7. Filters for the various lists. Especially the planet list, colonized, not colonized, type, etc. And the ability to sort them by name, quality, etc.

8. Having a list of all non-owned planets that I am aware of, preferably sortable by class, type, owner.  This was a godsend in GC II and I miss it terribly in GC III.  This might not be implementable by launch, however.  The sooner, the better on this one, though.

9. Being able to restrict the shipyard ship list/ship designer list to only show ships of a certain hull size via user choice.  I get that the ship list is going to grow and grow and grow as players design more and more ships.  But anything that will help cut down on the "clutter" will be helpful.  Especially if it is a filter that actually hides things instead of just sorting them.

10.  Having sector lines/major grid lines ala GC II.   On maps larger than Gigantic having SOMETHING that chops up the map into easy digest chunks becomes more and more important as the game goes on. I understand that the major grid lines might look a little funny when they are intersecting at various points, but that's something I could easily live with.  Especially if it was user toggable.

11. The empire size penalty could use tweaking on maps with lots of habitable planets, as it's almost impossible to have Approval above 0% once one gets over a certain number of planets.

 ====

All of the above being said, only the last one is really critical for launch, IMO.

12. (Unless I'm missing something) Not being able to set the factions I am playing against to random. I really enjoy not knowing who I will face in a game such as Gal Civ, so this is a big deal for me. My ideal fix would be to be able to set some or all slots to random in campaign setup, so I could mix and match factions.

e.g. I'm playing Terrans and want to have the Drengin and three other random factions in my galaxy.

If that's not possible, then maybe a random opponents tick box in game settings?

I'd like to be able to use navigation keys in Free-cam in the Battle Viewer. Dragging using the mouse is either extremely slow, or zooms off into the distance.

okay here is the wishlist of things that I would still really like in no real particular order (excuse the grammar and spelling: I am not going to have time to edit this)

1.  hotkeys!
•  later in a large game it just gets tedious. I had112 colonies right now and being able to go through those colonies and upgrade destroy buildings of colonies you just took over, being able to cycle through colonies, cycle through buildings (I hate it when it gets stuck on the colony capitol)  being able to cycle in every screen would be fantastic (tab , shift+tab for changing colonies, arrow keys to navigate buildings/improvements)
2.  never played an AI that liked to create a killer fleet. 
•  I usually play with a main fleet or 2 + support fleets. unless I am behind in the game my main fleets hardly ever get touched, the enemy can have 20x my military power but it is never concentrated enough to kill my fleet
3.  filtering lists
•   idle ships, idle colonies, colonizable planets, all of these great shortcuts would be fantastic
4.  manage shipyard window better
•   right click to a menu with
1. Delete (with confirmation) user built designs (sometimes I really wonder why I designed something so worthless)
2. Obsolete -Hide this version I am done with it
3. Hide Ship Type (Sometimes I am never going to go missile and I want to hide the missile specific designs for this game)
• search ( I want to text search for some ship name)
• Sort: sort by name, attack power, cost, most recently made available
5.   when I open a save game I need to enable auto upgrade on each building in colony that is a pain
6.   also on auto save the build queue of my shipyards are gone
7.   any chance we could create formations with our fleets?  that might have to be post 1.0 but I would love to build formations

Sorry to put only links here, I am too lazy at the moment.

And perhaps you have already read some of them, so, just take a look at them, or ignore them, at your wish, and see what is possible for launch.


https://forums.galciv3.com/463763

https://forums.galciv3.com/463705

https://forums.galciv3.com/463577

https://forums.galciv3.com/463218

https://forums.galciv3.com/462885

https://forums.galciv3.com/462394

https://forums.galciv3.com/462140

https://forums.galciv3.com/463875/get;3540453


There are more, but I stop there.

AI settling planets smack dap in the middle of my territory = free planets for me through culture flip.

Some additional ways to get ideology other than colonization.

Way too many default ship templates every time I get a new tech.

Making sure if the AI declares war of me early on they have fleets to back it up. I will get war declaration early in the game, and simply not care even against godlike AIs...as they don't yet have fleets that can kill my minimum starbases.

A balance pass on ship hulls. Personally tiny doesn't seem to have any real advantage vs small hulls right now to me.

Mouse Scroll on the map...please!!!

I would recommend reading this thread https://forums.galciv3.com/463924.  It's quite a long read and I can understand if you won't be able to make all the changes (if you think any need to be made) before release you would like that result from reading this thread, but I believe the discussion in it is pretty important.  It has to do with the economy system and economy specialization.  Thank you.

1) Tools to eliminate late game bogging down of constant build orders ( constructor spam) 

2) communications with the AI particularly player talking to the AI often we will get messages about our ships being in the AI's territory or the AI asking us to remove starbases but we have no way to do the same.

I guess I'm weird, but I actually enjoy it when the Minor races are a little more active in the game. In GalCiv2, I would ally-up with all of the non-evil minor races. I'd blocade their worlds with constructors to keep enemies from attacking them until I managed to ally up with them. I'd give them ships to use them as pawns in a proxy war. It kind of annoyed me when most of the minor race AIs were utterly incapable of utilizing the resources I give them in order to fight back against their oppressors. Once I had a full treaty with the minor races, I'd basically use them to declare war on the aggressive races by them declaring war on the minor races. It gives me all my smug moral superiority to have acted in the defense of an ally. I usually don't do military alliances with any of the major races, instead wiping them out through defensive wars and influence flipping. I guess my gameplay style in these games is a bit passive-aggressive...

So I guess my biggest bugaboo is completely incompetent AIs for some players in the game that I'm trying to protect. It's OK that they don't try to aggressively expand and keep to their own planet, but when they can't even fight back against the other AIs, it's a major failure to me and ruins the game.

Hot Keys!

I also want  to be able to import a ship from one game to another without having to start over. 

Mentioned in my support thread... but... 

It bothers me that it is a total pain to get custom ship designs to play nicely with mods... or actually just that mods can't read custom ship designs in any mod folder... which kinda makes no sense. :/

My one other complaint would be the lack of Linux support, but I don't expect that to change any time soon. It's depressing though. GC3 is the last game I bought before I went over to linux completely, and the only reason that I have to ever reboot to Windows. Because I haven't booted to Windows in 6 months, I haven't been able to play GC3 beta at all, last time I played was in Alpha. I think I will reboot it once the 1.0 release is out though, but not sure how long I'll stay there.