I'm really glad that after almost 1 year of waiting ES2 got some love and FINALLY fixed some of the bugs. I can come back to play the game.

Anyway other than bug fixing, is there any mechanic or balnce you would like to see in the game?

I personally hope to see a rework for: the minig probes, the lifetime still stacks and the cooldown is messed up.

Balance the accademy (especially spear make it scale with turns) and change how the accademy interfers with your outposts.

I can only think about those 2 changes.

What about you?

I know this won't happen, but I'd like rebalancing of the last two DLCs to make them more fun in a competitive scene.

Find a way to make the other academy rewards besides spear be useful

Custom faction trait that incrases law cap by 1(or conversely reduces it by 1 as a malus). Cutting minor population collection thresholds in half to 5, 10 and 25. If i go to the trouble to get 25 of a minor faction, i should be able to utilize its law before the game is practically over(if its not already). Either that or give an Ecology law that behaves much like Species Stability Act does for Religious ideology. Say that it disables Major population growth while also boosting Food output on Minor population. That way if you assimilate a new minor faction, you can quickly grow their population(greatly aiding Horatio/custom Gene Hunter factions and breathing new life into minor factions as an actual asset besides their faction traits). Tier 2 and Tier 3 Strategic Probe modules. Seems kind of lame that once you unlock Machine Bacteria that your probes dont improve further like your Weapons, Armor/Shields and Engines/Utility modules do.

evil potato-focused major faction.

Loving a lot of the suggestions so far, but I personally would love to see some buffs or updates for some of the base factions. Lumeris and, in particular, the Unfallen just feel lackluster and weak in comparison to a lot of the other factions. I really love the concept and overall theme of the Unfallen. However, in actual practice, they just feel underwhelming and unrewarding for the level of effort you have to put into playing them.

Get rid of two of the basic behemoth hulls.  They're supposed to be "unspecialized" hulls yet we have three with distinct hardpoints and stats; I repeatedly told the team during beta we did NOT need all three.  It's just clutter and confusion.  Delete two, name the last one "behemoth" and you're done.

Split up some of the faction affinities in the editor so we can actually use, for example, Riftborn affinities separately without crippling our creation and adjust some of the costs so we have less useless traits and less completely overpowered ones for the point cost.  There's zero sense in the point values.  Even a novice could tell some traits are objectively, strictly better than others for the cost, by a WIDE margin.  Even the regular factions themselves don't add up; some are under the limit by 20-30 points and some are WAY over.  Kind of suggests something, no?

In fact, just overhaul the custom faction editor; lots could be done to make it more fun without ever touching the balance of the original factions if desired.  Government types, for example, all cost the same and you can't start without one, so why are they even assigned a cost at all?  The editor feels very much like an afterthought when it could breathe incredible life and longevity into the game if handled better.  You disagree?  Stellaris would like a word with you.

Let us set up a few custom settings for our factions PREGAME so we don't have to keep clicking through the same menus turn one every game (pick your law, fix your ship designs, etc etc.)  It'd kickstart the beginning of every game a bit when we don't have to repeat the same dance every first turn, like, say...putting that extra engine on colonizers because WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU EVER PUT IN THAT SUPPORT SLOT?

I get the feeling some of these things will be "outside the scope" of the current team, but they bear repeating anyway and who knows?

I wish the devs could allow us to toogle on/off the FIDSI on planets aren't owned by the player in a zoomed out perspective of the galaxy. Every time I want to know if a planet is worth, I need to zoom in to scrutinize the systems individually, one by one.