I'm sorry to typ this in English, I can speak German a little (Ich wohne in die Niederlande) but not well enough to say this clearly, and I understand that Sir Pustekuchen speaks English very well so

Well I LOVE botf! I've bought the game when I just came out, can you imagine I had a pc with 200 Mhz back then, now 2600... But still with all these great games like COD2 and Oblivion I still play BOTF.
Anyway, as I'm playing the game I always love to start building my empire from small and try to make it as big and mighty as possible.
One thing however, I completly hate, and that is if I'm well advanced in a game, say I can build level 9 farms, industry, intelligence etc. and I build a new colony I have to start from scratch building and buying again.
So I remember a game, I believe Civilization? Where you can appoint gouverners or mayors that will automatic build your colony, you could even choose from different modes like economic, millitary, technology etc.
This would be very cool and save some time and worthless effort.
Just my 2 cents and good luck with the project, your doing a great job!
Auf wiedersehen und viele spass

Angelus
The Netherlands