Realistic: remove inflation, increase flotilla morale bonus to 20% accuracy, buff trade-routes, increase building resource requirements.

Wishlist: fold manpower distribution choices into ground battle tactic cards; remove manpower distribution screen for empire; make Craver depletion penalty scale with planet depletion (not binary); add positive diplomatic pressure interactions.

If I have to choose: inflation and the Craver change. 

Realistic: Better ai 

Wishful; Some interactive events like stopping a meteor wiping out a system and trade ships visible, hand made levels

I would like to see improved diplomacy with the AI.

Right now diplomacy is stupid and useless. It does not make sense.

For instance, if you meet an opponent right away, you cant even make peace, while there is no reason to not be at peace. Later in the game, when you are more powerful, have way more influence, you also cant make peace, even if this is in the interest of the AI. The only way the AI ever wants peace, is if you give them ALL your money. It is idiotic. It is easier to declare war, and steamroll your opponent. This is no fun.

Without improvements in diplomacy with the AI, and just regular more sensible behaviour of the AI, these games become really boring really fast, and there is really no incentive to be interested in future games from this developer.

Improving diplomacy would really deepen the game and open up more playstyles in my opinion.

Edit: Amplitude already makes beautiful 4x games, great art, nice factions etc. There are no gains to be made there. The AI is where the most is to be gained, for this game, and future games. This would elevate good games to great games.

Come up with 1 realistic and 1 wishful. It's gonna be hard I know but that's how you can set your priorities.

My realistic wish is to have individual Pirate Empires, as opposed to the Pirate Union we have. I absolutely love the mechanic and the flavour, and there's so much more that could be accomplished by making each their own boss. Hell, if they could even spread and make their own alliances that'd be great!

My wishful dream, my heart's desire would be a Vodyani overhaul, one that reflects the intention of a fleet-based faction. I don't want to build on the planet if I have this Death Star shaming pyramid in orbit. I want each ship to have its own crew for population and upgrades for buildings, and a few planetary buildings like remotely operated radars and such. I don't want to waste my time with building separate Leech fleets, nor to make another fleet to guard them. I want all my ships to be able to gather Essence, depending on its Manpower (1-5% of Manpower's worth of Essence per ship per turn or something), and I want to be able to enter into a special diplomatic relationship with Minor Factions that gets me Essence without me having to park a fleet there, while also allowing the given Faction to grow (it could even replace the Assist option). I don't want to grow Food on the planets I'm anchoring on, I want to convert said Food to Essence at a certain rate (imagine a cattle ranch but with people), and by extension I don't want to rely on getting lucky with neighbouring Minor Factions, I want to be able to harvest Food to gain a smaller fraction of Essence than I would if I anchored an Ark there. I don't want to deal with planet-type based Approval, I want my not!Catholic vampires to base their opinion of me on my Essence rationing policy. I don't want my Arks to have or be influenced by spheres of Influence, they move where they wish, when they wish, along with any Trade Routes linked to them.

Hi devs,

Realistic:

Another thing that should be considered is the use of food resource and the technology and I'd like some other comments on this two. The final tech: chaotic meteorolgy, which gives you 20+ lunar and gas and also +10 per planet if you buy the satellites for 25 green. Has anyone ever used that?

In my regards, this tech should be changed in a way to make it more useful, as a late game tech it's not really that good, coz you're gonna use starports to populate planets and even if you'd get the satellites, the number of turn it takes to complete them is so large that the system is already overpopulatet when they're finished. 

Please some other comments on this too.

Wishful:

What would be cool, since I watched man of steel yesterday, is that there should be a new planet depletion mechanic, in which you can regulate the production on your planet. Overproducing on one planet should cause it too self destruct sooner or later, like in the movie man of steel, when krypton exploded.

Also, how about some easter eggs or cameo appearances, like the destroyed remains of krypton on one system, or a hidden system with the minor faction sayians that can transform into super sayians after some requirements are met :D .

I too would like an Espionage mechanic. Particularly I would like it to be an Intrigue resource spent on Operations, tied to Science like Manpower is tied to Food, so that Science heavy factions can hack everyone else and pull out surprise operations and actions. I find that that's a sensible way to make Science actually "do" something on its own to solve the "all bark and no bite" issue one otherwise runs into with Science not technically producing anything.

My unrealistic desire is to see the entire FIDSI system, and indeed tech tree, overhauled- new mechanics for housing to enable Food, a more direct formula for Trade Routes and domestic Dust, improved resource balancing over all. I miss a lot of things from Endless Legend regarding tech polish, as well as bring bothered by the wonkiness of many FIDSI since we don't divide population among resources like EL.

More realistically I would like the Academy to actually have a diplomacy screen with Isyander. I find it strange that this pinnacle of galactic diplomacy and power is non-interactive. It would be interesting if, in following with Isyander's intentions and attitude, all of the leftover Minor Factions joined up into a League of Independent Systems under the Academy when a certain portion of all Minor Factions have been absorbed, giving greater permananence, value, and contention to Minor Factions in the mid and late game.