along the lines of carriers, but not exactly the same... mobile ship builders? the ability to build a ship which can go to an area and build small or tiny ships at a relatively fast pace

or instead of a constantly mobile ship, build a starbase which could then build ships, possibly of any size hull

One thing I've been thinking about is having ethics and morale linked to the kinds of decisions you make. For example, if you're a good civ and you declare war on another good civ that's friendly with you (for example) that could give you a morale penalty. If the penalty were big enough, it might even keep the senate from approving the war when they vote on it. And maybe you could also spend espionage money as propaganda to convince your people that a given civ is really the enemy.
Another interesting idea (but perhaps impossible to get the AI to use well) is to have a chance to influence diplomatic decisions before their made - first of all with the UP proposals, but also with the ally/declare war/make peace/surrender stuff. For example, if you had high enough espionage on the Torians and they were about to declare war on the Drengin you could get a pop-up and a chance to offer the Torians money, threats, etc. to break or make the deal. This would definitely add depth to the "surrender" aspect of the game that so many people complain about. Imagine if you got an espionage pop-up (or if friendly races just straight up told you about what they were planning to do) saying that the Terrans were about to surrender to the Korx. If you were at war with the the Terrans you could tell the Korx - don't accept that surrender or you're next, or you could try to convince the Terrans to surrender to you instead by giving their leader tons of money or something.
Stardock should be good at his kind of stuff since they made the "Political Machine" game.

and try to convince other factions to vote your way

That's what trading for influence points effectively means--buying their votes.

here is a little one name suns ya your all like wtf this is minor but i still would like it and i will add more ideas later.

here is a little one name suns ya your all like wtf this is minor but i still would like it and i will add more ideas later.

For custom races, the name of your Homeworld is the name of your sun, not sure if that's the case for customizing a main race, however. So... indirectly you can name a single sun. Still, you can rename planets, ships, and (I believe) Starbases, might as well be able to rename stars.

oh ya but this may of been asked already, more political parties

Would be nice.

more points to customising a civilization not just 10 pts may be 15-20

Not likely, and not really needed.

more pictures to pick

You can already use whatever picture you want. Not sure how large the have to be or even where to put them. I'm sure the information is somewhere. However, rest assured, there will be at least 2 more pictures to choose in the expansion.

more planetary defense ie like if you guys read the halo novels mac gun stations orbiting Reach and Earth that would attack incoming ships(or anything etc...)

Agreed, I suggested something like "Defensive Tactics", chosen when you are invaded, much like the attacker chooses his Invasion Tactic. Still, I wouldn't mind some buildings that gave a planet base weapondry, much like the starbase modules. But, you'd have to some form of planetary bombardment to knock them out...

if you reach one or all the 3 weapon trees get a superweapon to destroy planets

GalGiv I had Terror Stars, which destroyed entire star systems so, it's not really a jump in imagination that they may bring something similar back. There are still left over UP Council Issues about Terror Stars in the data files.

planetary bombardments if you can i thought i would try to ask

It's been asked a lot, believe me, I had a suggestion about this too. Even something as simple as lowering the morale, influence, and population of a planet each turn it is "under siege"/under orbital bombardment by ships would be nice. Heck, they could be a new, seperate ship module rather than any ship. Just let us do something to planets other than invade them (militarily, that is)...

more diplomatic options ie easier break alliance, ask other civ to surrender, etc...,

There already going to be more diplomatic options in the expansions, but I wouldn't some more dynamic'isity to Alliances. They can be hard to form, sure, but once you do, nothing short of breaking it yourself or refusing to go to war when the Ally is attacked will break the Alliance. Heck, why do I have to have a complete alliance? Why not Research or Defense Agreements or something?

Still, I'd definetly would like to see an option to try to force a Civ to surrender, much like a peace treaty, although... there really isn't much you can offer a Civ that's going to go away anyway... *shrugs

more special civilization bonuses, also more options for the special civilization bonuses you already have expample diplomacy bonus are 1-4pts right but why dont you add greater bonuses for like 5-8 pts too ie 50-80% bonus and do it for all the other like research, logistics etc...

