I would enjoy a screen-saver type of mode which follows a ship of the player race through the galaxy on a sight-seeing tour when turned on.


This tour could feature all explored systems, but particularly focus on Wonders (when all the art assets are finally implemented). I've enjoyed the art for Wonders in ES1, but you spend relatively little time looking at them, and frankly the planet management UI is not a very attractive setting to do so.


Travel between systems should be fully rendered and take real time rather than cutting abruptly from one system to the next.


On a related note, add civilian traffic to populated worlds so that the universe feels alive. This traffic (shuttles, orbital stations, cargo ships) could scale with the population level and/or tech level of the empire.


I really like the art direction of Amplitude games, and the soundtrack for ES2 is top notch. This suggestion doesn't add anything to the gameplay, but would be appreciated by anyone who enjoys the art and music as I do.