Firstly, this game can have an mobile version, but not as an app, but as a mobile friendly webpage, designed to be viewed on small screen..

Secondly, to reduce server load and save bandwidth, we would need to make basic info available to everybody.
Info like...seeing players on the map(and not being foced to click through dozens of systems and load dozens of pages) to find someone and see who are near you. Also, actions that require constantly reloading large pages and sending large sql querys(building on planets page) should be done using javascript, behind the scenes.

Overall, we need to take out the tedious time consuming part and replace it with strategy and thinking. Most people who began playing it, probably started when they didnt have a real job , and now time pushes on.

The whole map should be redesigned, so that it will be displayed as one piece...and maybe not even grouped into systems, but shattered dots.
And to make loading the map page faster...and significantly reduce the load on bandwidth, ic should sent out only planet/system coordinates, and let client side javascript/flash build the map.
(Maybe something like this http://devstorage.comuf.com/ImperialMapGen.swf?family=demo&password=demo&galaxy=milkyway )
use Ctrl to zoom out, and shift to zoom in, or mouse wheel, and click drag to move the map.)

Also, it would be cool to see your moving fleets on map, and possibly even redirect them to another destination, without resending them.

This game belongs to the past we all know it, no way new players arrive with Stefan keeping the game for few $ a year.
Virgo has been removed because only accounts here where from ppl having their account blocked and deleted or creating multy, and finishing it in 2 days. Tutors were wasting their time.
Mods can only find ideas to try to lose players slower and developpers can't invest all their time for a game they don't own.
Only future for IC is a new owner or a new game inspired of IC but that won't be IC ofc...

> Needle wrote:

> Firstly, this game can have an mobile version, but not as an app, but as a mobile friendly webpage, designed to be viewed on small screen..

>Secondly, to reduce server load and save bandwidth, we would need to make basic info available to everybody.
Info like...seeing players on the map(and not being foced to click through dozens of systems and load dozens of pages) to find someone and see who are near you. Also, actions that require constantly reloading large pages and sending large sql querys(building on planets page) should be done using javascript, behind the scenes.

>Overall, we need to take out the tedious time consuming part and replace it with strategy and thinking.
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I agree with these points.. IF IC is to prevail (and be aware that some day like all things, it will die), it needs to be made a little more accessible both to players (i.e. easier to check systems - even releasing VIP map functionality for general use), and to technologies. An iOS, Facebook, and Android app that simply layout the current schema of the game in a slightly different order would work - it doesn't have to have anything that the browser version does now, just needs to be marketed to a different audience. Attacking requires a lot of extra time and effort that shouldn't really be necessary, and though that does make for a niche of players who can use this to their advantage, it also works to discourage new players.

Another thought:
- MERGE GALAXIES.. Right now there are what, 400 IC players? A few years ago MW alone sported 1000+ players, so why divide 400 across 2 galaxies? Admittedly the game has changed in an effort to account for fewer players, but at some point you've got to count your losses and consolidate your assets.. Just MHO.

Good luck you poor poor misguided foohons

RIP IC, you were fun while you lasted

^ what he said, there are far less then 400 players atm