1. It was mentioned in one of the "feature" pages that different races will inhabit different types of planets in GC3

2, 3 & 4. I agree fully! :3

I think what he means on habital planets is that all the races can settle Terran worlds. Where he wants some who could only settle radioactive worlds... This would require the map to have an equal number of each type of planet. I would only want this as an option to the game. Not the game. If this was an optional game I think this would be a good idea. I would like to hear other options on what the species ability could b other than what is offered though.

Do you mean GalCiv2? GalCiv3 isn't here yet.

I think that it would be ideal if we saw a level of diversity on par with say, Starcraft, which had pretty different races. It would be very hard to balance though.

Can I see the time machine, and also can I have a copy of the game so we can make even more improvements before the game comes out.

Planets r doable. U could start different species on a chance of starting on a specialized planet. They would start out with that specialized tech, and the advanced version requiring them to research terran world colinization.

Rewarding species for playing how they r supposed to. The Korath got a influence penalty for slavery.

I'm not understanding the question. Your not saying enough. Maybe different species could work off of different asoects. Ie instead of approval Drengin or Korath could work off of fear or conquest. TheThalans, Altarians, or Krynn only have a descent approval when they r on a common mission that even the people could set. The Koex only have a descent approval with a descent economy. The humans seem to like policing the galaxy or r entertainment junkies. Maybe the Altarians r only happy with good science. These r some ideas that I have come up with trying to figure out what u really mean.I wouldn't mind this kind of role playing aspect. These r just some ideas I came up with. I wouldn't mind someone coming up with better or different ideas on how to do this.

I still would like to see different species that require different stradegys.

I would like to see a lot of specialised paths on the different species tech trees.

Can u clarify and elaborate on the issue of the site.

Some more diversification would be nice. I don't see the problem of "too specialized" races, because the principles of the 4x remain as long as you keep the different tech trees balanced.

A race able to colonize all types of worlds from the beginning (e.g. a robotic race) would be fairly overpowered at least at the colony rush phase.

And I'm fairly sure that the race customization feature will stay in the game, so you'd have as much replayability as you want.  Of course, everyone will have his or her favourite race and don't like others, but that's normal.

I agree with OP, more diversive race traits would be nice.

Balancing? What's that?   No seriously, as Frogboy said in a recent interview:

"We’re not making any promises to have some kind of multiplayer balance or anything like that. If one race is better than the other in multiplayer, well, that’s too bad!"

and

"I don’t want there to be discussion of nerfing races. The races are what they are, they are meant to be unique, and true to what they are, and there will be cases where some of them in certain situations are going to be better than others."

We could also have a general category of races and sub-variants. I'm not sure how it would work though.

MoO3? What's that?

MOO3 was a lousy damned game that poisoned a franchise and showed a company's complete disregard for cohesive gameplay.

Yet its races did become much more distinct. Both in their appearance and behavior. Humanoids of all stripes, machine/cyborg and fully alien blobby thingies. They had different tolerances. Some liked M-class, others gas planets (blobby thingies) and so on and so on.

Colonizing became more immersive plus though provoking. How much do you really care that another race colonized a planet you couldn't touch anyway? Start a war? Try to become partners? Then there was the factor that in war, conquering a planet also meant dealing with those inhabitants. Meaning that they kept their unique talents, etc. Did you wipe 'em out or live alongside 'em?

Then terraforming: terraforming particular planets would incur penalties (when the game was actually working) from various races that depended on 'em.

The entire system of what seems is being asked for had been put out in MOO3. It was just wrapped inside a crap game.

I talk about this all the time in the Elemental Forum but the key to good distinct races is for them to actually play different. Resource boosts and different planet preferences are not enough.

The Drengin could have a slave/occupation economy.  They would gain large bonuses for occupying planets and have special buildings they could build on occupied worlds to boost the the economies of their core worlds. Basically instead of developing some of their worlds they would exploit them instead. This would of course result in unrest on those planets. Thus playing as the Dregin would offer a unique experience. In fact this is a great idea for a elemental mod... 

Good ideas but here are some more. The Yor are inorganic so they don't require food. Instead population is directly tied to manufacturing. Also as machines they are adaptive and can colonize any world.

Another idea is a race that prefers living in space and specializes in building colony starbases that increase the population of worlds. Hmm I would give an idea for Alterians but what the heck does cosmic energy do?

I am actua

Yep.

There needs to be a lot of specialization to make this work out though. Otherwise all races will be like GC2.

GC2 had some differences in technology, but that was about it.

Slow population growth seems like a good choice. Being robots, they don't need an atmosphere anyways. Radiation on the level that could damage a machine would be lethal to carbon based organic life.

I suppose it could be difficulties in the "spark".