Unless it had a energy cost of like 2000 and a cool down of a month.....even then its got a snow balls chance in hell of happening.

Nope. Not just because it can be considered OP, but because Quasi-Spatial Expanders are probably Dan's 2nd biggest money maker after storage buildings. That alone is reason enough for him to not implement a racial ability like that.

Then what about the terraformers they should be his 3rd biggest money maker yet he released races that could in time do the same. A race that slowly can do what the arts can is fine. There will always be people that want the fast and easy way to get things done. A lot of people seem to buy the terraformers and expanders asap when they open the missions for the exotic, dyson, rift planets. If they don't most likely they will never buy too many artifacts anyways. Its not really a question of if he is going to release a new race and not really a question either as to if a new race will expand planets. It more or less comes down to when is he going to release a race that will let players upgrade planets in size, attack, def, or cloak in some way or amount. I figure in 3 years we will see a race that does one or more of those.

Have to point out that by time you start NPCing enough to get all those terraformers you are to the point where you are only taking the best planets most of the time anyways. If the planet expander race only took planets up to Very Large people would only be using them on a few of their earlier planets when they didn't know what to look for when they took them, and a few other good planets that were smaller that had good production values. Dan would make more money from people changing to the race then the few people that abandon their first few planets or sit on hoping a new player finds and takes them.

There would be no reason for the race then if the cool down was that much, an 80 hour cool down and 400 energy along with a lv 500+ rank mission taking 1m plus energy will put it pretty much in balance with the other races. Wouldn't be too bad even if the energy amount was pushed up to 2m as most people over 500 should take a few weeks to get that. If you want to keep it from being overpowered you make it so that it can't make planets bigger then Very Large or Massive.

Supported, i love the idea. The recharge time/energy cost would have to be double that of the standard abundancy increasing races though.

500 energy, 40 hour cooldown, chance of success based on existing planet size, with small planets being 100% and really big ones going as low as 10% chance of success.