Advertising, Oversight and game play / balancing
Advertising
Premise - Few players make a boring game
Solution - Advertise! most online gamers play more than one game so advertise on other successfull online games like runescape, ogame and dragoncourt. BTW i would have never even heard about GC if not for a banner they had on DragonCourt when i first started playing 3 years ago.
How to pay for it- Generate revenue by using dp point promotions like on Uc. Many staff members an advisors might dislike it but it pays the bills and will get allot of people playing the game. But allow empires other options aswell besides paying for dp`s. Like bounties and contest just like on uc.
Oversight
I really don`t like the idea of non paid staff having too much power. Although we have a good admin crew now i feel there is no oversight and eventually we will get a bad admin that will abuse their power. I feel that paid staff should make all decissions on suspensions, silencings anything punitive. And non paid staff should help nebies and serve in a purelly advisitory role
Gameplay and balancing (simple)
Viral ship upkeep .8 to 1 upkeep power ratio being they make 70% of what a terran makes but they are penalized .1 for having cream of crop ships
also chiron should be consisant with other starbases and be given a range of 7
Guardian reduce tax burden to -75%
add 1 additional colony to max colony
Maru is fine
Terran is fine
Collective bring over the collective ships from Uc and give 1 or 2 of them a missle attack
increase existing build rates by 300% and give them one additional colony
Miner has one less colony than terran because they were a superior race before terran ship mods were changed. And being both make equal incomes i believe miner shhould have 1 additional colony aswell
introduce 2 more heavy starbases and make all starbases non retal
reduce power rating of lako by 75%
reduce g lictor
eliminate 1 major weakness on g livid fighter