the strong will prey on the weak. Here's the thing, theres a finite amount of targets and planets to choose from and big families tend to agree to not fight or hold off at least until the end of the round

It depends on whats going on with updates and what not. Usually its a few days, however I noticed that there are several new updates that have recently been included and I think that may be a factor.

Personally i would prefer quality over speed. Rushing only means mistakes happen

How about new operations and spells? Like

Sabotage Endurium: Destroy x% of endurium
Hamper Fleet: Increase travel time of a random fleet being sent
Terror: Decrease population growth by 5% (stacks)
Construction Obstruction: Increase construction time on a planet by 6 weeks (stacks)
Fearless: Increase attack strength of units but decrease defense for 8 ticks (maybe another disadvantage, like cannot send out fleets for 4 ticks?)
Manifest Destiny: Decrease Exploration Ship Travel Times by 3 weeks (or 4 maybe? Or less?)

so forth

I just wanted to point out that ultimately, for all the time, effort and energy put into this game, unless we have a developer to actually work on the game, it doesnt really help to sit here and yell, argue, scream, fight or say things about Gwynedds underpants. (His wife tells me they have cute polka dots).

So I think the first step is to find a developer to help fix IC up and get more things rolling, then after that, we can attract old players and even new players by telling them about the exciting (yeah right) new improvements. Another thing that couldnt hurt would be to make banners and put them on facebook on our facebook pages or some one can make a twitter account (I'm looking at Gwynedd or KT =P) and they can post things about the game or even talk about the wars going on. like 2018 just killed 2140. #expowarsftw

Little ideas. I may suggest something to one of the mods when I'm on IRC next and gwynedd is wearing his cute polka dot undies

I agree, negative boosts would be a nice change as well. Negative. I think they should be hidden probably too.

Hidden ones are probably more likely to be difficult to really deal with since people can hand them off to their family members, so maybe a 1 time event?

Like:

-Plague where you lose a certain number or percentage of a specific unit or maybe pop?
-like Lightguns travel boost, I would say instead of a boost, perhaps have a gravimetric ?
-even a black hole in general that would increase travel time in a system?

I'm sure theres lots of ideas, however I know one that would really get people going

-a bigger morale bonus. +2 or +3 instead of +1. that would be like, really huge for attackers.

@cjay

well if you already know the answer why are you asking the questions? =P

shouldnt this be in ideas?

As i understand it, the placing of resources is designed to be random, as well as the percentages. For example, 1 system could have a 66% research planet, 5 iron planets around 15-20%, and 1 endu 16% and food 35% on the last planet. Theres no real rhyme or reason in this case. In the situation of morale planets, I'm not quite sure if they are as randomized seeing as they are not just invisible til you explore them, but i'm curious if the mods are able to declare a certain number per galaxy to even the numbers out

I once convinced Orbit that I was a good player =P

point for ilu

congrats SD

I recall a friend running early pop one round and me running Cfs. By third week we were making about the same income, course, I was running cf's only, but now I'm doing cf/to strat, but at the first month being done, he had over 1 mil income and I was 800k. Course, this was back in andro and we werent playing an overall strat, just teams... But I feel that if you focus on cf bankers at the beginning, devoting a percentage to a pop banker to be early pop, you may get it to pay off if they are active enough to monitor pop AND market. Playing the market will make the biggest difference as you will net more resources to build with early on

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