The Keyboard of the Gods (gives render the ability to write better English, and seem a little less crazy)

lol Josh is still jealous.

ok using copypaste now Z(

so there are several magik objects placed randomly along the map, in unezplored planets.
When somebody ezplore one of them the player finds the object and his abilities are affected by the object power, you can get good things (+10 income, +50 magic, +40 attak, ....) or bad things (-30% iron production, -20% income, even lose pop like having a e-storm continuously on your pop, ...)

The effects and description of every object is what this thread is for, using the playebase imagination, then mods could choose those they like more.

The objects have some rules:

-They move from system to system like fleets to station move, using the race speed, so once you find an object you can start moving it, and this is where strategy plays the part: 

-If the object is good for yourself you'll want to move it to a safer planet/system to avoid losing it.

-If the object is good for any other in your fam you can swap the planet where the object is stored, or move it to another planet/system easier to be swapped to a family member.

-If the object is a doomed one you'll want to get rid of it, so either you can swap it to a family member (as ezample -50% income will not affect to an attaker) or you can store it in a planet which you ezpect to be losing (you can take a planet you know it's gonna be retaken and quickly move the doomed object there).

-You can initially move the object to another location, but once reached, the object must stay there for 24h before you're allowed to move it again, or until it is taken by another empire. This would avoid people continuously moving good objects to prevent losing them.

-If the object arrives to its destination and the planet is not longer yours (or has been blownup) the object authomatically moves back to the original planet and the 24h rule is applied. In case the original planet is not longer yours or has been blown up then the object will be placed in the nearest planet you have to that one, and the 24h rule is applied.

-Eztreme cases: when a player holding objects deletes, the objects stay in the planets (now as unezplored). When a player moving an object deletes, the object will be placed in the original planet (now as unezplored). When a player moving an object loses all his planets ekscept the homeplanet, the object will be placed in the original planet (whatever it is an unezplored or taken by another player).

-These objects will create a new dimension of strategy in wars (are you being raided by a camaar? and you have that object called "Sphere of Slowness", you place it in a banker planet you know its gonna be attaked).

-Objects cannot use portals --> they move at the speed of your fleet from system to system, but they can be moved to planets you own in the same system instantly.

-Objects cannot be stored in the HomeSystem, but they can be placed in any other system protected by a DS.

Appart from this basic rules there should be 2 new ops related to the magic objects:

-Relic Seeker is a self-spell, with similar difficult as a cpff, that shows you randomly one of the "found" objects and what family is holding it (it will not show the hidden objects in unezplored planets).  The message on a succesful Relic Seeker spell should be like this: "The candle of Wisdom is being held by family #5678"

-Find Object is an agent operation, with similar difficult to a portal sab, that you perform on an enemy empire to find out any object being held by that empire.  If succesful you'll get a message like this: "The Arbolio empire is holding the Arc of Triumph in planet 21,33:7"
However this op should be random, in the way if Arbolio holds more than 1 object, you can get the same info on the same object for 3 times (or more) and still get no info on the other object/s being held. 
In case the object is being moved the message should read something like "The Arbolio empire is moving the Arc of Triumph to the planet 21,38:15. We cannot estimate when it will arrive.".
Finally if Arbolio is holding 0 objects the msg should read "sorry, The Arbolio empire is not holding magic objects".

Probably just copied his original and replaced all 'z's with c

lol do you know by any mean how stupid looks somebody trolling a guy bekause of an issue with the keyboard? have you realised how childish and ridiculous are your laughs in this thread just bekause I type weird? Kids at playground speak more serious stuff than you ladies and gentlemums
Kome on Lee you are a dad, and some others here are probably old enuf to be grandpas, lets akt llike adults, right?

Now back to topic, any konstruktive comment?

wahahah whoever get to explore an e-storm object especially pop banker..they can just quit..hahaha 7 hours of e-storm r deadly enough..imagine permanent e-storm..hahahaha

Ectroverse had a similar system called "artifacts"  each artifact found gave a bonus to the entire family.

things like this could be a bonus:

- reduced upkeep costs
- 10% added endurium production
- 10% added octarine production
- reduced agent/wizard spell costs
- increased military strength
- all planets size increased by %
- reduce decay by %
- reduce building costs by %

There are many options here depending on how extreme you could break it down.

for example "the all seeing eye artifact makes infiltrations and spy on target operations free, does not count it as part of the 7 opps and success rate is increased by 50%"

I like this ezamples, the "all seeing eye" looks great, and its the kind of bonuses I was thinking of appart of the normal atribute bonus/malus.
However I wouldnt design artifakts to affekt the whole family, I think individual objekts are better bkause it requires more job to move them to the right person, more IK style.  We kould kreate another strategy dimension tho in the way, we kan design 'general' objekts also to affekt the whole fam, with 2 konditions:  The leader should be the holder and he should pay a high amount of kash & oktarine to aktive the general artifakt to affekt the whole family.  But notize this would unbalanze the bonus/malus ratio bekause general artifakts kan only be good.

heving bonuses for all the family is too overpowered, unless you kreate doomed objekts to affekt all the family, so if an attaker kaptures a planet with a -20% inkome it will affekt to all his bankers

do we want this??  again players being punished by other's aktions?  i dont think so!

so individual bonus/malus is the way to do it, my idea is good and your idea is not good

We don't want anything in this thread other than the stoppage of k's being used instead of c's.

maybe a Dark Artifakt that extends artifact bennies to your whole fam

if you sacrifice planetary pop to it

muhahahahah

That's actually a great idea, would be very interesting sacrificing certain things for beneficial rewards..