Larger Galaxies?

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This may have already been asked. Will there every be an expansion to the game that provides even larger galaxies? I know this would make the game turns and loading more processor intensive, but the games could last for months! :)
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
More planets are already added in the latest update. You might be right about games taking months, but who will ever finish such a game? Probably you will loose interest in such a game and start a new one.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Could you really stay in one game for months? I think I would go banana's!

-Monkson
Galactic Civilizations IV
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Well, to be honest...I travel too much. And I play the game on the airplanes, in the airport, and in the hotels. Now, I do switch between games every so often, but I could stick to a game for quite some time. Gigantic usually keeps me busy, and the AI is quite good that it gives me a solid run for my money. I just thought a map that took many game years to cross would be interesting! :)
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
It's a shame that every game that gets played isn't somehow magically submitted to a behind the scenes metaverse because I'd be curious to see if it actually looks like there's a market for coding in such a thing.

My personal suspicion is that the only people playing even Gigantic are the couple of hundred people here on this forum. I can't stand anything bigger than Large, and the more I play, the more I think even that's too much micromanagement to fun.

What I'd be much more interested in seeing is letting users define custom map sizes (5 x 12 anyone?) rather than just hard coding in more choices. The downside would be the need to alter the scoring algortithm to take 'surface area' as the size rather than the nice, pigeon-holed system we have now, but that shouldn't prove too much of an obstacle.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
I think alot of the micromanagement nightmare would go away as soon as the expansion pack comes online. For one, I could use Rally Points to cut down about 75% of the micro that I deal with (which is sending constructors where they need to go), and the other 25% (which is sending my fleet where I need them to go). It'd make setting up my Alpha Strikes alot easier as well.

I still would like to see the ability to use jumpgates, stargates, or an actual tech that *does* boost the speeds of ships so that they could cross a galaxy of that size in a reasonable amount of time rather than waiting 10 turns for a battle to set up