Cloaked warp points perhaps ( a technology arm) that say this particular warp point could only stay open for 2 turns of something allowign a fleet in - a surprise attack but would prevent being open permantley - meaning that the fleet would have to take a planet or be wasted (a trade off of sorts)
Also i have suggested naturally occouring events based warp points that open for 3 - 5 turns at random within the game and then close.
Jump gates are also an interesting idea that say could allow inter solar system transport between planets in 2 different system belonging to different players + possibly a capture feature that would allow a enemy player to capture jump gates and use it to say jump through their forces (id say a limit of 1 ship per turn) to remove any big advantage.
Some ideas anyway - aslo improvements to the multiple moon planet problem (perhaps a floating display ie you put a mouse point over a sector and a floating screen appears describing and breaking down the details but would disappear when you took the mouse of the point on the map (a useful clean solution)
Id MM would read this forum more often as it has great suggestions that would really make the game so much better - do you have his email address as i will send them to him. And ask him to read the suggestions on this forum also (does he ever reply back via the forum on discussion threads.
The map clicking, that would kill my idea by itself. Oh well...
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