Just a suggestion, but I seriously doubt that it will happen, if multiplayer is added to the game, where people build their colonies and you have the factions controlled by the computer and then you have factions be other players so you can decide to be friendly, neutral or attack other players colonies, and/or have it be like players are the only factions, no computer generated factions, and in order to win you build your colony with a certain amount of time of peace and then when it ends just fair play and raid the crap out of the other players, and the player with their colony still standing wins. :o
Not a full multiplayer yet but modding will get you covered on that https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=22114.0 (https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=22114.0) :P
^^ Holy run-on sentence, Batman!