[Q]

I was one of those who was disappointed, that the maximum system number was not higher than 255.
But as I see how the game performs on my Athlon 64 3400+ computer, I think my hardware is much more the limitation. The turn processing time of a game with 255 systems at stardate 2430.0 might be just too long. It reminds of of SE IV on my old P II 233MHz computer.