What is MCC?

This is getting so complex and thorough that - well - i think, what we will possibly need is an eventual POLL based on the limited 5 to 10++ final priority choices taken by staff for any good reasons!
Just to comprehend the whole perspective(s).

Lets see if I can list 5 things

1. Yor economy needs improvements
The Yor have a *horible* economy. Because their economic planet improvement "Efficiency Center" (Internal name) has a build limit of 1 per planet, the Yor don't get much income. The only other structure they can use is the "Recruiting center", but its also a 1 per planet improvement.

The net result is, I consider never researching collective techs, and leaving planet tiles empty the only practically way to play the Yor without tech Trading/Stealing other economic techs. The efficiency techs, and charging stalks are not a strong enough of an advantage to deal with the loss of the ability to spam economic structures.

2. Improve starbases defenses
Starbases defenses modules are only good for the short term. I find that the AI will quickly tech up to the point that any form of starbase defenses (except maybe basic) is pointless since they will not survive, and costs too many constructors.

For the short term, I would like to have ships to be able to fleet with any starbase to protect it (like terrorstars). Have the ships be attacked first would almost garentee the long term survival of a protected starbase (unless the fleet dies). Have a few special support modules for the starbase to enhance the ships protecting it, such as repair bays (for any starbase type) would help.

In the long term, I like to have the whole starbase philosophy (defenses atleast) to be throughly reviewed, but having them protected by fleets would do for now.

3. Ethics
Perhaps too late in the development process to fix now, but I have hated the philosophy in random events. The philosophy seems to be: good must suffer the penalties, while evil enjoys the rewards.

Such a view annoys me, and it seems too primative. There is no long term effects in the game (beyond bonuses and penalties). No unlocked techs, no possibility to correct wrongs of other civilizations, and no chance that certain creature or people saved from evil (or suffer at its hands) to come back to repay depts in full.

4. Make the game more modable
There are many things that you can't do with the game for one reason or another. For instance, despite having the ability to create custom troop modules, when placing such modules on ships, they are treated as having Zero capacity for purposes for lauching from orbit (so its likely such ships can't be launched).

Things I would like to be able to do is:
-Create capacity modules (like troop modules, or colony modules)
-Provide more attributes we can change for starbases (I don't believe we can design a module that can provide more hit points to the starbase).
-Unlock hard coded attributes of planet improvements.

If you need a complete list of what adjust, I'm sure the modding community will be happy to provide a complete list.

5. Fixed slidders
Nuff said.

I really laughed on this one. Nice style of writing.
But Chris, dont be too nitpicking, the planetary improvement graphics are only symbolic - of course one single factory is not meant to do production for billions of people. It stands for military production on that planet. By the way - do you have ever recognized the HUGE, green glowing lines outside your house indicating the border of your planetary tile?
You are right that the style of play in result to the sliders might not be "realistic" anytime in the game, but it is in my opinion just the way the game is (and it is good);besides, you have the option to get a focus on every planet if you want. That is maybe just your style of play that is unrealistic. I personally do not "swap" production between the three sliders, but only weigh them to my need - as it is supposed to.

Frankly, it seems to me that changing the sliders IS the best way to play. If I'm doing research, but not building ships at the moment, having anything higher than 0% on Military Production is a waste. After all, reducing it to 0 lets me increase Research spending, and reduce the amount of time spent doing it. And if I'm not building any Planetary Improvements also, I can reduce that to 0 and make Research 100%.

In other words, if you DON'T change the sliders all the time, depending on what you're doing, then you're being wasteful. Research taking longer than it must because you've got too much money spent on ships you aren't building, or planetary improvements you aren't building. Ships that take extra turns to build because you're also busy building that new morale building. Etc.

I find it faster to actually do only one thing at once, and just change sliders so whatever I'm doing at the moment is 100%. And that kind of micromanagement I not only find counterintuitive, but actively annoying... especially since I have to do it every turn.

 I didn't read all the post so forgive me if any of these has been mentioned.

Selecting multiple ships should allow them all to move at once, instead of waiting around for a dozen ships to move one at a time.

Allow more characters for naming ships with the ability to put the curser anywhere, like in a text editor, or auto numbering. Star Avenger 1,2,3 and so on.

Set rally points for a planet just by selecting the planet then right clicking were you want your rally point.

The ability to set a keep focus point so events don't jump you around the map. I know you can stop this but most of the time it's nice but other times it's a real pain. You could have it jump to the event but then automatically return to your focus point.

