[Suicide Junkie]

Some things I would like to see more of:

Leaky Shields and Armor:
- give shield generators only a small amount of shield generation points. Add crystalline ability.
- remove armor ability from armor, and make armor components very small with large amounts of hitpoints.

Fix Maintenance Reduction
- In settings.txt, change "Empire Starting Percent Maint Cost" to 100.
- In vehiclesize.txt, add a maintenance modification ability to each ship of -75, and to bases, -88.
- Optionally, increase the maximum allowed maintenance reduction, increase the culture maintenance modifiers, or decrease the cost per % of maint. reduction
This will make maintenance reduction appear to multiply instead of add with the base amount.

Multi-dimensional technology branches.
Also known as grid techs.
The idea is to have two or more tech areas provide pieces of a single component.
Instead of researching simply "torpedo weapons", the tech could be split into "Torpedo Warheads" which increased damage, "Torpedo Guidance" which increases accuracy, and "Torpedo Manufactuing" which reduces build cost.