[apache]

I really would like some form of atrocities in the game. It would give you incentives to capture planets, not destroy them. It would hopefully drastically affect relations with other empires, etc.
And as for events, I totally agree that there should be good events. I also think there should be mixed events. Say a large asteroid crashes into your colony, killing 100M people, but the value of the planet increased by 100% or so in each Category. That would really be nice.