The problem with adding better defenses is the imbalance to the flt it would create.
Aggressive scouting is what your missing. Upgrade planet health. The defenses are fine if you know how to employ them.

In the SoaSE betas, the volcanic planets used to boost your max # of fleet points. Not sure what happened to that...

CAPITAL SHIPS THAT ARE MORE THAN GLORIFIED CRUISERS!!!

They should have it so that in large random maps 4v4 , players on the same team will start together.

I really hate it when 20 minutes into the game , someone leaves/quits because he got ganked due to a harsh starting position.

Also ...sometimes the first asteroid is missing the phaselane to the homeworld. This is really harsh.

I dunno. On the one hand it does kinda suck if you're the guy who starts between the opposition and you know they're gonna try to take you out ASAP, on the other hand it does add to the challenge some and encourages your allies to engage in teamwork to try to save you. One strategy is to build a mothership and try to migrate to a friendlier part of the map.

That having been said, it might not be hard to modify the random map files so that allies start next to one another, but unless custom maps like that can auto-download or Stardock modifies them and includes the modded maps in a patch it's unlikely that we'd ever get to play them online.

Hello people, personally? I'd like to see something that makes Sins a multicore game , because right now a lengthy single player in big map and lots of AI gets very slow after few hours.

I would like to see the following improvements to the online multiplayer system

1) Custom maps can be downloaded from the host prior to starting

2) Option to view the map prior to starting - some ppl don't like playing on a map they don't know. This should be a host setting and obviously should not be available for random maps as that defeats to point of a random map.

3) People who are getting setup to start a game can also monitor the lobby without having to change chanels back and forth - you miss things when you change from the game chanel to the lobby and back again. I hate having to ask someone to go check the lobby to see who is there and invite them to a game I am hosting. Especially as there is a chance that their spot may be taken if people suddenly all try to join your game at once.

4) An option to make in the lobby for people looking for games and maybe something to indicate the type of game they are looking for. e.g. Waiting for a game/not interested in playing at the moment. Game type - FFA, teams etc...

Well, for me, I'm pretty sure it's still my CPU because it "lags" the same in single player as in multiplayer, or at least when it's my fault. (I have a Dual Core AMD Opteron 2.4 Ghz.)

I want Faster Game play speed game takes way to long it should be an option for those that want faster games that don't last 3 to 4 hours.

Here's a doozy - the ability to be able to control the AI and MAKE IT COMMIT TO THE MAKE OR BREAK BATTLE ON THE MAP!!!
(yes I know there is functionality to "control" the AI, but the AI won't actually do anything unless the odds are overwhelming (in it's favour of course). It just tells me it will do what it can!!!).
I was playing an MP game with 5 systems (HUGE 5v5 game) - I had #2 ranked fleet and someone else (call then red) had #3. We were winning the battle for the galaxy we started in (2 vs 3 opponents) and I had 2 novo online to help.
Anyway, after a major battle with the two remaining players in the galaxy (I had taken out the noob who attacked me with scouts!!!) we were close to cleaning out the galaxy and then #1 guy (blue) rocks up having jumped to our sun.
We were fighting one planet in from the sun. I had 3 factories seperated from the planet by a wormhole, so had a good reinforcement location which was pumping in refinforcements. So red and I had more ships in systems and probably could have won it. And then red disconnects. So the red team (now an AI) runs away from a fight which we had numerically superior number for, even though individually it had about 1/2 the blue's ship number. Well, that was a pain as it put me in the position of fighting it out by myself. The AI wouldn't even go and attack the other AI (pink) or player (green) that was still in our galaxy trying to support blue. The only reason I got a win is that blue quit and green (the only remaining opposition non-AI player) realised that once I knocked the blue AI down I would win.
It was an epic game, but the AI sucked ass as it wasn't winning so refused to fight (very noobish).

A political system in the tech tree. In which you have to take one of four to three upgrade, that have powerful prons and some cons.

It would be cool if fighters could get in formation when idle rather than just clump up. Oh, and I like the idea about actually building the ships....though I hope it wouldn't steepen reqs.

I was just thinking the other day, it'd be cool if you could colonize a system of moons around Gas Giants, a more rare option being a terran or desert or something with a coupla moons, so you get just a little more taxation and tac/log slots