* the option to control battles yourself instead of the computer doing it in multiplayer games.
Note *OPTION* as this should only be available in TCP/IP games as it would be FAR to slow in any other form
(Note this would require the TCP/IP option to be further developed and improved for stability in order for this to work correctly)
One majorly fun part of Moo2 was doing battles yourself :-)
On a sidenote: PLEASE NO REAL TIME BATTLES!!!
I am a *huge* master of orion fan but threw moo3 into the trashbarrel. Didn't like it at all. Of course real time is mostly for the thrill and eye candy so a much better compromise between real time and turn based would be the Birth of the Federation method. All sides issue orders to their ships, press "done" and the orders are executed in real time that turn. Then the combat paused, and allows players to issue the next orders, etc.
Of course if you dont get to control your units at all during battle proper real time is the way to go. Or at least an option tio "play" the battle without having to press next turn every single turn. Add a "pause" and "stop" button to this which u can press at all time and voila, a great working system