I'd love to see phase jumpers changed to this: blocks all outgoing traffic from that planet - to another world that is yours - or maybe another world of yours that also has a phase jump inhibitor. This would require more tactics in placement of a chokepoint and still allow people to run if they find they have attacked a too heavily defended planet. It will also stop the issue of ships and fleets just travelling as they please. However it might also be possible to find a route around this by using non-ownable planets maybe (ie gas planets etc) as they wouldnt have an inhibitor. if people are worried about superweapons - just remove them, as i think while they are fun to play with i'd rather get a game mechanic working properly than have them in.

Sorry if this sounds a little all over the place.

secondly i'd really like to see fleet caps more inline with number of planets owned however the more planets you own the greater % of resources your fleet can take in upkeep - so you might have space for 50 ships but they could only take 20% of your income but when you get to say 500 ships it would cap out at 70%.

thirdly - now this probably isnt to do with 1.03 - probably a later release, but a redoing of tech trees to allow people to spec differently and maybe only allow certain techs to be researched at the expenditure of others. So you might be given 8 tech points which allows you to spec certain paths, you could go deep into one, or broadly across all!

the tech trees could still be economic and military but maybe split military into 2 trees - defensive and offensive.

anyhow sorry for the long winded reply! really enjoying the game so far keep up the great work guys

I'd like to see a cost/effectiveness fix for the tactical slots and defenses that go into them. I wouldn't mind if they kept their current effectiveness if they were cheaper to build, or vice versa.

Secondly, I'd like to see a bit more noticeable personality to the AI personalities. I may just not be noticing, but the personalities seem to play quite similarly so far. Fortifier should be a turtler, aggressive should be highly aggressive, the economist should focus on building economies and hitting you with pirates, etc.

Reduce the AI's omniscience with regards to your fleet actions. The AI will bug out the second you send a fleet to reinforce an area they are attacking even if they didn't have visual to know your ships were jumping in.

Combine this with some sort of inhibitor buff so that you can do some damage to an escaping fleet and it will greatly improve the single player game.

Another thing would be improved targeting priority. The AI will sometimes cease attacking to run across the gravity well to kill a colony ship or the like. I don't have any suggestions how but try to make the AI a bit more intelligent on what to attack rather than just always going after the highest target on it's priority list.

If we can't get a major enhancement on the diplomacy then please increase the mission timers again. As it stands your best chance of completing missions is when enemy vessels run into your space. Increase the time so we can have a chance to actively go out and attack to complete the missions. Also consider increasing the number of resource giving requests as they allow you to more easily choose who you make friends with rather than just having luck of the draw in which combat missions they assign you.

Only other thing I would really like is a reduction in the tactical points cost of defenses. As it stands it's not very difficult to create a large enough fleet to simply overwhelm a full planet's worth of defenses. Only another fleet can stop an attacking fleet. Yet over a large empire with multiple defensive points it's nearly impossible to have multiple defense fleets able to respond to attacks while also maintaining an offensive fleet. Increasing the fleet cap will help but it also just means the average offensive fleet will get larger so you will have to have larger defensive fleets as well. This will make defenses less useful as they will have to deal with more targets now. Defenses can't be so powerful that they can hold out against any fleet alone, but as it stands now they often have difficulty holding off a siege frigate raid let alone a fully supported fleet action.

@Zaza

Your first idea is good... maybe allow only 1 PJI and make the range the same so you have to decide wether to defend your Homeworld or your mining colonys, Full blockage of Phase Jumps

Second Idea makes sense aswell

Your third idea is kinda bad no offense...

I'd like to see some sort of audible message whenever a unit enters an enemy-occupied gravity well. I've sent scouts to check on previously explored planets, get distracted, and return to discover my scout destroyed.

Related to that, how about an auto-retreat option? That way a scout or raiding party would retreat automatically upon finding opposition.

PJIs are a little weak for their cost, but as an alternative to increasing their effect, how about allowing them to stack? That way you could lock up a gravity well, but it would be expensive!

There seems to be a bug where the particle effects stop displaying. Occurs randomly, and saving and reloading the game when it occurs seems to fix it.

Wouldn't mind that being fixed (if it is an issue with Sins and not hardware).

maybe where you can set a pop cap of 1000 - 20,000....

Oh i just thought of something I want.

Space monsters!!! Why has no one done this one since moo?

You colonize some asteroid and oops! Giant space worm busts out and starts attempting to mate with all your capital ships. Retreat!

Yeah, a look at targeting priorities would be nice. I haven't had any extreme examples, but I did have a couple LRM frigates helping to destroy pirate gun turrets and they decided that rather than attack the next nearest gun turret (which would have kept them out of firing range) that they'd attack one further back. Since I was watching, no harm done, but moving that just isn't a sensible attack pattern. I would understand if what they targeted was a better thing to kill/more threatening, but to target another gun turret that brought them into range of an enemy?

Perhaps we could have some additional attack stances (though I'd imagine not 1.03 material). Something that lets you ignore non-combat vessels (don't attack that crystal mine unless i tell you to in the middle of a fight!).

I almost feel like asking for a "follow Fleet leader attack", which would at least let fleets focus their attacks even if you can still get better results by micro-ing. I feel like it would somehow be unbalancing, but it seems like such an obvious tactic that is ignored in these kinds of games. After all, if everyone who can fire at a target does then that target will go away MUCH faster, reducing the incoming fire! This seems to escape all tactical doctrine for the targeting routines in most games though

I'm at a loss for words... and for a smily that completely expresses my complete lack of words...

After watching a few replays I need to add a 50-100X speed right after 8x for replays.

My idea is one I posted about b4, but it got ovewhelmed with new posts, and directly afer I posted, I never saw it again......

Make groups (attaching numbers) and fleets work better together.

I think it should be that when a ship joins a fleet, it should also join its group number, and when a ship leaves a fleet, it leaves the group as well. (why was this AWSOME feature taken out of the beta??)

also about fleets, I don't like formations, I like my ships to beable to split up and do differnt thinks. Aka- caps bomb planet while frigates take out the refineries and such. As it is now, if the fleet leader bombs a planet, then the frigates just sit in formation and don't do anything. Also I don't like it how my carrior cruisers will join a formation, adn get caught in the middle of a battle, and then start dieing. essentully, along with "all lose," all tight" and "all normall" we need a "break formation" were there are no formations.

Also, structures that havn't begun building, should NOT be attackable. This was SUPPOSED to be fixed back in the beta, it makes me kinda angery that I can lose a thousand some credits just becouse someone knocked down the "comming soon" sign. It makes me angery that this hasn't been fixed yet.