my major request for the next update is to make the up more important by allowing you to choose at the beginning of a new game, or in the new game menu, to choose how often the United Planets meets. some other creative ideas could be to make a United planets interface, which could be included in an expansion, where players can try and revote on things, or as a much more difficult idea, to create votes, which would be harder for the creators to do though, because it would involve making the AI capable of deciding what to vote. Some other ideas for votes are:
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1. a united planets peacekeeping force or army
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2. the custom vote menu to include race/group effect, in other words, who it affects, this could be ethical alignment, or specific race, or group such as richest civ, 2 poorest civ, and so on... it could also include economic, political, technological, and influence/military effects. and should say for how long.
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3. AI can choose to leave United Planets council if a vote impairs it, or affects in a bad way, and U.P. can vote to take away the rule, to bring the civ back. or you can negotiate with the race that left to come back. or the United planets council can vote to send its peacekeeping force/army to attack the race that left, or can automatically go attack if there was a rule set in place prior to the leaving. or the United Planets can either vote, or automatically ignore the race, and forbid any race from trading with it, or negotiating with it. and races could vote other races out, if they have become too actively aggressive, or greedy, as well as vote on territorial issues, if one civ has to many planets, the U.P. can order it to give up its lowest class planets, or if group of planets belonging to a civ, or just one planet is unhappy, and wants indpendence, the U.P. can vote to give it its independence.
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I know these things are more for an expansion. which i would definetely buy no matter what, and i have something to say about multiplayer too, its an option which most people just dont have high priority, but would enjoy and use if you included the option, but it would have to be easy to use. basically the idea is "If You Build It Then They Will Come!" GO FOR IT!