I don't know if someone else has already proposed this, if so, sorry, I do not wish to steal someone's credit, but this is my first post, and I don't follow the forums, but I have wanted to suggest these ideas ever since I started playing GalCiv II. The upcoming 2nd expansion is what prompted me to go ahead and post them

Ship Yards- Space Stations that can build ships

Here is how they would work: You build a ship yard with a constructor. Once it is built, you can assign the military production from planets and asteroid bases to the ship yard. The more planets sending resources to the ship yard, the faster the ships can be built.

Why I want this:

-It doesnt make sense to me that huge ships are being built on planets. They should be built in space with planets limited to only building smaller ships

-You could make ship sizes huge and what I hope will be included in the new expansion, death star size ships at the ship yards

-Another cool thing about this is that you could attack your enemies ship making capability by taking out their ship yards

-There are lots of cool things you could do with this: if you were limited to producing tiny, small, and perhaps medium ships on planets, then ship yards would become essential and you could cripple your enemy by sending in fast ships to attack their ship yards.

-Also, this would make having a bunch of tiny planets more usefull. You may have only 5-10 tiny planets, each one of which would take forever to build the large types of ships you need to fight a good war, but if you could combine all of their resources at one central location, a ship yard, then even races with crappy planets could mount a good fight.

On a Separate note now...

Planetary defenses and the ability to bomb planets.

I would like to see planetary defenses and the ability to bombard planets. I noticed there is going to be a planet killer now, and that will be nice because I wont have to invade every planet which is time consuming and costs me population. If I don't like a smaller race, I would really like to just be able to bomb it into oblivion.

-Planetary bombardment weapons can have their own tech tree

-I want to be able to build a planetary missle silo or something else that will take up a slot on the planet ground

-I also want to be able to build an orbiting Defense platform. It could be as simple as having the option to build "orbital defense station/platform." This platform would be like a space station, your first building is just the base, but as you continue to build addition "orbital defense station/platforms" then you would be able to continue to upgrade its modules just like a military space station. I like this idea for planetary defense more then having ships that just one by one allow themselves to be killed. I have destroyed so many enemies because I was able to destroy their ships one by one as the defended the planet.

Thanks for reading!

And again, if these ideas have already been posted by someone else, my apologies, I do not follow the forums.