Two problems showed up in a game:

One, text color for mining asteroids changes color when mines are built, even if opposing player has no scouts in system.

Two: Extreme Exploit: The pathfinding sucks... badly enough that if someone builds a turret directly in front of a fleeing capitol ship, the capitol ship will halt instantly as soon as the construciton icon is placed, even though no construction has occured. As a result, it can be made impossible for a cap ship to escape.

No. Since the ship comes to a complete halt, even if you destroy the structure you still have to start moving again -- and NOTHING prevents the opposing player from placing more. If he's quick enough, he can place them then disconstruct them faster than you can target them -- no resource loss, AND he stops your ship.

They can be repaired too. It's dangerous to use the Vasari carrier special near queued buildings.

Okay, so you guys are telling me that you don't lose resources if someone kills your queued structures? That is an insane exploit.

Or simply make it any structures laid down/queued don't give refunds when you cancel them. Still, even then, most players would happily throw away 4-5 gauss canon purchases if it saves their flagship.

Additionally, queued structures should not be able to be 'healed' into existence by the Vasari repair tech.

well normally when one places a "too come" sign in front of an oncoming tank, it usually doesnt stop it. thats one strong sign!

1) Culture: There needs to be a second type of tower/beacon/module. It would have one purpose, providing stability for your planets with Culture. This would stack with your media tower, but its effect wouldn't spread to adjacent planets/asteroids. Its bonus to that system's culture would be the equivalent of two media towers. Basically, a defensive counter-culture structure. Internal police, propaganda, Government thuggery, whatever.

Example A: Current

Planet A has 2 Media Beacons and is linked to Planet B that has 1 Media Beacon. Planet A's beacons will overcome Planet B's single media beacon. Planet B's culture will still be spreading in other directions.

Example B: Proposed Structure

Planet A has 2 media beacons and is linked to Planet B. Planet B has no Media Beacons but it does have an Internal Security module. Planet A's beacons would normally take over Planet B, but Planet B's Internal Security module prevents that by generating enough 'cultural stability' to prevent that.

2) Black Market: I realize that stuff is done in 100 unit chunks, but please, for the love of saving the left mouse button, allow people a slide bar to decide how many lots of 100 they want to sell off instead of having to click 30 times.

3) Planetary Exploration: Every time I find an artifact, I don't realize it. The message that I found one isn't blatant enough. These are rare items. Maybe it is just me.

4) Racial differences: In the dozen games that I've played, I do see a difference between the two races but it isn't substantial enough. A lot of the issue comes not from the ships, but from the modules themselves. There should a much more pronounced difference in the modules than there currently are. Play up on their differences a lot more to create a more flavorful game.

5) Space Exploration: Just a note, no actual formed ideas as of yet, but the exploration of space needs to have more to it than just phasing from one area to the next. There's no sense of expectation other than 'Planet or Roid?"

6) Planet Types: More please. A larger variety. Built in bonuses/penalties for each.

I have noticed a thing about the colony capships colonize abilities:
With increasing level, they should decrease the time you have to wait before using (working) and the amount of people starting on the planet 10;20;30
This does not work at the moment, as every planet starts with 10 as its maximum currently , so this bonus does not apply to the colony, making it quite unattractive to level up the ability!

They really should give the drain antimatter ability to the Akkan, and the range/accuracy boost ability to the Dunov.

I also hope that "fireworks" remain realistic and unridiculous.

To explain that, I point to one of the (many) problems with the Star Wars Empire At War: Forces Of Corruption expansion pack. Particularly in the planet surface combat, the designers implemented all sorts of terrifically flashy stuff... totally at odds with the effects we had seen in the films.

Too much flash makes this sort of thing cartoony instead of unto/like Babylon 5. Stay 'real'.

Ship Speed (turning & forward velocity)

Based on my gameplay experiences to date, and just an opinion...

Its obvious some units travel faster than others as it should be, I would like to see an indication or measure of speed for a selected unit in the UI. The infocard probably being the most obvious choice.

I would also like to see some flavour of speed increase in either abilities e.g. running caphips engines at 110% for a short time or simply a research item for improved engines on certain units.

The Kol has a to low hierachy positon in the Empire Backdropwindow.
Why are supportships at first and the Kol at last?

Enemy Ships:
You hear that enemy ships are phasejumping to a planet, but you cant see them, in the empire backdrop window, till they arrive.
With better Sensors those ship should be shown in the empire backdrop window.
So you can hear that ships a phasejumping to your planet and you can see which planet is it, how many and which ships jump in.(But only with advanced sensors)

I think he's referring to the empire tree on the side. The way I understand it, he's suggesting that if you have the right psidar rank researched, the enemy ships would show up on the empire tree as if they had already arrived at the planet, even if they're still mid-phase jump, so that you could see their exact numbers/composition as well as know exactly what planet they're jumping to without having to zoom the map out far enough to catch a glimpse of the right phase lane.