welp... I think you just thought of the 3rd game for SD right there... Elemental: Lords of the Sea!

... sea combat... does it even exist?

just imagine.. you have 1 ship and then you have another ship... do they shoot stuff from far away? do they board each other? do they board each other with the troops carried inside?

Dude, you beat me to it.

I want a kracken mount.

Actually having 2 fully water-based races would be really cool, like they did in Alpha Centauri.

hyperpisci-hypoviri

Fish on the top dude on the bottom, aww yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah 

Which is why, in my opinion, they should either axe terraforming, limit the effects or make it extremely expensive.

You forgot sand dolphins, the lesser known close cousin of sand sharks.

In all seriousness I think a simple naval system would be cool and fairly simple to add. Just add the ability for AI's to use ships, the ability for ships to attack each other and have the armies duke it out on a new ship tactical battlefield. Then the devs or even modders could add sea resources(that require a harbor), and sea monsters and pirates that simply board your ship and start a tactical battle with the transports contents.

Ya dedicated sea units and combat ships would be cool, but my idea would be fairly easy to implement.

I'm sure if you look, you'll find them in the files.

I'd have to play the game to notice, and I don't any more.

No, I wouldn't miss water... I would probably create a world closely resembling something from the Dark Suns D&D campaign, just a massive desert.  I'd even make a full complement of factions to go along with it so we can have the Preservers and Defilers against each other.  Hell, I'll do that tonight.  Long live the Veiled Alliance!

mandbirdfish hybrid plz

An expansion with a lot of water stuff would be excellent. I'd prefer if it just wasn't tacked on.