Things we'd like to see in the next patch

[Foreman]

Features I do want:

- Trade or buy ally populations, or any other peaceful ways to have populations with different breathing air.
- Make intelligence actions important and deadly, not a just-for-fun option like now.
- Adjustable ship movement ratio between battle and tactic turns. Currently its fixed at 50%.
- A new game option : round moving range : moving horizontal/vertical costs 2 move points and diagonal costs 3 move points. Also the range checker shall be revised.
- Classify fighters to interceptors and bombers, which is majorlly designed to attack other fighters and ships respectively.
- Some weapon that can make splash damage, and maybe even presist several turns during battle.
- Familiar environment/suitable breathing air bonuses for defending side during ground battles. And maybe some new local military facilities that can enhance these bonuses.

[Phoenix-D]

"- Make intelligence actions important and deadly, not a just-for-fun option like now."

Comm Mimic, Ship Insurrection, and Puppet Political parties aren't good enough?

Phoenix-D

[Chronon]

Originally posted by HEMAN:
Things we'd like to see in the next patch;
(1) Moddable Ministers to fine tune them?.

I agree wholeheartedly! I would love to be able to entrust the ministers with the truly tedious tasks like moving population around and have them do it the way I wanted them to. This would allow me to focus on the empire level decisions.

[Foreman]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
"- Make intelligence actions important and deadly, not a just-for-fun option like now."

Comm Mimic, Ship Insurrection, and Puppet Political parties aren't good enough?

Phoenix-D

They are good, but:
- Lv1~3 Applied Intelligence researching cost is expensive.

- intelligence center is also taking a space of facility, which could be used to build researching center. And 500 researching points are much better than 500 intelligence points, because technology makes you grow rapidly.

- Overall, most current intelligence projects are too specific. Special projects are important, but regular information collection is necessary, and some long-term information sources shall be available.

[oleg]

Originally posted by Foreman:
Features I do want:

- Classify fighters to interceptors and bombers, which is majorlly designed to attack other fighters and ships respectively.

It is already present in SE IV. You can make separate designs for fighters and bombers, assign them completely different strategies and even make AI build whatever mix you like ! In fact, some custom AIs do exactly just that. Several mods, for example Proportions, also have a nice selection of specialized weapons for "fighters" and "bombers".

[ October 05, 2002, 14:17: Message edited by: oleg ]

[capnq]

Trade or buy ally populations, or any other peaceful ways to have populations with different breathing air.

You can do that now by trading ships loaded with population. Whatever's in the ship's cargo goes with it.

[Taera]

Is there any new patch coming up actually?