5/21/2017 Topic: Color-coded materials Hammish	How difficult would it be to allow us to set certain materials to be color-coded in the asset list, much like bookmarks allow for a color selection? IE maybe I want to color Radioactives green (or make them stand out in some other way), but want Precious Metals aqua, ect ect.
5/25/2017 Topic: The Moon Charter Hammish	Los Angeles joins the charter and agrees to abide by the terms.
6/4/2017 Topic: Balance Suggestion: Research at HQ Hammish	Given the current state of affairs (and continuing even as more systems open up, IMO) I feel like it might be time to address the concept of artifacts and research labs. If unique/rare units/upgrades were not quite as powerful as they are, but given the strength they exhibit in the current game limiting access to them seems... very heavily skewed. I say this as a person who is an Earth ruler and has access to the artifact, even. Given this, I would suggest that methods of research be put into the game that do not involve artifacts, but are limited in certain regards so as to not utterly devalue artifacts. I have a few ideas regarding this, listed in order of what I think might work best. 1: Give corporate HQs an option to produce research toward an artifact themselves, INSTEAD of producing a raw good. Make it a fraction of what a normal research lab might produce, perhaps 10-20%, but at the same operating cost as a regular lab. This would allow any corporation to engage in research at what would still be a fairly heavy price, but would be a viable option in terms of cost-effectiveness once the ocrowd on artifacts hit 400%. This would also leave the value of artifacts themselves intact, because while they might cost more, they will still turn out artifacts 5x or more quickly and thus allowing people to sink money into much faster production if desired. 2: Give corporate HQs a small research trickle at HQ10. Canonically it would seem our HQs have R&D facilities, and they wouldn't have much to do once they reached max level. With this option you would want to make the trickle a much slower thing, given no cost to it. 3: The ability to build research labs in any city for a very modest production. This is just a variation on #1; instead of limiting the production to the HQ (and thus capping how much a non-artifact-holding person could produce), instead it could be that labs could be built anywhere and operate as if they were on a 1-2 base resource tile for the normal operating cost. This shares the same limitations and balancing as the first option, in that it might be cost-efficient in an HQ city (with all the cost bonuses you get there) but it will never produce quickly. Just ideas, though! At the end of the day I would like to see the massive power wielded by artifact holders spread to the many, is the point... but while leaving the the valuable nature of artifact nodes intact but slightly lessened.
6/4/2017 Topic: Balance Suggestion: Research at HQ Hammish	And if the next system spawns zero, or another single deposit at relatively low output? I mean, I can just see an endgame system where a person or group could literally control the output of every single artifact source in the game, using it to maintain supremacy through the raw economy efficiency and power efficiency that unique units have. A person that has access to artifacts and unique units will have an army that is at -least- three times more potent than someone who does not for the same cost; that's a pretty huge margin. If unique/special units were maybe twice as powerful, or had their upkeep adjusted to cut down on the relative power, that would be a different matter.
7/2/2017 Topic: Feature Request: Map Pins for Bookmarks Hammish	It would be nice if we just had a button that showed our current list of bookmarks as dots in the viewer, much like resource-type pips are displayed. To be extra-fancy, could even color the dots/pins according to the color set in the bookmarks manager.

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