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The things that I  would really like to see in GalCiv3 are:

1. The ability to create wormholes across the galaxy. You could do this by making it require starbases on each end of the wormhole with the proper modules and tech.

2. A variety of weapon and defense tech trees. Something like a specialized energy weapons, specialized mass drivers, specialized missiles, etc and a separate tech tree for defenses against each. Also, I would like to see race specific tech trees that have their own unique weapon types such as biological or time manipulating weapons.

3. Races that have vastly different ideal home planet conditions. This is so that terraforming for one race would make it worse for others. This could be explained by races breathing different gasses, living in different temperature extremes, etc.

4. The ability to destroy planets. This could be done easily enough utilizing any variety of higher tech weapons specifically designed for it and can be negated with the proper defenses (missiles vs. mass drivers, shields vs. energy weapons, etc). 

5. The ability to build planets. The building of the planets could be done by utilizing existing asteroid clusters or belts or ones created by blowing up planets to make similarly sized planets. This would require a higher level of tech. Eventually at very high tech levels, maybe allow the creating of planets without needing the asteroids, just a star base with the proper modules.

6. The ability to destroy stars. Requires very high tech levels in the weapon like on the planet destroying and can be negated using similar methods on a system level. The planets near the star would be destroyed as well leaving a nebula and a lot of asteroids. The extremely expensive ship that can destroy the star should be destroyed in the process.

7. The ability to create stars. Requires a very high tech level, a starbase with the proper module, and an existing nebula. A higher level of tech and other modules may make it so you don't need the nebula.

8. The ability to create and destroy black holes. Using the same method as the stars in 6 and 7.

9. The ability to create Ring Worlds and Dyson Spheres. Can be done at extremely high tech levels using MASSIVE amounts of resources and money. Basically build a ring of starbases around a star, give them the proper modules, and eventually be able to link them together. Any planets around the star would either be dismantled to make the mass required or take a huge terraforming hit unless the race building it prefers temperatures near absolute zero.

I know a lot of these ideas are taken from the Space Empires series, but i really enjoyed them and have never seen any other space strategy game go nearly as far with their major engineering projects.

Should be easier than a Dyson sphere or maybe easier than a planet. All we need is some solid hydrogen or nitrogen and blast it from every angle this would require a big starbase depending on the size of star this you could choose or a lot of laser platforms. The solid hydrogen could be mined from class 0 planets.

Let's not forget the ability to turn stars into black holes by dumping enough ieon into them. This could be done by replicators using the power of the star to do this

There is always a replicator option using the energy of the star to power this, There are different kinds Dyson's spheres the most unrealistic. Dyson net, Dyson circle, and the Dyson swarm.

Other than the sun our whole solar system lies on a plane. This is hard to believe, but this is what the astronomers say. Meaning most of the sunlight don't hit the mass of the solar system anyways. If you use a little more fuel because the sun will try to force the satalites on the ecliptic plane and turn a Dyson sphere where it intersects not paralell the ecliptic plane then most of the sunlight hitting the planets would not be affected. This should be feezable for a Dyson swarm unless I was trying to make the planets uninhabitable. For a Dyson's swarm both options should be possible.

Actually if you combine options 7 and nine this is even more feasible because you control the size of the star otherwise I would recommend red dwarfs. You could do this with planets as long as they weren't dead. That means that they are still giving off heat and haven't cooled.

That's Ok I;m sure Stardock no's how to modify this where they can't get sued.

In response to admiralWillyWilber.

1): Definition of crews: This was inspired by a game I played called Startrek Armada 2. In that game you could fill your ship with crew and as the ship took on damage, etc, the crew would die. You could beam out the crew and put them on new ships.

They would basically represent a normal unit, except you can change the ship they are in. Instead of building "Ship X" and leveling it up till it is killed, you could move the crew out of that ship if it were damaged and put it into another ship later. The crew could also be something you need to replenish from your populations too (but this doesn't affect the skills the crew obtained through levels). The crew would obtain abilities, bonuses and an entire RPG-esque skill tree.

