentration of inverse tacheyons or whatever. These fleets could then be crushed against the tube wall or something. Yeah I'm tired--the Trekkie part of my brain just fell asleep.

If this is too much for 1.2, then perhaps you guys can remember this post in this thread and refer the devs back to it later. I think these ideas would rock the boat later as they add a whole new element of strategy to the game.

1) When you sort your colonies by which ever criteria you want and go to a particulary planet, the next/previous button should cycle through the colonies the way you have sorted them. For example if I have sorted the colonies by population size then this selecting 'next' should give me the planet with the next highest pop and 'previous' give the next lowest pop.

Oh, yes, brilliant. Why didnt I think of that?

1)
a second quick save slot.
There is nothing more annoying than this:
strg-s crash to desktop a corrupted quicksave last autosave 45min ago

2)
a button to hide obsolute weapons/ engines/ defenses in the shipbuilder