I swear I'm innocent, and didn't ask any of my contacts in GA to shut down your Internet access. Honest.
I wouldn't really mind the Balance mod here, as the game will be interesting enough anyway (in a regular game, I find that the Balance mod kills the one remaining part of novelty). Still, I'd much rather have more varied systems than in Balance mod. In full-tech, more systems should be directly useful, or at least not so bad (black holes are a speedbump, if that much).
So, perhaps it should be Balanced planets but with some extra systems... at least the pretty good ones (Binary/Trinary/Asteroids, and maybe Nebulaes too). I'm Neutral about the other settings, so I won't go off rioting.
I don't actually speak English, you know. What I use is eighteenth-century French with funny vowels, and a few thousand words ripped off from German.
I've always used English English, not because I like them in Albion, but simply because it's closer to French. So much easier to always write "centre" instead of using "center" in English, or to stick "-ise" no matter what.
I'll be shipped out of France as either a language assistant or a lazy student, actually (might even be a lecturer in university, though that's pretty unlikely). The next stage in my studies involves research, though, and I'm having a hard time finding *one* project that could be even remotely interesting (doing research in humanities isn't exactly my cup of tea... I suppose it would have a wee bit more exciting in CS).
So (*), I'll almost certainly sneak through the border next year, though *how* exactly isn't particularly clear yet. I might also end up in Wales or Scotland, and not in that small piece of land known as England.
(* : Notice the use of "So" in every other sentence or so. I'm not sure where I picked up that annoying habit, though. I've heard a couple people put the "So-sayers" around Seattle, but I'm not going to discuss the various flavours of American accents. No, really.)