Galciv2: Dark Avatar gets a 9.0 in IGN

[Combat Wombat]

Does it have multiplayer yet? If not SEV is still better... note that I don't like SEV but a lack of multiplayer automatically make GalCiv a worse game.

[Suicide Junkie]

...And it needs to have Co-Op play for full points...

[Phoenix-D]

Get SE5 to GalCiv's level, comparatively?

Fix bugs.
Improve UI
Improve AI

Done.

Most of the other ideas aren't all that applicable to SE5, since they're opposite ends of the same genre..and others have been in for a long, long time (designing empires? playing non-human empires?)