Going off that first post: Perhaps, a galaxy where ticks go by much faster, and just extend the duration of the round accordingly (in terms of in-game years/weeks) but still lasting a month in real-time.

It would certainly help with creating a faster pace and having something to do more often.

For example when you're waiting around to amass x resources for a jump can take almost a whole day or so depending on your situation and your goal. But if ticks went by faster, attacking, defending, and jumping would be much more exciting instead of, "Okay I just started X. I guess I'll have to check-in in a few hours before bed to see how that's going..."

Maybe ticks of 30min? 15min? 10min? Whatever would be most fitting.

I think that would be neat experiment.

I know, I know.

Just pointing out my biggest issue with this game and trying to start a discussion on how to fix it

I didn't say to speed up ticks, I said speed up the pace! Give us a 2-3 week round that we can play in also. Starting with more resources and ships or something to keep people busy during boring times in the main galaxy. Maybe alternate between hardcore and a round with limited attacking so attackers can have fun and infra whores can test stuff out.

Would you like a bandage for that?

Not sorry, though.

Make defence  stations cheeper and more of them in new galaxy.

I mean, if these cats are not going to be active... don't join the super duper mega light speed ultra fast paced galaxy.
/Frustrated Rant

To speed things up, instead of just your home planet, have the system assigned to you already and you have all the planets under your control at the start. The expos you have on hand could immediately be used for spread instead of infra. Hard code that Galaxy have those planets built to 50% size with a standard mix of buildings. That way everybody starts with the same Eco plus their starting resources. Speeds the game up by at least 3-5 days that way.

lol, you mean ideas for a new galaxy? yep that sounds good, nothing new though as the ideas thread is full of "ideas for a new galaxy", the issue here is three galaxies running at the same time is it not? isn't that why you posted this? There simply is not enough players to have three running concurrently.

lmao, oh there are other players that feel exactly the same way, have felt that way for YEARS, but the problem is the player base is just too small, we fought these battles a long time ago when we had at least 10x the player base we have now, it didn't work then because it waters down the competition. We've been down this road several times, we've even been restricted to play in one galaxy (Pinwheel) or the other (Milky Way) and that still didn't work lol, they even took Pinwheel away to try force everyone to at least play in just one galaxy, look how that's turned out lol.

The best way to "speed up the game" is to up the production of buildings i.e. Mining Facilities (Oct and Endu as well), now produce 5 or 10 iron per building etc not 1 per building, CFs should produce 100gold per tick not the "10" that it does now etc, etc, meh, just another idea that will fall by the way-side like they always have.