Heh. Well interesting.

I was also hoping for modders also being able to mod in soundbytes or small music files too.

It's been mentionned a couple weeks ago

A multilayered map with some portals between. In HOMM, it was a huge difference in gameplay not to know what was on the other side (underground). You could have:
- time limited portals
- moving portals
- ennemies appearing out of the blue at any given time
- (farfetched) portals that would open up to an old lost game at the exact time you lost it, so you get another chance for comeback against those damn Drengin... or see them kick you ass a second time invading your new galaxy...

Anyway it goes, I'm sure this kinda feature would add tons of gameplay possibilities without being too much of an assle in AI development

You don't think random, super-flexible transport portals would be a problem for the AI?

I'm interested in seeing a standardisation of the GUI across all windows, true floating resizable windows, a forum-standard 'pick what version of factory you want' ability, and an actual diplomacy system, with communication and politics rather than simply trade.

EDIT - ZOMG yes, and a proper colour system. Trying to mix colours is very, very painful, and just a brightness slider would be super-useful.

@Japata: Great Ideas, I would love to see portals of some kind as well, maybe a portals starbase.

I think the portals to another savegame is a great, yet crazy idea. Imagine the AI using that feature. One second you're beating the crap out of some civ, the next a huge portal opens and unleashes that civs monster fleet from 2 games back, looking to save their brethren in another dimension (stargate anyone?)

I'd like custom planets really be custom so that when edit them and give a texture from one of pics in the GFX/planets folder they'll looking that pic both inside when building improvements and outside when viewing it from above.
I'd also like t be able to make better use of the minor races such have as vessels are minions ready jump at you backen call

While they did some good improvements to the shipyard, it is still a pain in the south end to rotate the ship around. This could be done in 2 different ways.

First way would be to use the up, down, left, and right arrows to rotate the model. Having to manually use the mouse to rotate the model with the too small little rotate area buttons is a pain. Having to do that while placing and looking at a new part is real poor way to do this. Also the model needs to stop when the button is released instead of coasting a little further along.

The second way to do this might be a little better. Since there is already code that allows the model to be moved around in the viewing area, it might be possible to just have the rotate kick in by pressing and holding say the "Alt" or "Ctrl" keys while left clicking. Again the ship model needs to move only while the command is working and NOT coast on after release.

For my way of looking at the rotate buttons they work opposite of how it seems they should. European drafting views versus American style I guess. Maybe an invert switch would help here. As I use a large trackball, the intuitive way to rotate is that the direction the ball rotates is the same way the model should roatate. Just as if the model were inside a clear lucite ball.

The addition of the M for move component and the ability to load the "entire" ship (with components) now for updating are good things that I was going to suggest.

I'd like to be able to offer a bid for those races about to be completely taken over. You know! The ones that say they have been beaten and that they are going to give all their rescources and planets to some other race because they made the best offer. Whay can't we see what other races have offered and make a bid of our own if we can afford it. This would make a cool addition to the game. That's if it's possible, I don't know much about modding. Noobie thought!

The further into the game I delve, the more I realize how much stuff is not exposed to modding. Which is a damned shame; why bother using XML if you’re not gonna let me hang clauses on everything?

I have a couple of new items for the shipyard. Once the parts are placed, specifically items like the engines, weapons, sensors and the like, If you are trying to do an upgrade it would be nice for a description of selected item on the ship to appear. This can be done by the selector on the left "jumping" to the item currently selected. As there is a description there that would solve the problem.

Also working with the ship building screen more last night, the little rotate buttons ABSOLUTELY SUCK! Here I am trying to look at a spot and I cannot get the rotate to stop where I want. I think the best solution is to press "Alt" (or Ctrl) and left click mouse and move mouse around to rotate the ship. This will give the best control and viewing while constructing a new ship. This should work similar to the click "move around view screen" that it currently has. Hate to say it but the programmer/designer for this "tool" is not a 3D artist person. Seriously frustrated with it.

In addition I found that a "multiple Item select" would be quite a time saving feature. Say there are 3 items that you want to delete or edit all the same way. I would be easy to do with Shift + click and then do the change wanted.

some more stuff...



variety in systems.. i.e. more suns, more/less planet variety...
more planet types
asteroid belts
multi mooned planets
more space events

why not give more unexplored planets a light defense force? not much just enough so you cant just send out a explo but first has to have the right research to be able to build some light assault vessels

I'd love to see the ability to use more custom races in a game without having to eliminate the original races.

Also, it would be GREAT to have negative abilities, so races could load up on other positive ones if they felt they could deal with the handicap. Someone wrote a small mod for this, but it doesn't/can't do enough, since there is a maximum of 4 'options' to choose from. ie; there are 4 options of "influence" to choose from already, so any negative modifier would have to eliminate one of the positive choices.
I've tried manually modifying tne My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\"x".raceconfig files, but the game just eliminates the negative entries.

I would like to have an planet improvement "colonize other planet in starsystem", because colonizing in huge or giantic galaxy takes too much time.