I'd have to agree that a better UI is needed. It will be needed even more if the game is s 64 bit and the unit caps are increased.

Let's say that the game remained real time and most of the wishes remained true. Scale of Sins 2 will be larger because it's 64 bit and unit caps may be higher.

- The problem is, you've got multiple star systems, multiple fleets, and multiple battles of several thousand units.

- In fact, there may even not be a unit cap (like other games, it may be a function of empire size)

- If the scale goes up, then the difference between Titan to say, Strike Fighter would be even bigger, which would introduce complexity in other ways. Tech tree, which units to allocate to what, etc.

Other ideas include:

- Customizing your own weapons per ship (should be limits, otherwise for example, everyone would choose the best weapons, like everyone using Phase Missiles) 

- Designing your own starbase or Titan

I agree that the game could be made good if there's a better UI even in real time.

To be honest, at this point, lack of ideas for improvement is not the bottleneck. Perhaps neither is hardware. The real problem right now is that there's no indication that Sins 2 will even be created or is in development.

The only other things I would add to that list is that Ironclad is working on their MOBA, and their team is too small to be working on 2 games at once (or so Stardock says). From what I understand, they own the IP to Sins. That means they may have, assuming you are right, transferred those rights to Stardock.

It's likely that if you are right, then Sins 2 will have more limited Ironclad involvement than Sins 1.

I suppose that we will know at the end of the month. Let's hope you're right.

Honestly, I think it would be better to just give planets a "standing army" stat. Invading would do a DoT to it and it could be upgraded like other planet stats. I like the idea of invasion retaining planet upgrades, though obviously standing army would not transfer.

Bombing followed by capture should perhaps retain everything at one level below the previous except for defensive facilities.

Glassing should wipe the slate clean and perhaps even change the planet type.

Ultimately, I think Sins II should just handle planet classes and fleet upkeep differently.  Terrans should be incredibly rare.  Gas Giants should be far more frequent and while not being able to be colonized, we should be able to do something to harvest their gases.  Also, gas giants should have up to several moons, all of which should have a phase lane connecting them to the planet around which they orbit, making Gas Giants hubs to be defended.

By default, desert worlds should have lower population caps than they currently do and we should also have greenhouse planets like are found in many mods. Desert and Greenhouse worlds should be terraformable.  An expensive process that takes a while during which the planet will not generate tax income, terraformation ultimately results in the planet becoming a Terran.  Terran planets then could be upgraded into Agricultural worlds (major bonus to trade) or Urban worlds (major bonus to tax).  Agricultural worlds can then be upgraded to Paradise worlds (bonus tax as well) or Hyperculture worlds (huge trade bonus and reduces fleet upkeep).  Urban worlds could be upgraded into Capital worlds (increases fleet efficiency and globally increases trade and tax), Research worlds (globally reduced research speed), or Trade Exchange worlds (trade bonus to planets within two jumps).

Glassing a terran or post-terran world would convert it into a new planet class called "Scorched" which has severely limited population.  Scorched planets can be terraformed.  Glassing a Scorched or Baren planet converts it to a Lava planet.  Lava planets can be upgraded into Mining worlds.  

Killing a planet via Novalith, Final Judgement, or Raze Planet counts as Glassing.

Fleet upkeep would be proportional to the number of ships that exist where each ship incurs a constant cost proportional to its purchase price.  What are currently fleet supply upgrades would be converted to "fleet efficiency" upgrades which would decrease the coefficient on all ships, making their constant drain less but with the tradeoff that it reduces all income by a percentage as it does now.  These could also be deactivated later, though requiring twice as many resources as it took to upgrade in the first place.

I still think they should have tiers, but I agree that more should equal faster.

I disagree about food, but perhaps if you don't have the resources to pay for your fleet, passive hull regeneration gets disabled.  Starbases, titans, and capitals would get prioritized naturally so that even if you can't pay to regen your frigates, you can regen your big things.

EDIT: now that I think about it... letting players choose to pay less than the official amount would actually be pretty cool.  Perhaps overpaying increases regen?

EDIT 2: also, I feel that glassing a Lava should probably turn it into an Unstable world that cannot have any population just like a dead asteroid.  Glassing an unstable planet then would turn it into a Asteroid Belt with the additional buff that the molten fragments deal DoT to all units in the well.  After six minutes, this buff would vanish and it would be just like any other asteroid belt.

Also, I feel that glassing a Lava should probably turn it into an Unstable world that cannot have any population just like a dead asteroid.  Glassing an unstable planet then would turn it into a Asteroid Belt with the additional buff that the molten fragments deal DoT to all units in the well.  After six minutes, this buff would vanish and it would be just like any other asteroid belt.

I think most people agree that more capitals would be good, but what are people thinking in terms of type?  Previously, I've suggested Destroyers (AoE glass cannons) and Lancers (snipers).  What are the thoughts of others?

Likewise, most people seem to want more frigates.  What roles should they fill?  Previously, I've suggested Defense Cruisers to counteract bomber spam.  If we're having invasions, should we have a dedicated unit for that or should existing Siege frigates get that ability (I vote they get the ability).  Any other ships?

Star Craft 2? I really do not want Sins 2 to be anything like SC. That is the wrong end of the spectrum of RTS in my mind.
Sins is meant to be a 4X RTS hybrid.

Destroyers would be good. Something akin to a Cruise Missile ship would be good too, though I guess that could be a type of 'lancer'/sniper ship like you suggested.

I would like to see mobile factory ships. Something that can say build only frigates but also is capable of fighting and phase jumping.

Here is another thought. If Invasions was a thing, you could also include boarding actions. Nothing too crazy, but something akin to the boarding ships in Homeworld would be good. You could even give ships a 'marines' stat (similar to the planets ground forces stat) and when depleted the ship is disabled and/or captured?

? Not sure I follow ur logic sir. The more ships the better, the more options you have.

Volt I like ur planet ideas, im away from my computer but tomorrow ill post some new ideas. I also think they should make an option for a specific race (tec) to be able to temporarily evacuate population from a planet. (Make several small ships that travel only in a swarm, cant just sellect one..) tgey can travel only fora limited time, say 5 min you can keep population intact. Ofcourse you will not get any taxes from them while they are in those little "colony" ships  but you will save the population.

As for vasari make a new special cap. Ship call it the enslavor and have on it room or an ability  level 6 so that it can enslave all population from the planet and get taxes from them for a limited ammount of time.

As for the advent have them be able to mind control the population off the planet somehow.....

And in order for this to work they should make the population to matter more...

I remember back to O.R.B. where you could build cruise missiles to destroy enemy bases.  Those were awesome.  I question the need in Sins II though with superweapons being a thing.  Maybe the Chasers would get missiles as their superweapon?  Idk.  Of course, a missile seems a bit anti-climactic for something that brought a galactic empire to its knees.  Then again, there is Martyrdom in the game already.

I can see the value of a titan producing frigates (Chaser Titan?) from a balance perspective, but a frigate or capital that can do it...  I'm hesitant to go for it.  Sure, it's cool, but for the sake of balance...  Maybe if its build rate was dramatically slower or its fleet supply cost was in the 35 range.

Further STARCLAD should give the fans of soase the ability to influence a new ship look. Maybe a new titan or a new cap. Ship.. Just like chris roberts did with star citizen. If this were to happen for soase2, it would be a great marketing opportunity and a great way to bring fans together and hype up the community for soase 2. I would highly reccomend that

Can someone PM yarlen or redskittles ? Or twins or Mr. Brad about these ideas ... idk if they look at this section...