Sorry if these have been covered, have not had time to read the whole thread.  

I would like it if you could add to the search window a button to show planets with hostile forces.

Also I am finding that Colony frigates and Akkan's are not always autocasting colonize.

Cheers Rob.

My complaint is that it does not cater to my own personal tastes of being a slow game....nay, a sloooooow game.
The battles feel perfect, I'm not talking about slow motion here. But I would like the option of making ship and base building time much slower, research time longer, ship transition from planet to planet longer, etc. Rather than just one slower speed setting, how about a 2x, 5x, 10x, 20x type speed setting for the various time based factors?
I'm not a big fan of unit caps, but I do like "time" being a factor in amassing a huge fleet. When you lose it, it should hurt...not simply set you back a few minutes.

Still, it is simply an amazing game. Bravo!

This isn't the place, but lack of knowledge about Roman methodology would not be chief among my faults.

Suffice to say any decent Sins player is going to build a fair few defenses, almost certainly maxed out on border worlds. I think I laid out my idea of what they are good for already.

The point was that Empires are built agressively and rewarding the defense over attacking makes for static, drawn out games with lots of down time. How many shows on the discovery channel are there about Lions compared to armadillos? Or sharks compared to Sea Urchins?

The consular Romans were brought into it just for the sake of being cute  

Multiple win settings. I'd love to see king of the hill - which could be anything from gaining points for holding units in a location or controlling a planet there.

There could be plenty of other win conditions... I just can't think of others off the top of my head.

Random events would be nice too... I just wish we had espionage in this game.

Longer distance before fighters/bombers change into icons.
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I'd like to have custom ui buttons which can have their own custom hot-key. Like a bunch when selecting a Fleet, or a planet or a ship etc.

That way I could tweak the ui just the way I want it. Ex. One button which is hotkeyed to #random which tells all the frigates and fighters to attack target X @ their current location. Or A moveorder back to home planet. Or a button which tells planet X to build structure Y. The possibilities are endless..

How about you try some strategy in this here strategy title???

One of the avenues for research is the capacity to see fleets coming along phase lanes. You can build scouts and send them in & out of planetary systems to get updated intelligence on your enemies` movements.

Possibilities:

1. Find where the Siege Frigates are mustering and destroy them with an attack by your own fleet, pre-emptively.

2. Suck back the loss of a colony and be content in the subsequent destruction of a large chunk of your enemy`s war effort, IF you were smart enough and diligent enough to Search & Destroy that Siege fleet.

3. Stop WAITING for an attack and get out there - take the initiative. Force the computer player to react to *your* maneuvers.

4. Build your own Siege fleet.

5. Distract the enemy with hit & run tactics behind his lines. Change his build priorities so he generates something to counter your own activities.


I am so very tired of reading "Siege Frigates need to be nerfed"...

If I max out my Vasari fleet capital ship limit and construct 16 (?) of the planet resource draining vessels, once they hit level 6 I guarantee I can take down any enemy planet faster than 16 Siege Frigates, and I will likely never lose a single cap ship in the process. Does this potential mean those Vasari cap ship types need to be nerfed?!?

Get a grip!

Develop some strategies!

React!

Adapt!

If you make Siege Frigates less effective, I will then need to deploy more of them to get the same use out of them. And no, I do not build a gazillion. Although I could, and if I found myself needing to, I certainly would. THESE SHIPS ARE FINE. Adjust them such that they are less useful and they shall become... less useful. Those folks who can`t grapple with strategy will no longer get deservedly arsed by such fleets, but the rest of us will no longer utilize them... precisely because they`ll be "less useful".

The Siege Frigates already are less useful - engage them with a regular warfleet and watch the lop-sided battle! In ship-to-ship combat they are quite ineffective. Hunt them down! Prioritize their destruction! BLAAAAAAAAAH...

Want to decrease the frequency with which an A.I. deploys such massive system destroying fleets? Fine. I object to crippling the assets themselves though. I don`t want to see wobbly WarCraft Catapults flying around.

i have jsut found something that would be extremely easy to implement (a single dev could implement it in the time they spend reading this)

on the display of your planet's allegiance, the part where it shows the increase rate, make it show to .001% instead of to .01%
this would make sense because it never (that ive seen) goes above .05%, and it increases so slowly sometimes that it would be nice to see more precisely what it is at

Sorry - one more Siege Frigate post (a solution for all):

In game menu Option screens, feature a "Siege Frigates Nerfed" toggle. Default is unchecked.

Some ideas (based on ideas from other users, some I just literally repeat because I happen to agree with them ).

Not all are meant for 1.03. I would like some `quickfixes` for diplomacy, I just quit a game because I got attacked by 5 different AI players at the same time because I couldn’t (or sometimes didn’t want to) complete their missions of attack X...

I really do think the diplomacy can bring a lot more depth into the game.


