Add anti strikecraft defences to statics defences, they are sitting ducks against strikecraft and defeats purpose of building them

Something I'd like to see would be multi-monitor support, in some form. that second monitor of mine just sits there off to the side, doing nothing, when it could be doing something useful, like showing me the tech tree, or some other page for me to be looking at while leaving my main screen open to keep an eye on things. What I'd really love would be the ability to zoom in on two different places on each screen, and be able to control the cinematic mode for each, it'd be awesome to have a massive fleet battle going, and have the side monitor zoomed all the way in, down among the fighting, with no icons or anything messing up the cinematic view, and then the main screen as my tactical overview. But then, I'm mostly just dreaming here, aren't I?

Yes, we need a scroll bar that lets us scroll from beginning to end.

Advent Illuminators need to be fixed. 5 Illuminators die to 6 Cobalt Frigates, with 2 Tec units left alive. Illuminators are supposed to be the equivalent to LRM, which are supposed to do well against light frigates.

How about differences between the 3 races. THEY ARE EXACTLY THE SAME THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE WTH!

I want to be able to add more ship slots, or tweak the UI so that it can be utilized.

I want to be able to add another page to the factories without a total UI crash.

I want to be able to mod the game.

It's great that you guys designed the ability and buff system to be so open. That's awesome. But that's a very minute part of what is required for a TC. Hard-coded limits like this are detrimental to the modding community, & the game from a very early point has promised moddability as one of its key features.

I'm starting to feel a little disillusioned by the fact that the modding forum seems to be generally ignored, but I'll give the benefit of the doubt for now.

1. A follow command/key so the player can follow a ship if they would like to do so.

2. More types of Point Defense Turrets.

3. Make a double Click on a planet take you to that planet and zoomed so you can view it complete workable area.

4. I know it is not likely, but more animations on the ships them self. They seem to be very static, with only a build vapor, or gun fire, etc. that shows up at times. They just do not seem to have many moving parts.

5. Greater Fleet Supply points

I would love to see sub system damage for ships.

Could work something like the following:

Subsystems include:
Each individual gun
Shields
Jump drive
Engines
Each special ability

Everytime a ship loses 10% of its max hull strength there's a 50% change that one of the ship's sub systems will be damages. This way a heavly damaged ship might very well have no (or fewer) guns and thus would be less of a threat.

If the ship's hull strength returned to above the point where the sub system was damaged then it becomes fixed again.

Also, it would make the phase missiles more useful. As they sometimes damage the hull even when the ship has shields they would sometimes take out a sub system very quickly and thus be more powerful.

BTW - great game

Ironclad, could you guys add a couple of extra hard difficulty levels, where the AI cheats (a lot), so the guys who find the game "boring" and "too easy" can get the snot beaten out of them.

Thanks!

Simple v1.03 fixes

The Empire Tree.

1) Please move the slider to the right side of the tree so that I don't have to constantly correct my map view for left-drift because in scrolling up and down one inadvertantly keeps touching the left side of the screen.

2) Make the empire tree refocus properly when selecting a planet (often it doesn't focus or focuses 'above' the target and you have to scroll down.

3) Stop the empire tree from refocusing every time a ship phase jumps in or out of a system displayed in the empire tree. It causes it to bounce up and down while you're trying to select a ship or watch damage/antimatter/etc of a particular ship.

AI Messages.

1) When the AI goes "PLANET X is MINE", i'd like an addition to the text of perhaps '(200 Ships of xyz arrived). i spend more time frantically scrolling through to find a solitary scout ship or light cruiser scouting around to be quickly obliterated either by 6 hangers or an actual garrison fleet at a choke point planet.

2) Perhaps I'm not familiar yet with the nuances of AI messages but I don't remember accepting someone as an ally simply because I made peace with them. Getting messages that planet xyz is being attacked or my fleet is being attacked causes constant panic in a large map game as I frantically try to find the planet only to go.. oh... that's not mine or it is a trade ship plying the routes. Anyways some sort of notice to distinguish ally (what ally???) comms versus my own, originator (my scout ship/trade/refinery vessel vs my planets/fleets) and some sort of notice to indicate how many enemies were actually observed (1 scout versus a cheap AI siege rush).



LONG TERM THOUGHTS:

1) Make a second impact on cost of fleet maintenance... size of groupings. this may allow you to play a little looser with cap rules.

2) Make rebellions more complex. Perhaps rebel fleets depart a planet without causing damage inside that system. Perhaps they behave like pirates except that A) they focus on you only, You have to deduce what planet they are coming from (or perhaps planets if they can recruit other planets to their goal), C) you can recover the planet to you allegiance depending on how far the rebellion has gone on that planet (a couple of nuke capable capital ships might scare them into behaving) while a full out assault required on more hard core planets). anyways just thoughst.

I would like to see camera control like Homeworld. When I click a ships or fleets number I would like to be able to push the midddle mouse button and go to it. Period. The current zoomout effect is great but what is the reason for zooming in beyond ships, planets, stars and almost the game map itself, for goodness sake. Of what use is that? Just zoom in to the object level of what I have selected, Please. So, deride me boys and girls!

Auto Kick for people who don't do SOME kind of input for 5 or more minutues. Specifically, Just played a game with a "Marrooner"; about the hour mark, he attacks with 3 Kols, and when defeated, just walks off, leaving the game running (he probably went and watched a movie). So I have two choices, spend another entire hour+ mopping up (which is what I had to do), or quit the game.

If someone does not build or move ships a least once per 5 mins, they should be auto kicked to stop; even 15 minutes would be welcome, because I think I now prefer someone just quitting to doing this Marrooning stuff. . .

basically what most people are asking for is the ability to configure more parts of game play. I think a better graphical map editor should be introduced, where it basically looks like in-game, but you are allowed to click and drag what type of planets you want and where, and what routes are taken to each. I think that aspects of all structures should be able to be edited, as in changing the amount of damage that is dealed by each weapon, shield strength, range for things like jump inhibitor, costs, how much resources asteroids put out, etc. I'm sure most of these can be changed already but not with ease for everyone. Eventually it'll happen sooner or later, everyone will want to modify every aspect of the game.

Also the AI is lacking, I noticed that if I don't scout a world, most of the time that world will still have 2-5 ships only, even later in the game after I have dozens. but if I do scout it early on, it will have almost as many ships as I do by the time I want to attack it, so not scouting can actually weaken the amount of challenge, which may or may not be a bad thing.

another problem I voiced before is that if I'm attacking a planet or its structures, all of my ships will leave to attack anything that jumps into the gravity well, even if it is a scout, and even if I set the engagement range to local. it is annoying when you are in the middle of something, and your entire fleet leaves what they are doing to chase down a ship they have no hope of catching most of the time, and it gets a bit repetitive to have to keep telling them to go back and finish doing what they were doing.

I think the game doesn't allow for a fast enough pace in larger star systems, even when you set everything at the highest rate in the options. even in larger star systems I barely get to exploit half of the upgrades or researches before the game is won. so far the only way I am able to get everything or most of everything before I win is if I use a trainer to add more resources, which isn't fun at all, but it lets me use the planetary cannon, which is fun. you have to be playing a game for over 10-12 hours to even begin to afford all of the upgrades, and in multi player, it is pretty much an impossibility unless you have that much time to kill and don't get tired of playing for that long at one sitting all the time.