1st off don't get me wrong, Supernooba has been a step forward in the right direction, I want with this thread that people write their ideas to improve it for next rounds, and I place my own ideas too.
This may be opened in feedback forum? maybe, but it is a dead forum people barely reads.
Supernooba is great because of 2 main reasons imo:
1) a SS non hardcore gal that people was clearly demanding
2) the core protection system is a great improvement in the right direction.
I'd like to have, tho, a countdown visible in the council page, to know how many weeks left to your system becomes a protected one, in this format:
"z weeks left for your system zz,yy becomes part of your protected core"
That info should be visible also for enemies casting a 'vision' or a 'SoT'
There's a 3rd main aspect of supernooba that's the Qezian raze. It is OK placing everyone on the same playing field by using a clone race, but like I wrote in other threads, I'd like to test a round with strong custom races, created by using 500 initial race points that you can distribute among the attributes. Or you can either calculate what are Qezian race points and give that amount to create a custom race, so you can play with a custom or with Qezian.
There's a 4th secondary aspect in the gal that I like a lot, but hasn't been exploited enough:  The Tokaasi Empire.   I think there should be more AI managed empires with a tokaasi race as strong as the Qezians (another clone but with different attributes' distribution).
And finally, the relations in Supernooba, I strongly recommend to allow 2 allies in the gal, that you cannot drop.

There is no AI

its arsbury playing by mail

I see no differenze