New features I would like to see>>>>

[Suicide Junkie]

Something else that I was thinking about modding was a Mysterious tech tree. It would be based on the fact that you never know what your basic research will be useful for. Hopefully, it will renew the joy of discovery that we've all lost after playing through the game so many times.

All of the current techs would be the same, but in order to open them up to research, you'd have to do some random basic research.
The basic research would have tech levels labelled either "Basic Research" A through Z, or with randomized names("Ukrullers", "Hevordin", "Phongles", or "Shiny Things", "Spinning Stuff", "Fire Noises", etc).

Players would pick a lucky basic area (or ten) to work on, and it might open meson bLasters. They could then decide whether to research those weapons, or try some other basic techs to try and find a weapon tech they like better.

[Puke]

neat, would you have a program to randomly generate the names in the research file each game?

i liked the research in imperalism 2, the categories were always the same, but the prerequisites were always different. each branch of the tree would have a handfull of things in it, and the same techs were always there at the same levels, but which techs led to what within each of those levels was different every time. not possible in se4, but neat.

[dogscoff]

There's a couple of randomnesses I'd like added:

1> The option to hide the "player X" screen during turn generation. It gives me an unfair advantage over the AI to see how long it takes each one to generate their turn, what order they are in and even how many of them there are.

2> a "random settings" option in game setup. Click it and let the game select completely at random your empire, map type, AI settings, start tech and homeworld number, events settings... everything. Half the fun of the game would be working out what some of the settings were.

[dogscoff]

Ooh - here's another one: When ships make their moves, how about if they searched for friendly resupply depots in the system to see if they could alter their route to go through them without using any extra movement points?

It really annoys me to see a half- fuelled ships on their way across a system fly straight past a depot when they could just change their course and go through it with no extra movement points required.

The game would feel that much "smarter", and it would improve the AI's performance as well, since ships would run out of supplies less often.

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[ 13 December 2001: Message edited by: dogscoff ]

[Rollo]

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Originally posted by dogscoff:
Ooh - here's another one: When ships make their moves, how about if they searched for friendly resupply depots in the system to see if they could alter their route to go through them without using any extra movement points? ...

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That is an excellent suggestion, it will help the AI a lot.

Rollo

[tesco samoa]

When in the Planet screen and on planet cargo. The ability to show only planets that have fighters or mines or troops or wp's.

When you click on a planet and you look at the facilities on the the planet the ability to right click and select scrap. And the ability to scrap planet facilities in the planet construction que.

When a facility blows up on a planet, the message tells you what facility it was that blew up ( pet peeve )


The ability to see where all system wide facilities are in your systems./

INtel log. Keep a history of intel projects and their results.

Last but not least tatical multiplayer combat.

[Q]

One addition I already mentioned some time ago, but if I repeat it may be the chances to be implemented will rise:
Anger modification for specific races: In the politics file lines that modify the anger level against specific races.
So e.g. the Vaxin would not propose a treaty to their mortal enemies the Rage!