<r> From experience, I believe that for auto-retroffiting, the new maintenance cost should fit the cashflow. If you have money to retrofit but have negative cashflow, military ships won't retrofit.<br/>
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I like to manual design my military but I let retrofitting (and most ships) automated. So ...

Would it be possible to have food as resources? Like, an entire planet to provide food sources to new colonies or for big cities. Food supply would become a critical trade route issue and blockades could have a deadly effect

<r> I understand your point, but building a Pirate Fortress that is somehow illegal and building a franchise of a multi"space"national enterprise on a given planet is different... Even if real corporations are sometimes dire as space pirates :p<br/>
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Imagine a multiplayer game where some ...

What about private corporations? Caslon Gas Inc against Hydrogen Corps? Those corporations interacting with the nations by deals, concessions, so on?

I'm trying to mass frigates with tractor beams + torpedos, but even if both tactics for stronger and weaker troops is point blank, my frigates keep pushing larger ships away. This is silly. Is there a way to fix it? Or I'll have to use another design to accomplish it?

I got the alert that my Hakoonish population went crazy killing other races, then I went to my colony and changed the population policy. I think I succeded, but wasn't it meant to not allow changes on population policy during those xenophobic riots?

Yeah! But it would be alot cooler with distant worlds

Would it be possible to mod it? Instead of being able to trade techs, they could spread through trade routes. Then, using trade agreements/trade sanctions would have even more importance on the game dynamics.

Those diplomacy settings would detail mining and fuels rights also. I like to concede fuels rights to my allies, but I don't like people mining on my territory

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: FrancoisH<br/>
- The Fleet UI design, to be able to see precisely what's inside it... or to define a fleet template to initiate building for missing kind of ship into it.<br/>
- The Ships UI design, to be able to filter more specifically ships by type (sub ...

<t> Is there a MOD to do that? Instead of letting the AI create the fleets, you predefine fleet templates like:<br/>
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Strike Force Type 1 ( 2 Escorts, 3 Frigates, etc) - 1 By Colony - Stance Defend - Current System.<br/>
Big Bad Fleet Type 1 (1 Capital Ship, 5 Destroyers, etc) - 1 - Attack ...