So I've seen a lot of good suggestions and some interesting ones.

First I want to start by saying this game is awesome. However a few tweaks will make this game even better.

1)PJI must be tweaked to make them useful.
2)Quick Start option (Allowing you to jump into the game instead of starting from scratch.)
3)Pirate Raids - Less static, Make them dynamic. How about, Pirates only attack you when you annoy them, like flying through there territory. Setup a few Pirate outposts at random. The bounty system works fine, but the timer makes it monotonous.
4?)I also saw a Post about Random Events. I think this would make the game more fun and interesting. Add space monsters that protect planets? How about a Master planet that holds more population and everything else, but also heavily guarded. Virus outbreaks on planets causing population deaths or finding abandoned fleets that want to join you. Captians? 4.5?)Adding a Captain option that allows you to hire commanders for your capital ships giving them more of a bonus? Fantasize with me here for a moment and think about what we dont know about space and its endless possibilitys. How about a worm calapizes and destorys some of your fleet? Or makes it impassible.
5?)I also liked the idea of Research being a give and take situation. If you pick to upgrade your Weapons then you cant research faster jump drivers. Then you could add an option to let players trade or sell techs to each other for money or other techs.
6)How about an upgraded surrender system allowing you to give other players your planets or fleets without completely ending your game.
7) Base defenses? How about add planetary mine fields that do massive damage to small areas. That way you not always completely caught off guard by a massive fleet of attacking foes. Mines can be attracted by magnetics or something and when connect with enemy fleets they explode doing large amounts of damage in the surrounding area.
8) Black Holes? lol I don't know exactly what use there would be, but it would be very interesting. Maybe it would be like a worm hole that you can't get out of. You just get sucked in and your ship gets destroyed.

I don't know about every one here, but personally i feel like the game lasts forever and not every one has forever to play so i feel that more speed options and the quick start modes would help increase the enjoyment from battles.

I know this only gonna be update 1.03 and that +.01 version isn't going to add or fix everything. However the most important updates should come in this version.

Is it possible for an outsider to make a mod that incorperates some of these aspects? Just curious.

Great Game!

I'd like to add to other people's ideas as well as drop a few of my own.

1. Instead of just giving more squardrons or making a player research more squadrons for hangers; allow them to level up and receive them. You could also add a slight hit points increase with every level. I would suggest 5 levls max.

2. The same idea could be added to Defense Turrents, a slight dmg and hit points increase with each level.

3. Fix the Random Map Generator. It doesnt evenly distribute planets among multiple stars. All I get when I preview a map is one star with 50 planets and another star with 6 planets.

4. I really like that idea one of my fellow gamers made about having all players and AI start off neutral with every other faction.

5. I like to see a espionage element added to the game, but nothing too extreme; like seeing another player's entire empire and all his fleets.

There are some others I could add but those could come in another patch.

How about an option to turn off pirates?

I would like the ability to adjust research costs - specifically to increase the credit cost significantly. I am playing everything on the slowest setting and would still like to be able to slow things down a bit more. I would like a tech breakthrough to be a big deal. It seems like I just fly through the levels to quickly to enjoy them and I am not really forced to make a hard choice between them.

Can you turn down the intensity on the cloud the guardian makes. I can't see what is going on when they are in a battle. Or just make it so that only the emeny has to look at it.

What I really hate is when the A.I. only sends one type of fleet. They either do that or build a 60+ fleet of standard combat frigs with one or two capital ships. I can understand raiding but just spamming fleets of these ships? I've tried defending my planets with Hangers and a few turrets. But there are so many of them that I only destroy a few before there jumping back out. I resettled one world five times before I just decided to abandon the world and try and fortify my border.

So here it is.
1. Have the A.I. not spam siege frigates or combat frigates and have them make more of a combined arms fleet.
2.Make the defenses actually useful. Turrets fire faster,Hangers carrying four squadrons,phase inhibitiors actually do something.

And maybe for the next patch have a more diverse tech tree to make each race even more profondly unique.

Heres what id enjoy.

a fix for a rather annoying bug,

a friend of mine and I have played a few games on lan and have never been able to finish because either one of our games would crash after recieving, midgame, an error message about some file being dumped into a minidump. Once that happens the game crashes and well, even if we load to a point just before, the problem occurs still. It's been rather annoying.

Rejoinable games.

We played a 7 player game today, the about of dropping/crashing was getting us down. We'd then have to save, shoot over the save to the dropped person and restart.

Why not just let the AI take over for a dropped player, but then allow the player to rejoin without a restart? Even if the game has to pause, send over an immediate save state then reinitialise. That would be fine.

MARVELOUS!!

Another option I'd like to see, at least for capital ships, would be a retreat threshold in the tactics menu. say make it 25%/50%/75% hull strength/never, before the individual ship activates its retreat setting, so that you can let your fleets be even more autonomous, and not worry quite so much about losing higher-level capital ships.

I'd also like it if we could get a stand-alone replay viewer, something that people who don't have the game could download and use to watch replays of other people's games, and see what they think of the game, as well as getting a feel for how the game would run on their system? Maybe build it into the demo, perhaps?

This may be a little over the top, but I would really like some more voice acting for the ships. You can tell that for the TEC, the same person did all the voices. Also, all the ships have male voices in the TEC, all strange child like fe-male voices for the Advent, and all Vasari Male voices for all of their ships.
Something that is allot easier, large and huge random maps, no pirates.
Dont get me wrong, pirates are useful and I dont hate them, but the option to play without them would be greatly appreciated.

Great job on Sins people, you made a wonder fucking full game.

Apart from some of what has already been mentioned, I have a few esoteric requests:
What I would really love to see is:

-The ability to make our solar system (an Earth texture please?)

-The ability to choose the color scheme for systems in the map editor/ Galaxy Forge (Real Space Blue, Red, Green, etc.)

-Ability to add more unique races

-True full-screen mode (no icons, no buttons, just the graphics)

By the way, you guys have done it again: superb game. Just, superlatively great.

Way points for phasegates (works with returning armada)
Disable auto cast after production.
Setting for default fleet action/engagement range when come out of the factory

tks

Firstly, thank you for a wonderful game...I have been a loyal Galciv player for years and now I'm just thrilled with this game!

The most problematic issue for me (in multiplayer) has been the inability to place the players' start locations before the game begins. My friend (also loves the game) and I tried to play a team game against the AI, but we kept on ending up in different star systems and when we finally (after several restarts) were in the same system, the enemy teams (2 v 2 v 2) were split up meaning that allies could not easily assist one another.

I'm not sure if there's another way around this issue, but I think a small minimap picture with the option to place start locations would be fantastic.

The only other issue is the PJI's, I think they need to be souped up a bit to increase the time it takes to retreat much more significantly. The AI is very sneaky and always gets away from my fleet

Thanks again!