They obviously do not/will not read or at least consider everything.  They would need several full time employees to process all the rambling that will take place once the Alpha/Beta are released. 

But this being said, I know StarDock will consider what happens in the forum and what the players/testers will say. Even if they do not respond directly.  When something gets posted about over and over they will take notice, like for the dual Queue thing.

I shouldn't admit this but for me the community is the whole point. if not for the forums I wouldn't make games. 

I think TheToadinator would make a great username, if you're taking suggestions.

This for the advice I thought imitation was the best form of flattery, but not in this case so now I'm 'devcopycat' I was going to be 'the undev' or 'islandcat' though

it good to know you guys are always watching or trying to. I thought there was a system that auto subscribed to posts or a intern who read them and put the best ideas on a bourd for people to see. I was just curious because I subscribe to everything galciv and was wondering what happens to all the fan gold and if some of it was thrown out with the fan garbage. (Wardell day is good idea I think.)

I think I have gotten my way on some things. I have gotten some no's on others. I've gotten rebuked by one Dev because of my ideas. I've read responses to some of my ideas on the responses they have given. I've seen multiple posts get something to shut them up. I recognize some names because I see them on these posts to often. Some of my posts get no one. I believe I had a little influence on the game. I can see a few posts slip by, but I see a lot of answers to questions put out by the Devs that at least two of them are on this site a lot.

I just thought a "lol or a "neat thought" wouldn't hurt to let us know there listening a bit more. I know there busy. and sometimes like to just read it all (like me), but sometimes there like the Dread lords showing up randomly. It's always fun to see the stardock logo and they probably think its fun reading interesting forms

 I cannot make sense as to why you say that. Care to explain?

Stardock has a very good reputation for paying attention to player's ideas. Of course not everything can be used, but if the idea is good enough they will try to fit it in. Mostly though, they will respond to tweaks suggested for the game as they design it. The development process is far too complex to simply toss things in just because something sounds good. It has to fit in with the rest of the game and be balanced within the whole.

And sometimes they do just that. The problem with that approach though is that by acknowledging a good idea it would imply that they intend to use it. Which might lead to hard feelings if it turned out the idea was unworkable because of engine limitations or balance problems.

Other forumites read posts. If they see a good idea, they might make a point to bring it up again in case someone has forgot about it. This increases the odds of the devs seeing the idea then.

Also, these forums do a decent job keeping track of all the threads you read. I haven't been around for a few months and it remembers correctly which ones I have opened and those I have not (other forums might forget after 10 or 30 days).

I'm a forum guy.  The forums feed the games, not vice versa for me.  If it weren't for hanging out with you guys, I'd retire.  My biggest motivation is making things that other people want to play. I enjoy that.  I enjoy the feedback.

The downside is that some people mistakenly believe that because we tend to incorporate player ideas into the games that we don't have a firm design document in hand.  We do have very firm ideas on what we want to do. But I also believe that many great ideas are made by fans. The most famous being starbases which came from the forums (GalCiv was never intended to have star bases or galactic resources, that was a fan idea).

I doubt I'll ever retire!

Yeah starbases in GalCiv are great.  They allow some really interesting strategic choices. I'll always remember when I stopped a superior Drengin attack by rushing military support bases.

The concept also kind of migrated to the world of Elemental with the Outposts.