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One thing that I would find VERY cool and which would probably require not much recoding is the ability to *start* a game with ships and resources stored on them, and without planets (if one wanted.)

So, you could have a set up that began like battlestar galactica or some other "exiles" or "gypsies" race.

Ideally you would be able to design your ships and "buy" them with a set number of resources that you start with in the start up settings, and the rest of the resources you could have carried in your cargo holds.

This would require designating how much cargo carries how much resources and designating where in the edge of the map the "gypsy fleet" starts at, but other than that probably not too much coding. Just moving some interfaces to the start up screens, no?

Doing this would allow me to play my Exiles of Kor race as a real race of exiles, appearing on the edge of the map, with a ragtag bunch of ships, some loaded colonizers, a cityship or two, and a bunch of stored resources in the quest for a new home while we flee the Evil Klackons...

it would also allow a Borg type invasion wherein the Borg player starts with just one big a** mothership and has to take over the whole galaxy...

You could also "jump start" games, by giving people not only planets to begin with but a bunch of ships as well, so we don't have to spend the first ten turns building up...

the possibilities are pretty cool, IMHO.

Thanks,

Alarik