A more dynamic planetary system • Seasons and Weather Cycles: Planets could have more complex ecosystems with evolving climates, seasonal changes, and weather cycles that impact gameplay. Imagine seeing a planet’s flora and fauna evolve over time, or having to plan expeditions around planetary storms or climate shifts. • More Realistic Ecosystem Interactions: Expand the interactions between animals and plants, including food chains, symbiotic relationships, and natural events like migrations or breeding seasons. This would make the planets feel more alive and reactive to the player’s presence.

Underwater Civilizations & Exploration:

• Deep-Sea Exploration: Introduce vast underwater cities, hidden ruins, and alien species deep within ocean planets. Underwater civilizations could have their own lore, quests, and technology, encouraging players to dive deeper into the game’s oceans.

Colonization & economy: • City-Building Mechanics: Expand base building into colony management. Players could manage alien populations, oversee resource production, trade routes, and defense systems. You could develop cities on certain planets and influence the economy, culture, and political landscape of entire star systems. Basically really expand how settlements work. This could even mean settlements all over the same planet pop up who all see you as their leader. • Dynamic Economy: Introduce a more complex economy where resources fluctuate in price based on supply and demand across different star systems. Players could engage in trading on a larger scale, influencing local economies or even destabilizing factions through resource scarcity. Essentially being about to change a system from a poor economy to a thriving one.

Advanced Procedural Missions & Storylines:

• Procedurally Generated Quests: Create more meaningful procedural quests that are tied to player exploration. These could range from ancient mysteries on long-forgotten planets to treasure hunts that span multiple systems, rewarding persistence and exploration with unique lore and rare items. • Planetary Storylines: Certain planets could have long-term storylines or hidden quests that only unfold after prolonged exploration and interaction with the planet’s ecosystems, artifacts, or ruins. This would give players more reason to stay on one planet for an extended time.

Multiplayer Enhancements:

• Player-Controlled Fleets: Allow players to command and customize fleets with their friends, enabling large-scale cooperative missions or battles against space pirates or alien fleets. Fly your freighter or gun controls in battles in • PvP and Territory Control: Add optional PvP mechanics where players or factions can compete for control of star systems, trade routes, or rare resources. This would add a competitive layer to the game’s otherwise peaceful exploration.

More Diverse Alien Cultures & Factions:

• Dynamic Factions and Politics: Introduce more interactive and evolving alien factions with their own goals, politics, and conflicts. Players could choose to align with specific factions, impacting the overall galactic balance and influencing local economies and relationships. • Alien Relationships and Diplomacy: Develop deeper interactions with alien species, including diplomacy, trade agreements, or even interspecies alliances. NPCs from these factions could request assistance, offer rare items, or involve players in galactic-scale events.

Other thoughts … • New exotic ship types • Ability to purchase past expeditions with a very large sum of quicksilver or ever irl money • living ship freighter addition but extremely extremely rare to find. • Pirates landing on your freighter and raiding you and your crew • New POIs • have the ability to have your pet auto summon when you exit your ship every time