Even though i've been playing this game for about a year,I must suck because the ai on hard gives me a nice challenge. Not to easy and not frustratingly difficult. As for playing online, I like to be in control of the entire game and not have to deal with a win at all costs human opponet.

I think that insted of just new ships maybe a new race because while 3 races are okay 4 or 5 would give the game even more complexity and hopefully even kick start that story mode that I keep hearing about.

I've been playing since release date, and haven't beaten a Hard AI, but i haven't really tried either. I play to have fun, and as someone commented multiplayer: "it's not about fun, it's about winning". Of course a human is a better opponent than an AI, and even more valuable as an ally, but playing against AI's have their advantages.

But this thread isn't about SP vs MP, this is about what new features we want to see in the next expansions, and i suppose theres still time to get little something for Entrenchment. Here's an idea for the diplomacy expansion: pirates setup their own crappy starbases to disrupt popular traderoutes.

@kev: there is the thing chasing the Vasari, that i'm sure we'll see sooner or later, but i don't think any more races would be plausible storywise.

It has been said before, but Sins feels cheap for featuring no campaign yet presenting the player with three different races and some backstory in the manual and introduction cinematic. Sure, it was done on a limited budget and I'm glad the money was spent on polishing the most fundamental aspects of the game, but aren't your pockets full now Ironclad ? 14th best-selling PC game of 2008 isn't that bad.

Then, the voice-acting is so-so. "No ledge acquired" says the Advent UI voice. What ? Then, those extraterrestrial races should sound a bit more extraterrestrial. Adding some cheesy reverb isn't quite enough. Starcraft wasn't produced on the biggest budget ever AFAIK and its voice acting is a pure delight. So please get it right next time.

The music is quite good though. I'd like to know who did it. "Upbeat 2" is a really cool track, I was humming it all day long after one of my first games. So keep it up! But try to make more realistic use of vocals; when I play Advent at some point there are ridiculously high notes sung by those synth vocals and it just highlights their synthetic nature in a very cheesy way.

I've detailed my thoughts here already : http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=737042