I've started to come to terms with losing planets from my list every few days, I'm still not happy with the frequency, but I do have one thing I'd like to happen:

Last Known Status.

Just a brief snapshot of what the planet was producing and what artifacts you had on it the last time you saw it (before someone snatched it away)

Yeah, that would be really nice. I was gonna try keeping track of them all, but it takes too much time.

So many suggestions of this type would be solved if the planet data base was made downloadable. when you have 100 or so planets, managing them becomes a problem. If all the info was downloadable in a format understandable by Excel and/or Open Office, then so many tasks would become easier. If you wanted to know what your planet had on it before it was taken, just look at a file you created before it was taken. You could quickly know what planets need upgrading, if you had planets owned by your enemies and more.

The problem with downloading the database is that it's probably got all sorts of nested databases, which don't translate well into a 2d Excel document.

Think about it, each one has to have Type, Size, 3 Resource entries, 3 possible Passive abilities, A whole STACK of buildings, current effects, defense / attack / cloak from buildings, current (modified)defense / attack / cloak

That's a lot to try and wedge into an Excel document

I think only type, size, resources, passive abilities, and buildings would be important.

+1 Definitely