Wild Stuff

"And why can't intelligent organisms such as ourselves not live in and mine an asteroid belt? Who said you couldn't do that in MOO3?"

1. Modifications
2. Turn Time Limit

1.
Quicksilver's goal is to have it be so easy that making an "editor" would be unnecessary. They're trying to do everything you could possibly want to tweak in easy-to-edit file formats (text and Excel spreadsheets and the like) so any "first level hacker" can open them up and fiddle the numbers.

2.
QS plans on making the whole turn Time Limit thing extremely user-definable. You should be able to, in effect, turn it off in single and multiplayer games. However, like everything else, there is more to the turn timer than you think, and there are compelling play balance and game play reasons to leave it in place.