
agreed, though I still think people have to be careful of falling into the same trap, but it's just a game at the end of the day, and as long as it's well executed, it doesn't really matter.

I think to do that, you'd have to add a really devious twist in there somewhere though, and not the usual 'The Ancients made the Shivans as a warrior sect! (always odd considering how far they'd got without any special need for engineered warriors)' or 'The Ancients
are the Shivans, Freespace brings out the 'evil' in you if you spend too much time in it! (and apparently gains you capship shielding abilities)'.
Neither of them are
bad ideas, but somewhat cliché, and have slight problems as mentioned in the brackets. It would be cool to bring back the Ancients, but what I'd really love to see is it done in an original and interesting way
