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Optimization would be awesome, and so would much stronger AI. Beyond that..economy? Right now economy is a planet's population+trade income, which has everything to do with the length of one single trade route, rather than, say, the network affect of choke points and nexuses. Where, for instance, a planet with three spurs of trade lines would likely earn profits as being an endpoint on three, currently it just takes the longest line, making each planet in the line equally important

Well, not exactly a massively multiplayer, but more massively multiplayer than this, is the game Freelancer, which is still around since 2002, with a strong modding community. Its a single ship game which closely approximates the sins as single player ship idea.. Take a look here: http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?act=uportal for what is probably still the largest Freelancer community, with a few thousand activ

Team battles in many multiplayer games end up more about target calling and coordination than individual brilliance. I bring this from a twitch based fighter(think dog-fighting) sim, but the principle remains the same. If one player can build two ships, two can build four, and five can build ten. thats 10 on two, given correct organization. Enough to take a world, and shlep off, fend off a strike. Of course, the opportunity to group up in FFA matches is why games get set to equal two ma

Well, I'm playing around a college schedule in -5 gmt, which is north American east coast, but that basically means I can be on at many times, excluding my early morning. I've picked up Trinity, so that's Diplomacy with Entrenchment.

so, I bought the game a few days ago, and have played quite a few matches against the computer. As games go, this one is rather brilliant, but the ai is stupid. I've read on the forums that one might try to play without starbases, etc...and that feels wrong. so, of course, I grabbed the biggest mod I could find. Distant Stars, which is, by the way, excellent. Played that for a while, discovered that I could still cream the AI players. I get a third of a way through a game an