Well... spliting the game into multiple servers could still work if you make it so each galaxy is a server and you can still travel between them using the galactic cores.
Also having private servers could also work if you give people who want to run some the ability to change settings such as galaxy size, number of stars, resource spread, and how fast things build. Of course you won't be able to be traveled to from official servers from private ones :)
Also having private servers could also work if you give people who want to run some the ability to change settings such as galaxy size, number of stars, resource spread, and how fast things build. Of course you won't be able to be traveled to from official servers from private ones :)