I'd like to see bigger capital ships. Like is star wars pew pew

I think the idea of a ground battle is good but it would kind of take the focus off of space and i would like to see the space part of the game inproved. good idea though

I want most of the stuff that makes Gal Civ 2 own transferred over to Sins and turned into Real time .

And add in a Campaign for each Race.

if we're not talking about the expansion I'm not going to talk about a campaign, because that's addressed in the expansion
NO MORE GREEN STARS
better defenses, most are just a joke right now, especially the starting 'turrets'
ability to somehow defend noncolonizable places other than just having a fleet there
having space ponies something to look forward to other than the acheivement

this is just a wierd idea but it would be funny to do to another human player.

did you know that if jupiter had a little more energy in it, it would have become a star (lol we would be toast, literally.)i was thinking maybe you could do something like that to a gas giant in the game and make it into a star,like shoot a nuke or maybe a novalith cannon into the planet, igniting it, this could serve as a defence on a warp point to one of your planets or it could destroy an army near the planet. lol weird,i know, but i think that would be fun to destroy someone's army with one ship.

thanks for reading and please keep posting.

I would like to see disasters on massive scale!
External events that can not been controlled by a player or computer player.
I'm talking about meteor showers, comets that scorch a planet, drawback and expanding of the universe (including it's planets), suddenly exploding stars and suns nearby, a race that jumps into battle without warning! witch is not on the list of players (surprise-surprise!!), or how about wormholes that suddenly change direction? could be pretty nasty!
Stuff like that!

Off course this will raise the bar of difficulty.
But that makes the war more interesting.
The war can shift in a flash in your favor....or not!
So these events must come after seval hours of gaming.
Because having a disaster every hour is no fun gaming!
You will focus more on the recover of that event, than wiping out your opponents.
Because that’s what this is all about!
WAR!

Greater randomization in combat, less accenting of ship special abilities. I want the *chance* of a single capital ship scoring lucky hits that cripple or destroy elements of an enemy fleet. I enjoy Sins as is, but I regret that such randomization does not exist... 'X' number of 'Y' ships always trump a lesser number of others.

Also, of course, more faction types. An idea for new factions - sub-categories of the existing ones. Perhaps this is similar to a couple of C&C or Red Alert games (?), if an example might be cited.

More phenomena and assets that ***may or may not*** be in any given skirmish game. Think Diablo or Titan Quest. A.I. neutral factions, malevolent sci-fi forces, expanding black holes that require a sudden spate of dedicated research (specific to the hole...) to eliminate before they destroy worlds, worlds that are troves of relics or potentially super-rich in assets/population caps, etc. etc. . Vary my play, if my play consists entirely of experience within the skirmish world.

Do not concentrate on ADD children and desires for 30 minute contests. I want something deeper and more engaging.

A change to the Fleet upkeep. Right now I could, in theory, own 10 planets, max out my fleet, and pay far,far less than someone who has 20 planets with a max fleet. Instead of buying levels with different upkeep rates, each 100 supply you currently have would cost a flat rate of X Credits/Metal/Crystal per second. This means you need a larger empire to support a larger fleet. In the later stages of the game you could also spend excess C/M/C that you have acumulated to have a larger fleet tha your income can't keep up with (at least for a little while).

somthing that would make the game a little bit more interesting would be rebel planets that are neutral but wont let you colonize them without a fight. you have to conquer them like you would an enemy planet. i guess this could get really irratating if they were one of the only planets near you in early game. but late game i think that would be cool. I also think you should get some reward for conquering the planet, not just the ability to colonize it. maybe some new ships or maybe some powerful artifacts, some sort of resource bonus etc... something different than the usual.

just a thought.

I'd love to see a SoaSE II, just with bigger captial ships, more ship types, more stuff to research and land battles. (the ability to make land units, research land stuff, and prehapes even build cities?)

1. Single player campaign. I would prefer it if each campaign was a start to finish storyline. I don't like how in warcraft3/starcraft no matter which race's campaign you pick, they all lead to the same end. I hate that. I would like to take my race all the way from nothing to galactic domination, not the lead in to the next race's campaign.
2. A victory cinematic. After playing all that time I deserve more than a dialog box.
3. Support for multiple CPUs/less chugging with large maps. I bought a top of the line system for this game and it still chugs mid-late game, especially at the higher timeframes. At least 1x is tolerable now.
4. Seperate messages for "We are under attack" and "our borders have been violated" or something like that. I hate it when I get a message because a scout is passing through my territory. Or maybe "System X needs reinforcement, Ally X needs reinforcement" which would only be trigger if enemy forces in the system were stronger then the defenses in that system or the defenses were taking more damage then the hostile fleet. Too many messages are spammed. I want to be able to select which messages I receive.
5. More information available on the diplomacy screen. I want to know who is at war with who and who is allied with who. I want to see power graphs/combat statistics as I am playing, not at the end of the game. The data could be a static report that is generated when you select that view, it need not be updated in realtime.
6. Improved color selection/paint jobs for your ships. I want the ability to custom define primary and seconday colors of my ships, and let me see how they look before I start the game. I really like how this was done in homeworld/cataclysm and was one of my favorite parts of the game.
7. Have all of the game's data stored in the folder specified during installation, not under documents and settings. My C drive is my OS drive only. It is tiny and just barely fits the OS and patches. Yet all of sin's replays and saved games, auto and manual, are stored there(and they take up alot of space, more than my program files folder). After every gaming session, I have to go clean out the sins folder under documents and settings because of low disk space warnings. Which is a shame because I like to watch replays.

if i've said it once, ill say it again space stations!!!!(and larger carrier task forces