First My congratulations to Stardock on LE. I've played 300 hours or so worth and mainly had fun. I surely got my moneys worth.

 Having said that I've gotten to the point LE is showing its limitations. While I see they are working on the AI, I assume things like  tech tree

and traits (except for moding and I have no plans on working as a moder as I already have a job. My hat is off to those that do though) are pretty much finished and set as far as LE is concerned (meaning to me most of LE's limitations won't be changed)

     So anyway here's hoping Elementals next expansion (assuming there is one) Will rework the tech trees somewhat. Weapons should be developed under warfare, and enchantments like (+1 frost +2 frost, +3 frost) should be developed under magic. As such if one researched longbows in warfare and +2 frost (or fire etc) under magic one could make +2 frost longbows. (rather then the current standard of researching weapons under warfare that are generally worthless once you research magic weapons under magic.), and while these are only my hopes which others may well have also expressed in other threads (sorry if so) I'd really like to see it changed so researching special weapons Like current hammer, axe or bow factional picks are put under warfare research but that factions are limited to 1 specialty unless thpick +1 (or +2) weapon specialty under faction bonuses. I'd also like to see specialization in tech say for each tech in a tree (warfare, civic, or magic) on picks one gets a -10% research cost in that tree up to a -50% but at the cost of a +10% research in the other 2 tress for each tech researched outside of them. thus one could be a jck of all trades and research at a fairly slow pace of about -10 to -20% in all or spec and research faster in one area at say +10-+50% while being behind in the other areas a -50 to -100%

  Perhaps my ideas wouldn't work but more tech choices and some specialization IMO would make the game a bit more interesting in the long run. Also bringing some of Galatic Civ's diplomacy options into Elemental wouldn't hurt. After all why can't I bribe, or threaten to get a neighboring postion to give me that outpos of theirs one my border rather then only having the choice of going to war?

   In any case good luck in the future Stardock, now if I could only win the lottery so I could hire you all to make (MY) perfect game hahaha