Space Empires 5

[Taera]

Great ideas everyone. I can say i like them all, well, almost.

What i would suggest is an option to play "real politics" in which your type of government (choosable) would affect much. Example:

Dictatorship: Full control over the empire, but penalties in economy and civ. You have no ministers to play with.
Democracy: Your control is reduced, you have no direct control over parts of your empire, namely your planets, civ ships and such. You receive bonuses in various civ. parts like research and intel.

While still lacking control of several parts in the better governments you can still choose the personality of the ministers controlling each on of the planets.

What i would like to see the most is petitioners like in SC3k as Hadrian suggested. Say people living in a harsh environment would requie CIP (Climate Improvement Planet) and if you do not give them what they want the thing they will grow unhappy.
Also representatives from the captured races demanding better protection, liberty and such.

Oh yeah, if i mention that, there reay should be an option to grant complete liberty to a planet under your control creating new empires.

Event system should be created, that would enchance the game. Say you establish a colony with a colony ship transfered via a wormhole and have ~20 unexplored system separate you. The colony will lose contact and break off from you though later they just *might* join you.

Recalls me of another thing, it would be great to incarporate communication into the game, meaning that systems would requie comm centers to transfer commands from the "center" and ships going on deep space missions would requie communication vessels to go with them. Creates a whole new dimension to the game. Also non-controllable events should be created with that say if your fleet loses its communication fleet it would try to break off from its current position to nearest populated area.

And Last thing, i dont like the idea of the whole system being scanned by the first time you enter it. It would requie specialized equipment and time to scan the whole system or sending scouts to fly in the system and scout it (think starcraft exploration).

ok im done