There is a huge spectrum of opinions about how the game should be played (and that's a good thing!) and there are people with vast amounts of play time, and some who are taking their first steps into this great game. I'm somewhere in the middle.
There used to be a mod which placed relics on their own separate cooldowns. I know people may roll their eyes because this is a balance issue, but the game tends to inherently see to this. While being able to activate many relics would be very OP at the start of a game, you don't tend to have many relics yet. Later in a large galaxy game, you may have many relics, but their effect on the whole is greatly reduced. I've never been able to (from a gameplay perspective) understand why activating my Head of Zarqlan would have ANYTHING to do with activating my Javorian Pox Sample other than play balance. The passive effects are great and all, but that artificial feeling limitation is vexing.
For me, it's the fun-factor of being able to freely use all of my relics (with their cooldowns of course).
Is anyone interested in resurrecting this old mod?
