Re: What everyone hated about SE:IV
 

Yes, this is one of the areas where realism would not hurt game play. Blowing up stars should always create a nebula. There is no need for the 'special' create nebula device. And when you 'destroy' a black hole it could also leave a nebula, since all the material trapped in that black hole has to go somewhere when it 'collapses'...

A slight adjustment of the mechanics of 'stellar manipulation' would contribute quite a bit to the believability of the game.

The reason for the restriction of one star per system was to keep people from filling a system solid with ringworlds or sphereworlds. While it's not very 'logical' to have an arbitrary limit you need to draw the line somwhere just as a practical matter. I'd actually be in favor of some further 'megascale' technology to make more than one star in a system. There is always room for one more god-like technology. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: What everyone hated about SE:IV
 

If the ring worlds and sphere worlds are as large (hex-wise) as they've been rumored to be, then the one star limit seems moot.
If stars were made from nebulae, then there would be a natural limit... even if detonating a star in a multistar system only destroyed one star and left a nebulae.

(I also always wanted to destroy small planets, add some megascale tech pieces, and then create a larger planet)