List of Ongoing Fixes/Wants/Needs for Future Patches

instead of creating a new thread i will add to that list  

31.Auto Attack

pls

A lot of great suggestions, hopefully some will get implemented.  The ones I emphatically agree with are:
 

1) Governor window on planet screen should be side-popped and not a new window that overlays (so you can see real time changes on). Also its a pain to open so many windows when doing 50 planet changes right after another.

7) Towards late game, please have AI ability to understand credits. Too many junk screens popping up asking to trade 10 antimatter for 150 credits, or offering 150 credits to goto war with the 2nd biggest opponent in the game. If I offer them 150 credits for ANYTHING I get laughed at.

19) On the main play screen on the right side where you can list your planets and ships. Can there please be a drop down to choose type of ship? (even assault, scout, escort etc) would be nice. Looking for 1 specific ship in a sea of 500 is not fun. Or better yet, have a dropdown of all current types of ships (like the govern screen)

22) Why is it so easy to defy U.P. proposals? Some minor little race has an issue with it and the whole U.P. vote is thrown out the window? NATO doesn't stop sending aid to Thailand just because Botswana doesn't like it. Please make only MAJOR (like top 5) able to defy the vote or something. I hate having to wait another 100 turns to bring up another vote for something. Majority really should rule. Defiance should just mean you are "Exluded" from the effect of the vote or banned from the U.P. and left on your own or something.

23) Can we have an option to have custom built ship designs to be upgraded via a button? (i.e. have harpoons upgraded to photons, and shields upgraded to barriers, etc?) Not anything new thrown on, but just replace existing parts with their newer components? I really don't like redesigning whole new ships when I get a sensor, shield or weapon upgrade.

25) Survery ships.  Can we have an option to "Only explore Capsules/Artifacts/Graveyards/etc? Like a little Check next to each one? I am really tired of half my surveyors ending up on a wormhole on the other side of the universe.  Also having my armed surveyors still ignore Ship Graveyards.

26) Anomalies: Can we have like different colored anomolies or something? Or a differnt icon? Especially wanted for Wormholes and Ancient Precursor Anomalies would be awesome. 

28) Trade Ships:  Can we please be notified that a trade route is connected, disconnected, destroyed or something? The only messages I get are from my first trade route or if I already established a route with that colony.

Another 

31) During trades, way to see where a tech that is being offered is in my tech tree?

- do I have the previous tech?

- do I have another tech specialization of that tech (very important)

- is it a jump in my tech (skipping past several known techs).

1. Also in cases where you want planets doing the same thing. Is research world specialization where 70% of your planets are research. It would be nice to have global options for this only going to planets that are different for local governors. Even having an exception is where global governor list doesn't affect. We need both global, and local governor option posts.

This could be incorporated into the "Colonies" tab of the "Govern" menu.  Basically a list of any governor focuses and the ability to change multiple focuses at once.  Big +1 on this.

I have a few suggestions to add:

1) Highway Highlight - I use military bases with a slipstream generator to create highways through my territory. It would be nice if there was an overlay that would show me the areas where slipstream is in effect. Being able to get resources where they are needed is critical.

2) Let me rename the planet from the govern screen when I first colonize it, and then skip the prompt to name it if I've already done so.

3) Let me create Starbase Templates that will let me easily tell a new starbase to copy starbase X or use template X.

4) Teach the AI to attack ships other than just the escorts first. There are lots of other ways to pick targets and I'd think different races might use different tactics.

5) When I have starbases, planets, etc. sorted, the next button on the starbase or planet detail screen should go to the next one in sorted order. This should be a relatively easy fix and would make it a lot easier to go through your planets looking for a place to plop a particular special improvement.

6) Longer term -- perhaps add a Raid attack, where pirates can raid a planet or starbase and get resources with which to build more pirates. This also might be a nice feature for evil races.

7) Perhaps give us the ability to take over starbases using specialized commando troops that are carried in their own troop carrier.

