Ditto. And what would happen if people logged off? It just couldn't work Kiernyc.

lol i also realized something else....It's kind of already like this because, If you are playing with 10 people, they aren't all going to start in the same galaxy so you won't see some players for a ways in. That's kind of like joining another game just going to another galaxy lol.

Yes! Exactly! I had actually suggested something like this on a post titled "What is the community's opinion of competitive multiplayer?" on Reply#30 back on July 25. It's great to see that others want something like this as well.   To save the time that would be spent searching for the post, I will restate my suggestion below:

"I think it would be great to have a Conquer the Galaxy mode where your victory in a specific star system added it to your territory on the galactic map. C&C has something like this called World Domination, and MechAssault 2 had a Conquest multiplayer mode where each planet conquered was tracked on the galactic map. It would be fun to sit down to a long, hard battle over a star system and later, after your hard won victory, go onto a screen which showed all star systems under control of your faction, including the one you just conquered. It would add a sense of purpose and accomplishment to the time you devoted to a long multiplayer game. Or what if there were a cooperative campaign or two complete with objectives and storyline, for those of us who don't spend a whole lot of time vs. other players but want a more meaningful co-op battle? True, it may be to late to implement any of this, but sooner or later a patch, expansion pack, or sequel to this game will roll out, giving the developers a second, third, or more chances to add these ideas, and more. Just a few thoughts..."

Although for good ideas of multiplayer maps, you should reference this post. P5y had some really great ideas. Great job!  

Exactly, I really want this in, if anything does go in

I found a trailer of MechAssault 2 that somewhat, though not exactly illustrates the concept in the above reply. It is a short trailer on gametrailers.com entitled "Conquest". I'm not sure how to link it, but the address is below:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/3020.html

You can't do that in multiplayer, but single player is quite doable. None of the current "preset" maps go that far, but a little modding could achieve that once they return the old system to us.

meta-games? is that something like a where theres an online map witch territory that can be fought on?
if thats it, im 127% into that idea
Games really need to have new kinds of new playable options, and i hope sins will have something new

well, sorry dig around, but one way to do something like this is if you do it on a seperate galactic map a bit like in Rise of Nations or that Warhammer expansion Dark Crusade.

Basically, you have a big graphical galactic map with many unnkown systems. every time a game is played, the outcome determines to which race the sector will afterwards belong. that way you can keep track of what race is winning and so on. but thats the rather simple and actually useless version.

the other is if you rally implement a strategic mode where you can select which sectors to attack/ defend, what sort of materiel and ressources you are bringing and so on. so there is a variety of sectors representing the different game types and map sizes and every time on particular configuration is chosen it means that a certain sector on the uber-map is attacked and again the outcome determines who later owns the sector.

but then again, this would take so much additional programming and it would take away this feeling that you can zoom out from afar to close up. plus, if system ownership meant having a presence there, then obviously the attacking party needs to bring some advantage, like I said, materiel, ships, ressources. but how are they collected and who allocates them? probably, all this is more trouble than it is worth.

but nice though anyway trying to evolve this more into a sort of living galaxy.