El Danny

I could possibly make it so that hyperspace-capable fighters never had to wait to launch from carriers; in other words, they would, in essence, hyperspace in with the rest of the fleet and be available right away.

This sounds like a great idea.

I remember downloading Thawns Revenge mini-mod a while ago. They removed all planet in GC and replased them with a single planet marker. Maybe a simler idea will make things faster?

How do you mean? We're pretty certain that this isn't a graphical limitation, so you should be able to put, I don't know, 3D orbiting fleets when you zoom into a planet without it hurting the performance. We don't think the GPU is what's being taxed in GC, which is what models would fall under. Animation might be another story though - I'm not sure if that's something the GPU or CPU would handle.

What I mean is theres just a marker for a planet, and all planets in GC (apart from names) have been replased with this marker.

EDIT: I just saw another good surgestiong on EaWfiles. Changingthe size on planets on the GC by 30%. Is surpossed to reduce lag. From Mobbman on EawFiles, he says hes working on PR to reduce lag himself.

I remember downloading Thawns Revenge mini-mod a while ago. They removed all planet in GC and replased them with a single planet marker. Maybe a simler idea will make things faster?

I remeber the planet shippack mod for 1.0 that was never finshed. It'd be great if it was worked on for 1.1.

Chances are I'll end up making a few changes my self, but only small ones.

If players are being forced to start at a low tech level does this mean the AI now upgrades & researches? Its going to suck a bit if the AI dosn't build any capitals because it won't research into them.