[AMF]

ALL the suggestions I have seen here and elsewhere are, to some degree or another, cool sounding. BUT, above ALL else I would like to see all these options for a game be 'settings' that you can choose to be "on" or "off" when you set up the game. That way, the "stock" SE5 could approach many of the aspects of mods - making it much more customizable and more appealing to people who don't use mods (for whatever reason).

For example, SE4 currently has settings for "universe size" - why not simply expand that to an entire array of settings. Put them all into a separate "Advance Start-Up options" screen that the average joe won't ever go to, but that if someone wanted to set up a game with all sorts of options they could...

Thanks,

Alarik