Exploring Clusters Vote

This is a fighting game not an econ sim. changing up the explored planets will only introduce more fighting.

The Raist sayeth Yay.

Addendum - no exploring for col or maru, that`s just silly.

I say no

So your saying that you don`t want to spend time looking for planets? You want to be given one.

Most of the challenge of GC is to explore for good planets to form quality clusters...this idea just sounds like "I can`t be bothered to look for planets and form my own clusters I just want to be given some"

Hahaha yea it would. But more fun as your adrenaline rises deciding what to do ^^

It would be annoying though if you had a tasty u.class and was trying to border for it only to be dumped with a 4k c2

They way it is in the DM, and the way it should be proposed here, is that coll and viral explore their own versions of clusters.
They get their c.2s, c.3s, and c.4s. Hardly dead weight and also very good for plunder if you manage to defend it.
Maru otoh would do well finding a c3. A quick pop and plunder routine for a cash boost.

the only reason I can see that there were even clusters able to explore on DM was because the exploration points had been changed

as long as u cant explore c3s

I think Coll and maru are reliably, a mid to low PR race.. Imagine a poor little coll with 1 planet finding a 125 mediocre C3 cluster.. what are the chances of him defending himself?

As the system is now, you can control how fast you climb PR.. generally you can (if you want) Keep a fleet strong enough to defend the planets you have, and since you explore 1 at a time, you have the chances to pick what you want. Collective`s bonus is for food mostly. As things are now, Terrans are vastly overpowering them in terms of food production (I don`t think this should be. Collectives SHOULD make more food than any other races, just as Aspha miners make more minerals than any others). If a collective finds a C3, a C2, it`s basically dead weight. You cannot grow food on it, it raises your PR a lot, and your fleet would still be small to protect whatever planets you had up to that point.

The other races that can climb in PR quickly should have no issue defending a C3/2 they find, either because their income is good enough, or because they just have good enough ships to defend `em.

I know I`m annoying with collectives, what can I say? I love that race, and right now they`re so gimped compared to others there`s no reason to play them. Marus finding C1/2/3 makes sense, they can fill it up with pop and destroy them. If Collectives still can`t grow food on assimilated clusters, that just makes them a poorer maru (Kind of like, and I quote Wiggly here, Commercial Virals are just poorer Terrans).

Yes. Just want to see this happen.

Yes

Very good idea and a way to nerf the gordo advantage without pissing gordo empires off

I agree with Ren it should be at the same percentages as you have to get a U class planet

no... dumb idea...

No...isn`t this essentially just making gc like uc

DM only