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I wonder what Stefan streu thinks about it?

I support this idea. So far, I had approached the subject of rank limitation from the other direction: have a minimum rank to join, to avoid "no-shows". On the other hand, maximum rank to join makes sense, for the exact reasons you describe.

Let's brainstorm about how such a game should look like.

Standard ship list, standard map probably? I would not disable extended missions, though, because they fill some awkward gaps in the mission repertoire (like: "lay 15 torps as mines").

How about alliances? Being at the receiving end of a Lizard/Klingon/Pirate alliance makes me say "no", but then I'm probably biased. But then, there's a difference between enabling all alliance features (as in Titan/Pleiades/Phoenix), and disabling all such features completely (as in North Star/Lupus).

No wormholes, no ion storms.

Any more thoughts?

--Stefan