i'm thinking of buying GALcivII vanilla, i'd like to know if it's possible to play this game on the kind of open-ended level where the game only ends if you chooses to end it or you lose, in other words will it be possible to play a senerio as long as i like (suppose i do a good job and stay alive while not engaging any hostile fractions) will teh game go on or will the game universe simply ends after a certain amount of hours?

i have a fetish for games that doesn't end, so i enjoy games like privateer and the sims as they don't end.

thanks for the generous help mates!