defence race options was my idea

Add extra units like Motherships let me think on how they would work/act i am being serious

TMK great ideas, and i doubt u really care what i think

but it just might be a little too late, sure you'll keep a handfull stay with these ideas, but not really get more people to join IC ..which is what needs to happen

i doubt stefan wants to use the VIP money but i suggest, implementing those ideas
-aggressive advertising
-welcoming newbies
-vets allowed in virgo, to excite things--and vets voluntering to give a little 10 or so minutes to attract the new people in virgbo
-competition in virgo
-new pictures/format/font/colors in IC, make it more lively...it's so boring right now

and that is how you bring in new people, and keep people..--i should know..i'm doing MBA in marketing (if stefan is actually interested--i can give specifics and more points..i'm too lazy to make a lengthy post right now)

I am for new things/units but beware of the easy concept of the game which makes it solid and great. Adding multiple new thinds and units can make the game stand or fall

what about we implement talent trees and you get points to spent after you reach a certain networth

I love some of the ideas, like new units, and new rescourse or sience on rescourses. Maybe even leave the planet bonusses out, that would make it more of a challenge to understand the game. Not everybody knows about the ob%.

Also for the popularity of the game try to get ic on game sites. That maffia game does it, they are linked to 20 different gamesites. Like:spelletjes.nl, 1000spelletjes,... just a few of those in every country. I just gets more players involved. I started to play the maffia game because it was the most played game on those sites. It might cost money thow not sure. But if you don't ask you will never know. Maybe even banners on other gamesites like hattrick. Alot of players play hattrick from all over the world if we banner for them they can do it for us. Its just a tought, all online games can aid eachother in these difficult times.

And for the mods maybe its nice we open a new mainforum thread about ideas, but ideas on the verge of being implemented. Or a list of things mods are working on, atleast then we would know whats going on, what we can expect. Now most players are going with the flow not knowing what will happen or when.

Mods already have the power to change the starting resources/cash --- which has helped keep the novelty around for 2 rounds...

maybe they can also give a few starting explo's every now and then?

I admit, this gives the more coordinated families a leg up rather than things that will help out medium level fams. But it would help kick start explo a bit....also gives fams two ways to do strategy....do you explore right off the bat and fill up the next tick with cf's for a banker? or do you max fill everything and then fill up your HS in one shot and max build for a quick boost before getting down to spreading out?

Looks like we have some great new ideas to improve gameplay. My suggestion is more about the galaxy itself. We have lost a lot of players everyone can agree. All 3 main galaxies are dying you can disagree all you want but its true. My proposal is to combine andro, PW, and MW into one gal we can change the name and come up with a new one. Go back to where it started in mw and rebuild our base and we can bring back other galaxies once we get some players. Mw when it had 100 fams was by far the most fun.

andro, mw, pw = New Galaxy

Go with 80-100 fams at 12people
some people like drafts some dont   go with 1vip 1 friend
you have option to join friends fams but doesn't really make a huge impact.
with a bigger gal and more fams go with 2 allies.

Keep draco for vips, and Sd for hardcore people, Get rid of virgo (they immediately get into the main galaxy no option to join sd)

I have played in mw, tri, and now andro and before we get a bunch of people talking about what a great galaxy community they have think about the game and what your galaxy and how the numbers are going down. Better to preserve the game then a few final rounds.

Nightwish- Fams with 2 members have deleters though

And random is random... By giving it any sort of form, chance of illegal drafting increases. Especially if they go with Warhammers idea (excellent btw) of 1 vip 1 friend.

MW already has 1 vip and 1 friend

BYS2 --- please, stick to things we can change quickly and relatively easily.

i remember reading somewhere, stefan wasn't interested in selling or sharing his IC powers

otherwise, yeah we can all agree whatever it might be, something needs to change

i would say change anything to be made better, anything to keep the players here and then when stefan gets interested in this game again, he can make the changes to get newer people too

someone's comment earlier mentioned layouts. i was just messing around, and created a bunch of layouts. obviously this one isnt finished. :-P but im gonna try and create new pictures for the resources and stuff. hopefully someone sees it and tries to make a nice layout. :-P i dont have the time for it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v620/yumchuunger/LayoutTest1.jpg