Ancient Race too powerful?

[Andrés]

I normally play with large (255) quadrants and find ancient race useless.
Knowing systems in the other side of the galaxy only makes more confusion, and will make it harder to use the send colony ship function (in the planets window).
I normally find some friendly ancient race (like the Eee) that signs a partership at least for a while, so you get to know everything without wasting your points in ancient race.