1) Have quick planet strike tactics result in diplomatic penalties.

2) Attach a cost to breaking alliances, perhaps a mix of morale and diplomatic penalties. The severity of these penalties should be gauged based on the ability of the AI to break alliances, i.e. if they still won't be able to after the update, they should be pretty rough.

hi, hello and howru

i'd like

1. terror stars - the ability too tow resources back to "nicer" territory as well as blowing up planets is cooler than well, the fonz.

2. custom races to get an increase in picks because the set races have terrific initial bonuses. how about twenty points to play with?

3. to be able to play with more than just the nine opponents

4. minor races that actually colonize other planets and hence become more of a threat if player chooses to enable them.

5. picks to include logistics and miniaturization

6. constructors have ability to repair star bases and maybe even increase the star base hit points.

7. respawning anomalies

8. bring back the space sharks...pleeeaaaase (whiny voice and much heel kicking, ahem).

9. you've done a brilliant job with AI planetary improvements and all, but can the best get better?

10. that pesky major event which limits ship speed keeps on coming back again and again, i mean honestly who cares if the fabric of the universe gets torn asunder just so long as i can zip between one end of the galaxy to another in a matter of weeks....Mind you, i just loved the peacekeepers - WOW!

11. genocidal planetary invasion is a bit nasty, is there another way?

12. solar systems should have gas giants which can be resourced from like the asteroids

13. Improve the way in which AI does WAR! Unless they have a huge adv. I'm able to neutralize them without resorting to diplomatic means(here have some tech and help me bash the *race*) There are no sneaky attacks. no preparation for war, ie fleet buildup near borders prior to demands and/or war declaration. they do not seem to build enough transports. It just seems like the AI is not there to win.

14. enough already...I just didn't want to end on thirteen

DA is a significant improvement on the original game and i was pleasantly surprised with the AI planet management. the AI ships are better equipped and the galaxy is once again a dangerous place. w00t! thanks peeps, init

Here's some things that would probably make gameplay better:

1: Being able to set a seperate tax rate for each planet, for example: Earths tax rate could be 30% while Mars could have a tax rate of 40% during the same turn.
2: The old 'my home planet has the lowest approval!' thing. This should really be fixed, because the home planet almost always has the lowest approval
3: The 'Super Spy' ability should be tweaked a little. Radar Jamming{as in can't see where the super spies homeworld is via minimap} until you see their homeworld with a scout.
4: A new 'Radar Jammer' for Super Spies starbases. In other words, if a superspies starbase had an enemies ship in their range, the enemies ship can't see past 1 box of squares.

a built in map editor

I don't know if this is too major for a patch, but what I'd like is this:

For non-mining starbases, do not seperate into economy, infulence or military. Have just one generic type of starbase and the player can choose how to develop it. For instance, there may be some economy modules, a few ship assist modules and an influence module or two on the same starbase. To prevent exploits, make a hard cap of 25 modules (or so) on the starbase, so the player has to make some choices.

Also, allow the player to scrap certain modules (which would require payment of a fee) in order to make room for others. This would let you, for instance, build a starbase with lots of influence modules to flip a planet, then convert it into an econ base.

I should have been more clear. These tactics are limited to surprise attacks, i.e. decelarations of war by a player. It also involves players putting ships into position and then inducing a war declaration, thus getting all the benefits of this tactic with none of the diplomatic penalties. I would like to see any player who succesfully takes a planet within one or two weeks get an immediate, large diplomatic penalty.

I also support for those calling for a limitation on the number of techs traded within a give diplomatic session.

Time.
In DA1.6 I want the dev to give me enought time to play galciv2 and supcom while taking care of my family.

For me weakest "legacy" feature that remained from original CalCiv is UP consul.

The proposals are completely random and you have no control over them. The "randomization" element in game is already fulfilled by Mega and other events, what I want to see with UP is :

1. Option to suggest some proposal for user once a while (my be each will be able to suggest player in turn) from the list of possibilities that grows as technologies evolve.

2. Option to put cancellation of some UP agreement to vote.

3. AI players make suggestions like player in (1) considering what good for them and reflect their alignment (so "evil" civs will not propose limit trade routes for example unless this will hurt other evil civ that they see as direct thread more, etc).

