All in all I have been satisfied with the founders elite program here are a few positive points...

1.  Love the communication between Stardock and the consumer.  (This hasn't ever been an issue in my opinion)

2.  Love the video's (however, I wish we had the working version a lot of times but, it's understandable why we don't)

3.  Love that we get all future items planned for the game.

4.  Like the way that Stardock handles this versus other larger companies (EA/Maxis)

5.  Like that they listen to player feedback and don't blow them off saying it's impossible (EA/Maxis) [see any hard feelings here.... Simcity :@]

Disappointments with the founders elite program.

1.  Launched on Steam for people who don't understand what an ALPHA version is, and having to see that crap in the forums (This has died down some.)

2.  Slow progress of the game and still missing many features that were in GalCiv 2 (moral, economy, research, military, influence starbases) haven't seen really anything on these are they still in?  (This can be understood, as I'm just impatient)

3.  Content in founders vault all but extinct, please provide additional information weekly?  (maybe a first look at other race discriptions, missing race images, non-released game images)  Items like this...

4.  Still too many issues w/ game crashing after x turns (per most people seem to be anywhere from 150-400 turns depending on game type)  Feel this should be ironed out by now as we're approaching Beta release.

5.  Even though Brad is behind the scenes busy with other projects it would be nice to see him in a video maybe???  Just once.  (maybe a more frequent post or two)

I am an elite founder and very, very long time user of Stardock games and PC apps.  With that said, there are a few things I've noticed that are going to be game killers if not improved/corrected/added.

1. The game crashes continue to be a significant issue with game play, especially with large fleets.  Constant saves required to ensure progress is not lost.

2.  I would like to see some programmable options for ships ("Stay here and if enemy comes by kill it then return to sentry." would be awesome!)

3.  The AI is stupid.  Massive buildup of useless ships all stacked together and doing nothing.  Killing the enemy star ports over and over and over without any of these enemy ships attacking back seems to be a real enthusiasm killer.

4.  As a test, I surrounded/blockaded an enemy planet about 6 hexes outward from the planet with ships to prevent the enemy from building another star port.  Just a test.  Oddly, it destroyed my ships on one hex and built the dang star port anyway.  Wonder which technology advance gave them the ability to do that

5.  I want to tell my fleet to attack an enemy fleet and don't stop until its dead or I am dead (or I disengage).  Helps a lot when facing the AI's ship stacking issue (40-60+ useless enemy ships against my highly advanced (3-4) Paladin fleet takes for eeeevvvvvaaaarrrrr to resolve combat.  Tedious and boring.)

6.  Planet management option to "Upgrade All" structures to highest available would be a welcome relief.  With 10+ lvl 16 or higher worlds it can take a looonnnggg time to manually upgrade stuff.

7.  How about being able to pick an advanced tech target like planet invasion and have the game queue up the required research and not stop until its reached?  Set and forget unless stopped/changed.  

8.  The blockade problem, along with the AI ship stacking issue, makes for a very, very tedious game guys.  I know its an Alpha.  I am doing what I can to break things.  Seems to be working.  Until the all powerful God of Crash appears.  Hope I saved recently...

Side note:  I should ask for a tour of the Stardock HQ.  I live about two miles away off N. Territorial.

I still want to be able to right click on a fleet stack and have the command menu pop-up.

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