[Wade]

-----I assume that the Mega-Evil Empire function will be present in Space Empires V. Is it still quite drastic where everyone declares war on you? Even a neighboring weak empire that will be destroyed?

It would be better if the closer empires and those in good relations to you would slowly detoriorate relations with you over many turns.

-----('Renagade 13' said in the demo bug thread):"You should have seen a bug in the early beta...if you selected a planet and a fleet, then tried to move the fleet, the planet would move as well!! It was really quite amusing."

(I said): "Hey! That would be a great peice of late technology! The ability to move planets and travel like a ship. Once the planet has attained self sustaining heat from the civilization. This was in the Ringworld series by Larry Niven. The Puppeteer race have their "Fleet of Worlds" of 5 planets. Home world and 4 farm planets.

Ringworlds and Sphereworlds could be made to travel also!
The Ringworld in the story was also adjusted to travel in the fourth novel, 'Ringworld's Children'.

-----The natural phenomonon of a planet being hidden inside a storm cloud/nebula in Space Empires V. Like the New Caprica planet on the 2006 series of Battlestar Galactica.

Or is this already a random possibility during map generation?

How often do we pass by those small one sector storm clouds/nebulas with out peeking inside?

-----There could also be a chance of a space creature or prize in the clouds(not necesarilly hostile though). Clouds could be similiar to the ruins in Civilization. Will there be a planet, some thing hostile or friendly, or nothing at all?