[brettben]

I'm now past 1600 turns on my first SE IV 1.19 game (continued after the tutorial). I own just two adjacent systems (which I have closed all access to), completed my research tree, and have built two sphereworlds. I'm in the process of completing facility construction on them, as well as building a huge fleet. I have no idea what size of map I'm playing in, but with the resources of these two sphereworlds at my disposal, I will be unstoppable once I reopen the warp points. It took me less than 60 turns to build one (that may seem like forever, put I like long term games). I love this game! (if they fix the resource check bug, I will love it even more)