[Strategia_In_Ultima]

More kinds of "generic ship sizes" or "warship hulls" as they're often called that don't have warship-like names (who has ever heard of a battleship designed to carry population) but more civilian-like names, like "Small Courier Ship", "Large Courier Ship", "Generation Ship" and such.

Generation Ships! Perhaps even the possibility to BE a Generation Ship instead of an Empire when you start. You have a massive ship as your "Homeworld" and you can conduct research/intel/construction/storage/etc. there. You still have the Empire control over your dominion, and you can settle on planets, but you can also become an "Empire-for-hire" conducting missions for others, like hunting down a group of pirates, transporting such-and-such amount of such-and-such goods/resources/population/whatever to planet(s) there-and-there.

Building your own Generation Ships as an Empire, designed truly to Last for forever, and setting them out on a voyage across the stars. This can be handy if you have immense maps (think 5000x5000 ly) and you want to settle another part of the Galaxy. You would lose control and the Generation Ship will act like a single-ship Empire. When it settles an appropriate planet (you can set it for different options, like "first habitable", "first colonizable", "highest value in resource [...]", "best conditions", "largest", or a combination of these) it will become a new small Empire and when you make contact with it again it might join you, or might choose to become a protectorate of you, or the gap might be too great, the colonists are not from your race any more, and they will remain independent or even declare war on you.

Bigger maps. I mean, OK, fully colonizing an area between 500x500 and 1000x1000 ly is OK, but I would also like to have the ability to play on maps over 5000x5000 ly (remember our own galaxy is 100000x100000 ly) or larger, where you might not encounter aliens until you've played for 650 years, and where alien life might be everywhere or there might be only three races, or even one. Would add to the realism: "We are not alone...", remember? Maybe we are. You never know until you've encountered the "Little Green Men" (or ravenous, 60-ft hairy feline carnivorous monsters). They can be only 10 ly away, but could also be on the opposite corner of the Galaxy.