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If you are incorporating racial specific weapons/shields/hull etc... try this For each techlology that is acquired from another race (e.g. bought/ stolen/ exchanged etc), you will need to spend research points for incorporating that specific technology into your own. Then the player will need to wei...

Mankind has just started exploring the solar system. They have colonized the moon and they have just completed of a huge self sufficient cylindrical space colony between earth and the moon where the gravitation pull of the moon and the earth cancels each other. 10 million people inhabit this space c...

suggestion... how about 2 types of drives... a convetional drive all you mentioned earlier e.g. ion, nuclear, solar sail, impulse... as well as a interstar travelling engine for long distances e.g. FTL drives, warp drives, wormhole openers, dimensional folding device??, other subspace travel devices??

hmm, imo having autorefuelling is a simple and sweet idea. that is unless you want to play strategy of disrupting supplies convoys...

an added idea would be to use 2 fuels... 1 type of conventional fuel for normal travelling and doing battles, and another type for warp/FTL/fold star travels...

in terms of large and small ships maybe this mentality could be employed large ships are basically large weapons platforms for weapons of mass destruction which would otherwise be unmountable on smaller hulls. these ships could be carriers or battleships with the power to destroy planets and armadas...

will you be considering mecha in the game (range from large mecha to mechanized infantry in power suits and even transformable ones e.g. macross)? would be real cool and unique as no other game has it ^_^... of course there will be those mecha more suited for space combat as well as those more suita...

for space combat, will you be following strict physics? 1)action/reaction... for mass driven weapons, when u fire weapon, your ship will recoil from the blast and move backwards... may be an annoyance if implemented or maybe just decrease weapon accuracy... 2)sound in vacuum sonic weapons should be ...

various races ========= terran/human/aerians/bipeds canine feline reptilian amphibous insectoid protoplasmic crystalline ape-man plant fungus avian aquatic (haha flying fish tank) cybernetic spiritual energy beings trans-dimensional and ole typical Mr UFO alien with big black eyes various heirarchy ...

hull armour ======= - ceramic alloy composite layered armour - depleted uranium/ high density armour - reflective armour - reactive armour (for shaped charged warheads) - polymer armour - organic armour (possibly regenerative and auto sealing) - chemical gel armour (e.g. flame/plasma retardant?) - s...

psychic weaponary??? is there such a thing?

if you have protoplsmic or insectoid etc... kind of alien species, try this for ship construction... instead of typical ship building screen, have a gene manipulation screen to breed the type of ships you want... e.g. u design and breed a new series of small flying globs that will have 2 armour pier...

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another interesting group to consider that is species specific will be organic weapons (e.g. for insectoid or protoplasmic races... etc)

weapon classes... please contribute if you have more ideas each weapon should have their own pros and cons so there will not be a "best ultimate weapon" 1)energy discharge weappons - ion (ionized elements) particle projection weapons - subatomic (e.g. proton, electron, neutron... etc) proj...