This may or may not happen. There are some leftover abilities that can be modified, like Interest, Miniaturization, and such, but I dunno if they would add them as customizable abilities. Some aren't really that useful (Interest and Miniaturization with the cap at 125%), others might be too powerful (Miniaturization, but with the cap... it wouldn't be too bad).

Having more options would be nice, but could result in imbalance. Plus, at the moment, there is a hardcoded restriction of 4 choices per ability. At least, that's how I understand it.

ahh thinking, 1 or two more weapon trees if not i dont care...

I really dunno how much a new weapon type(s) would really add to the game, but, from a modding standpoint, I would like ship components to be more like Starbase modules, as in... you can have any effect on them that you want.

Example, currently a starbase module can have multiple damage and defense types, even add +1 to everything that a starbase module can do. Ship components are divided into types and cannot have properties outside their type. Weapons can't deal multiple damage types, and you couldn't create, say, a "laser point defense system" that not only provided missile defense but also could deal a little beam damage.

Sure, having weapons block damage might not make much sense, but it could be nice to be able to have a single weapon deal multiple damage types (like, say 1 mass, 4 beam or such) or a defense block multiple damage types (4 shield, 1 armor).

starbases that build ships

Could be expanded to an entirely new class of Starbases: Planet-like. Modules to house and support people, factories to contruct things, etc. Essentially like building a low-class planet (max 5 or 6), if you will. It would have to be expensive though, but for realism and for balance, I suppose.

I've thought about some special bonuses granted to the major races regarding their relations with the Minor Races.

- Minor Avatar: This is for Good civs. They must ally with AND protect all the minor races from the other major ones to achieve this bonus. The bonus is lost for good if any of the minors are destroyed, or if you break the alliance with any of them.

- Minor Terror: This is for Evil civs. They must simply wipe out all the minor races AND hold their home planets to achieve this bonus. They lose it forever if any other race invades succesfully one of the Minors' home worlds belonging to them, or one of the minors were been destroyed by the other civs before you do.

Neutral civs don't regard about the Minor Races, so they don't have special bonuses. Somebody have suggestions for the bonuses awarded???   

I dont think that starbases should have a base type anymore, the modules should define the bases role, so we could have one starbase that has for example military and economic modules on it.

That's the way it was in GC1. It was changed to the way it is now so the AI can more easily identify the type of threat posed (if any) by your starbses, and otherwise better handle them.

I'd like all of the above. Minus Carriers.

what I would like is... Bring back the sensor drones! I loved those things. You would have a gigantic galaxy in the beta and have tons of them around your border on sentry or guard. Then, when your enemies or allies passed by into your territory, you would know.

Being able to see your allies and being able to use their influence to boost your range.

I would also like super techs like Dyson Spheres and there could be something so that you get "Super tech points" which count towards an alignment special. Each Super tech is like a Super Project. But for the alignment specials, you could have stuff like interrogation facilities if you're evil or a divine garden if you're good that increases approval by fifty or forty percent but only one may be built on each planet, etc. But each Alignment Special costs Super Tech Points and some time.

If you would have a planet-doom-ray I think you should end up entirely evil if you use it. I also think you should have a warp option on the military starbases but it takes about fifty turns to recharge or is severely limited in some other way.

And as for mobile ship builders, I think you should be allowed to build ships of a certain cost in your ship builders which increases with your manufacturing tech but you will need so much logistics tech and so much manufacturing tech to start mobile shipyards.

A 'no enemies' option: Really toughen up the micro-management, no enemy players. Basically turn Gal Civ into a galactic sim-city as a result.

Sandbox mode!!!! Yippee!!!

A 'no enemies' option: Really toughen up the micro-management, no enemy players. Basically turn Gal Civ into a galactic sim-city as a result.

You can just about simulate that by minimizing the number of enemies and also minimizing their AI intelligence. That's how I started to learn the game, actually.

A 'no enemies' option: Really toughen up the micro-management, no enemy players. Basically turn Gal Civ into a galactic sim-city as a result. You can just about simulate that by minimizing the number of enemies and also minimizing their AI intelligence. That's how I started to learn the game, actually.

Or just start a game with all AIs set to 'Team' status, and alliance victory disabled.

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