I was talking to James about this last night, but I'd rather get feedback/ideas from everyone.
We were looking at the long-term gameview for Giant Robots - running through ideas of where the game should go, and came up with the following:
Interstellar Travel: Sometime, probably around 3rd ed. a practical interplanetary map, with travel between galaxies (possibly involving some down-time, to compensate for time), this gives everyone more space to play around with, and means I can create vast companies simply by creating another solar system. I'd be hesitant to add aliens (except in a Lovecraftian 'unknowable horror' kind of way (Unless enough people Really liked the idea of introducing an alien race, anyway…)
A step away from Tournament: There's a lot of interest in what's happening outside the tournament, planned 3rd ed. rules will deal with this in part - giving you control of military force with which to attack eachother but one of the ways the game could well go, is becoming less tournamenty, and more strategyy, with Mechas used primarily as the iron fist of your army.
None of these are set in stone - their simply ideas we were bandying about. Anyone else have any opinion on this? Or any other ideas they'd like to share?