Since the other post was locked as I was replying, I'm posting this here:

Things I really like:

Things I'm ambivalent about:

Starbase types and diplomatic capital are two mechanics I don't care for. To me they are unnecessary complications.

• Starbase types: isn't it enough to sacrifice a citizen, pick a good location, and have enough modules to do what you want?
• Diplomatic capital: what good is a resource that is only valuable in trade negotiations, especially when trading is heavily discouraged by the AI in almost all cases?

Only feedback today

- Wow, nice intro video
- Great that you can replay your victories as well
- Manti Cluster free defense part 2: so now I know my planets get defended by drones. Two problems remain: there is no information about the defending drones in the UI and citizens at Core Worlds are unhappy unless you send normal ships for defense. Maybe the AI does not know as well and sends ships into suicide missions
- Please, either show always all planet improvements – i.e. without checking their conditions, or give us a button to disable the filter that makes them invisible. In late game I destroy improvements to see what I am able to build. If I do not destroy the correct tile maybe there is still a filter making something invisible

Quoting Arcean_Endgame,

reply 3

I tried creating my own version of the Thalan Contingency, trying to stay true to the concept of the Thalans in GC3. I selected the Xenophobic ability, but when I got into the game I noticed I wasn't receiving the bonus to research.

Here are some photos showing what I'm talking about:

Reduced 83%

Original 932 x 625

 

Reduced 83%

Original 927 x 522

As you can see from the second photo, the Xenophobic bonus is not showing up in the tooltip. Nor am I receiving the bonus.

I did the same and created a customleader with the Xenophobic trait and it worked perfectly. You may want to go back and make sure oyu saved your custom civ after assigning the trait.

Anyone else having this issue?

You are right. Somehow the civ I created didn't get saved with the abilities I set for it.

But that just points to another problem: the game should tell me if my custom civ isn't "finished." Maybe for some reason someone will want to play without any abilities (although I don't see why anyone would), but I think there should at least be a message that pops up informing you that you've left something out. This would also avoid the issue a lot of people seem to be having of creating civs without any faction ships. 

Bugs:
- Critical bug: if you reinforce a fleet during a siege the siege will be aborted!
- Penultipox should give 30 prestige (description) but prestige score shows 32. I checked it and I did not have 2 points in this category before

Feedback:
- Galactic Achvievement: NewEdenSeasonIcon.png. Grey background is distracting. It is the only G.A.-icon with a grey background. My first guess was that it was done by an AI

OMG just noticed I can repeat build modules now in starbases. MASSIVE PLUS.  *activates "hugs every stardock dev immediately" trait*

Bugs:

Upgrading districts.

Also: The prediction of a district (before you build it) does not include the upgrades.