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Topic: Imperial Savings and Loan Mode (SuperNova Only)

I have been having a thought lately, and it resolves around my in-activeness but slight desire to play. I want to log on, do a few things and log out, so Supernova is basically my galaxy of choice. However I found last round, and will probably find this round, that I can't just tell everyone "I am not really playing, I want a P-NAP and a bit of space to explore so i can actually do stuff."

The 3 cores thing helps, but it does take~1-2 weeks RL to get sorted, and in that time I have to be somewhat mindful that there are others who are not as peaceful minded /inactive as me. Now much of the gal doesn't take it too seriously, and i have not really had an issue, closest I came was having to pay 20 planets for a NAP - so i lost 2.5 days worth of expos as opposed to 20 built planets of econ.

Now my idea is simple, allow me to have an option like vacation mode, but allows me to explore and build, but not attack and not be attacked. Obviously this is only viable in Supernova, and I would like it coupled with allowing allies in Supernova (but no or fixed market.) This way I could idle in Supernova, provide knowledge of the game to people looking for advice without having to have too much effort scanning systems and effort of diplomacy to get NAPs. It does mean I cannot win the round either (an I am fine if the penalty was no visible nw -or no fame gain if that was changed)I am ot here to win supernova... I am here to idle and see what happens, maybe even chat to people, but I still want to do something in game, not just idle in chat or forums.

This could also be called "lazy-vet mode" if preferred.

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Re: Imperial Savings and Loan Mode (SuperNova Only)

We've had ideas of "idle-mode" galaxies before.

I guess Supernova would be a good place to do it.

Only question is though, you still want a little bit of motivation to compare to others.  Perhaps all the people who have enabled this option (not reversible), can have their own rankings - ie, networth, planets, top lists, or other measures.

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Re: Imperial Savings and Loan Mode (SuperNova Only)

I guess a fear would be that eventually everyone will want to only do this, and attacking will slowly be phased out of SuperNova ....dunno, just assuming.

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Re: Imperial Savings and Loan Mode (SuperNova Only)

there is that fear i guess, it is hard but I just know that it is annoying to have to put more effort in that I really have time for to ensure I have a round that has some reward at the end. Supernova isn't that bad, there isn't a lot of attacking anyway, and with the 3 core systems it sort of works as an idle gal anyway, and I am only really wanting top compete against myself round on round.

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Re: Imperial Savings and Loan Mode (SuperNova Only)

I did find a new way to deal with it... delete and re-join gets me in a fam with empty fams all around... thus no annoying neighbours to worry about

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Re: Imperial Savings and Loan Mode (SuperNova Only)

It's not just you_fool who wants to log in maybe once or twice a day for a total of time spent online per day of 30min to 1 hour.

Most players want this.

They also want to be effective fam members.

We can remedy this in many ways and make IC enjoyable for most people who don't want to spend so much time in-game:

Allow the option of auto-building, auto-attacking / retaking, auto market-bidding, auto-aiding, etc.

Or at the very least, allow activity queuing, specifying the week you want to send such and such amount of fleet (that hasn't finished building yet).

The whole thought process of the people designing this game has got to change:

They have come from a position of misanthropic disdain for players who can't or don't want to be active / new players.  They must change their attitude to one which caters to the moderately active / new player.

If they don't this game will not survive, and be pretty much the same another 10 years from now, only with a lot fewer or even no people playing it.

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Re: Imperial Savings and Loan Mode (SuperNova Only)

Actually, Xeno I disagree (I covered why in the other thread) - this "lazy vet mode" should not be expanded, and I see it as only a limited use - like once you activate it lasts the whole round but you cannot activate for a further 3 rounds, or something like that. This will reduce the use and not make it the default way of playing supernova.

The only point that maybe good for the game is the queuing of limited actions - mostly around sending aid. I.e. at tick 5 send 5mill gc to person x. This will allow for inter-fam co-operation without requiring everyone to be super active. But that is a Starburst thing, and thus not suitable for this thread which is on Supernova only

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but i am Jesus"
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