Sometimes... you're just... waiting... no clue what's going on or how long they're going to be. It'd be nice if you had some sort of indication of what they're up to, and the likeliest place to find that would be on the multiplayer score palette. See example attached.

I respectfully agree with Atriace. I've experienced the same uncertainty. At least, playing with IRL friends on Skype I know what was happening, but without that, it would be very frustrating. His suggestion regarding spectating battles seems to achieve a compromise between doing something interesting and revealing important intel on other players. I would hypothesize that spectator mode should only be enabled after "end turn" was clicked for the spectator.

This seems like a cool idea. I would love to peek in on other empire battles if i can see them after i end the turn. Also nice to get that status update of where everyone is at. I approve

Moved to the proposals section.

And I deleted this part out of your suggestion, because we don't accept lists of different suggestions (see rule two of the proposal submission rules):

In addition to this, it'd be really nice to be able to spectate fights between other species when they're within your scanning radius. This of course would also apply to allies.

The quoted part has already been suggested, anyways, but without the scanner/allies restrictions.

See /#/endless-space/forum/28-game-design/thread/11972-suggestion-viewing-multiplayer-battles-participating