This game eats up way too much of my time, but I'm enjoying it.

Ray

I am not sure what this means, but if you mean.. while a ship/fleet is on "Sentry" duty that it will automatically attack enemy ships that are in an "at war" state with you, or Pirates/Dreadlords etc that come within its visual range, then I agree.

yup ty for understanding what i meant that and/or the function that was in gal civ 2 auto attack in the menu with sentry, guard, explore, etc (as a a option) any that you are at war with but at least the sentry fucntion and ty for the credit 

I like a lot of these! I would add upgrading the way invasions work, that thing is pretty damn bland as it is. Oh man I agree on the starbases being weak as hell though. They really need a massive boost to hp and damage.

Some of these Stardock won't do though; tactical control is probably one.

I think raiding supplies or at least trade routes was in the works at one point. Don't know what happened to it though.

Not just colony focus, but also things like terraform tiles, and auto upgrade. These also could be globally controlled; because they are not I don't mess with them, especially terraforming I definately want to turn this off in the beginning, but later I would want to turn this on.

Since there are no roads in space you mean trails this could be an option to have on the map. Sort of what they had in two; except you could manually outline this. On the mini map you could zoom, but it would be nice to have a way to turn this on the big map. Then where you turn it off on the big map. Then when the right icon was pressed it would thut off. Being able to press an icon on the mini map which would shut this off would be nice considering no one would want to constantly see this. The trail would only be on a map not physical. But as a dictator you could designate this as a no fly zone.

I like the capture starbase like capture a planet.

I would add more diplomacy possibilities. My  most thought of one is a surrender to me without having to totally defeat them in war. Just get them to the point of "they will not win". After the surrender then you have to clean up the rebel elements that do not change. This is where and advanced assimilation center and approval buildings would help.

Nerf the Thulium Data Archive and Durantium Refinery.

As of the latest patch (1.8.1.8), it's nice to see that both of these are now much more relevant (and desirable).  However, I'm now up through about turn 200 on a Immense map, and finding both are severely overpowered for the mid-game.  As in, combined with even moderate placement for adjacency bonuses, both are WAY too powerful, far in excess of any other non-empire-unique building, and not expensive enough to prevent one from putting one on each planet (or close to it).

Current stats for each are:

• 150 build cost
• 1 Durantium/Thulium cost
• +2 adjacency bonus
• 0.5 maintenance
• +8 Manufacturing/Research raw bonus
• +1 M/R bonus for every level of the building

The later bonus, in particular, makes is extremely powerful after one has done reasonable buildout of a planet, as it's not hard to get +6 or more adjacency on a dedicated planet.  As the bonus is given directly to Manufacturing or Research, it completely dominates any population effects (since, for the most part, only 40% of population is going to Manufacturing or Research, the +8 bonus above is equivalent to +20 population).

My understanding of the purposes of these buildings was that they should:

• Be expensive enough to be very rare in the early-game (<100 turns)
• Be about as powerful at the later mid-game improvements (i.e. the 4th generation factory/research building)
• Be intended to be built in the early game on very special worlds to gain a big advantage
• Obsoleted (mostly) by cheaper, better improvements around mid-game (turn 200 or so)

The problem is this:  they're really too expensive to build much before turn 100 as you're unlikely to have the resource needed until turn 50 or so, and the 150 build cost is a LOT for a planet that likely has 25 manufacturing at the most. On the flip side, up around turn 120, it's not hard to have a 40+ manufacturing worlds all over the place, durantium/thulium are in pretty big supply, and the building absolutely creams anything else available at your tech level, once you take adjacency into account.

To fix this, I'd suggest some combination of:

• Reduce the cost to build
• Reduce the adjacency bonus the building gives
• Reduce the bonus the building gets from levels
• Reduce the base M/R bonus.

