My main objective (just me speaking), would be to change this.  I'd really love for this game to take less time, yet let skills come out.

Not really sure how to achieve this

Cool thanks - we need feedback to see how we can tweak the next Supernova round.  I've heard from a few people that the map was too big - so we can change that.

RE: Target Market - this is always a dilemma.  We wanted to have a galaxy for SS players in a non HC round, so you can't get completely decimated.  So we still want it competitive too.  But we want 'some' kind of protection for newer players, which is where the "cores" come in. 

RE: PNaps - similar to illegal alliances.  We have them ingame to stop the dishonourable "omg we had a pnap but u attacked and totally killed me" type things.  If we didn't - I'm sure people would still make agreements outside of the game NAP system - again, hard to police.

There are no inactives, we only just started this.

But yea, if someone becomes too busy to be able to help (some breaks are okay, ofcourse - we're not going to remove people for not being around for a few days), then yea, we'll gladly take in more helpers.

I actually wrote about this in chat earlier

It needs a bit of Organization.  Didn't htink about it fully, but we could have some sort of stuff like

Empire
- HQ
- Council
- Planets
- Research

Social
- Messages
- Family
- Forum
- Diplomacy

Attacking/Offensive
- Fleets
- Build Units
- Map
- Quick View
- Magic/Ops

That's kinda what I had in mind - but yea, could be a better way to organise - and a better design too.

I think everyone said this a while back

Not sure if this is on the agenda though - I have no expertise with making apps, and I think almost a whole re-write probably has to be done.  Or we could get another Dev who has experience with this stuff doing it /shrug

It would definitely solve a lot of mobile issues though.

Unfortunately, I don't think this is possible.  I'm sure it's a case of "will ic be a good income for me in future" if so, then it justifies the cost to add a developer.  This really is a question for Stefan, so I'll forward it on to him.

Yep, I like this idea.  I don't think we need to necessarily change the Mods for this.  I mean, what we want is people who know how or what to do in terms of game direction.  Or at least have ideas and move things forward.  What we could potentially do is keep this separate from the Mod Team.  I mean, we don't want these same people changing races, doing multi checks etc.

This was the original concept of the Think Tank - by Elrohir.  I really loved this idea, but it grew way too big and we lost control.  If possible, I'd like to bring this back in some shape or form.  On a much smaller scale though.  This way we have people who are directly helping with game mechanics and how to improve IC (ofcourse with limitations of dev capabilities and possibilities etc).  I'd be very much interested in this.

I'm not sure if people have noticed, but I've been trying to get a lot of feedback and work closely with teh community.  There's only a few of us left, really - and it pays to try and fix the game up for us, while having a bigger picture of where to take IC.  We don't all have the answers, so it's good to get a good interaction going - which is what I've been trying.

Constructive criticism is always needed.  Afterall, we're all volunteers trying to save this game.  It's served us well for so long and we are just trying to improve on it.  We may not always have the answers, but we're definitely trying.

Yep, this looks like a good idea.  Right now, those numbers just do some kind of crude calculations based on what you have on hand.

Just for the record though:

Although it doesn't stop at 186 - if you do select 261356, and hit build, it'll only build 186.  Should be made better though, yep.

Ofcourse they are different.  But they are both against the rules, is what I meant.

lol, i love how cos your round is not going well, you think it's the mods fault.

Illegal Alliances, sure, they may exist - what do you propose to do about them?  How do you identify them? How do you police them? What can be done?

So easy to criticize and say what's wrong with the game, without offering up legitimate solutions.