This is an example of how different play styles can be. I take forever to do anything in GCII, especially in the ship designer, which I probably "play" as much as the game itself.

Have you tried Space Empires IV? If IRC it has a hotseat mode. Maybe that would take care of your hot seat space empire fix. It also has tons of mods out there for it. This is an example of a game that was made with multiplayer in mind from the start.

Don't even bother with SEV, it's way too buggy to play now.

Look Kryo Summed it up. The game doesnt need a hotseat mode, its perfect the way it is, ok! Anough of the multiplayer people asking for it please, its driving me insain!!!

Reading that made me dumber, I had to look up insain to remember it's spelled insane lol