2): World Customization: 
The customization we've seen before are things that directly relate to bonuses on the tile you build on. What I was thinking is to have bonuses, neutral traits and penalties that can be listed for the planet and do not necessarily correspond to a tile improvement. The neutral traits could simply be flavour text and history that has no gameplay value but makes the world more unique. An example of a positive bonus would be something like "Diverse Fungi: Non mechanical civs get a 5% higher population cap", "Wormhole to another Brane: An ancient civilization opened up a tear in spacetime that leads to another dimension exclusively made of energy. The planetary weapons on this planet do 150% damage, and the shields are 120% more effective as you tap into the rift", etc etc.

They should also have...moons! 

Accidental doublepost. How to delete this?

Brad:

I love your work. I am hoping the game is going to turn out great. I just want to keep one thing in your mind when your team is developing this game.

Masters of Orion 3 had too much complexity and too much to management. Whereas in Masters of Orion 2 was much simple in design. The lessons from those games is that complexity can be good and giving power to the user to micromanagement an empire seems like a great idea. If the player feels like all they're doing is managing versus playing, it would be less fun than its predecessor.

I'm sure a lot of these things will have already been said, but here's some loose thoughts on what I'd like to see:

1. Claimable and useful Gas Giants. Perhaps like a research/other version of Asteroids?

2. A more interactive/developed U.P. system with some kind of resolution proposal mechanic using selectable parameters (drop down menus?)

3. All the diplomacy options we saw in GC2 and many more - 'Vote with me/against Lord Kona at the next UP Summit', 'lend me money/ships/research/other'. Mini objectives generated for and by the AI and human players (a la Rome/Medieval TW) could be implemented through diplomacy too. 'Kona, go do! Get big bag of goodies (automatic) upon completion.' If kept simple and rare enough (not every 5 turns), it could be fun.

4. Individual unique ship names that the AI will use too: i.e. USSC Discovery 1, ISA Excalibur, EAS Agamemnon, USS Defiant, Nostromo, Axiom,  etc instead of 'Drengin Cruiser M1 - 2372'  - Possibly only for medium and above size ships?

5. Modding tools that include an in-game map, empire and generally everything editor. I'd be happy to wait a few expansions for that. Think Twilight's tools, only better and more integrated. Easier modding means more modding which means a more lively game community.

6. Ability to customize and save starbase appearances without leaving the game.

7. As nice as it is to discover Xeno Ethics on your 10th turn, the creative ability bonus as was in GC2 could use a tweak/nerf. Even at half the chance of it happening, it would still happen too often and I would even say that it might be an idea to disable it completely for multiplayer for the sake of balance unless there is a total rework planned for it.

8. Planetary invasions should feel less like 'whack-a-mole' and more like a planetary invasion. We have invasion methods (propaganda, gas, etc), why not have a planetary 'defensive posture' mechanic? 'Guerrila Tactics', 'Hold the line', etc all having bonuses/penalties against the various types of assault. Dunno... just needs more depth I guess.

9. Stable/Unstable Wormholes. All temporary but duration random with some being one-way tickets and others having no exit (bye-bye ship)

10. AI that doesn't declare war on someone with 3 large enemy (at war) empires in between.  

11. Make space feel bigger. Even the small map needs to feel a bit more 'epic'. One of the reasons I've always played GC2 with each empire having a -400 modifier to their range ability is because even on the biggest map, it doesn't take you long to be able to go pretty much anywhere. New space terrain and mechanics or no, it still feels like there's a lot of clutter on the map. The nebulae penalties are a nice touch though.

12. Bring back Jenna Casey

From Frogboy:

Creativity doesn't seem to be in GalCiv 3. At least, I couldn't find it while I was looking through the files yesterday.

at least 50 new races pls

That's good news.

On the topic of there being lots of races, I'd like to see at least one or two new ones made by SD and/or the players as part of each DLC pack.

The planets (some) do have bonus's now, apart from what is on the hex in the build menu.  If you hover over the planet you can see, forex:  +25% research bonus, -25% pop, etc.

And, Earth has a moon, if you close in to see, it even revolves!  Can't colonize it, if that's what you mean.

pek