There are two kinds of Gold features. First, some features are part of Gold to add value to the expansion. Second, some features are Gold-only because they change the gameplay significantly. With this new release, Gold features are going to be included with the standard game. Therefore, some features could be changed to non-Gold mode. Here are the features I'd like to make general rather than Gold settings.

- Large (> 5000 sector) maps
- Bubbles

These settings don't change gameplay significantly the way adding custom aliens, ships, etc will, so I think they should be allowed in stock games. Any issues with this?

No problem here .. go for it