Please don't do that...how would you like it if I went back 20 pages and edited something?  It's difficult to find it, regardless of where it is, when you do that.  Feel free to make a new post; we're not anal about double posting in here.

Turn length has been discussed before, but not...wait for it...at length.  (Okay, that was bad.  Really, it was horrible.)  I think most of us would prefer a month, though.

Terror stars can join fleets.  But like anything else, they slow the fleet down to its lowest movement-them.  Have you seen the terror star thread where everyone's trying to guess how to move it across an immense galaxy in one turn?  (No, this is not a normal situation, but it can be done.)

Also, just for the record, I'm the one guy who thinks that Terror Stars are overpowered, even with all of their limitations.  I've suggested that they blow themselves up on the star they blow up on (and this would in fact make room for them to be moderately improved in other ways, which is what everyone else is asking for), and thought I ran into this in one of the betas and was going to praise SD 24/7 until I realized it was the invisible ship bug.

I really don't see how or why anyone would choose to use a TS to destroy multiple star systems, anyway, so I'm not sure I understand everyone's opposition to the concept (at the time, at least, but I honestly doubt it's different even in here-no offense).

@Scoutdog

Well you can at least tie bonuses to buildings that aren't unlockable without all of the techs and in some cases perhaps even give them a +1 to PQ so they effectively don't take up a tile.

And yes, I'm trying to find ways to make things work within the current system; although it does need remodeling, I'm not convinced it needs to be replaced entirely.

Just do what I do, and if you have a new idea before somebody posts after you just update, but never edit a post after someone else posts.

I would like to add my voice to those who've mentioned improving the terror stars, more diverse planet types, and most especially tactical ground invasions.

awesome game.

All I am saying is that a ship that doesn't have an engine to move it 1000 feet isn't going to move.  Even if it is able to jump to the next star system in 30 seconds or however long it gets there. 

And yes we do have non FTL engines right now in fact we have two systems on our shuttles one to get in orbit, one to manuver.

I wonder.

Take such a linear noding tree apart and what you'll get is exploits so hard to contradict your Diplomacy edge will feel like a pre-translator loss of influence or lack of economic Capitalizations PIs which you'd have to wait reseaching until it is already too late.

Bring the BlackHole Guns and you'll feel Missile Defense is still too much of an investment in beakers.

And so on.

A GUI that gives me all the planet data I need from the galaxy/top level HUD.

I do not like having to click on the HUD to get certain essential planet details that I just need to glance at: time remaining on social project, for example.

It would be nice to be able to put off a vote of the United Planets sometimes to look at the map of the known galaxy, review current reports, stats, treaties, and/or use this turn to trade or bribe someone with money or technology to vote for you or vice versa. The vote could only be postponed one turn. If you fail to vote the next turn, it will show your vote as not voting which would upset your people or the race that bribed you or et cetera. If you do this too many times the council can punish you in someway like restrictions, sanctions, and/or even expulsion.

I also would like to be able to place an item or select an item that could be on the United Planets agenda, but only if you can get another member to support you on this item before mid-November.

What I would like to see in GalCiv III (or a patch for II)

1. Able to 'flip' Mining Starbases for those lovely resources

2. "Privateer" ships - basically with a 'hidden nationality' function so that you can act like a pirate. Of course, there should be a % chance that the opponent can find out whose ship it is. Also, if the ship is defeated, then a larger % chance of finding out who the ship belongs to, possibly starting a war. Would make for some interesting combat, I would think.

3. Tactical combat, ground and space.

4. More campaigns and scenarios.

5. More modding (well, this is for the community, I suppose. I compare this to CivIV, which has a tremendous modding community. The XML coding system is not too difficult to play around with, either)

What I already like...

1. The AI - best AI I've seen.

2. Unique experiences with the different races - so far I've played games as Terran and Altarian. I really like diplomacy, and causing opponents to fight each other. And the Altarian tech tree is wonderful. So, of course, I made a custom with Terran's Super Diplomacy + Altarian tech tree. My favorite thing to play as... will try the others at some point.

3. Multiple victory conditions

4. Large tech tree

5. A nice background story

1. Able to 'flip' Mining... Use territorial range and Influence SBs, you might get some. I prefer a non-flip feature by components added to far away fields to keep those. Otherwise, even the Miner ships are useless other than exploiting the nearbys.
2. "Privateer" ships - Refer to Ultimate Espionage.
3. Tactical combat, ground and space. Gee, again?
4. More campaigns and scenarios. Leave that to Modders, tutorials are already extensive enough.
5. More modding... Xml is the trick, learn how to use it.

No, i meant a no-flip component (or upgrade feature) for the mining facility itself, not ships.

We still can stack a defensive fleet in these precious asteroid fields to protect the supplylines and yet when the lonely Miner is in standby it is as weak as we want them to be for waiting at the wrong spot.

Now come the yellow "pirate" icon and soon after a weird popup warning about Race X will grab it; i simply decommission and rebuild -- i'd rather not have to.

Sorry, i had edited supplemental stuff, now it may seem more obvious why.

@Willy

Same.  Actually, I think I've seen the AI take one out once.

@Zyx

If you'll read up, you'll see that the suggestion was about resource starbases, not mining bases.

Which I would disagree with as well.  They don't need to be vulnerable to influence (unless we're going to make them an equivalent to a planet in that regard there's absolutely no reason for them to be, as they would be too easily flipped); just somewhat easier to trade for.

Although, we could certainly address the starbase mechanic by having starbases essentially be mini-planets (blatant stealing from Sins here, actually) in the sense of having influence as well as population, though not necessarily tiles.