Hey devs, thanks again for an awesome game. After many hours of sleep deprivation playing the game, though, I have a request. PLEASE, please please pretty please, in a future patch, give us a super-minimal user interface that is as close as possible to playing the game without an interface at all.

What I mean is this. I'm the type of gamer who basically hates interfaces. I think they get in between me and the game world. I'm a full-screen fanatic. I was playing a game of Sins tonight when I finally found on a message board how to remove the interface completely (ctrl-shift-z). It was like an epiphany. The game looked ten times better to me. I don't know what it is about the UI that bothers me so much now - it's not functionality, it works great.

I think it's the bright silver-looking metal motif that surrounds everything. It just doesn't make any sense to me to have such opaque light silvery stuff taking up screen real-estate and clashing with the dark colors of outer space. As soon as I turn off the interface, the game world opens up to me, and I actually feel as if I can see what's going on much better. When I play in a dark room, the near-white light from the silver bars at the top and bottom is so bright that it hurts my night vision.

So what I'm asking for is this : instead of making me repeatedly hit ctrl-shift-z to see the game I want to see it, and then bring the interface back so that I can actually control my fleets and empire, can you make a stripped down interface that has all of the functionality with none of the obstruction? E.g. get rid of the useless metal bars, make the display showing how much money you have just simple numbers with nothing opaque behind them and generally maximize playable game space.

I realize that there is a preliminary mod that attempts some of this, but I don't think it goes far enough. Please help! Thank you SO much!