Possible Solution to two races

I wonder what a terran/ a.miner baby would look like O_o

just realized another factor in starting up an account. there arent enough mineral miners out there. ive had to wait for days before when trying to get minerals to just climb out of newbie protection. this definitely makes it hard to start a collective account

lol ^^ my federation constantly sees new players coming in and out and hopefuly i helped one in every 5 =)

scoldingfire, that would be cool, but is stephen required, so will never happen.

As for understanding the game at first start, it`s true, I was more informed than others. I read the entire manual before signing up to play the game. Made things a lot easier, and I wasn`t begging for help like a lot of new players did back then.

is there any way we could somehow make a adventure area where u build a fleet that u try to take through the adventure area and u can sometimes win things there or something?????like going through a dimension rift or someting that got created

if we could make a entire are for new players to play entill they think they ready for exp players new players might stick around

most new players dont completely understand the entire game when they first start. i know i didnt when i first started

yeah, but newbhunters have always been a problem, even back in 03 when I started. The only reason I didn`t become a slave like so many others was because I did all the ship research before popping out of NP. SagacityUSRR is by far the most famous newbhunter of all (if I`m remembering correctly) who had countless slaves, though that wasn`t all he did. The newbhunters of today by comparison are nothing, if for no other reason than lack of prey. If new players don`t want to get discouraged, then they should get all of the different ships before trying to battle others, otherwise, just explore, get hit once, then explore for 24 hours to your hearts content.

I was high pr coll until my empire got killed... and it was really quite easy :D... you just have to have patience to play the race respectably (and yes i`m saying having 300 planets with 40k land is not respectable... i had the same amount of land with 1/4 of the base pr).

i wasnt talking about getting killed by then. i was saying that it is very discouraging to new players, and causes them to quit, even if they were terran or Aspha Miner. ive talked to quite a few new players who have told me they can barely poke their heads out of dp without someone coming after them, who quit about 5 days later.

hehe flashy I just meant that if you stop playing because youre getting killed by n00bhunters you clearly need some experience in how the game works, thus I suggest playing terran or miner to avoid having to restart over and over :P

New players shouldnt play one of the races who can get killed... thats what terran and miner are there for, to learn game dynamics.<---- Sib

Hey! Are you saying the reason I exist is to get killed? Shoot.I`ll have you know without me Deathroe wouldn`t have a source for borders !

I play Terran because it is the best for those who have varied hours of access. I couldn`t play other races because of the time demand of constantly being on to take care of the empire. As it stands now, I either have to have six-nine borders or go VM for 72 because of the time demands in RL.

Just give me arty times which are accessible for those who sleep....then that `easy` race will be a pain in yer ...ahem.

Im going to have to agree with OpvsDei & Elemental.

Newbie Hunters could be the cause of GC`s growth to have died off. At one time the growth of the game was it its prime, and newbie hunting in those days was still a bit new, and once it caught on we had tons of newbie hunters in the lower & mid ranks hitting everything in site. If there was probably any logs of the event, it would probably show a strong and steady decline of newer players staying after the height of GC`s growth just cause the newbie hunters at that time were numerous. I only hope more people think about, cause an effect. Now GC has no/little advertisement so our chance of growth is gone, and GC could use a long over due graphics update.

CG mara came up earlier and i didnt see anyone else comment on it and it is acually pretty amazing >.> think u got the tax and ur makign ur own CGs and RM so ur per turn is really acually nice with everything included and the extra from CG sales ;) with a good 2 or 3 clusters a CG maru could have a pretty decent income ;)

I agree with sib.. I think most games if u cant killed the powerful or vets.. U will find the food instead of letting others feed on it.. Its like a food chain.. The cat hunt for mice bcoz it cant hunt the dog..

I dont find newbiehunters a problem... if they want to spend their time on GC hunting a good battle record then by all means do that!

New players shouldnt play one of the races who can get killed... thats what terran and miner are there for, to learn game dynamics. Then once you are accustomed to the game you can start playing coll/maru etc and then im sure n00bhunters is not a problem.

In rt, for someone with 700 plus day empire and with my stats in battles so little without me taking vm so often.. I believe i cannot be counted as newbiehunter..

agree with ementaler!

the way i see it, we dont need to buff/nerf ships or racial modifiers. all we need to do is get rid of nnobhunters, which will have a side effect of having more players keep playing after they discover this game. getting beaten by newbiehunters a couple of times is highly discouraging to new empires (i know because when i first started, i quit after about a week, because i kept getting attacked by them and losing). this could help because that would keep more players open in the lower ranks (i mean under 100k pr), so coll/maru would have more chance to get borders. also, it is hard to build a strong coll/maru account while getting constantly attacked by newbiehunters. after attacking, most newbiehunters plunder the colonies they win and drop to under 5k pr, so just like that the coll/maru in question is short up to 3 colonies immediately, since usually the newbiehunter wins. its not a question of keeping coll/maru strong, its to make starting a coll/maru empire a little easier

Either the upkeep.. The modifier.. The ships.. I lwas thinking bout the ship to make it more interesting for all of us.. Then again.. It might cause the staff headache.. But considering how bw and gang could pull off npc and elf event.. And changes to the ships thus far.. I know its within their means to make it interesting..

My idea might be wild.. Sorry to all affected people.. My work consist of dealing with drunkards..