[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Ooh, ooh, ooh, great idea (I think):

Moving systems!

Our own Galaxy rotates slowly. If this would be incorporated into SEV, that would be REALLY nice. You would then have to monitor the movements of stars, and warp points could tear apart due to gravimetric shear or something if the rotation is too big. Also, it would be nice to have some sort of "anomaly" (massive black hole, dimensional rift, space/time continuum distortion, etc.) at the center of the Galaxy. This is what astronomers think might be true; something at our galaxy's center that keeps us together.

Also, if you would be able to play in an entire Galaxy instead of just a sector, it could be nice if there were perhaps more - say, a map with two small galaxies moving slowly towards/away from each other. I've seen artists' impressions (based on actual scientific data) of two galaxies colliding, moving through each other. This would be difficult to incorporate, I know, but would offer a massive bonus to variety in gameplay; if two galaxies cross, systems might be annihilated or might hang on to another galaxy, warp points are destroyed or redirected, planets/stars/anomalies/etc. exchange between the galaxies, and so on. You might suddenly have half your Empire marooned in another galaxy.

Perhaps you should look into the possibilities of communications; i.e. comms signals take time to travel, and so if a scout ship is far away it might be a while before it responds to new orders. And, in the beginning of the game you might need "courier ships" to ferry comms Messages between Empires, making it possible for a third party to intercept your Messages. Also, how come all races speak a common language right from the start? You could need to research some sort of Advanced Linguistics Programme to enable linguistics to decipher alien Languages so you understand their Messages. Later on, you might be able to research some sort of "Universal Translator" or something. Here, Psychic races have an advantage; they can read the mind of an alien and determine what it is it's saying.