I really don't understand this one. The only way I can see an engine doing this would be if it was malfunctioning for some reason. Any engine that acted whacky like this wouldn't get past the prototype stage in real life, which only makes sense. An unreliable engine would be a liability to any ship on which it was installed.

I do like the other ideas, but I have some doubts about the ships adjacent to stars one. That one may exceed credulity a bit because of the scale of the game's map. To simulate a ship close enough to a star to receive damage, I would think it would have to appear in the same tile as the star.

I would also like to suggest that along with galactic wonders, a new category be included; regional wonders.  Some could be generic, meaning any species could build them.  Others might be species specific - only the specific species could build them. 

Why limit it to one choice? A Trade Hub could be a lesser version of the Economic Capital, but covering all planets in a radius and limited so that they can't overlap, either by placement restrictions or coding the bonuses to not stack (to allow full coverage even if planet location is a little off). A System Defense Command Center could help with defense on any planet in the system, limited to one per system. There can be several intermediate levels between "one per map" and "one per planet". Heck, they could even have some buildings that are limited to 10 per game rather than one - every planet could potentially have one on a very small map, but only the best planets would get one on a very large map

And the quantity limit of some Wonders that is based on a scaling factor to the galaxy size.

Well Willy if we only had one per planet then you would only be renaming an already existing unit unless this was something everyone could build.  The only way that you could have 10 per game is if a faction could build more than one of these otherwise they would be super projects. We don't have one per star system improvements. We could have regional wonders cover 1/20th of the map that way if all factions were even then is wouldn't be like a super project where it would cover the whole faction. I know these would work better on larger maps. I don't know how this is more than building the same thing not like corporations.  

On a side note I sort of like the economic capital. Maybe you could add a capital that would increase overall economics instead of taxes. When I mean overall I don't necessarily mean over the whole faction; what I mean is that there is more than just taxes for economics.

My main jist about wonders in Twilight is that two factions got all the generic wonders while other factions were missing a whole lot without any compensation. Specialised techs should not mean no wonder replacement. Hearing Brad talk makes me think this was just a project to big for one man. I like the idea of different government options, but instead of minusing governments maybe we could have different governments that would do different things, We could also do this for political parties. This would actually make the missing governments not look so unfair. Under this option this could be applied for everyone. I can't mention any idea like this without pointing out that different civic options for different factions wouldn't be better than different governments. 

Can you be more specific on what you mean without repeating ideas that are already on the game unless your idea is to mealy rename an already existing concept.

If everyone had specialized trade goods that only they could build wouldn't be abad idea as long as everyone had them. Generalized are already on the game.

I love logistics. Some people are not as good at organizing than others. But there is way to give it alot more weight in the game. What if... Logistics were a factor in determining ship range!

"Captain were out of food!"

"How?"

"Supplies lines for our vessels were unable to be supported by the empire at the moment"

"then gather all the rats you can find to make space rat stew"

it's makes sense because organization is key to exploration. I'm not sure how it will work though. Let me know what you guys think.

Hitler had it coming to his evil warmongering ass.

Ah, yes, Germans. It's so funny to read "our logistics failed" in Germans' memoires, when you read their tables and know that most, if not every company had sub-units, responsible for logistics of all sorts, from armament and ammo, meds, food and, surprise, winter clothing. So for each hundred of fightning men, they had about two dozens of people responsible for bringing stuff. Yeah, sure, #logisticfailed.

Well, I support right to arm bears...

This should be a mega event.

Woe to all Hitler has returned from a unknown universe on a alternative earth with a army of ass wipes.

or this could be a reference to a movie about 'starship trooper'.

but let's get back on topic. My random request is to have logistics have a part in ship range.

(It just occurred to me that we are all control freaks!)

DARCA

Lets not forget the reason that they sent Rummel to the middle east in the first place because Hitler was killing all his generals. Hitler felt that Germany was going to win world war 2 by rockets not planes. Where was germanys fleet. Why didn't germany go into world war 2 mobilized for war. They were kind of like when we go to war our economy is still producing other stuff not like world war 2. Interceptors would have prevented the bombing of Berlin, but instead V-2's were more important. German solders weren't allowed to shoot back without either Jody, Kietel, or Hitlers permission. Atlantic wall good idea to bad only Rummel implemented it when it was too late. Lets not forget about Germany replacing most of her top scientists because they were Jewish. Your right we never fought this Germany.

I'd actually argue that Josef Stalin and the Russians, alongside the European colonial empires and the United States have done far more lasting damage than Nazi Germany ever could.

But that's neither here nor there; how did this topic even come up? lol

No democracy has ever been at war with another democracy. (and it should be hard to do that in the game)

and all this talk of death in the millions by the orders of a few. And the corruption of politicians in depressing me. And for most of the world when it comes to genocide in the past, the populations of the US and Russia were probably in the dark about what the government was doing.

DARCA