https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/?forumid=402&aid=176434#1457519

I have a rather large posting up with ideas and a lot of ppl seem to agree!

I would like to see a text option where I could add text to the location when someone uses the ping action.

I agree with the above poster when talking about fleet groups. I agree that making a fleet should have the "toggle" to be added automatically to a group number.

One other issue, its a bug. This bug lets you build a Hangar Defense and then wait for the fighters/bombers to finish being made. Then scuttle the hangar, rebuild it, wait for the new groups of fighters/bombers to be made, scuttle it again, ect, ect. Doing this over and over will give you a TON of fighters to defend a planet. Granted you cannot repair them and they are a one shot kind of deal. But still, going to attack someone and finding this person has done this and has over 100 fighters and bombers defending a planet, is a little unfair.

How about a option to buy pirate ships from the black market?

Agreed but after 1.03

On SJI I would suggest a toggle to either constantly slow a ships jump time or make a temporary 20 or 30 second jump ban with a recharge time.

Actually, every starting colony has an asteroid field and either a volcanic or arctic planet next to it. It makes sense to think of one or the other as the moon.

#1 - One-way phase lane connections. With these we could design maps with interesting strategic possibilities, though I must admit the main reason I'd want these is for a pirate base you couldn't assault, super weapon, or even explore (bwahaha - I love pirate raids ). Not sure how technically feasible it would be though, nor how you could represent this on the strategic level.

#2 - Intersystem connection support for the galaxy editor.

#3 - Stacking phase inhibitors, though you've probably heard enough about phase inhibitors...

#4 - Jump countdown timers on units and enemies (so you can see how long they have to go before jumping). Mainly for use with phase inhibitors + jump interrupt abilities to eliminate some of the guesswork.

#5 - Stop the returning Armada from eating my fleet support into crazy negative values. As much as I love having more ships than I know what to do with, having -136 fleet support is surely a bug?

#6 - More challenging AI - A lot of the games I've played to date have effectively been 'coop' games vs. the AI, so making the AI hard for these would make for more enjoyable games.

#7 - More detailed information on what a second point into many of the techs actually does. Often there's no indication of what a second point will do (shortened cooldown, more free units? What?). Similarly for capital ship abilities where a second point doesn't change the described ability or stats at all.

#8 - Orbital turret option, possibly researchable? . I either want to protect "The Planet" or "The Structures", and currently I can only do "Half the planet but sorry you're going to die if you live on the other side of it". Besides, orbital turrets would look cool.

#9 - Hugs and kisses for the development team for making such an entertaining game, and continuing to support it post-release.

Something stunning obvious that isn't and option (or that is so hidden I haven't been able to find it), is an auto build ability. If I want as many ships as I can get of a class in the endgame, I want to be able to just hit auto build instead of kiling my finger going "click click click" over and over again. Most RTS's have this option, Sins should to. I'd imagine this would be very easy to do so I'd expect something this obvious and easy wouldn't be procrastinated. I'm not having a go at Ironclad though, it's an ingenius game.

The best thing you could do by far is add the ability in the game setup user interface to drop particular units from the game. Now, I don't know how your game engine is set up, but if it isn't "hardwired" so to speak (in other words, if the AI can dynamically respond to unavailable game units and adjust its strat and behavior and builds accordingly), then this would essentially be no trouble at all to do - you're essentially talking a user interface tweak and not much else.

The reason this is important to do is that there are too many groups of people with different ideas about what constitutes a good gameplay mechanic (essentially, people want to play different games, but they all want that game to be "Sins of a Solar Empire"), and no group is gonna be happy forced to play the other group's game, so you can't "fix" the game because "fixing" it for one group is gonna cause another group of people to bitch, moan, and scream.

Example1: You took down the PJI, and people screamed. But if you buff it back up, other people will scream.

Example2: People are screaming that the siege frigate is ridiculous. But if you took it down, no doubt people would scream that they want the siege frigate the way it used to be.

Solution: Pretty much any unit can be dropped from the game via the user interface when hosting a game or playing one against the AI. In the game description (when hosting), it will tell you which units have been dropped, so you can make a decision whether you want to join that game or not.

Pros:

1) Assuming your AI and everything else isn't "hardwired," and is flexible enough to respond to available/unavailable units on the fly, this change is easy to do.

2) You can essentially "fix" the gameplay dynamic for multiple groups of people and make everybody "happy" (give or take) in one fell swoop. For instance, you can buff the PJI back to something similar in one of the betas. If someone doesn't like that, they can drop the PJI in their game they are playing or hosting, and have essentially what they have now. If someone is worried about a turtler with a superweapon, that can be dropped. And finally, if someone hates the siege frigate, he can drop that and rely on cap ships to bombard planets.

Ugh, competitive online gaming - absolutely ruining every game since 1991.

A way to rotate formations. If instead of just clicking to issue a move order, you click and drag, it should change the orientation that the fleet's rows will take. It would add a LOT of tactical depth.

Slow mo , frame rate dive issue

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/?forumid=408&aid=175638

Here are just a few suggestions that need to be implemented.

-A way to force a player to receive a lost when upon disconnecting and not surrendering after a certain time elapsed.
-When a player Surrenders, the issues in winning the game itself would NOT have to require to destroy that players' Planets after eliminating those that haven't Surrendered already.
-Ability to use an "Ignore Player" option in-game and ICO. I've encountered a few players that are just plain ignorant and immature. Ignore List should also be included, in the case to remove someone off of it.
-Interesting to see Statistic of different Races, Ships used/destroyed, Wins, Losses, etc...
-Previously mentioned, use of Filters to narrow down the types of Games you want to see and not to see.
-A way to view players that joined the game itself, when upon highlighting a listed game.
-List of active channels displayed when opening "Change/Create Channels." A way to separate Channels and Game Channels.
-Implementation of a Game Timer.

More will be thought of later on to further improve gameplay and experience.

Oh another thing i would love to see...

Its not really gameplay related but its more of a cosmetic thing really yet it would be great fun if its possible to implement is without too much of a hassle...

You remember original X game?

Well in X we had an option to upload our own little avatar in the game and whenever we construct something little "neon flag" would come op on our station with avatar...


You remember WiC?

There we had similar option where our avatar is pasted directly on our units... Would love to see my capital ships and rest of the fleet with -=XX=- stamped on it

Would be fun feature that would make us zoom in more and take more screens hahaha