My suggestion (after playtesting this with a mod of my own) is to change the stats to:

• 75 build cost
• 1 Durantium/Thulium cost
• +1 adjacency bonus
• 0 maintenance
• +6 Manufacturing/Research raw bonus
• +0.25 M/R bonus for every level of the building

This makes it well worth building early and cheap enough to do so, but much less desireable after the 3rd and 4th tier buildings are available.

To a lesser extend, the Promethion Reserve (having the same stats) has the same problem, but since Promethion is generally in far scarcer supply, and useful for many other things, plus money is in far greater supply than Manufacturing or Research, I don't see that building as much of a problem. Though a similar nerf would be consistent.

32?, if I got that number right.  Please when loading a ship tell us if we are loading transports or colony ships.  I play mainly on insane map sizes, so yes, I can be loading transports and colonizing at the same time.

1. Just like we have a button to "Clear All Planetary Focuses", can we have a button to "Clear All Planetary Projects" so that older planets can report in when there are available upgrades that need to be installed. Otherwise, we have to go planet by planet every so often to keep them up to date.

2. Set surveyor and explorer ships to: Priority-1) stay away from each other unless otherwise commanded. Priority-2) Search out the nearest undiscovered system. Priority-3) Target fogged(FoW)-yet-occupied systems for frequent flyby. 

I also support having a toggle for armed surveyors to attack defended artifacts.

3. Either give us the ability to toggle off Fog of War or make the A.I. subject to the same disadvantage that FoW and unexplored space creates for the players.

4. Need some sort of indicator to show which vacant planets already have a colony ship en route. And, like Master of Orion, click on the vacant planet and "Colonize" which will automatically queue up a colonial ship from your shipyards.

Wouldn't it be easier to just have the Planetary Notifications have a select menu that you could have planets notify you if:

- There are unimproved terraformed spots open on a planet
- There are upgrades that are available on current improvements
- Population space running low

and a few other things I can't think of at this time? 

I think this would be mostly covered in my select screen for surveyors.  But I could add in something for a select screen for explorer ships to explorer Fog of War areas first or Target nearest star system as well?

This is included in my select screen list for survey ships already

I believe this is written into the game code, that above a certain "difficulty" they use YOUR fog of war reveal as well as theirs.  At low difficulty they do not send colony ships to stuff I discovered. At higher difficulty they act like THEY explored it as well.  I think this is on purpose to make it harder.

This I will add in, because this is a must, as well as freighters. I don't need the auto-colonize or auto-trade, but this would be nice if they said "yeah something is  already on the way to this planet"

I am not really sure these should be nerfed.  I mean its only a +2 adjacent bonus.  Its not like it screams out "OMG too powerful" to me.  Several races have anti-matter and other things that give +3 bonus to adjacent.

Also +8 to manufacturing is not really anything mid/late game, as most of my manufacture worlds have 100 base. Its only giving them a 10% base boost.

But as with anything, the ONLY reason to really nerf this is if someone is abusing it, or the AI abuses it.  I don't really see how this is overpowered, but maybe I am just not looking at it from the same angle?

It's the combination that's deadly.  So, yeah, you could keep the +2 instead of the +1 I have above, but I think it's a real good idea to make it equal to a regular building (i.e. factory/research building and their successors) rather than the 1-offs.  It's not a big deal, but the whole idea is that these buildings should be obsolete (or at least not any more desirable than current-tech "normal" buildings) about turn 150 or so.

And, you're missing the point on where the +8 bonus is.  It's not +8 to the total Manufacturing.  It's +8 to the BASE Manufacturing.  Base Manufacturing it set by taking the Production Wheel percentage of a planet's Base Production.

Base production is dominated by Population (with a few extra add ons, like Mining Colonies).   VERY few planets will ever have more than 30 base production, at the very most, and you don't get to 20 base production until mid-game, at least.

