[@NanoFreakV2] Why, what did you have in mind? I'm not strictly opposed, but I would like to limit the number of ships per player due to concerns about balance and workload. If you want to have, like, six space shuttles or something, I guess that's fine?

As for tech disparity, the guidelines are: don't break the game, and don't make other players useless. One of the fun tropes of this genre, however, is combining unlike techs, so I don't want everyone to have the exact same stuff. That'd be like a party of only fighters in Dungeons and Dragons.

[@Sophrus] See the second paragraph of my reply to NanoFreak. Difficulty dealing with/overcoming technological barriers is part of the game.