After 48 to 72 hours the fam leader should be able to just designate which of the inactive's planets are handed-over to which family member, along with fleet, science points, etc.

The planets should get handed-over with defenses and infra (including portals).

If you wanted to have some fun with this, since you would be creating the code for this hand-over, why not create a new op with it?

Call it 'orchestrate coup'. It could only be successful on empires of players who have not logged in for more than 24 hours.  Or maybe you could make it doable on active players too?  Instigate coup would have to be a very difficult op, and maybe unique only to one of the races.  If successful, it would allow the opper to have a certain percentage of the targets empire's planets (including a certain percentage of their fleet, science points, infra, resources, etc.) simply handed-over to them. 

Suddenly, the opper could gain ported planets in enemy systems. For this reason, the op should be very difficult, and usually only work to get 1 or maybe 2 planets, but, potentially, if the opper's agents / nw ratio is very much in their favor and if the target empire has been inactive for a very long time, the opper could get a very significant number of planets, fleet, etc., maybe even as much as 30%.  You could make the probability of success of the op and the percentage of planets, fleet, science points, etc. to be handed-over greater the longer the target player has not logged-in.  So, if the fam does nothing about their distributing their inactive players' planets, fleet, etc. among themselves, another fam could get it. 

You could also use a variation of this code to allow selling of planets, fleet, science points, etc, on market.

Undeath wrote:

Xeno wrote:

How about flag for deletion after 72 hours, but have the fam leader responsible for deletion, so the fam can take planets before deleting the inactive?

Leader is already flagged via the [last login] tab

Never knew the reason why only the leader gets the msg of inactivity, it should show up for everyone

How about flag for deletion after 72 hours, but have the fam leader responsible for deletion, so the fam can take planets before deleting the inactive?

Like it.

Except, how about everyone starts out in no family, essentially everyone is SS to begin.  And there are only two families in the galaxy, and you can choose to join one or the other, but only if there is a slot open, and only if the fam wants you. 

If there's a slot open, a player just sends a join request to fam leadership (fam leader and vice leaders can accept new members). 

Slots open first for one fam and then the other, so that there is never more than 1 slot open to join either fam, and so that each fam only ever has a maximum of 1 player more than the other. 

Say fam A has 20 players , and fam B has 19 players , fam B has a slot open and fam A doesn't.  When a player joins fam B and both fams have 20 players, a slot opens for both fams.

It could get to the point where each fam has thousands of players.  In such a case, inevitably, there would be factions developing within each fam, requiring team systems.

For now, though, we're probably going to have no more than what 50 players per fam?

If you did  the two fam idea, they could be at constant war, you know, and the players who don't join fams can play SS or form their own neutrally-aligned fams through the alliance system.  Just need to allowing trade between allies.

This is all like my factions idea from long a time ago.

If you did this, you could merge the galaxies.  Wouldn't need Super Nova anymore.

As for the market, we should keep it.   First, SS players who don't want to team up with anyone would need it.  And, secondly, since there's a lot of money for fams to make by investing on market, even the fams might want to use it.

As for a barter system, you could incorporate it into the current market system.  You could allow players to post and accept bids for any amount of any resource for any amount of any other resource, including GC.

The bids would show up in the galactic market pane as a list, whereby all the bids everyone in the galaxy has made are there for all to see.  Sure, it might be a long list, but a player could sort the list of bids by resource type, resource amount, ratio (so they could see the best deal first), and who the seller is (because maybe they want to buy from a particular player, like an ally, or only those players who are part of their fam).  A player would just have to click on a bid to accept it.

If you really want to do something cool, you could allow players to post bids not only for resources and GC but also for units, infra, and even planets.

Look, the factions idea from before - it's golden.  People just have to realize it, and then send me the GOLD~!  IC will get more ideas from me if you do.

Also, IC needs a mythology for players to follow along that explains the faction system, how game play events unfold, background to the races, epic players and their feats, etc..  Want me to write it?  No problem.  I'll charge Stephan $20 per word.

Or $10...? 

Or profit shares?

Royalties?

Movie rights?

Cheeseburgers?

Look, it's negotiable...

Team
-LUSTER
-SNOWY
-UNDEATH
-VX
-FLIPMODE

and 96 are nothing but whiners and sore losers by the looks of this thread (not in 01, but still..... i can sit here smiling haha)