[Ragnarok]

Surrender; OK to the player who hammers you but only when you are truly done for (riot problems).
Make any (hopefully there will be none) early abandoned empires free game, but make it illegal to ask them for surrender.

I agree with this 100% but the point that P-D brings out comes into play here. If the AI surrenders then you have no choice but to accept it. Hopefully we won't have any problems with AI as long as everyone keeps with this game. But I think that if it comes down to someone needing to surrender then they should just gift all that they have to you. It shouldn't take but a few minutes to go through and be click-happy and select all their ships and planets. Whatever is left after that is open for all to plunder.

Religious; I would like more input still before final decision is made. I am sure some of us will take religious even if the talisman is taken out due to as Primitive brought out the Nature Shrine

I do like the no Training option (ban Advanced Mil. Science) but then we have to ban (or mod) Psychic too.

I may not be seeing something here. Why would we have to ban or mod Psychic if we ban Advanced Mil. Science? It's probably rather obvious but I just am not seeing it right now.

Don't like Spoo's idea of "view all scores" at all, but I would not have a problem with leaving the Position or even the Score viewable on PBW. Getting info about the other guys empires is half the fun.

I won't turn on the view all scores option. I do not like the fact that you can gain knowledge that detailed in-game. In this type of game you could end up using that to pick and choose who you can fight against and have a decent shot at winning.
I'm not sure about the position and score option being on on PBW even. I may end up turning that option on though.

And absolutely no "all systems can be seen by all players".

Agreed. This was a mistake that I made in RTH1 that I won't make again. The same is for saving the map, you were able to save the map and look at it to find out where all the sphereworlds were and so forth. Won't happen this time around.