Community DLC Suggestion Poll Nominations: Week of 1/31/10

[HellishFiend]

The second bi-monthly Nomination/Poll process has begun!

Here are the simple rules for Nomination week:

- One nomination per user, per week!
- Include the URL to the nominated suggestion topic in your post.
- You can change your nomination later in the week if you like.
- You may re-nominate a suggestion from a previous poll*.

Nominations will be compiled into the next poll on the 7th.

*If re-nominating a suggestion from a previous week, there are no restrictions on doing so, but you should keep the results in mind when making your selection.
Here is the link to the previous poll: http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,3495.0.html
NEW: Here is a link to the ongoing poll results topic: http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,3651.0.html

Important info: The nominations that receive high amounts of votes will receive high consideration to be DLC in the near future. If a particular piece of content is likely to be out-of-scope for the near future, it will be kept on a list of content we would like to see in the next expansion (Q4 '10). Please note that we may not know whether or not a suggestion will need to be shelved until after the voting.  Also bear in mind that this is Chris/x4000's game and inclusion of any content is ultimately his decision!

Thanks for your participation!


Nominations:

Feature:
Screenshot Function - http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,3638.0.html (Shardz)
Steam Cloud Support - http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,2868.0.html (Chimpster)
AI Fleet Tactics - http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,3446.0.html - (I-KP)
AI Command station hacking - http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,3325.0.html (raptor331)
Retain x number of most recent autosaves -  http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,293.0.html (Collic)
Patrol Points - http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,3281.0.html (HitmanN)
Floating licenses - http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,3565.0.html (deMangler)
Lobby Option: Avoid Certain AI Types For Random Selection - http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,252.0.html (Black)
Game mode: EXODUS/Mobile Command Center - http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,3695.0.html (Voodoomancer)

Unit:
Directional Charging Beam Fortress Emplacement "Iserlohn" - http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,1143.0.html (eRe4s3r)
Interdictor Starships - http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,3533.0.html - (MaxAstro)
Civilian command stations - http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,3671.msg24047.html#msg24047 (RCIX)

Rebalance/Adjustment:
Leech/Parasite to ignore anti-overkill measures - http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,3649.0.html (HellishFiend)
MRS Overhaul - http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,3709.msg24317.html#msg24317 (vonduus)


To be Added Soon/In Progress:

Unit: Riot Starship (MkI added, player feedback would be helpful)

Rebalance: Special unit re-balance (post triangle change) (in progress, needs player feedback)
http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,3103.0.html

[RCIX]

Nominating game favoriting panel -- http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,1772.0.html

There are about 100 other ideas (only a slight exaggeration ) that i think are much cooler, but wouldn't get votes. :/

[eRe4s3r]

Directional Charging Beam Fortress Emplacement "Iserlohn"

An AI-Specific Fortress that sits at the center of a planet and employs a directional wide beam with a charge time, warning where its going to shoot and massive damage. Specific to Turtle AI but randomly possibly for all others. This system also has a mine ring around the fortress to prevent any quick attacks and a missile defense.

As Size, think 10% of the sector
As Graphic - A huge forcefield covered sphere, that only when shooting opens (could be an animated sprite for the fire sequence)


http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,1143.0.html

[HitmanN]

Questions:
1) Can users nominate others' suggestions that haven't been nominated yet, or does the suggestion need to be your own?
2) Can users nominate anything, regardless of if it makes sense or if it has any support, etc? I mean, if I suggested and nominated a pink superfortress that shoot heart-shaped nukes, would that be accepted? xD (Fear not, I won't.)

Just figuring out how much freedom we have.

[Shardz]

My nomination for this week is:  Screenshot Function
http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,3638.0.html

This is a basic vital element that is missing from this game and desperately needs it! It would make life much, much easier to get screen
captures and wouldn't require external applications and messy prodcedures to do so! Even a PrintScreen button to serial screen captures that
are stored in the root sub-folder of /Screens would be AMAZING! This would make it much easier to share AAR walkthroughs and expand that forum section a bit and to visually document games without having to tab out constantly and interrupting the game. Vote now, folks!

[HellishFiend]

Questions:
1) Can users nominate others' suggestions that haven't been nominated yet, or does the suggestion need to be your own?
2) Can users nominate anything, regardless of if it makes sense or if it has any support, etc? I mean, if I suggested and nominated a pink superfortress that shoot heart-shaped nukes, would that be accepted? xD (Fear not, I won't.)

Just figuring out how much freedom we have.

1) You can nominate anyone's suggestion.
2) Your nomination is yours to do with as you please, regardless of how much support it has, or how pink it is. 

[Chimpster]

http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,2868.0.html

Steam Cloud support please!   I want to be able to play my home save games at work

[MaxAstro]

Interdictor Starships.

Nominating my own suggestion is lame, I know, but a) I really do think it is an interesting idea, and b) I am curious whether no one likes it, or if it was just so buried in the heavily nested suggestion forums that no one noticed it. 

http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,3533.0.html

[I-KP]

Dual Monitor Support

Can't find the thread.

[Echo35]

http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,3305.0.html

[I-KP]

What he said. 

[I-KP]

No, wait!  *slaps self*  What a fool I am.  Scratch my nomination for Dual Monitor support (tho I do hope someone else will pick that one up because it would indeed rock - for a small sub-set of players).  I forgot about this little beauty... AI Fleet Tactics.  (Just ignore the bullshit shortly after the initial post.)  Duh.
 

[dumpsterKEEPER]

My nomination would be the tweak to scout behavior on friendly planets. This idea was originally suggested here, and the discussion continued in this thread where x4000 suggested implementing it as a global control node. I think this would be a very helpful, micro reducing node and I would probably make use of it in every game.

[raptor331]

This idea, I think, was originaly X4000's. But this idea really would add a use to the Advanced Research Laboratory

Hacking - http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,3325.0.html

[HellishFiend]

No, wait!  *slaps self*  What a fool I am.  Scratch my nomination for Dual Monitor support (tho I do hope someone else will pick that one up because it would indeed rock - for a small sub-set of players).  I forgot about this little beauty... AI Fleet Tactics.  (Just ignore the bullshit shortly after the initial post.)  Duh.
 

Wasn't this idea basically shot down by Chris in one of the pre-release patch topics? I'll go ahead and add it to the list of nominations for now, anyway.