UsariaPrime

Agree with 1, 2 and 3 - completely. Custom formations would be pretty awesome, and setting disengage instructions and perhaps retreat rally points would also be...awesome.

Just some other ideas about what else could be built in orbit: 1) It would also be great to add some sort of privateer orbital structure which creates ships around your planet that assist in planetary defense, maybe a couple of different types of privateer ships would be good (a couple of frigates and maybe a small cruiser of sorts). Once you start expanding your empire, its really hard to defend all of your planets…the citizens of each planet should take up arms (frigates) to defend th

Another interesting idea could be a sensor array as an orbital structure (late game) that can perform sweeps of adjacent planets (using antimatter) to give you a strategic heads up on enemy build up, perhaps for planning defenses/raids. I would think this would be most useful on contested areas of the map.

For suggestion 1), capital ships with unspent ability or fleet points appear with a + over their icon in the empire tree. If you have your capital ships grouped in with your fleets (I don't see why you shouldn't), they should be very easy to find. For CapShips whose primary role is of a planetary defender, I don't necessarily group these all of the time. I'm just looking for an easier way to quickly pick the new

It could also be the issue of moving the camera around while a ship is selected and accidentally clicking once to issue a move order but I'm not totally sure. I really like to move the camera around during battles, it could just be overzealous right clicking - haha

That would definitely work Kryo - just as long as clicking the notification didn't change my view to that ship - but that it would bring up its ability management to pick upgrades - so you can get right back into the action without jumping between ship locations!

Lordkosc - for comment 2: my only problem is not knowing between which planets my ships are (in phase space) to even scroll over to find them. The only problem with your second comment Deadly is that you have to go through all of your planets in the tree to find those ships - it would be nice just for a quick portrait somewhere that pops up so you can quickly choose the new ability without going through the entire empire tree, unless some sort of prompt is introduced into the empir

After successfully thwarting off attacks by pirates or CPU opponents, I found that sometimes if I went to manually move my remaining ships into a custom formation in the gravity well, that some ships would attempt to make a jump to a random planet in my empire (typically a nearby node, sometimes back to my capital). This happened maybe 10 times over the course of my game. I would randomly stop their actions, try again, and it would repeat itself. After a couple of minutes they would act normal a

I noticed this last night about mid-game where I had the resources to research all planetary improvements and started to set up shop at a planet/asteroid (metal mines, hanger defense, gauss emplacements) - a construction ship would attempt to build a metal or crystal mine and it would start constructing normally, and then just freeze its construction (animation was still present). I found this for structures at around 35-40% complete, and 65-70% complete but only happened to both mine types (cry

Hey everyone - I posted a very general (a little too general) post earlier today, so I'm gonna break some of my ideas down into better categories - this one relates to CapShip Management 1) When a CapShip increases level, an icon to the right of the screen would be nice so you don't have to hunt down the ship to pick new abilities. The ship's name and general ship icon would be nice, and all you would have to do is click the icon, and then the ship is "selected" so you can spend exp poi

I've been thinking about this ALL day at work. I'm of the mindset that if you want to hunker down and defend a key planet or asteroid, then the more power to you. I don't think we should make emplacements completed overpowered, but I had some additional ideas for assisting in defense operations: 1) Capital Ship specific emplacements: If a swarm of 5-8 enemy capital ships jumps to a planet of yours, well you are pretty much screwed, unless you have 5-8 capital ships at that planet as wel

I agree - there should a research component to this - i would think by mid-to-late game that detecting everything inside a gravity upon arrival could be researched though...

Formations would be a great addition DonnieD - and patrolling would help dealing with insurgent pirate attacks that come from random vectors towards a planet

I just thought of something else: 11) Specialized orbital emplacements that deal damage only to capital ships, but are limited to only two or one per planet depending on tactical slots that are open. These specialized emplacements could only target capital ships with large laser turrets, torpedoes, maybe even an upgrade to slow down capital ship movement within a gravity well...? A planet that is spammed by 7+ capital ships appears to be royally screwed, this may turn the tables (or at

Thanks Bootleg - for suggestion four - I totally agree with your idea, I just wouldn't want to dilute the importance of planning for this and/or having colony ships already built for this situation, it was just a pain having to scuttle 50+ ship "points" just to build a measly colony ship (losing valuable frigates/cruisers)...I should have upgraded the battleship that has the colonize ability, but at that point I was unable to even "train up" because I had already trained that ship to the max...<

Hey everyone – this is my first post for the beta 2 testing, and I have to say that SOASE is going to be one unbelievable game! I jotted down a couple of notes from my first game, just a couple suggestions and some minor bugs I found: Bugs: 1)After successfully thwarting off attacks by pirates or CPU opponents, I found that about a quarter of the time if I went to manually move my remaining ships into custom position in the gravity well, that some ships would attempt to make a