You have to get rid of the sandwich, tea, and any lingering dust or there are too many calories for a supermodel to appear.  That and ReturnHottie is a tier 8 research item and costs too damn much.  Settle for "Quiet, Shy Vixen", tier 3 research and actually eats.

Since we're all fans of the impossible, I want a campaign, it's editor, and way to gift tiers of civ/mil research at beginning of game.

Holy gravedig batman!

Also supermodels are overrated.

ShareWithAlly? Like resources, ship slots, RESEARCH, added on to trade/refinery ships? O, Hell, Yes!

*Glares at the Devs for not responding yet*

I'd love ShareWithAlly.  And giving some weapons a minimum range (I still would love to make artillery cruisers) would be awesome.

But I think more than anything else, I want two things: moddable tutorials (aka campaign) and raised limits on the numbers of actions a buff can have IA's are 5, PA's are 2, but that's all I remember.  I hate those limits with a deep and burning passion.

Artillery Cruisers? You mean LRM, or like short-medium range heavy artillery? If the latter, count me in!

This was something Darvin and I discussed long ago, back at the release of Entrenchment, but when the Devs didn't go along with it and put it in the game (we didn't expect it lol), I hoped to mod it, but unfortunately, there is no minimum range or way to incorporate it that I can think of.

And when I say Artillery Cruiser, I mean big honking artillery cruiser with long range AoE attacks (not abilities mind you, attacks) but is utterly defenseless at short range.

-Allow weapons to be replace or locked up by a research subject's completion.

This could be used for sacrificing one weaponsystem of your capital ships for a big increase in shields or armor for example.

Or, if coupled with an increased weapon type limit, it could be used to let ships start with weaker weapons that get replaced by stronger weapons later on. For exampel you could let the Radiance start with only lasers in all slots and replace the forward batteries only with plasma and beams, once a certain research subject is completed. Internally it would mean, giving the ship two additional laser slots, give the plasma and beams fireConstraintType "Research" and lock up the new laser systems with the new option once the research for the according heavy weapon is finished.

I'd love that mechanism and was thinking about it the other day actually.  Also, the ability to select the number of targets a single weapon can target would be nice.  It's really annoying when you increase the amount of bank targets on something like the Radiance with forward beam cannons that make absolutely no sense to have multiple targets.

EDIT: Oh, and the ability to select a weapontype for abilities.  GRG would be affected by the gauss range upgrades.  PMS would be affected by PM upgrades.  For other abilities, you could just use Invalid or something.

maybe post this in the rebellion area so people there can tell you you are dreamer, but not the only one. 

Darn you Semaz, now I've got "Imagine" stuck in my head, and I hate that song. 

Here this may help.

here are some things that aren't ridiculous 

- "Auto-attack but don't rotate" behavior toggle is absolutely needed
- Engine needs to take into account back weapons for overall DPS calculations
- Up hardcode limit on flair points & weapon FX points per bank (10 is too low)
- Structures owned by AI "players" defined in galaxyscenariodef cannot be spawned in orbit of planets that are uncolonizable or that they do not own, preventing for example pirate bases in orbit of gas giants
- Modifier AngularThrust/DisableAngularEngines should work on rotating structures such as turrets
- Ability to specify a min. follow length while using move toward first spawner modifier with a negative value 
- Removing PlayerPirate appears to crash the game
- Ability to force unit icons not to rotate 
- Ability to edit relative positioning of elements in infobox or shift all elements leftward for larger boxes
- Limit of "applies to" entity types in research box (e.g. weapons research) restrictive & confusing, seems to take into account very limited subsets (e.g. only ships and structures using the last enhancement)
- Can't add more than two ResearchPrerequisites
- Ability to expand borders on hardcoded UI elements such as the main menu - at the moment they get cut off if larger than a specific area, which seems originally defined for 1024x768. i'm not developing a mod for people with monitors from 1996

Did you completely remove pirate bases from your mod? If so how?

It's easy to remove Pirate Bases... Get rid of them in the GalaxyScenarioDef random counters and don't put in a PirateBase in a map setup. The issue I believe is that if there are no Pirates you can't set that pirates are inactive/active setting which causes the game to get confused and crash, much like giving fighters shields.

perhaps giving ships an engagement area or allow your ships to defend particular structures.  I know you can use local engagement, but still...  Some sort of patrol mechanism would be nice and probably wouldn't be difficult to code either.