Problem is, that base manufacturing then gets modded by all the buildings.  My typical Manufacturing Planets have easily a +200% bonus by turn 100, which makes that +8 of the building a +24.  That is why the +8 is overpowered, because it's not a constant - it gets buffed by all the other manufacturing improvements, which only get better and better as time goes on. The current +1 for levels makes it MUCH worse, as that +8 easily ends up a +15, which ultimately translates into a +50 to final Manufacturing (or Research) after bonuses.

So, in reality, that +8 Manufacturing bonus equates to adding +20 to +30 to the population, with no approval problems.  Take a look at the difference between what a manufacturing planet with low pop looks like vs one that has 3x the population.  That's the effect the Data Archive and Refinery have, and why it's far too much.

You mean base production, not base manufacturing. To avoid confusion just call it production since it affects everything. Not to really argue the nerf appoint, or really agree with it I think I wouldn't like it like any other building because I then have no reason to use the resource buildings. No reason to try, and get them except for trade. I guess as long as you don't mess with the adjacencies; because, that is my main motive to use them. I'm talking about Duranthium. You could nock the others down to two.

No, I meant Base Manufacturing.

The Durantium Refinery adds directly to Base Manufacturing, the Thulium Data Archive to Base Research, and the Promethion Reserve to Gross Income.  They don't add to Raw Production.

Which makes them incredibly powerful, as that adjustment is independent of the Production Wheel, and still gets all the planetary modifiers for that statistic. In short, I could move the Production Wheel to have Manufacturing set to 0%, and this planet would still be producing about 25 manufacturing per turn!

Here's a snapshot of a planet I have, and the tooltip for Manufacturing.

As a test for comparison, I replaced that Durantium Refinery with a Solar Power plant, to see what the difference was.  It dropped the adjusted Manufacturing from 75 to 55. That's a one-third decrease.

It would be fine to leave the adjacency bonuses of the buildings to +2, but I'd up the cost to 90.  The big thing that HAS to be nerfed is the initial bonus and the per-level bonus; particularly the latter is far, far, far too overpowered.  You'll note that in the above picture, I've got the Durantium Refinery on a pretty nice bonus tile, but only getting adjacencies from 3 buildings, and the DR *still* gives a +13 to Base Manufacturing, which is insane given that it's still subject to all the adjustment bonuses.  I'm at about turn 160 in the above.

look I will try playing the Terrans, and reproduce this. What I'm not understanding is that you are placing not on identical tiles making it hard to tell due to adjancencies.

I dont know you are saying that the duranthium refinery should not be more powerful that the base power plant. I'm not going to tell stardock their logic, but my guess is they want you to want resources. Maybe they should just have it give special abilities. instead.

Adjacency bonuses for the DR/TDA/PR are pretty much irrelevant. And having to have a given specific resource is indeed a good idea. But they not well balanced - before this latest patch, they were of very dubious worth in any case, and now, they're stupidly Overpowered.

What is important is the  +8 bonus it gets to the base, and then the +1 bonus for each level of the DR.  Both are *massively* overpowered, because, as I pointed out, they're going directly to the base Manufacturing/Research/Income stats, and then get to benefit from the ever-increasing % bonuses from everything else.

I disagree that they are overpowered.  They are powerful, yes, but it seems within the bounds of the overall flat bonus and percentage bonus mechanism built into the game.  It will be even better as a mechanic when the AI learns to use it better, but that is an ongoing effort.  

However, I would want a way for the resource dependency to matter.  If you run into negative 1 Durantium, one of your Durantium Refineries should go offline, etc.  With an ugly "out of resources" sign on the tile in the planet screen.  And you don't get to change which planet gets affected.

Forgot to mention in my wishlist: when using the governor to upgrade all ships of a certain type, Need to report how much it's going to cost before you give the final command. Oh, the debts I have accrued with that command. So far my biggest debt was in excess of 112,000 credits. I would not have done that if I thought it would tank my economy for so long!

I wouldn't call that overpowered. I would call that VITAL to imperial growth. It's not unfair if every faction has the ability to use it.