Please, please, PLEASE add feature to Ship Designer and in the Civ Builder so players can make and chose their own custom ship colors and color schemes and be able to save them for future use? Also a way to share them among players?

We have been asking for this for 3 years now. 

Can we finally please get this feature in the upcoming new expansion?

Questions about galactic market:

1) in times of scarcity it makes huge difference if an empire does not want to sell some resource to ME (but to others will). With the invention of Galactic market, will this important aspect of relationships-affects-trade-possibilities disappear?

2) Will the market sell only resources or perhaps also ships and even planets as well, as long as player wishes them to offer in market?

3) supply and demand do affect prices. But say I have a monopoly in some resource that other players cannot offer in a meaningful amount. Will I be able to set my own price, even if its ridiculous, or is the price somewhat pre-determined?

4) Will we see trading parties? Altarians may not want to sell to Drengin. But if the trade is anonymous, there is no way to know who is trading with whom. 

I'm guessing that the only resources at 'the market' are those that some civ sells to the market.  IE if it's demand driven in real-time then the inventory of 'the market' would simply be that sold by another player.  Although, not sure how the bid/ask would work in this specific case.

As an aside, being able to seed the market with limited 3rd party (pirates, Korx traders, whatever) inventory may help alleviate odd stuff like maps spawning with no Durantium, or whatever..

As far as the espionage goes, I thought there was a desire to have a deeper espionage system?

Well, I think that these were just ideas that were being thrown around as intriguing, IIRC it wasn't like a "this is exactly what we're going to do" type of discussion.  So it's fine if they're not in there or whatever, I was just curious was all.

As for Covfefe, I'd settle for a Hirambe political party..

hah

Perhaps I need to paraphrase the question:

will the trade be between the parties (galactic civilizations) (they meet in the market) or does the market act as independent buyer/seller?

In the first case the relationships between the trading parties may still affect trade, some not willing to trade with each other at all. In second case exchanges between resources are actually anonymous, the trading parties do not meet each other and the price is dictated by supply and demand only partially, as the market acts as intermediary. 

I do wonder about espionage too. I mean, what kind of INTRIGUE it is, with no good espionage information, spies, black ops and so on...?

Already ordered. Looks really cool, guys!

I'm curious to know how the new government types work with the established ideology choices. Has anything changed/been updated with them?

Also, do races dislike government choices that they don't agree with (democratic/republic vs. authoritarian/police state, for example) or does it still boil down to the ideology choices (benevolent, pragmatic, malevolent)?

Keep up the good work!

So if I'm reading this correctly, the Apocalypse story is NOT being told in this expansion, correct?

Looks good. Nay, grand!  

Happy to see the Bazaar getting some more flexibility, as it was like "grab some early ships and then largely forget about it", on my part.... ( Well, the past tense is a bit premature, but still... ! )

As far as the black market in sins of a solar empire there were two. One made the other useless. One was where you could buy resources, or trade resources for cash. The other you could offer, or buy resources someone was offering. The second made no sense why would i help the other guy with the other option in place. The second choice would be nice by itself. The ais with a lot could offer resources at a higher price when they have a lot. I would say the market should be at a higher price so as not to discourage trading. 

I would like to see a leveling system where mercenaries, and lost treasures start out weaker, and you work to those cool features you get. As far as lost treasures the level could be based on the influence of the planet it was found at. The mercenaries that are not fighters, or survey ships could be based on turns. While the fighters could be based on battles won where survey ships could be based on anomolies discovered.

Yeah, kinda weird that this only happens upon colonization.  A simple idea for how to do this would just be to make it so that that these random events can trigger for already colonized planets, including the home planet, but with the stat boosting events being limited to the first 5 events for a given planet (7 if a home planet), and having diminishing returns.  After that, only the ones that award BC and stuff can trigger.  And of course, only one event per turn.

This would be a simple way to do it, as it wouldn't require a whole list of new events.

If stardock has the time and the will, I don't see why not, it's a lot more work than just allowing colonizing events to trigger post-colonization, though, so pragmatically speaking, I suggested the latter.

Though if they make anomaly events, they may as well also do straight up random events too.   Stuff like, maybe:

"An asteroid is crashing into <planet name>, how do you respond?:

Benevolent - Destroy it, of course - +5 planetary moral
Pragmatic - Destroy it, but let our people stew over it first, to get their creative juices flowing in a haste to survive - advance 25% to next tech

Malevolent - Let it crash down, destroy our weakest, so that only the strongest breed their genes in the future - +10% planetary defense -50%population"

and arguably the ideology you are currently at would lock/unlock what governments you are allowed.