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I have also thought of this, kind of a continually expanding game. My original impression with race age had something to do with this. Complete one game, graduate to a higher race age, perhaps gain a few racial and/or advanced racial points maintain the existing quadurant, and find the gateway to the next quadurant. Incorporate the old and explore into the new. The Galaxy is pretty big, makes sense. In a sense you have complete control of one spiral arm and have found the warp point to the next spiral arm, and onto complete galactic control, with the densly populated center as the main goal, full of ancient and incrediblally "cautious" races that have won't hesitate once to put a stop to wolfling races intruding on their sacred territory.

Finally you have the Galaxy conquored, time to move on to the next. Wow, this would probably take years in terms of actually playing such a game. Cool.

As far as a tech tree goes, hell either slow it down to snails pace, or just add large numbers of intermediate levels as in the Proportions mod. Or just compile a collective of all of those ingeneous ideas that are floating around on this forum and create the ultimate SEV game. Of course everyone will need a super computer, but hell aren't those just around the corner any how

Keeping in mind that the game progress in levels not just all finished in one sweep of a quadurant. It continually advances, as far as mainting the old, isn't that what ministers are for.