So I always liked this game and the whole traveling from planet to planet through the phase lanes but it never really made much sense on the maps. A solar system with 20 planets and a dozen asteroid belts?
I had the thought that instead of each point in space being a planet each point should be a solar system instead. It could have varying amounts of planets and asteroid belts etc. You could even go into having different star types with different effects. Binary systems or pulsars or even black holes which could like screw up traveling near them.
So a map would be something more like a galaxy and you would travel from star system to star system through phase lanes. Fights inside of solar system would be more interesting because the game would be on a different scale.
Just a thought I had while playing the game a while ago. Feel free to use it whenever you get around to making sins 2 