Earth is already in the game its called Dirt and has one of the primitive species on it.

Some of what SgtArmyGuy said.

Also how does the Military AI work currently? If this isn't how it works already, I think you're going to need a Ship AI that plugs into a Fleet AI. Ship AI designs and builds ships and controls civilian ships, military ships then join a fleet and Fleet AI takes over ...

1) The AI builds a lot of ships so you need to get a dedicated shipyard up and running within your first hundred turns and never stop building ships.
Retrofitting old ships with better tech and scrapping some lighter now useless hulls to save on metal/maintenance may be neccessary.
Always try to ...

I see what you have said but I would still like the option to trade planets without going to war with someone. I like to set up nice borders :)

I would also like to see some kind of pop trading option, the pop event right now is very RNG and it can take forever to get one of the more useful ...

I suggested something similar, the concept being that factory output is being redirected to produce trade goods to be sold for profit. However, Sven wanted to keep coin and labor separate. I think his argument was that it would make factories too good.

Markets are already OP in the late game I ...

I don't think there is a good way to show an asteroid belt from the side lol. You could just get by with an asteroid field that's kind of flat and has a location for a large asteroid/asteroid base graphic.

Is there any chance that you could add missile/strikecraft HP to the UI otherwise its difficult to figure out how it stacks up against points defense.

Also I was sure that torpedoes had more than 2 times the health of missiles. They are just so tanky compared to missiles

I think the ship stuff is pretty deliberate.

It literally makes no sense though either all Ashdar ships should have weak/strong armour or none of them should, they already have weak hulls,
except the destroyer

Also if the Yoral escort cruiser is meant to be an escort destroyer they could just ...

I think this is the right place to put this but I have been doing some thinking about the game and would like to offer my feedback and suggestions.
I have tried to keep this concise but there is a lot to get through I would really appreciate if you would read this and offer your comments.

Bug ...

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I believe the generic answer you're looking for are as many rapid-fire PD turbo-lasers as you can fit on a ship, ideally a light cruiser or escort cruiser. An escort cruiser fitted this way can give you for example 32 PD turbo-lasers, or a light cruiser gets you 24 PD turbo-lasers.

Missiles BEGONE ...