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I read a little while ago in a forum post that the original sins had anti missile countermeasures and planets/asteroids that orbited their star, is that true? Were there any other awesome features that were taken out of the game?
Idk about anti-missiles, but orbits were part of the game. The game originally was free reign as well, meaning you could fly from any planet to another in normal space, though it would take forever.
I remember bugs persisted of that though! Sometimes ships would just decide not to phase jump, and sub-light to a planet...oh the horror!
It was a game play decision. The dev's thought no phase lanes would turn the game into a "whack-a-mole" fest. They were correct because the first maps that were fully connected (aka no phase lanes) were indeed just that.
my memory of it is foggy but I seem to remember at one point there weren't phase lanes... but that didn't last long. oh and ships used to have a upkeep cost (as opposed to buying fleet supply, and the supply has a cap). that lead to having a negative income easier I think. sadly i dont have many screenshots of the old betas 
edit: found some more and remembered that phase inhibitors used to be phase blockers and prevented any enemy ships from leaving at all (unless it was destroyed)
I like the idea for a per-ship upkeep cost and the phase blocker...the number for the upkeep should have been very small.
Couldn't you add the upkeep back in by getting rid of the current upkeep and making an ability that dranied a small number of resources every second?
Theoretically yes. You just need to reduce the cost of upkeep in the game code to 0 and give each ship an ability (do not recommend this for capital ships as almost all their ability buttons are taken and the fifth throws up an error code) that removes resources.
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