I was watching the settlement game and a few ideas popped up. One is that to make a nuclear bomb, a team has to find maybe three key resources that go into a N. Bomb to be built. Also you could have actually colonization, like the early US. You could send out a major nation to set-up permenet settlement, in which then they have a revoultion and found there own nation.

What I woul like to see is the introduction of vassal states, because some countries were somewhat independent, but where heavliy influenced by more powerfull states, and had to do what they said first. Also I believe if we really are changing the game drastically then we need to add more time to the simulation itself, as I believe jumping 200 years at a time is to fast to incorperate new ideas. Also we should us a real world map, to better simulate how the world came to be and then the future.