Thank you for your interest..

I've read some text about vasari origins... Their mastery in phase drive have lead them to discover what they must have kept hidden (similar point to star ocean 1 if you know).

Advent are similar to honore matriach in Dune saga (long forgotten bene gesserit renegat..), and unity influence is really similar to the voice. And of course leaders in advent are female...

TEC is pretty similar to wing commander/star wars universe : ships made by recycling civil starships.

I understand what you say about fighter/bomber. Except with advent (with high evolution and a lot of ships in squad), fighter/bomber are a bit of distraction. We don't masterize theirs attributes (especially evasive manoeuvers).

One good point for global ships could be to develop defensive decoy (flare, aso) in order to avoid attack (some capital ships give this feat for one attack), but that's all.

Cap ships need increased survivability and Deliverance Engine needs some love

I would like to see a guideship that can lead other ships to planets without regard to phase lanes. It should probably not be able to go as fast as other ships using phase lanes, but much faster than in the gravity well. This would add a whole new element to the strategy, and might even make seige frigates useful! Capital ships should not be allowed to be moved this way, however, as that would just be way too powerful.

I disagree about capital ships against strike craft.

At least TEC (kol, dunov) and Vasari(kortul) have cap ship with strong abilities against strike craft.

Form fleet with them inside in order to get cover against strike craft.

For advent, I guess strong strike craft is the best weapon against strike craft due to their vast number.

For me cap ship are hard enough right now. capital ship are not invincible. and remember that even a super star destroyer could destroyed by a single fighter strike (may the force be with you..)

You can't rely on only few cap ships. they must belong to a fleet with cover and anything else.

That the same thing in real worl where carrier are always escorted by several smaller ships (frigate, cruiser, aso).

I don't know... i like the idea, that the first is free and then you can build more if you have the logistics and the money. If you have to research a cap prototype first before using capital ships, t might slow down the game considerably.

Just one question to all of you: Would you like to keep the pirates as they are? Or do you have an idea how to change them?

I would very much like to give them a bit more detailed missions. It would be nice if they could attack traders, specific structures etc. Would be nice if one could specify the system they shall attack, too...

One more idea, since this is really a 2D game, why not make an extreme varient (not for this version) about the war in the pacific between Japan and US.

it's not that far outside what's already going on in the game....

Just have islands be the planets, the lanes between be between the islands and change the names of the ships.....

it's not perfect. but and idea.

Ah, I see. A late game boost for capitals. That makes sense. Well, technically you can boost them via research right now. Better hull, better armor, better shields and weapons but I understand were you are going with that idea. Then I would stick with the suggestion of a mothership for the third expansion. A ship, which can be outfitted with distinct destroyable modules. Well, I explained it earlier in this post.

Selling information is cool. This is sth pirates really should do, I love that. I just wonder, what one can do with pirates in late games.

I think that's excellent. Right now there is another pirate tread going on. They have some neat ideas :

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/339910

I like the idea, that pirates might be able to steal vessels from different races, thus their fleets are a mix of all kind of ships...

Not really. All of the capital ships in the Rebel fleet were focus-firing on the SSD, which resulted in the sheilds going down, which allowed the lone A-wing to bypass its defences and crash into the command center. Which, in turn, caused the SSD to temporarily lose control (note the "temporarily", it had a back up bridge, from which the ship could be controled. It just takes a little while to bring it online). Because of the lose of control, it couldn't resist the Death Star's gravity well generators, and it plumeted into the surface. If the DS hadn't been there, command would have been transfered to the auxilary bridge, and the SSD would have kept on fighting. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Executor

That being said, I agree that all capital ships need some sort of anti-strike craft weapons. If I were to build a capital ship, I would defend it against fighters (seriously, don't any of these ship designers watch sci-fi movies? Its always the lone fighter that, whether directly or inadvertantly, results in the big ship's destruction)

LOL, seriously don't any of these developer's watch sci-fi movies? rofl   ... nice  

But yeah come on developers haven't you seen a wall of Flak simply rip apart Cylons on BSG before? We're not even advocating for that here, we want some kind of "weak" Flak equivalent to 1 or 2 Flak Frigates on each Capital Ship here, and then let the Mothership Cap serve a good battle purpose by giving it moderate flak ability. (3-4 FFrigates) 

Its a good idea, that many people will welcome.  

i havent read all the posts, but how about a new Sensor Array civ structure.  it gives structure and ship data for adjancent planets.  it could be teched up by allowing the structure with intel on the neighbor's buildings, next level would include info on ships.

longer max chars length and and copy star function it the basic map designer

I think more pirate options would be good.

Such as:

-Can choose where pirates will attack and what they will be attacking, e.g labs, vehicle factorys etc

-Can get them to gather you intel as they go along (for an extra fee)

-Option to customise whats going to be in their attack fleet, e.g is it based on destroying planets (increase planet bombers), or blockading enemy off at a neutral well (combination) (since your funding it)

-Not having them attack you if you've paid for them to attack someone else (e.g you can go in with them)

-Seperate private pirate army for as long as you pay them (e.g works like an ally - use them for harrasment or protection - but without the warnings - you can build them up, but if you don't pay they will attack you/be open to negotiations with enemy players)- A good idea for this would be protecting your borders, or trade routes/ships, or for just general numbers.

-Ability to give "normal" pirates and "private" pirates a colour (such as an enemy players colour - which is expensive) and disguise them as enemy ships (also expensive) - so that another player will think they're being attacked by another opponant (aka a proxy war) - you could split the pirates into mutliple, fleets and attack simutanious people - if they are human players they might then be more likley to "cease fore" with you while you sit back and watch them destroy/weaken eachother, thinking they have both attacked eachother and the other has responded in kind with force.

Other non-pirate things:

Speaking of black market things i would also like to see a more developed bounty system, including crystal/metal etc and extra bounty options such as free units thrown in, friendlyness increase, or even a planet or 2 (to give human players more worth while incentives to attack for recieving bounty - at the moment its just credits) - basically if your offering bounty on someone you can customise what you are going to give them.