4. When voting AI players will consider not only benefits/problems of such proposal to them but also their relations with proposing party and how this proposal will benefit/hurt their enemies.


5. Ability to "buy"/"sell" UP votes for the next UP meeting. So if you want to insure your proposal will pass - buy votes from someone else willing to sell. But this should be limited to some level, no one should be allowed to sell more then let's say 10% of his votes and the "deal" is only for one meeting.

Reappearing anomolies would be nice. In almost all my games, by the time I've researched the tech to put surveying sensors on my ships or build the wonder that allows all ships to act as survey ships all the anomolies have already been explored.

Heros! What a great idea.

And the Epic Generator!

But really, I think this is too much for a patch. But maybe GalCiv III?

I love this game. I think that many of the "bugs" that are mentioned are instances where the AI actually outsmarted someone. I find that the challenge of working around the difficulties of this game is part of what I enjoy.

Well the candy store is open now. Hmm let me think ah here goes.

1. Starbases- An auto-attack feature or recovery module that helps ships repair faster and better bonus for attacking and defending fleets. This would include a tech that had to be researched in order to use the module

2. More anomolies- Different types. Example: Radiation belt which would be toxic to ships passing nearby but would yeild extra bonus not found anywhere else.
3. Different mega events- some good some bad Example: Say a comet hit a planet owned by the terrians they it would be an oppertunity for other races to take advantage of their misfortune.
4. New type of Starbase Orbital Terra-farming that would have food enhancents and bonus for planets and their populations. This would help terraform a planet.
5. Modules that when placed on a starbase near a enemy can disrupt economy and trade or outright halt it.

Thats all my brain can think of for now  

Major requests (rather the small ones earlier):

* a "skip intro cinematic" option;

(ok, that was minor, but I forgot it in my other post)


* new super-abilities available for custom races would be fun;


* a new type of small starbase called a "listening post":
- cheaper;
- wouldn't count against limit per sector;
- would not increase ship range;
- would not count against logistics limit;
- has + 1 sensor range;
- can only have sensor modules;


* Diplomatic warnings that can be sent TO the AI, as well as to the player. OUtgoing text would be selected based on current relations (as it is now?). These would expand on some messages already in the game:


- "Give us XXX or we will pound you into stardust" etc.: As before, but with more responses:
POSITIVE: "Here you go..."
NETURAL: "I can't give you that, but I can give you..." + tribute
NEGATIVE: "I must be true what they say, that your species didn't learn to walk upright until they invented the wheelbarrow" (etc.)


- "Player X has gotten too powerful, we should stop them": has a chance of changing AI recipient's attitude toward YOU and/ or Player X depending on AIs attitude toward you and Player X, and your respective diplomatic abilities. Could backfire, especially if used too often. Responses:
POSITIVE: "I never trusted that dirty Player X!"
NETURAL: "We'll keep an eye open"
NEGATIVE: "Keep your advice, we don't like being pushed around";


- "Remove your ships [list here if only a few] from proximity to our assets if you wish to maintain our current relationship": suggested by others. Hard to program, I should think, since you can have player's possessions intermingled. Responses:
POSITIVE: "We will comply"
NETURAL: "Our forces are conducting maneuvers, and will be withdrawn when they are done"
NEGATIVE: "Remove them yourself!"


- "Stop monopolizing resources in our neighborhood": If successful, would cause AI to change priorities to emphasize resources, planets, anomalies that are farther from player's planets/ ships/ starbases. Responses:
POSITIVE: "Oh, sorry about that, we got carried away"
NETURAL: "Sorry to inconvenience you, but the fact is that resources grow arithmatically and population grows geometrically, and we just need to keep expanding"
NEGATIVE: "Get a life, whiner! If you can't stand the heat, get out of my exhaust plume!"


- "Have you ever tasted Torian?" Other random flavor text from warm, friendly, and close civilizations (assuming others will diplomatically keep their thoughts to themselves). Responses would NOT have consequences:
POSITIVE: "No, do you have recipies?"
NETURAL: "That's repulsive... yet intriguing..."
NEGATIVE: "We don't eat sentient species, but we can offer you a fine recipe for lentil soup"