Get rid of the orqange space background and make it black all of the time. The orange makes it difficult to read the screen and to see red icons...plus it is visually unappealing.

in thyis patch (or in the next one) i'd really like new ships, just a few per faction, that would be really different from all the standard types of ships, i mean there's planetery bombardent ships, light frigates ... but they're always the same type of ship for each faction. it could be fun to have really special ships with unique stuff (like interdictor vessels that stop the enemi from phase jumping or a ship that can teleport anywere in the gravity well of the planet he's orbiting and so on ...). it would also be great to have more choice for little fighters in hangar defense, like fighters with less firepower but small shield generators or boarding ships that could take over enemi frigates or even ships that attach themselves to enemi ships and damage the hull for a short period ... so in short : a little more diversity in ships and fighters would be welcome

AWESOME JOB DEVS !!!....LUV the Game !!!..../Bow

Just a few things I would ask...since you asked

The new AI stuff you are looking at are GREAT !!! Please do ! The AI jumping in on dropped players makes the online game 1000% better and the surrendering AI is just as good an idea. No more loosing the win online cause someone got mad and logged had PC problems or just ran out of time, and no more dragging it out in practice games at home !

Would there be a way we could select what voice reports we get and just have others appear just as printed text on the screen in the reports window? The Advent voice is awesome IMO,she sounds hot and I love the babe, but when you are popping out a bunch of ships after / durring a battle it can get a bit annoying hearing each ship pop, and sometimes you can miss an invasion report or pirate raid going on, shield reports and such with all the ship spam.

Raising Cap ship caps ROCKS ! In huge games you can run short with whats there now. Would be nice to have the first few increases in cap ships be a bit cheaper too, higher at the upper end if you absolutely have to, if you felt it needed that for balance.

Do NOT put caps on how many of any one of the smaller ships that can be built ......EVER ! If a few people want to just keep spamming a fleet of one kinda ship. Let them...PLEASE... let them, it is a very simplistic strat so very easily countered. Not to mention if a person keeps doing it soon noone will let the person play in one of their games. This is easily enough handled by the community itself without Dev help.

If I have to have 3 or more fleets, one keeping one or several players off me and my frontline planets and one expanding while one fleet is defending my primary deeper planets I do not want a cap lvl on my ships leaving me short some key ship I need in one of those fleets killing my gameplan !

PJI should at least cover a planet ...IMO...but do something with them please.

Lastly, please fix the bug with the Detonate Antimater ability on Advent's Radiance Cap ship, or have I misundertood the ability ?

The ability says it keeps the target ship from using antimatter abilities. Phase jumping is one of those abilities that uses antimater right? I was trying to use the ability to pop Cap ships running from me, figuring I would kill their jump engines getting more time to kill them, but it never stops them from using their phase jump ability. Was this intended and just aimed at the clickable abilities or something that could be fixed in 1.3 ?

Thanks for listening and again AWESOME JOB    !!!

Be well and safe

Overlord Sigurd
That which does not destroy us..... serves only to make us stronger !

One little thing here that could make a big difference on occasion.

Regards retreat. Can there be an auto option setting that would allow either ships or even entire fleets to retreat based upon damage level?

For instance, I want my cap ship to withdraw if it has 75% damage and my entire fleet to withdraw if damage is 60% cumulative damage of the fleet. That being 60% of the original fleet; i.e. 10 ships started with, 3 destroyed and the others untouched would not trigger retreat where as 2 destroyed and 7 suffering 50% damage would.

I see a need for this on occasion where I am engaged in 3 or 4 battles at once. A verbal warning of “Our fleet is in retreat” would prevent “I forgot about that” situations.

I'd like an option that completely turns off the UI. Similar to the existing cinematic mode, but not include the empire icons over selected ships and hide the top and bottom interface bars as well as hiding the empire tree. Make it mappable to a key (not mapped by default). This would be great for making you-tube or similar videos to help show off the game, or even just sitting back and watching as your fleet engages in epic battles.

The command you're looking for already exists. CTRL-Shift-Z.

1. An Acadamy for fleet and tactical increases.
It would be nice to be able to train capital ship crews through means of a structure or planetary development.
2. A seperation of bounty for an agenst.
This way if your enemy has a bounty on you, you will have to buy it off even if you have one on them.
3. Formations for fleets.
4. Patrols, both in a single system and multi system (fleets only)