Symmetry in the ship build screen. You select symmetry x,y or z and a duplicate of the component is attached to the exact opposite point.

[quote3.) Some way to use or be gifted with arnor tech/ships. Maybe a mega event?[/quote]

The precursor rangers are Dreadlord/Arnorian ships...perhaps an overhaul to give them the right textures though..

+1 for this. And by fixed, I mean give it the planet flipping bonus, not the econ bonus. For the love of all that's holy, yes. I must've complained about this a dozen times during the beta. The lack of resource mining modules with any race that doesn't have the standard factories is nearly as bad. It's like I have a choice between indefensible useless starbases with the Thalan, or defensible useless starbases with the Drengin, Korath, Yor . . .

Forgot to add: Please add a checkbox to disable auto-upgrade of farms without disabling upgrades in general. Or make the game remember that I've cancelled that upgrade. As it is, I have to remember which planets have farms on food bonuses and manually upgrade everything else because if I leave autoupgrade on it'll keep trying to build a new farm.

1. AI and espionage generally

I know this is scheduled for update but my first choice has to be the espionage system. At the moment I just dont like how it works, I think it needs a total revamp but at this stage I dont really have a good answer either. My last few games I have just ended up having to take the hit from agents on my planets because it takes far too much money to nullify them in the end game. almost seems like its best to take the hit.

2. Invasion screen

I actually have to admit I like the old version better, but at the same time I so like what you have done with it. I would suggest a merging of the two versions. So the current invasion screen is that the top and the old version in the middle with the world map at the bottom. That might sound a bit buzy but I think it could work nicely if designed well. While your at it give the old invation window a graphics revamp.

3. Bugs.

There are still a little too many bugs in the game for my liking, as always i think these should take priority, this is probably a waste on my list because I am sure they probably already are.

4. tech trading

Add an option to only allow trading of NON racial specific techs. I would like to have tech trading in the game but allow the civ's to keep their own flavour.

5. What everyone else said.

Goodaye,

Great job on TA and particularly the AI. Well done.

1.Redo the Espionage System. It's not fun and there's not a whole lot of strategy involved. Mainly just painful.

2.Tech Trading. Option (as stated above) to only allow trading of NON Racial specific techs.

3.A trading/mercantile focused victory condition. Somebody mentioned possession of all trade goods. Or perhaps achieve a certain level of trade income. Either way, something fairly straigthforward that allows a greater focus on this part of the game. A part which is largely ignored by many players.

4.The planetary invasion process. While I don't mind the current screen(I didn't mind the last either) I think that the 'process' needs some tweaking. There are many suggestions on the forum regarding this and I'm sure Brad has his own.

In a nutshell I'd like to request more user input (of any shape or form) into the whole process which is currently a fairly unfulfilling aspect of an otherwise excellent strategy game. I'd strongly suggest that the player needs to be more 'involved' in a planetary invasion/defence than they currently are.

5. Nope, that's covered it. Keep up the good work.

Great game but always room for improvement so . . .

1) Rejigging of diplomacy. At the moment you get a free list of ships and technologies with whoever you're talking to, it would be nice if the AI would 'withold' certain information - just like there are some techs it won't trade there should be some techs/ships it doesn't want you to see (espionage could negate this of course). Trading ships could also do with some work - firstly by giving some indication of just where the ship you want to trade actually is (right click - minimap) - it makes a hell of a difference if the new battleship I'm ordering is going to take one turn or twenty turns to arrive, and at the moment there is no way of telling. The AI could also be more pro-active in trading for ships. And planets for that matter.

2) More information available to you in the galactic council. Currently I am voting on issues whose ramifications are hidden from me - issues to do with starbases, trade routes etc. need some information on who has what so I know what the effect will be. Even basic info on my own empires stats would be helpful.

3) More control of colonisable planets on startup. At the moment you can choose number of planets and habitability but there doesn't seem to be any choice on how frequently you want planets with extreme environments (that require colonisation techs) to show up.

4) Some more information on how economic starbases are affecting my trade routes. This seems to be information that is largely hidden so I never know how much influence these are having and consequently whether they are worth building or not.

5) Ethical choices to be clearer and more far reaching. Maybe I'm being thick but I am often unsure whether the choice I'm about to make is going to effect just the named planet or my whole empire, the game never states this clearly. Also the choices are sometimes so negligable (-5 BC, +1% research etc.) as to be strategically uninteresting.

That should do it! As you can see much of what I'd like tweaked is to do with presenting information in a more transparent way so I could feel more in the loop when making decisions. Hope some of these make it into a patch.