Really, my main thing I would love to see is massive ships.
Maybe not a Death Star type thing, but definantly a Super Star Destroyer.

Many 'fluff' elements have either been removed or are currently underdevelopment for later betas. I would love to reveal the nature of these elements at this time, but it would distract from stability testing I can tell you that as the game plays out and your empire grows, things will continue to become more and more exciting

Ironclad, you guys cease to amaze me. Just waiting for more stuff to play with in this beta.

Perhaps they "never" cease to amaze you?

I still remember that there was 'something' bigger than a SSD... i just don't remember what they called that behemoth. i think it could DEPLOY 3 SSDs if it wanted to.

Hmmm, yeah I suppose super ships would spice up the endgame quite a bit.

What about characters for capital ships, like a small picture as in gal civ 2 just to add a little personality to the ship making it more than level 1 2 or 3 and something you want to hang on to.

Another ideas is, if thing things are going badly, you can use a last ditch ability such as chemical weapons or piracy that gives you a large advantage but makes every race aggro you. This would allow you to come back from the brink of defeat and make skirmish games more exciting.

Not to mention I love the idea of SupCom super units that break the endgame stalemates that occur in so many rts games.

Also, what about emerging races so that if you find yourself with only one other race opposing you, an alien race can emerge from the outside of a solar system, a cult could arise on a previously unseen planet or a peoples rebellion could overthrow the leadership on one of your planets.

A ship editor would take time that is better spent improving other areas of the game. Don't get me wrong, I like ship-editors, but I think that they decrease the atmosphere of the game to a degree

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lol, yeah lord I agree with you, homeplanet should have rudementary defenses, even if only the vasari and advert get them, as the TEC disbanded all their weapons. But the Vasari and Advert definately, one is running from a super powerfull force so it stands to reason that the moment they colonize a planet they would have defense platforms in orbit, maybe even before they colonized the first planet in that system. The other is comming back from exile and I would think have no idea of being caught unprepared again, so they aswell would have defenses up and running even before they finished colonizing their home planet. erhaps the difference could be that the Vasari get weapon platforms and the Advert get psionic platforms that have a chance to make an enemy faction, not ship, not see that the world is colonized. This could work that when the first ship jumps in they get a roll if the fail it they can't see that the planet is colonized, nor can they see any Advert ships from the planets faction in the system. This could have a couldown, such as every minute as long as there are ships/probes in this system you reroll to see if you can see the ships now. This could go further by saying if they try to colonize the planet they roll again, to see if they actually see the advert then or they just fail, which would tell them the system is controlled by advert, they still wouldn't be able to bomb or attack the advert untill the illusion is dispelled. This could work the same if the advert attacks an enemy ship, they could get another roll to see if they can see through the illusion now and if not they just get blown up, lol. But honestly, if you get attacked the roll would be very hard to fail and you'd reroll every 10 seconds or so. So it could be that if a ship jusmp in they have a 20% chance to 'see' you. If they try to colonize the planet they have a 50% chance to 'see' you or they say that even though the planet appeared habitable it isn't, and if you attack someone else they have an 80% chance to 'see' you, I mean common, unless your in stasis you'll know something is attacking you. Or it could just be that as long as the illusion is in effect the planet appears to be uninhabitable, such as a gas giant or something. The Vasari could just have REALLY BIG orbital laser platforms that shoot for REALLY BIG amounts of damage, lol.