It would be great to play other players in a multiplayer, as long as their are no AI players! Since against more than 1 human, AI would get crushed beyond getting crushed.

Hahahaha... as Advanced as these civilizations are, hundreds of years in the future, with Warp Drives, Starbases, Planet Terraforming and Colonization... their writing skills still suck.

So if you block everyone, you can view a bunch of empty threads!

WOO HOO time to resurect my ideas from "What do you want to see in TA"  lol

A new treaty to trade, a Protection treaty. What it would mean is that what ever race to got it from would have to go to war with any race that attacks you (like the Alterian super ability in a way). What the intent would be is to prevent civs from attacking you in the first place, not necessarily for you to have more power, hence the "who ever attacks YOU". But if you did get attacked you would have another race to help. Could be a way to make some cash with your military.

I would imagine that a race that gives you this treaty would have its military rating added to yours to disuade other races from attacking you, or that they would just "know" that you are going to get help or it would keep the peace in some other way. You could alos sell your services to another weaker race, but would be sent into war without choice if they were attacked.

There of course would be more to it (like how many you could get / give, or if a paradoxial loop was created) but I'd be surprised if you read this far into it... LOL

One thing that people have been complaining about is the inability to rename ships from inside a stack or fleet: https://forums.galciv2.com/341156.

Yeah, that's the problem w/ congress. The terms are so short that the insanity of a campeighn(sp?) is all year 'round, instead of just 95% of it like with Presidents....

On a slightly more serious note, it would be interesting to have a mega event that lowers the amount of government spending you can have, either for everyone or only for a race that appears to be winning the game, as another mechanism to help increase balance.

Deficit.

Forever?

In the short term...

It would be nice to see the -500 bc limit adjust itself to your economic capacity: instead of being stuck at 500, it should be a "money able to earn in X number of turns" calculation.

Here's a few things I'd like to humbly throw in:

Admirals - Ship/fleet leaders with bonuses/draw-backs (some admirals may have the mustard to command a 100 ship fleet, but most are average joes who deserve tanker duty)

Planet governors, presidents cabinent, senate - I like the way Hearts of Iron has a cabinet feature. They could add civilization wide bonuses/draw backs (Sec A is a master economist, so he'd be a bad choice for the war dept, but he may do ok as Sec of State)

Combat - I like the way combat is abstracted now.  but I'd like to have huge fleets and offensive star bases and planets with big fricken omega cannons on them.

When I get out of college, I won't own a house. I'll either have an apartment, or, I'll become a professional backpacker. I'll just buy a plane ticket to Spain, and I'll start hiking across the world. Every square inch if possible. To get money I'll just do some odd jobs for people (mowing the lawn, etc.). That's my ambition at least. And if I won't be a backpacker, I'll just do some other job (making sure to go skydiving at least once a month). It will be great!!!

One of the Structural issues with the game is once an area is captured/dominated, little happens - its very linear, all the "action " is up front.   GalCiv 3  needs a new "big idea" conceptually to differentiate itself from previous versions to be saleable - incremental change of existing concepts is unlikely to be enough from a commercial viewpoint.

The Events developments do attempt to fill the void that exists after taking an area/zone, and stop (to a degree) players leaving vast tracts empty of defence / mobile forces.  If that area could be exploited more to keep activity going, it would give a more "busy" feel to the game, less routine.  However it needs more than bolt on events, it needs to be part of the mainstream game. Couple of examples:

Introduce Logistics as a concept to the game. Its wholely missing at present, and in real world warfare, logistics is the most important planning aspect of any offensive made by any military leader.  In real world battles, Commanders go first to Logisticians with the question "do we have the Logistics to go on the Offensive".  If they dont, planning ceases right there until Logistics is sorted out.  Logistics then opens up a whole new tract of conceptual possibilities connected with Supply Dumps, Supply Routes etc etc

Impose the need to maintain and defend Supply Routes from long range special forces type of attacks, and the closer the supply route is to the main "front", the more defence needed.  This would spawn a new type of Unit "special forces" that have unique stealth abilities to penetrate existing areas of influence and travel deep into held territory.  The deeper they manage to penetrate the more damage they can inflict if defence forces are below a preset level. Initially the concept would be a basic one, but once established and "debugged" it could be developed in many directions as a mainstream part of the game using different tactics, new specialised weapon systems, planned "ambushes" of convoys on the supply routes,  "Hunts" for loose special forces causing damage, etc etc.

The supply routes could have supply dumps of various logistic types - food, weapon systems, spare parts etc etc, which need maintaining and kept filled by the supply convoys.  These logistics bases would be vulnerable to attack by long range forces who are trying to stop the flow of various logistics types to the main Fleets.  If the Long Range forces succeed, the main Fleets start to degrade, even stop due to lack of supplies/spares/replacement manpower, depending on the Logistics damage achieved.

The whole concept after its initial introduction can be developed in stages to a full blown Logistics Dimension to the game, opening up many many doors to new game design innovations and scenarios.

Regards
Zy