Things I would love to see.

1. HEROES! I've been asking for heroes from GalCiv2 and no luck. I WANT hero captains in this game.

2. Simple to use User Created Campaign. I want to create my own campaign with my own story.

3. Complex star bases like in Galciv 2.

4. Planetary invasion.

For what it is worth I think we can mod heroes/captains into the game via the tech tree as upgrades.

A good tool to make campaigns with a flexible "programming" tool (like Starcraft/Warcraft for example).

There are two things that help a game to survive: MP and user created content.

MP is good, modding will be good too I guess but missions and campaigns are needed.

1.- A 3 stage upgrade for slowing enemy phase jumps down between your planet, and a 3 stage high level research for holding enemies and warning you about enemies trying to phase jump through your planets (through the "Threat Report"), as I suggested, is more ideal (and also makes the PJI "super" to use in the later stage of a game, be it a medium or large map).
Im all against oversimplified solutions, and deepen the PJI aspect would be good for this game.

2.- More portraits for players to choose from.

3.- Make it so that you can only view stats after a MP game has finished, so players dont spy on each other when quitting a saved MP game.

4.- A similar button to game/research speed set to low/normal/high for unit cap ^^.

5.- Im pretty sure not all of these could make it into the patch but they are relevant: Moons and space stations, defended special planets with that give access to constructing special units/research/items and more types of special areas,
more logistic type buildings, more research items + tons of more types of artifacts. ^.^

6.- More unit types for all races and more races later on (probally save the new races for an exspansion, I dont know how far Stardock will go with patches) ^.^

7.- Orbital planets. ^^

+ Things I can't come to think of now as most of these I want for patches. I don´t think we will get an exspansion so soon, let them patch the game a bit first, so these are in reality patch wishes from me .

And you think a wall of text prior to starting up that single-player map will make everything magically better?

I'd like a new race, but as I'm pretty sure that they're already planning to introduce whatever it is that's chasing the Vasari, I don't think I actually need to ask for one.

Good missions are much more than a wall of text.

And regardless of the missions a book is nothing more than a "wall of text", too... but also so much more.
Cut out every pic from sins and rename units and races with cryptic stuff like: race_01_frigate_01
Would make the game much more dull, wouldn't it.

Unique super-ships.

Like TEC could build a super battleship (follows basic human thinking: bigger is better). It can be powerful but very slow and with one special ability.

The Varisi could have a ship that can cloak a fleet for a limited time. Costs a HUGE amount of antimatter and the ships cannot fire under cloak.

And the Advent could have a ship that converts an entire planet to its side. dunno what could off set this though

1. Make the races less alike. Instead of of them having pretty much the same ship types and cap ship types make 1 race reley mainly on capital ships but have next to nothing for frigetes. or one the has mainly fighter squadrens and that come with all cruisers and there are only like 2 or 3 cap ships avaliable for them but the carrier can hold like 2 squadrens

2. more types of fighters and bombers... minor variations but one like one that is really fast and highly agile but really low hit points, bomber that has nukes and alot of dabage but really slow but hit hit points.

3. Better diplomacy Right now all the races have ADHD and you have 20 mins to do this against this race win or fail ok now go 1/2 way across the galaxy to go get this other guy who only has 1 planet left and not enough structures. I don't care if it send you across the galaxy but make it something like level the planet and adjust the times and also if you fail one mission but have completed the 5 before don't knock you diplomacy rating by 15% that's just stupid.

4. Make pirates playable but they only require credits for everything can't colonize planets they only raze then and steal credits (metal and crystal they steal to but sell on the black market) and make the planet uninhabital for like 5- 10 mins. they have 1 cap ship and are only aloud 1 at a time, but it have the special Board Ability and can capture enemy capitaly ships if thier hull is down to a certain level (Lvl 1. 1/4, Lvl 2 1/3 Lvl 3 1/2) and can have as many as they can caputure

5. Keep the Fleet Logistics research but also have it based on number of planets controled I.E. 1 planet = 1% extra for max size

6. Being able to build space stations in the space junk and asaroid fields all in one stop can trade vessels and minning vessels can dock there can repair vesels has guns and squadrens and can level up, more or less a non mobile cap ship

7. Spy telescopes the can look on distant stars to see what going on at other planets.

8. smarter warning system no the constant voice warning of we are under a take when it is just a scout ship.....or help has arived when a trade ship is crossing through your current gravity well

9. change how capital ships gain experiece and unlock powers....more realiticaly cap ship super powers should have to be researched (just have 1 unlocked for each ship when they 1st launch) Leveling up increases fire rate, more powered full weapons fire, shield strength, repair time, speed and manuvirabilty.....since more levels for your crew would mean that they should be able to do their jobs quick and get more efficanty out of thier ships.

10. experiance points and ranks for cruisers and frigates, like ranks in command & conquer.

11. on planet defense not just orbital they just have stronger damage but are slower to recharge

12. More stars less planets but more astroids and moons and such.


Thats about all i can think of great game though

as most have said previously,
i'd like to see,
A) a story driven Campaign for each race, following the lore of the intro Vid, as i really enjoyed the small amount of lore that was given through said video.

B) A new race, but, as some have noted, i also believe this is already in the process due to the whole "vasari running away from big bad unknowns"

C) a larger fleet capacity / more capital ship slots, i don't see why, if i can control 3 systems and easily support the current 79%tax*or whatever the max is, it slips my mind at this point and stage*, why i can't have a larger fleet, sure this would lag out some people, but the option could be added as Extra large fleets or something along those lines.

D) the ability to import / create Your own logo for your chosen race / More colors, i would love a black or white color for my ships.(similar to that of homeworld2's logo / color scheme)

E) More ships / buildings / Defense systems for each race etc.

F) More or less a complete implement of the idea's listed in this mod; http://tgnforums.stardock.com/306295
I.E new planetoid types, Natural Disasters / Benefits
the ability to populate Gas giants via anti-grav platforms as stated in the mod.

i'd love to see all that implemented.
its a brilliant idea, and i find works really well.

this is one hell of a list but i thought i'd get all my bases covered in one go.

one other thing on my mind, "hero" classes, i think it will ruin certain aspects of the game... this is a 4Xrts... it brings up way to many balance issues when you introduce heros to a game - but thats just my opinion.

a frakking campaign!