GC4 Feedback Live Branch | VERSION 1.04.347661

The first time I used a military starbase it was at a star system with a core world and 4 colonies.  My AI enemy didn't seem to know what to do.  Then it sent a powerful fleet that destroyed the starbase and the 3 or 4 ships I had stationed there.  I rushed a constructor at the shipyard so I could build a new military starbase.  During the AI turn that same AI fleet moved and destroyed my shipyard before the constructor could be built.  They then sent small fleets to attack and conquer my defenseless colonies and a transport to take my core world.  I never recovered.

The AI can be surprisingly slow and dumb at times, then can be smart and vicious at other times.

The Done button for the starbase screen is active only for the lower half of the button. This can be very frustrating. It has been this way since the alpha and was reported then by players.

Also, the mining starbase for Xeloxi appears very  large in the starbase screen when it is built.

This screenshot shows the size of the starbase and the active area of the Done button.

If you want to easily see the huge image of the starbase happen and see the active and inactive areas of the Done button, download the save available here.

You can build a Communication starbase with the constructor near the home planet and see that has a normal size.  You can also verify that only part of the Done button recognizes the cursor.

You can build a Mining starbase with the constructor near the promethion and see how large the starbase image is.  You can zoom out to see that it is a  problem with the default view.  You can also verify again that the Done button doesn't work the way it should.

While playing as the Xeloxi I got the Poor Housing event.

It includes complaints about poor housing causing crime.  It seems odd that the Xeloxi would be complaining about crime.  It does mention insurrection and other things, but why the problem with crime?

Also, notice mention of colony.  This event happens on a core world, not a colony.  Maybe colony should be changed to planet or something else.

The description for a Corrosive planet indicates it can't be settled by non-carbon life forms.

This implies carbon life forms can colonize it.  I'm playing as the Terran Alliance, but I can't colonize it without extreme colonization. Text that is similar to text used for other types of extreme planets may be better.

pleeding should be pleading.

This is more to do with the overall game but could we add some kind of option maybe in pacing which ensures that we can't get the early to mid game one faction which has begun it's inevitable steam roll of all the others? quite often it's a faction marked as 'peaceful and diplomatic' which ran into the Festron early on and now wants to rule the galaxy. In every single game no matter the setting it's always the Minmot if you've included them. I'd really like to be able to get a map which has a good spread of rare habitable worlds and allows for a long game. Possibly make it much harder to take worlds and also possibly make races attempt to access their trade options and also make minor races much more proactive. Really there are any number of things that could be done but it's really annoying to get a decent balanced map to find that one of the factions is now ruling the universe and your only option is a big war which is really boring for a trading diplomatic faction. 

Two bugs I found today on test.

For some reason in the shipyard my ships all say that they carry one legion. This is obviously not true.

Next, the active for Harpoon Salvo does not appear to be working. Here's a photo showing it installed on my military base and describing what it is supposed to do.

Now here is a photo of the area. I should be able to Harpoon Salvo the Terran fleet since we are at war. That's the hex showing 7 ships. It's within range of my starbase, but there is no orange missile icon thingy for me to click in the bottom left.