[geoschmo]

This is an awesome idea. Actually I think Undrtakers concern would also require the galactic map representation to change based on player position. Otherwise even with wrap-around warp points you could still tell your buddies where you are in the quadrant.

But wrap around warp points would really change the way you play the game. I'm going to have to experiment with this a little.

It would give you at least of feeling of three dimentionality in the quadrant. I have never been comfortable with the "edge of the universe" problem. And it would definelty change the way you defend your systems.

I know myself I often will race to the edge if I dont start at one so that I can have a pyhsical barrier that limits the approaches to my systems. This would make that impossible to do.

And really you wouldn't need to make all that many maps. Since the placment of empires is more or less random (Unless you assign starting points in the map generator) The map would effectivley be different every time you played with it.

Geoschmo