can we stickied this thread. Please, so that it is easier to find. Because there are multiple threads regarding upcoming 1.03 patch.

And..for 1.03, can we see more diplomacy options like giving players ships or giving them planets.

Also, make the superweapons for TEC less powerful or make it more costly for them to build and use. Just find some ways that non TEC players can make it easier for them to defend against. Also, likewise with the Varsrai and their Dark fleet special ability.

I like the idea of drunken pirates . We should get alot of optional small random triggers like that, which you could enable/disable before starting a game. More 4X! ^^

we need more

COLORS

... im sick of it when I find im BLUE and my enemy is slightly LIGHTER BLUE


   please please please!!!

Its already in the game. Look at the top left next to the search button.

heavly damadged ships have negative effects like , 10 drop in fire power , 25% drop in speed ,etc.

Well the game is good but there are a few things i would like to see in the next patch if possible.

1. Some how upgrade the visual quality of the planets, stars, units, and buildings. I know this will take time. So i'm not in a hurry to see it done.

2. When a player has finished attacking a planet and killing all the structures around it with a fleet. The fleet tends to move to the edge of the grav well by default? I personally think thats a waste of time. The fleet should just stay at the location they are at when the mission is accomplished.

3. you should add an option for units to be able to set a patrol route along your empire or around a planet you own. it gets tiring that when you are under attack your fleet is on the other side of the planet and they have to move around the planet to get to the attackers. if there was a way to make units follow a set number of waypoints and auto attack any enemies they encounter.

4. you should also add a way to delete saves from the menu. i have way to many auto save that i want to get rid of but i cant because there is no delete button!

5. the fleets within the game seem to have no real formation. when you attack they just get within range and fire away. this get tiring if you are not constantly telling the fleet what to attack. after all you have other things to do you cant always put most of your time to managing the battles. The carriers should stay near the back of the fleet. The captial ships should be near the front of the fleet. The more powerfull units should be near the front of the formation to support in attacking. The units with the special support abilities should not actively get involved in the battle unless otherwise ordered to. They tend to have weak firepower. You might consider increasing the antimatter they have and decreasing the cost to use the abilities. The anti fighter frigates should attack fighters should be spread out within the formation. The units thay are "planet killers" tend to break of from a fleet and attack a planet. They seem to get killed to easily if one can concentrate firepower on it. They are no match for other ships in a one on one battle. I belive they should be near the back of the formation with the carriers. Oh and also give them higher hp or shields or at least increase the fire power that they have when attacking a ship instead of a planet.

6. The rate of extraction form the mines tend to make a way to get your econ up and running pretty hard. The black market tends to be just too expensive to use in the begening unless a player have a economy that can handle the rediclious prices you get sometimes. And somehow when you research the ability to extract more metal or crystals increase the rate in which they are gathered for that particular planet. in game that i have played when i max out on the tech to extract better amounts of metal and crystal i still tend to get a measly 1-3 extraction rate per sec(depends on the number of planets i have) for my empire as a whole. i don't really see a significant increase in gathering rate.

These are all the ones i can think of right now but ill post again if i can think of something else. These are just my opinions which i hope are considered to be in the next patch.

1. Make it possible for teammates to choose whether or not they want to start in the same solar system. Its kind of hard to rush aid to a teammate if he's not local.

2. Peg the fleet upkeep cost to the actual size of the fleet and not the total ship slots.

And for the guy who requested a MP pause option...press the pause key.

Sorry, looks like I'm late to the party, and I don't have time to read through 32 pages, so hopefully I'm not repeating someone else's suggestion.

I was hoping there'd be a little more 4x in the game. So far it leans more heavily towards RTS imo. I don't think a patch will resolve that, but here is one thing that I think could help (I also apologize if it's already been implemented, because I just started playing):

Set up trade agreements. If I'm allied with my teammate, I'd just like to setup a permanent exchange of resources, maybe x per second, or per minute or whatever. And then you could set maybe a max resource or time cap before the agreement expires. Or if the other player's obligations aren't met, the deal is canceled. In our last game, my teammate was swimming in metal, and I was swimming in crystal, but as far as I knew, the only way to exchange was through the diplomacy menu, which we had to do repeatedly.

I'm not sure, but do shift and ctrl click work on resource purchase and trade, a la Rise of Nations / AoE?

PS. Great job on the engine performance. I was expecting to see some slowdown (don't most PC players?) But I was zooming and rotating everywhere, and it was very fluid and smooth.

PPS. Oh yeah, and put me down for even faster game speed. At this point, it seems RTS heavy anyway, might as well offer even faster speeds, maybe even as fast as starcraft.

Diplomacy needs to be tweaked to be more useful, not sure how because at this point I don't use it.

Tie fleet maintenance costs to actual fleet cap consumed (can still be based on levels) not researched. Even consider some sort of bonus for researching to a higher fleet cap but not using it all under the assumption that you have researched how to field a navy of a certain size, and that technological know how would benefit smaller navies. This would help a player recover from a devastating loss by freeing up capital to replenish the fleet without the penalty of having a big fleet upkeep cost for no ships.

Make the max fleet cap vary based on the size of the map being played (based on total number of planets? stars? etc.)

1) Something I noticed mentioned in another thread - the AI seems to have a habit of sending in a giant fleet of planet bombing ships, wiping out the planet, and...leaving. I've only seen them actually colonize the planet afterwards once, and it still took them about half an hour. They also completely ignore my structures in orbit, unless they brought some other frigates along - and even then all they seem to hit is missile platforms and maybe frigate/capital ship factories.

2) Targeting priority - I've only noticed this with smaller groups, but it still seems rather odd....I will have (for example) a capital ship and 3 frigates beating the tar out of a couple of light frigates (usually the random ones that sit in orbit around unexplored & unclaimed planets). I then jump a colony ship in, and the ships will immediately drop all attack on my other ships to go after the colonizer while i'm still slaughtering them, even if they were close to taking out one of my ships. I can practically drag them around like they're on a leash by moving the colonizer back & forth.

3) Please add a non-random way to pick which skybox to use - the brighter ones start causing eyestrain for me on longer games, and a way to bypass them or at least take them out of the rotation would be great. Apologies if this is already in there somewhere and i'm just blind.

4) Seconding something mentioned above in another post - let us have at least one civilian and one warfare research going at once....I don't see any logical reason why working on one type should block the other, especially if we have to build two different kinds of facilities. More than one of each type going at once would probably be unbalancing, though maybe a (very) small boost in research speed for going beyond the minimum number of labs for a particular tech might be nice.

i hope they don't do this. already in longer games, by the end every player has nearly everything researched. the last thing we need is to double research speed and remove any tough decisions to be made on what paths are most worth researching immediately.

If not both at full speed, then maybe be able to start the second one at a heavy penalty until the other one finishes....something besides completely blocking, at least if the two separate lab types are going to remain.