Remove races, keep number of ships
-too much importance is placed on what race you go just keep the same quantity and varity of ships
How would this be implemented? Research trees similar to R4 where you got to pick one or the other or perhaps make each one a separate research item (e.g. emp siege, cloaked fighters)?. Just having the research the way it is now and having access to all ships seems boring.
Allow any research to be made for a more flexible research tree
-obviously some require certain research to be done beforehand ie HCT
but you should be able to research cr/bs whenever you like.
I'd prefer to get rid of HCT all together
, being able to res inc scans/au/etc whenever is an interesting idea.
Allow second planet
-There seem to be a lot more people for this than against, only how the scoring would work is really up for debate.
If you implement the other ideas this just seems to be relegated to a support planet. At that point why not just boost fleets and roids/mining income?
The rest all seem to be nice.