1. More involved Diplomacy
- Start neutral
- ways to initiate an AI empire to like you other than just doing their bidding. Throwing money, metal, or crystal their way, giving some tech, sending a candy gram- something so that a player can take the initiative in diplomatic relations.
- Replace the "Kill X of Faction Y's Objects in Z minutes" with "Help me defend point X" and "Help me attack planet X. I'm leaving to attack in Y minutes."
-A `join me in war` mission – war lasts X minutes and you get paid per ship you send out.
- Make penalties relative to status of relationship (good relation = less decrease for not doing an assignment).
- Be able to decline an assignment (with a lesser penalty). Saying you can’t do it is less bad than saying you can and then not do it..
- Send activists to trigger a revolution so bordering planets where you have a strong culture convert to your empire (and off course vice-versa)

2. Make the supply cap relative to the size of your empire.

3. Better defensive capabilities. In essence, the stationary and planetary defences should hold out against a small fleet and hold out long enough to get help from a defensive fleet in your empire.

- Maybe decrease the cost or increase the effectiveness. Maybe the latter is a better idea, with 8 hangars it already gets a bit full…
- a potential "Militia" planetary infrastructure upgrade. This would allow the planet to deploy a small fleet of ships to slow down any invading force...

4. unit veterency (achieve higher levels through combat experience)

5. Siege frigates are to powerful – solve siege frigate rush problem

6. The AI seems to break and run to much..even when they out number you.

7. Remove messages ` AHAHAHA, Planet X is mine ` when only 1 ship enters the gravity well

8. More ship movement rather then sitting still during combat. Also, making the fighters bank when they turn. Would make things prettier. Besides the pretty lasers getting shot there isn’t much happening. Although, maybe this makes it a bit too messy?

9. Slower AND faster game speed

10. some control over victory conditions. Maybe checking a little box for the ones that count. For example, "normal victory" and "they all must fall". And maybe a victory condition where the first to destroy the pirate base wins

11. Set a patrol area for a fleet (route, selected planets or range from planet??) – it than automatically jumps to a planet if it’s attacked. Makes it easier to defend more than 1 planet with 1 fleet.

12. A little bit more explaining on the difference in fighters, cruisers and cap ships. I did the tutorial but I still have some trouble figuring out what purpose they serve best.

13. Be able to see the charts you can analyze when quitting a game (by clicking on the rankings in the bottom part of the interface?), I like charts

14. a tech to increase logistics/tactical slots.

15. Comm chatter? Make traders chat nonsense – fighters announcing their trip to heaven or hell (depends off course on how effective they were )? May make the universe feel more `alive`

16. a planet that has been severely nuked should not be habitable for a looong time, maybe the rest of the game. Maybe adding an ability to colony ships to make a planet habitable again (should take a long time).

Sometime in the future, not this patch of course, have SP campains.

this could be that i'm just missing something. But i find it frustrating when dealing with squad leaders. Alot of time i will select a group of ships and want to make the capital ship the leader, but if the cap ship isn't the highlight ship, it will make a low end unit leader. The only way i know to get a round that is to select the cap ship, then shift select the rest so the cap is the highlighted ship. It just feels way to clumsy to me, but like i said maybe i'm missing something.

1. Targeting priorities: If you order a group/fleet to attack an area, ships should attack what they can do the most damage against (ex: normal frigates shouldn't go against the capital ships by default), unless otherwise instructed (be it by clicking on a specific target, or by setting up what's most important in a menu).


2. Adding units to fleets: At the moment, unless I'm missing something (which is likely), you can't simply add units into a fleet, but instead have to select the fleet, select the units you'd like to add, and then click "Create Fleet" again, which erases your fleet settings (ex: simultaneous jump, attack range, tightness/looseness). It would be more convenient if there was a "Add to Fleet" button that simply added units not already in the fleet to it, without resetting the settings.


3. Fleet naming.


4. Keep enemy ships from retreating so often. It seems that, when outnumbered, they immediately retreat a good portion of the time, rather than calling in reinforcements (ex: I was playing a game last night, and attacked the planet closest to the AI home planet; rather than calling in the two carriers and numerous ships at their disposal on their home planet, the defenders merely retreated and let me take the planet practically unscathed).


5. More maneuvering in battles, at least from the frigates.


6. Make the AI think a little bit more about building placement (ex: it takes into account the fastest direct route to a hostile planet, and builds defenses along the phaseline heading that way, while building factories and whatnot on the opposite side of the planet. It's far too often that I enter a system where they've got everything bunched together, allowing me to kill their factories quickly without having to fight/navigate my way past their defenses.


7. Like factions start off as neutral to one-another (ex: TEC factions are neutral, but a TEC faction will not start off neutral to the Advent).
   
8. A couple more speed settings would be nice, such as Faster and Fastest.


9. A DefCon-style "Office Mode" slow game, perhaps?