Many suggestions have been made to upgrade IC and all have fallen on deaf ears.  The developer has lost interest in his product and that is the source of the malaise you all are suffering from. 

Stefan wont add new units / buildings so each round will be the same dynamics....like playing Risk for the 372,000th time.

A few years ago I talked to Stefan about updating the graphics in the game with all new CGI shots of the units and buildings.  He sounded interested enough for me to spend many hours making CGI models and then I never heard from him again.  MY price was very reasonable and I have several other browser based game clients, so it isnt like Im some noob artist.

Here is a pic of the IC bomber...you tell me if it sucks

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2v1vg8y&s=4

I can remake all the graphics (and do new ones) if they want to add new units / buildings and that alone would attract new players.  It is too bad this isn't an open source game because I know some of you guys can code. 

Well it has all been said before.

...OH yeah I started working on that pic for the soccer family from 2 rounds ago . . . they declined the theme..so it is only half finished and now abandoned (so dont savage me on the planet)

If it costs money it will never happen. There are no more players. No more real support. We are outdated and the game will be dead soon. It's the way it is.

If we ever see anything happen again I will be shocked.

naw, render, Stefan probably only brings in like $200 a year from this game MAX after paying for the server.

I agree with pretty much everything that was said. When i was made an assmod i was hoping it was an oppurtunity for me to present some new ideas. Even if its something simple like starting resources or whatever. Ive been around for the better part of 10 years now, i know this game inside and out. Yes, some might argue that point with me. Never claimed to be the best player around. However....what i do bring to the table is 25+ years of gaming experience. (stfu Nolio! lol) Not just video games, but strategy war games, table top RPGs and lots of different CCGs. I know that a game needs to keep changing. It needs to stay fresh.

In order for me to get any changes through we need support from the community. We can present idea after idea but the main obstacles are 1) Stefan not being around and 2) a rigid mod team that resists change out of fear of screwing up the game even more than it already is. Personally ive all but given up hope as far as Stefan is concerned. But....there are some things we can change as mods without Stefan being involved. I mentioned those already.

We need to make some changes. Im willing to put in the time and effort to change things. We all have lots of good ideas. I dont have mod powers. I cant just do whatever i wanted even if i had mod powers. We not only need the community behind implimenting changes but the mod team as well. We have to be willing to experiment a little. Some ideas might be a failure but thats how we learn. Its a hell of a lot more fun tryin new things than doing the same thing repeatedly. Even if the changes at this point are minor at best.

We cannot be afraid to try. The consequences of NOT trying to change are far worse than letting the game go on as it is.

The problem with that is....

we cant isolate one galaxy and speed up that galaxy's ticks. All the galaxys would have to be at the same tick rate. i could be wrong about this, but im quite sure thats the way its programmed. Not everyone will want to play at a faster pace. We cant force people into that.

Did you read my previous posts? Changing tick speed would require Stefan. This will most likely never happen. We need ideas to change things that a mod can change or something we can keep track of outside the actual programming of the game itself. At least for the time being.

one of the games that i like to play is Starfury
and the reason why i like it is because (despite the fact it is a browser game) it is mostly played on irc where your family cooperates intensively. IT IS ALL ABOUT TEAM PLAY AND COOPERATION.
IC lacks that especially with smaller fam sizes

The only problem Arganon with 1 large galaxy is that new players who happen to stumble onto the game in the middle of a round may not want to bother. I think they try to stagger at least 2 galaxies so that at any time you only have to wait a minimum amount of time to start a new round from the beginning. Or at least I hope they are doing that...

Im not saying a few minor changes will fix all our problems. Changing starting resources isnt gonna turn the game around and attract new players. Its boring when we do the same configuration every round though.

1 big galaxy would be a disaster in the long run. It might be fun to have both galaxys collide and merge everyone for a single round though.

Lets just forum ban glue?

Darklglue:
stfu arganon you piece of shit
and noir you multi scum

I feel you have a trubbled mind.
There is profesionals out there that might be able to strighten you out.

HEHE

didn't read this all but most complain..

the players make ic fun. how long has it been since you had a real cancellation shared war ? ask your self that if you are an attacker. along time because all fams hide behind 100 system core's they wanna be save and wanna kill other fams without shares and even best just with shares in the other core so not to get hit them self.. and thats what boring for attacker atleast i think thats boring those shared wars where most fun.

infra is just hard ppol fixed it more and more and ppol know if they build this and this there infra will rock and if they get out of wars and nap early they will get an infra lead on other fams who get in fights and need to jump fleet early that was different all fams had to fight and no fam could nap everyone just and keep infra whoring