Hello, after many game with this DLC, i've though about 2 things that could be add easily and really improve the game experience (specially on multiplayer).

When the winter and the pearls come, looking/walking for them is important if you want to get the things that could be taken in this DLC, but the way to get them can be really improve by 2 things.

1: Walking orders

In fact, this thing is missing since the start of the Endless Space 1. 

But now, with the pearls, this thing is really needed i think.
As the combats phases, you should add a Control + clic option, to make your army moving with your own path, instead of using a pathfind, specially when it most of the time is not really clever :/

In every game phase, that could be interesting, instead of moving your army as you want every 2 turns, you can select a specific way.

And in the collect of the pearls, that's even more interesting :)

2: "Explore"

In most of the 4X games, and Endless is not an exception, there is the Explore option, that automatize your army to look on the unseen part of the map.

It could be really interesting to add a new button, as the "explore", but about the pearl like a "Track pearl" option.

Your army will be automatize to explore, and as they see a pearl, they move to it, then came back to an explore.

Tell me what do you think of it guys :)

+1 to both, the pathfinding algorithm is sometimes pretty bad (such as making your units go through water unnecessarily and thus wasting two turns of embarking/disembarking) so it would be nice to give a step-by-step without having to actually click for every single half-point of movement.

For the second one, I think that the "Pearl collection" should be restricted to your and neutral territory. I don't want to inadvertently piss my neighbors off by stealing their pearls. (although the AI sometimes considers it "stealing" when it's in your own territory, but that's a discussion for another thread)

Yep, nice to think of it.
I didn't tought about your units scavenging alone and finally coming to your opponents territory.

Could be really problematic xD