Hey!  I thought you blasted me for wanting a harder AI!

Anyway, yea.  Pathfinding and AI improvements.  I get angry sometimes when I see my ships run into each other or enemy ships.  It's a 3D space!  Go around/over/under/strafe/bank/etc.!

I like the idea of increased experience for upgraded starbases too.

hmm. if i cant have a update source other than Impulse, then i would like to see a way to transfer updates between two computers

also i agree that upgraded starbases should give more XP than a basic one, perhaps +50 per upgrade

i would also say that there should be a function on the map selection screen that tells you how many artifacts are present, because i once spent ages playing a random-huge-multi map, and i had every planet conquered and all of them 100% explored and i only had 6 artifacts, what gives?

ok, hit me with that again please lich1989

which folder?

and does anyone else knows what he means by the "get a copy of the changes" part at the end??

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That omission was deliberate, as it means you don't hurredly click+drag a battlegroup from the whole gravwell, and accidentally send your colony ships to their doom in a firefight.

What I'd like to see are a couple UI and modding enhancements:

The ability to alt+click on abilities to activate or autocast all abilities of the same type for the ships selected (Thus saving you having to tab through them one by one to do it).

The ability to have special ability 'toggles' - so rather than active and passive, you can have an on/off switch. Most things can be fudged, but even so - while I can't think of too many examples off the top of my head, things like the Krosov Seige Frigate's Heavy Fallout ability is one you'd occasionally like to turn off - when you plan to colonise the planet yourself, for example.

actually it isn't a bug, if you look carefully you see the ships will move from the last factory built to the first one build, it kinda make sense

the pheomon happens if ships you created come out of the assembly within one second of each other and it will create that effect but if you look closely, you will see that the ships have moved

but the thing I want most is either a massive update soon along with the forge tools or the release of the forge tools for 1.02 and v1.16

We just finished Sins 1.17 and Entrenchment 1.03. We'll post the patch notes early next week and release when the testing is done (probably later that week or early the following week).

Sorry I haven't been posting much, we are crazy busy on lots of new stuff.

Thanks for your patience

oh, maybe a note to devs, howabout when new patches are rolled out, a little note on what is new and mod-breaking. that would be cool!

Woot a new update next week, hope they release the forge tool

I meant the whole game folder which is approx 1.7 GB. For those who don't always want to update their game permanently, you can always create a copy of the Stardock Games folder before updating and put it elsewhere and play it from there. Currently, if you put this folder onto another computer that has does not have the game installed, it tells you the product requires activation so you need to put your CD-key in.

What I meant at the end was that there are programs that let you track changes made to a folder of your choice and make a copy of the changes. You can then take the copies and use that to update your non-updated folder.

Hooray! 

If I may ask, just how much work does it take in releasing the updated .entity files and the like? I realise the developer exe is probably a lot more work, and I can understand that, but even the basic files would be lovely.

Custom start positions would not be easy to implement at all, I think - it would involve telling you just what the planet layout was to begin with; I think this rather ruins the point on some maps.

Thanks to the developers for the imminent update, and for continuing to support the original game along with Entrenchment, especially while balance issues remain.  However, will this still be possible or desirable once the second expansion is released?  Has the micro expansion method delayed the release of the expansion itself- isn't one beta test process easier than three?  Will the release of the third expansion coincide with the release of the expansion itself?  I'm also concerned that abilities are being balanced by making them cost resources to use, simply because this is an easier fix. If they were either more expensive to obtain, or less frequently available for activation, it might be more satisfactory in terms of game logic and play.

Impulse is fine, it installs and uninstalls easily enough so that it doesn't seem much more than the requirement to register on the forums.