[Paul1980au]

You can also exchange planets early on and if you have a planet that say youre new planet - and also another racial type say the eee Version with none atmostphere - you being terrans with oxygen if you have a none planet get a hold of some eee population take all the humans off the none planet and plant some eee on it. You get instead of say 5 compoent spots 25 spots and its undomed because the base population is none atmosphere breathers. Make sure that exchanged planets thought are small and tactically and strategically unimportant. Ie a planet deep inside eee territory that would be hard to defend. Give the eee a small planet inside youre territory rope it off with ships if war does break out you can easily recapture.

Id also like to see hidden relics in asteroid fields and they would only be uncovered when you set miners in to mine minerals - it could
a) yield a new tech - perhaps a enhanced mining ability
b) even turn it into a planet - ie by activiting mining activity on asteroid x a planet is formed when the mining crews discover and alien device activate it and a planet is formed (make it a rare thing though - and also user defined from the main menU)