Bit of feedback
The sectors are a really welcome new feature I want to make the most of in my games but currently there are too few options in regards of creating maps/galaxies with different amounts of sectors, each empires starting sector and the amount of links to each sector.
With the current patch I don't seem to be able to create a map with more than 12 sectors, my memory may be playing tricks on me but I'm sure you could in earlier versions of the game. The old game settings map had a pic of over 20 sectors. So why the change?
Some/poss all of the old options that were removed are still in the pref file but I don't think the options went far enough before and are even more limited now.
e.g. I would love to have a map where every race either starts in a tiny, small or medium sector but there are a few or more huge sectors to fight over that each of their starting sectors link to.
No options like that exist currently, in fact the starts seem very imbalanced on the bigger sector/galaxy sizes. Whichever race/races start in a huge sector has a massive advantage and the small tiny sector races are pretty screwed. Also the human player always starts in a medium sector which feels like an unfair advantage to me and yes that can be changed in the prefs file but not for the other races yet to my knowledge.
So more map generation options please Stardock would be my humble request. After a bit of a break to be put off trying out the new features of this patch before I've even gotten out of the galaxy settings screen is really unfortunate.