I expect a Linux version eventually. We plan to support Vulkan.

I would like to be able to specify one or more shipyards to "send To" constructors to all star bases, and to be able to specify the constructor that they send, i.e. a custom constructor vs the standard model that they send now.

This definitely. Along with not having a list of uninhabited planets it's one of the major things from Gal Civ 2 I feel missing in 3.

My pet peeves :

1. The focus sliders and the projects transform planetary management into an optimization math puzzle. The economy should be a transparent, grand strategy problem, not a set of equations to solve. The AI cannot even use them properly.
2. Too many first order optimal strategy that are easily implemented... and could be easily fixed. Sensor buoy cargo ships, for instance.
3. Starship balance. Starship HPs are so low compared to late game firepower that they're made of tissue paper. Yes, there's defenses, but why even bother giving them HP and have repair techs then ?
4. The "1 armor/shield/PD is enough to prevent HP loss against an entire volley, even if that volley has hundreds of attack power". This makes combat balance heavily tilted towards light ships. Late game, tiny ships are almost as durable as huge ones. I've tried : titans can take 2-3 missile volleys before blowing up, a tiny ship with 1 PD can take 2...
5. Why give us such a complex combat system with intricate mechanics if we can't even really use it ? The way ship roles are assigned isn't particularly well done. If I make a sniping, low defense/high attack missile ship with range enhancer, I want it to stay in the back. Solution : more ship roles that give us more behavior possibilities, and let the player REASSIGN them. Seriously, that's not complicated to implement, it was even there in beta 4.

Carriers.  They have no counter beyond other carriers of equal cheese.

Carriers are safe units to use, extremely low risk with pretty much nothing for a threat.  With base values you can stuff five basic modules on a single huge hull, which is only 10 logistics.  That ends up being multiples of what you'd get filling those 10 logistics up with tiny ships.  If anything, they should have less combat power than 10 logistics in smaller ships, or smaller ships need to stop smoking larger ones in the first place.  This is a minor balance change away from being solved.

It only gets worse with technological improvements.  The power of the fighters scales with everything you research, and then gets compounded, leading to an exponential advantage in carrier strength over other ships.  This aspect can't be fixed without redesigning the system to no longer grant compounding benefit to carrier modules, perhaps negate shrinking aspects for them?

As currently designed, he who rings a hyperion shrinker with military bonuses will be able to stuff overwhelming force into a single ship and dominate the galaxy.  They're not particularly expensive, and can solo entire fleets of non-carrier ships without taking damage.  Even if you were to have a fleet comprised of ships that would ignore the fighters, go straight for the carrier, and successfully kill it, you'd still lose more resources by far, and I've never seen any AI ship beeline a carrier.

You can shutdown your ship yards. This is useful to do. I am currently playing Terrans so I can some shipyards setup around my region and turn on the nearby ship yards when I need to open up a front. You can use the commands on the Governor screen to transfer sponsers very quickly. 

Favorite tab in the shipyard and the improvement Que window.(Available Projects.

Also Like to see a stand BY for ships under ships Command. 3 choices 3,5 or 10 turns after said turns ship idle kick in and ask you what you want to do with the ship again. 

1. Not having the ability to select my own Race and Ships colors at the start of a regular new game.

It really bugs me to no end that choosing your race and ship colors is only limited to when your creating your own custom race. This feature should have been added for regular games at the time it became available because not everyone is going to create a custom race but would like to differ their race colors and ship color different than the default colors of a particular race they are playing in a regular game. We had this feature in GC2, but allow this feature to be the same one used when making custom race ship colors. Allow us to make our own color swatches we can apply to our ship colors. Give us the ability to add default race and custom race logo's onto our ship designs on game map and in ship designer.

2. Make it easier to add our own custom graphics for race backgrounds, foregrounds and logo's.

Tell us what folders they are supposed to go. As it stands right now it is very hard to find what folders they are supposed to go in. A basic " How to make a custom race " interactive tutorial would be a really nice the touch when players want to create their own custom race for the first time.

3. As others have mentioned the lighting in the ship designer and even in detail views on game map badly needs to be redone.

This all I can think of right now.

OOPs

 

 

I really like this one. ! It even adds the tactical flavor to some extent

When you have a space battle near a planet, you can see it there on the background. The problem is, the planet spins too fast and therefore feels unrealistic.

Also, the dialogue with other civilizations could be better. I've seen in the files that there are peace and war themes for each species, so why not play them when you talk with the respective civilization? When you are at peace, play the peace theme. And when you declare war, make the war music start immediately. Just like in Civilization V. Currently, the game plays the same music when you talk with all civilizations, and this gets boring fast.

Not sure if this is a feature, but I often get colony capitals that are listed as salvageable (i.e. can be terraformed etc) - the hex goes yellow when you select the terraforming tech in the build menu but you can't actually use it? And then you're left forever with a build ption that you can't actually build.

It would be hugely useful to have select next or previous arrows so you can browse between starbases or shipyards without leaving the screen like you can for planets ...

The single line of installed components at the bottom of the designer - on huge ships I can't see everything that has been installed. Sometimes I can see the very top of the second row - but it's like the dividing line is supposed to move up and show multiple rows but doesn't.

Would be hugely useful to have a 'duplicate last component you installed' button on the designer.

If you go to the govern / commands screen and instruct 'all ships of type x to upgrade' - it doesn't tell you how many of them it's doing and how much it will cost.

I have a rally point - I instruct all shipyards to route to it. But several turns later I keep finding ships 'stationed' at the shipyards and have to manually eject them.

Needs to be a control to limit the upgrades to only user designs otherwise you get pages and pages of options of the same template design to upgrade to (and it is the same design as they're all the same price). Esp.common with colony ships.

I sometimes get a message on these when I survey graveyards saying 'lost scout ship' or somesuch - but there's no ship appearing?

In addition to the 'explore' or 'survey' mission types - would be useful to have a 'hunt pirates' one.

I've created a bunch of unenhanced starbases, then my second wave of constructors hit. Normally I'd have a series of 'starbase build' screens one after the other. But it would be hugely useful to have a 'colonies / resources / relics in range' display as otherwise I have to drop out of the screen to remind myself what sort of starbase it should be. If you're building a dozen of the things it's a pain.

Abandon colony button. Could we have one? (Though that opens the tactic of abandoning just before an invasion hits and forcing opponents to wait for a coloniser).

Would be really useful to have a 'change all entries in build queues of ship type x to ship type y'. I get inconsistent results when I get auto-upgraded template designs like 'colony ship' - where only the currently-being-worked-on ship is updated but the rest aren't (usually when I have used the govern screen to change the currently being worked on ship).

Would be hugely useful to have a 'delete last component installed' button. (As you can see from other tickets I can't always see the full list of installed components).

That's it for now ...

The sheer stupidity of the battle viewer ai 

i know we dont have any controll over the battle viewer but i would love to see a glimmer of intelligence there

if you have greater range then your enemy stop approaching him

if your fleet is assualting a starbase wait for the whole fleet to be just outside the SB's range before approaching 

if theres a high value ship stay towards the back of the fleet rather then out in front