That's the problem, the slot system is a hard cap on ship design. You get one or two weapons, period. It is intentionally designed to remove most of the flexibility from the ship design aspect of the game, forcing the fleet to be the basic unit of combat as individual ships are so gimped they can't do anything. And as I pointed out earlier, it will simply throw focus into building higher damage weapon modules, since you can't get the same result by putting more than one of the less advanced systems in the same space.

To put numbers on it, as people clearly can't see why I'm bitching so much about this: A tiny hull, what we presume to be his "tier 1" can now have 3 or 4 modules on it, more if you pick small stuff. Compare that to the two Alfonse would allow - and those with limitations on what they can be.

Huge hulls can have 15+ modules, all the way up to 80 or so if you want all HP modules. The slot system would limit this to 5, again with limits on what they can be.

Even if you increase Alfonse's numbers to something more reasonable, you still lose the flexibility of the current system. Need a high attack ship? Nope, can't do it because you ran out of weapons slots. Need a high defense ship to counter that high attack ship? Nope, you don't need it, but if you did you can't build it - you ran out of defense slots. Want to build an insanely fast transport interceptor? Engines weren't addressed, but presumably you ran out of engine slots, so all ships are about the same speed.

One thing we need is a shipyard with a que.  The planet has it why not the shipyard.

Yeah, that'd be nice.

Sorry, but i really don't understand this.

Why would you need another queue when the shipyard keeps making same ships unless you change it?

Besides creating it for such a sequence as *Make 3 Constructors, Two Colony, One Fighter, Six Defenders and 20 Battleships" -- you'd want to exit that process often enough when gameplay situations enforces you into rushing an armada out of many planets instead of Colonies.

You're probably thinking about Starports, Daniellost.

That confirms what i just inserted in the previous reply then, all and every Starport only queues the same ship unless you change it as of now; BUT, there are plenty of Governors already available that handle 'queuing' indirectly. Not as a list or a sequence such as you suggested, though. I'd possibly give this a try only to watch a few "unwanted" ships in orbit of one my 250+ planets simply cuz i kept them all on individual but different queues.

1. For the new spy sytem from DA to GO AWAY! I very much enjoyed the old system, You kept putting money into it (like you should) for updated information, it was compaired to how much your oponent spent against you, and no micro managing something you shouldnt have to manage.

2. Unlimited research. If your finnished with the tech tree, simply add infinite loop techs to upgrade weapons, planet upgrades ect.

Thats it, that is all I ask and I am satisfied.

Once #1 is fixed maybe I'll get back to playing again. But really 3 will simply have better graphics, more options, smarter A.I. and probably actually impliment a carrier system. That just about sums up the best TBS I could really imagin.

I REALLY want the old tree from GC1 back!!! Not only was it not linear, but it was larger and tech victory was harder to attain: the thing I liked about it was the "arc": you started out with a few techs to choose from, and they opened up into more and more options until about halfway through, when (thanks to the multiple prerequisists that I STILL want back!) your choices narrowed back down until you got to tech victory at the very end.

As for the infinite loop thing, I would see this as a tech at the end of each section called "weapons development" or something like that. As long as you kept poring money into it, it would keep giving you a bonus in that category. Of course, this would seem to exacerbate the rich-get-richer problem, but maybe if you made it like esbionage where each iteration costs MORE than the one before it, you miiiiight be able to make it work.

Another thing that I would want to see from a modding perspective is a universal set of "special" tags. You know, like [shortcivname], ['yourleadername], those sorts of things. The way they are now, you have different tags for the same information in different files, and they don't work at ALL in other contexts, like the tech tree. What I want is for a standard series of these tags used by ALL the parsers, so that you can say, for example "throuought the history of [yourshortcivname], artificial gravity has been the holy grail of the scientific community" in my tech tree. Granted, some tags wouldn't work in all situations, but I think we can reasonably assume that if someone has enough sense to mod the thing in the first place, they won't talk about someone having invaded an improvement. I would also like to see a series of "random" tags that pull a random value for the appropriate field, so that you could say someone defdected from or to a random civ, for example.

Indeed. Basically, I think all of the modders would agree that more standardization in the XMLs would be a big help. To extend it even further, maybe have a universal "requires" field that would accept the internal name of any tech, imp, or starbase module. This would go a looong way to freeing up more "adaptive" requirement systems, which were one of the things I loved the most about Civ 4. It would also be great if govs, tile resorces, and extreme planets were included in the XML list: again, more moddability and interesting requirement systems: i.e. to reserch the advanced toxic planet coloniser, you would have to have colonised at least one toxic planet, to reserch biology techs you would need to build a bio lab, and so on.

Cohesive approach can only help.

You know Scoutdog is working on modifying their research paths to begin with (at least to the extent that this is possible in GC2); why should this surprise you?

And it's honestly not like they research terribly intelligently in the first place.  Read: Focus on power plants, et al, which were only ever good in DA ~1.7.

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