• Open - Default: These shipyards build whatever comes up in the queue, just like we have now.
  
• Military: These player designated shipyards build only military ships, and are there for always available for new military construction. Civilian ships will never be built at a designated military yard.
  
• Civilian: These shipyards build the civilian ships as queued up by the AI, the exception is that they can be forced to a military ship by opening the shipyard itself and ordering the military ship into the queue.
  

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ORIGINAL: Shark7

This is basically something Data suggested, but I've refined it down a bit:

Ability to designate shipyards for open, civilian, or military construction.

• Open - Default: These shipyards build whatever comes up in the queue, just like we have now.
  
• Military: These player designated shipyards build only military ships, and are there for always available for new military construction. Civilian ships will never be built at a designated military yard.
  
• Civilian: These shipyards build the civilian ships as queued up by the AI, the exception is that they can be forced to a military ship by opening the shipyard itself and ordering the military ship into the queue.
  

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ORIGINAL: Igard

Time to change the name of the thread I think. [:D]

From now on this thread is called, the Modder's Masterlist.

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I am not sure where to post these ideas. Since I would like to edit modifiers (such as Population, Maximum Population, Morale, Production, Maximum Number of Facilities, Total Wealth, Income per time unit, etc.) I posted here...Anyway, I noticed in many 4x games, the modifiers could not be edited very much. I would like to edit each modifier to increase or decrease by percentage or number. (Example 30% or 30000) Each modifier could be changed by +, -, *, or /. Another tag on the modifier would effect singly or all ship, facility, planet, system, empire, or game. In other words, a ship, component, or facility can be limited to one per game (first to build), one per player, system, planet or ship/facility.

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ORIGINAL: Igard

Appended section 5a. Moddable weapons.

Great suggestions GeorgiaBoy. Sorry for taking so long to update. I've added the weapons ideas to the list. The only slight problem I have with this is, I'd rather have a list of attributes rather than actual weapon types. That way we can say 'this is what we want to edit for each weapon' rather than 'these are weapons we want included'. So some of it probably belongs on the master wishlist and I may go through it myself and actually make a list of attributes/properties. For the moment though, this is the best list of various weapon types I've seen so really nice work. [;)]

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I am not sure where to post these ideas. Since I would like to edit modifiers (such as Population, Maximum Population, Morale, Production, Maximum Number of Facilities, Total Wealth, Income per time unit, etc.) I posted here...Anyway, I noticed in many 4x games, the modifiers could not be edited very much. I would like to edit each modifier to increase or decrease by percentage or number. (Example 30% or 30000) Each modifier could be changed by +, -, *, or /. Another tag on the modifier would effect singly or all ship, facility, planet, system, empire, or game. In other words, a ship, component, or facility can be limited to one per game (first to build), one per player, system, planet or ship/facility.

I'm leaving this out, because I have to honestly say, I don't understand some of it. Apologies for this, it's not a critisism, but more of a lack of understanding on my part. I think some of it is already moddable, such as morale and population growth, but things like Max facilities and Total wealth, I'm going to need more info before I can add it to the list.

Of course, putting it on the list is not so essential, you're still getting your point across. However if you really want it on the list, maybe just write it out in a way that I can easily copy and paste it. Remember folks, it's all about making it easy for Elliot. The less head aches he has, the quicker we'll get some extra support for modding. [:)]

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ORIGINAL: Igard

Section 12d. Moddable Facilities added. Nice, GB. Thankyou.[8D]

Total Wealth. Do you mean the starting amount for each race?

• Ratio of constructors to colonies. When there are X amount of colonies, build X amount of constructors etc.
  
  
• Does the race build robotic troop facilities? (Y/N)
  
  
• Does the race build planet shields? (Y/N)
  
  
• Does the race build troop cloning facilities? (Y/N)
  
  
• Does the race build mostly small ships or large ships? (1=small 2=normal 3=large)
  
  
• Does the race build the giant ion cannon? (Y?N)
  
  
• Colony tax rates for small medium and large colonies. (1=low 2 =medium 3=high)
  
  
• Use bombardment against enemy colonies? (Y/N)
  
  
• Use planet destroyers against enemy colonies? (Y/N)
  
  
• Harass enemies with attacks of opportunity? (Y/N)
  
  
• Prepare preemptive strikes? (Y/N)
  
  
• Attack enemy target types, colonies/spaceports/mining/fleets. (1=low 2=medium 3=emphasize)
  
  

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ORIGINAL: Igard

Added section 1L. Racial policy settings. The idea of adding a constructor build ratio to number of colonies was an idea from alexalexuk on another thread.

EDIT: I forgot to copy this here.

Define what each race will and wont do based on some of the racial policy settings and a few more as follows :-

• Ratio of constructors to colonies. When there are X amount of colonies, build X amount of constructors etc.
  
  
• Does the race build robotic troop facilities? (Y/N)
  
  
• Does the race build planet shields? (Y/N)
  
  
• Does the race build troop cloning facilities? (Y/N)
  
  
• Does the race build mostly small ships or large ships? (1=small 2=normal 3=large)
  
  
• Does the race build the giant ion cannon? (Y?N)
  
  
• Colony tax rates for small medium and large colonies. (1=low 2 =medium 3=high)
  
  
• Use bombardment against enemy colonies? (Y/N)
  
  
• Use planet destroyers against enemy colonies? (Y/N)
  
  
• Harass enemies with attacks of opportunity? (Y/N)
  
  
• Prepare preemptive strikes? (Y/N)
  
  
• Attack enemy target types, colonies/spaceports/mining/fleets. (1=low 2=medium 3=emphasize)
  
  

Appended section 1h. Space ogres. Just wanted to add to Shark7's idea of ogres not necessarily ogres, but a normal civilisation that has not developed FTL travel, like our own.

I also went through the list and removed any game features that, as yet, don't appear in the game. I'll only add suggestions from now on that are direct modifications of current game features.

New ideas and additions to the game such as 'Race can colonise gas giants' should be added to the master wishlist thread.

Sorry to invoke the dictatorial approach, but I just feel that things were straying from the goal a bit here. I'll still remain flexible to certain ideas, but things that just aren't possible in the game, can't be modded.

Thank you.

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ORIGINAL: Igard

Added section 11b. Strategic icons.

Pure genius, Sim. Ge-nee-uss.

You know I always prefer things when you put them in a Star Trek context.[;)]

I changed the description from what you wrote, hope that was clear enough.