I am considering various options for a new campaign but I am having trouble deciding which way to go. Since the new automatic tactical intelligence and tech scanning functionality was introduced, I haven't been in a situation where I could make full use of them so I think I will be creating a multi-start on Earth. I have contemplated a rerun of the Nemesis scenario with several modern states/alliances or a 2020 start in an alternate timeline where the Cold War didn't end with NATO, the Warsaw pact and China as the opposing nations. Even an alternate timeline where technology is somehow made available to countries in the 17th Century and we get an Age of Sail in space with the English, Dutch, French and Spanish (Portugal was part of Spain from 1580 until 1640).
However, it occured to me that there are probably a lot of scenarios in the fertile minds of the list members and it would help anyone playing a campaign if those ideas could be suggested in this thread. Not just multi-start or even Earth-related scenarios but anything you can think of.
Here are a couple of links for Wiki relating to population and GNP if that helps in suggestion scenarios based on the modern world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... populationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... _%28PPP%29Steve