[Tnarg]

Ruatha,

I just made a map for the STM Mod and am also looking for inspiration to give it a bit more umph. You pretty much mentioned everything that I put in there. Hidden planets in blackhole systems, and nebula. Warp points that lead to other sectors of the galaxy. Blackholes to section off the galaxy (did this to make it feel like once one part of the galaxy is concquored, you have a whole new area to move onto), plus it sort of keeps AI in appropriate quadrants.

Do you by any chance happen to know if the "Random Opening Warp Point" ability works? I tested a few games and saw nothing. Also the "sector damage ablility" seems to be random. Have you noticed this? I was also disapointed to learn that some of the planet abilities do not work, like the "generate research point modifier, ect." Know of any besides these, like bonus to troops, or planet happiness abilities that are hard to test?

I like your idea of the one way warp points. Perhaps one of those mentioned 10 warp point systems, with one or two of them as one way tickets to a black hole that is almost impossible to escape.

I think someone created a map one time with the oneway warp point idea that lead to a series of systems that were interwoven with the map. A hidden map if you will (but still visible on the main map, just not accessable until warp technology, or finding the right one way warp points that were cleverly hidden ontop of other warp points or close to the center of a black hole.