quite simply


1)PJI's need to be looked at seriously, there have been some very good idea's as to how to fix this and i hope they help a decision to be made

2)Unit Cap, Either make unit cap proportional to map size, or atleast stop spamming by enforcing a 30-50% cap of specific unit per total fleet size


but yes i to would love to see all sorts of more intricate and detailed additions particularly on diplomacy but in appreciation of the fact this patch is comin out fairly quickly i think PJI and Unit Cap/Spamming are 2 things that have come up in 90% of the posts in this thread and would definately keep players continent till 1.04.

Having a Physics BSC I was very pleased at how scientifically sound the game is, as well as being thoroughly enjoyable and pleasing to the eye. One scientific inaccuracy I did notice which I think would be easy to fix is to have all structures and ships within a gravity well orbit their planet in a realistic sense.

I'd really like to see some improvements to the AI so it becomes less predictable and more adaptive. Perhaps it could learn from its human opponent(s) somehow and adjust tactics to suit?

Please make ships autojoining a fleet adopt the tactics and behavior of the fleet! For example if a fleet is set to "loose formation, local area, group jump" when a ship arrives and joins the fleet that ship should adopt the same tactics, instead of causing everything to become "mixed"

Main reason is otherwise you have to reset the tactics manually every time a ship joins or, for example, when you try a jump that new ship jumps by itself while the rest of the fleet is still getting ready!

A change to the unit cap would be nice as well, maybe scaling with the size of the map? Leave the current values in as a minimum, say for maps of 20 or 30 and less planets, then add 1000 to the top end cap per 10, 15, or 20 additional planets on the map, maybe?

it's gonna be a pain having any decent sort of fleet coverage of my empire on my 400-planet, 10-star map that I'm playing.

Make it so that when you put a factory rally point on a fleet, all units from that factory autojoin that fleet instead of just moving to that point and still joining a random fleet.

I don't know if this has been posted yet, but here are some things that I would like to see, and I'll try to say things that I think haven't been said before;

-Estimated Time of Arrival: For just about everything, time till destination, time till research completed, times for everything. The HUD has some wasted space so it would be nice to fill it with some times.

-Some kind of indication as to how culture is increasing/decreasing between planets. It's hard to notice if the line is changing for me or for the enemy, I have to try and zoom on the line itself and see how it's changing. And other than wasting time waiting to see if my allegiance % is going up or down, there is no easy way.

-Have the ships turn around before accelerating; As it is now, the ships make huuuuge wide turns when turning around and actually causes some changes in tactics. For example, sometimes my ships will turn the opposite way I thought they were going to turn in order to attack the enemy that's behind them which may cause them to go around the planet causing my fleet to get split up for a while. Another example is when traveling to another planet, the travel lanes show them phase jumping on the right side of the phase lane when I execute the order, which is good. But as they turn around and get close this can change to the middle or even the left side of the phase lane, which is not where I wanted them to phase jump.

-As it is now, the research button lights up when research is progressing. It would be nice to have some kind of warning to let you know that you are NOT researching. Maybe change it so that it lights up when you are not researching, or maybe something on the HUD to let you know.

-Warnings and indications in the four slots are nice, but it would be great if things like "allies planet is under attack" would automatically light up on the map instead of having to move your mouse over it in order to see exactly where he's being attacked. This would definitely help in late game especially with multiple allies as you can only see one "allied under attack" instance at a time, and to see them all while looking at a map would really help.

Anyways, love the game!

the ability to create a multi system patrol route for a fleet would be nice, as i like to have multiple groups of units patrolling around for defensive purposes, without having to micromanage. also a fix for those driver crashes would be nice, if at all possible

I would like to see more artifacts. Not necessarily more in each game but say a pool of maybe 25 different artifacts of which 10 or so are randomly chosen for a game.

I totally agree. Please make the AI a bit more tough, and perhaps boost up planetary defenses, at least a bit. Maybe increase the hanger capacity by 1 or 2? Or upgrade the gauss cannons a little because they're damn near worthless. Also I'm sick of seeing the AI fleets with 50 cobalt/disciple frigates and 1 capital ship. And the AI doesn't seem to take into account it's allied fleets. When I jump in with a decent fleet, the other fleets that are smaller run, despite them outnumbering me greatly with their allied fleets. Really Really great game though, thanks.

You can already do this via Main Menu->Options->Manage Files (not via the Save/Load game menus).

I think when it comes to planetary bombardment, HP should go entirely first, then the population. Right now everyone dies before the HP wear out and it kinds seems dumb as the HP represents bomb shelters and the strength of the planets infrastructure, and it seems weird that everyone on the planet dies, but the invaders have to nuke every building before they can land.