More Players At A Time

There is legit PVP potential in this game, but with only 4 players at a time you're only going to be running with friends. I think the cap could go up to 12 so you can have factions of players. I know this would imply more characters to choose from, but Obsidian could just remove the limitation so there can be multiple Pete's. If you're having objections, obviously you don't have to play this way, you could still run it completely coop with a few friends, but adding options where you can increase the player cap or even limit mutations, raw science, and map locations to the one player who got it would only add to the game.