I've investigated making IC a facebook app in the past, as have others, but one large obstacle is the use of inline frames.

Facebook apps are actually just an inline frame on Facebook with contents from the apps website displayed inside. The problem is IC already uses iframes for the sidebar. Bad things happen when one tries to stick IC's iframe inside of facebook's inline frame.

Rewriting IC's code to not use frames is a very big task. We'd need two copies of code to display a page, one for a normal website and another for display on facebook. Because IC has grown over a long period, it was never written with a specific architecture. To make the code maintainable, we'd have to write the code using something like MVC. With that we could have one view for the normal webpage, and another view for a facebook app while using the same model and controller for both. This isn't impossible, and it will happen eventually, but separating ICs code into an MVC architecture and then writing two seperate views is a lot of work.

1) Engineering Student + intern

2) In ICPG1 Torqez and Destroyyoutoo were both large attackers trying to raid my ~250 planets; they only got 19.

3) Back in highschool, a few of us made it a hobby to climb on as many roofs as we could. One time we climbed onto the roof of the office building (only a single story) and played Frisbee until we heard the staff talking about the noise down below. We made a quick escape by climbing down on the opposite side.

It does not count towards defense.

I find it hard to read your posts. Would you mind making your posts have one idea per paragraph rather than one sentence per paragraph?

Stefan still owns the physical server, but he doesn't write code anymore. Elrohir and myself have been updating the game.

If you'd like to talk to any of us, hop on irc.imperialconflict.com and join #mod with any irc client.

These ideas are all interesting. It's frustrating to play in a small family, while larger families feed off of you. I don't like the third idea, because it'd be somewhat expensive to calculate.
What are some other ideas? All I can think of is adding a bonus to the defenders of a planet depending on how close it is to their home system.

Generic thread titles are awful! I keep clicking this thread because I forget what it was about.

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Those messages get cleaned up each tick. Are you saying you'd like "unknown entity" messages to last all round?

What would the op do in addition to casting the blame elsewhere?

This idea is overpowered. The current system is inconvenient, but it allows other families to quickly snag a few defenseless planets as they're being passed. With this idea the planet would be defended the throughout the entire transfer.