I REALLY LIKE MOST OF YOUR IDEAS !! but...

BEST PART OF THE GAME !!  PHASE of the MOST STRATEGY . Do NOT POLL NEW PLAYERS ON how to IMPROVE A GAME, They will ALWAYS say its BORING or TOO HARD . You ask the LONG TIME PLAYERS

PACING IS CONTROLLABLE They can play on a SMALL MAP with extra fast pacing , then its like fast food.

chances are these BORED types are going to QUIT anyways..  If they are too bored let them wax the surfboard !!

NOOOO just TWEAK but dont take away choices and complexity . its all about trading so you can get them all.

I agree dont remove tech specializations. Make them more creative yes. Change from one tech choice. To a path of techs that don't return you to the same path that the other choices lead. Different species need to have more varied techs different thought paths. This could be used in diplomacy to. I miss everyone having different hubs from each other that do different things differently. The hubs needed balancing instead you wrnw back to everyone having the same hub. I think the food needs fixing. Local food was better than this. The slynn, and yor would still need to be global because of how they need resources, but an easier fix would just require you to go back before arable land resource, and instead of making food a one time resource. making food a twice a year increase.

Agree with everything written:

Keep tech specializations: It's the most realistic way of doing research. Ever seen the fastest fighter also carry the heaviest MOAB? A plane that can carry the heaviest MOAB that's also the fastest? Same rules apply - research is about making choices and living with them. You might be able to undo that choice, for heaps of money and time wasted, but you will not ever get both fastest and able-to-carry-the-heaviest-MOAB capability on the same plane.

As I don't do it a lot myself, can anyone tell me if you have to pay over the odds when you buy a specialized tech? If you buy it, does it open up research options in that area? If the answers are No and Yes respectively, I think it should be the other way around. Again, choices and consequences.

Maybe you could add more tech specializations, certainly if it helps making Tall as viable as Wide. In that regard, two points not related to tech specializations, others will have better ideas I'm sure, but for me:

Tourism should not be based on the amount of space you control but the quality of the planets you own. You have a 4 Planet system where each Planet is 4 PQ. And a 1 Planet system where that Planet is 22 PQ. On pure maths, 1 x 22 is better than 4 x 4, the 22 Planet should be giving your civilization more money/love/tourism. It's a better place to live/visit. Four hick planets are still hick planets. This is how Influence should work as well IMO.

Trade should also be influenced by PQ. Your higher PQ planets logically have more capacity to make and sell stuff. And if you send your freighter to a higher PQ planet owned by another civilization, that civilization can buy more stuff from you.

Ideology: Please can we end the zig-zagging between different branches? Simply "grey out" the other two branches once you've made your choice or make that alternate choice - going from Pragmatic to Malevolent, say - ruinously painful in terms of money/influence/power. You could survive it, but no one will love you anymore...

HNY everybody and thanks Stardock for all the work you guys do and the feedback you give.

Well I remembered why I also used auto resolve now when I go to the planet to place the legions I am unable to place them or cancel this attack so I am stuck until I end the game has anyone ever encountered this or have any idea why this would occur? It simply won’t let me place legions so I can attack.

I usually see them but sometimes I don’t it won’t let me place them on the edges but I can in the middle. Not sure why so now I just save before I invade every world if needed I can just do anouther invasion and hope for better spawns not sure why it does this though.

I really was serious about MINEFIELDS , an added dimension of passive defense , since you cant do anything on the other players turn. prevent interlopers from trespassing by making a frontier

the CITIZENS fight back too , no more easy invasion where they just give up , they need the NRA

and STARGATE/WORMHOLES .. would make the huge maps much more fun , pop in pop out far away , surprise attacks by AI too

Tech specializations. If the names, and Bonuses aren't meaningful don't remove them, but make the names meaningful, and change the bonuses to make them more meaningful. Some ideas for tech specialisation. Global warming you have an awareness of putting to much carbons into the planet. Bonuses include better fatms. Higher populations. Faster population growth. Disadvantages include lower hubs. Causing energy problems. Can use only certain fuels. Factories suffer due to environmental regulations. Approval is up because people feel good about saving the planet. Bonus to planet quality better planets. tourism is up do to better planets. More farming techs, less social manufacturing techs. More natural wonders, and bonuses to natural wonders.

Cleaning the planet planet better, but not as good as above. Global warming is not real, but why not clean the environment instead. Factories down due to regulations. Farms better. Higher populations. Raw production is up due to recycling. Economy takes a hit because everyone is reusing whenever they can. Banks are better though because there is more of a savings because everyone is buying less because of the mood of reusing. Banks better, but some of the other economic buildings are not. More farming techs, less manufacturing, and hub techs. Tourism is up because of a better planet. More natural wonders, and bonuses to natural wonders.

Not nonsense they are just trying to stifle industry. Factories are up, because of no regulations. Farms take a hit due to pollution. Population is down due to pollution. Certain resources are harder to produce. Penalties to natural wonders. And a chance that a natural wonders turns into a resource instead.

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Other tech specializations.

Genetic engineering you thought computers were the wave of the future, but think again genetic engineering won out. Organic cars, and spaceships. Babies being born without birth defects. People being engineered for specific tasks...

Computers robots do everything. 

Cybernetics everyone has robotic parts.

I do agree on ideologies should be more demanding, but instead of picking a choice at the beginning of the game. it should be averaged from your points based on your choices. Then adding up all the points to pick techs. 

Ideologies should have names that are ideologies, not another name for good vs. evil. Benevolent vs. malevolent.

AGREED it is a game of accumulation

and .. HIRE HOREM !! yeah I'm shilling ...

It would be nice if we could sort uncolonized planets by class as in GC2. GC2 had a great sorting system.

Most of what I find I would like to see improved I outlined in this post a few weeks ago...  Galactic Civilizations III Feedback (How to Make This Game Great Again!!)In addition some ideas on how to improve game pacing for mid to late game without taking options away from the player.  Keep the dynamic of the game just make it easier and quicker to make those choices and automate them, when the player would like to.  

I guess I didn't read the tech overhaul the same way, I thought it was just going to be revisited to make it more balanced.  I agree removal of the tech specializations would be a bad idea.  I personally love the -10% mass, then usually trade for others as available. 

Good thing is, it's early 2019 already. On the flip side the OP does not detail "early" any further ...

I am ok with the removal of specializations as long as you add in fresh and new choices. If  you are going to do the last Hurrah of Gal Civ III lets make 'radical' changes. 

• Replace the current 3 way attack/counter system with a 5 way system. 
• Bring back Unique race based only weapons and defenses.
• restructure the entire tech tree so things are a bit more clear 
  • Colonization
  • Warfare
  • Infrastructure
  • Government/Politics  
• Add more snarky dialogue. Get Paul and others together for 'Margarita' night with the intent on implementing those fabulous one liners both Gal Civ II and III are famous for. 
• Script the ai so it favors some weapons and defenses due to its nature. This was a predictable feature in Gal Civ II but the ai would eventually change its favor to counter the player. I hated and loved this. Damn Yor.....
• Get back in the code and optimize the engine a bit so late game is smoother. Note: this does not apply to me at all and I play on insane maps with super full stars n planets, however the vast majority of players can always use a boost to performance optimization. 

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Brad did naht give information on the Winter 2019 Expansion,it's not true! it's xxxxxxxx!, Brad did naht give information on the Winter 2019 Expansion, Brad did nahhht -

Oh, hai, Szemis!