Discussion of Future

lol yea... i was a administrator and helped make a game with someone last year and it worked good but he gave it up and i did not have the brains to code and stuff so it basically got shut down..lol

I started making a game a couple of years ago.... but then real life caught up to me

if u made your own game TPe you would just try to use CE on your own game and have it not work XD

You know what , lets make our own game, with out taking the names from gc, try to make a game Anfit could, we all can make a game similiar to gc but difrent other stuff our own races and all that would be fun :)

let`s face it. GC is dead. it died with the crash which took Stephen`s beta rewrite down the drain some years ago. without an architecture change nothing decent can and will be done with it. so, if you hope for a major update, dream on. and without a major update this game will die in truth. or will be buried, as i already said it`s dead. no rejuv on the side (as i`m doing) will really make it better, not for long.

see alexa.com`s stats. gc accounts to 3% activity on spacefed. it`s insignificant and i gather the only reason it hasn`t been scrapped is because (1) it does bring some profits and/or (2) it would be bad for PR to close it down.

i was thinking for a while to mash it up with another system, but i`ll never have the right user saturation to introduce any significant features. not with the limitations of cross-frame browsing, really.

btw, though, if you really want to see a decent game set up a wiki somewhere and start brainstorming ideas...

now, excuse me, but i`ve got to go take a steamy hot bath :D

Old UC FTW!! :D

so after he updated uc and made that game better and got more people to join and play u guys left O_o

if Stephen did some of the same junk that he did to UC, then all of the GC people would leave. Many of us used to play both games, until he completely re-did UC.

well at first he put lots of time into GC and tried to make it the best game in the business but then he just disappeared and then made uc what it is and still nothing on GC..... i still think GC should have projects like uc to buy projects and stuff for example a DNA restructure where u pay like 24.95 dp`s and u can restart and keep your planets and infra ... or a caymans timebank like uc has where u can hold up to 500 turns in the bank and on larger time stored servers u can have more in the bank.... it would get more money into GC and then maybe stephen would realize it start doing things for GC like he did with uc

actually, I believe Stephen created UC first. He left UC and did GC. So I can understand why he would want to go back and update UC and make it the game it is today. When I first came around, very few people played UC and now it has a huge player base. But now that he`s accomplished that, it`s time to come back and play around with GC some more...

YES..... only way to bring back people is to update the game.... and maybe advertising on the same sites that stephen does with uc..... stephen i think forgot about the game that made him a good gaming creator.... he ditched GC for uc and if he put the same care into gc as uc, GC would probably have 2X more ppl than uc instead of the other way around

If you want people to come back to the game, it needs "regular" updates. This game received it`s last major update on April 7, 2004. That`s almost 4 years ago now. At that time there were regularly 400+ people online at any given time.

Also- this game had better battles when it was still just 6 stacks of ships instead of 10. People actually stacked back then instead of spamming.

HF not HH btw... lol....

anybody that says uc takes no skill then they obviously don`t play uc or they really suck at it.... alright i played uc and was top 50 in planets when i left and i know many uc`ers that come play gc and think gc is easier... gc is extremely easy... i played gc after i stopped on uc and its a million times easier...... i was in the top fed of u when i played (HH) and i also had my own top 10 fed for a while... any op can be broken it just takes skill and lots of work about how each ship`s weaknesses are ..... ppl say uc is what hurts GC .... no its not..... everyone just blames that.... and lyriel there are only 6 ships in a stack because u get 4 stacks of op ( 3 from fed and 1 from lord/vassal)... so u obviously must not play uc or u extremely suck at it

i have spoken =p

All forse restarting would do, is piss people off and they would leave GC for good!
It took me almost 2 years to get what i`ve got and eh if someone forse reset`s my account i would be pissed!

If the server gets reset people would sue Stephen, and beleive me when i say this, only way Ste could get out of it would be to close GC
(otherwise people would be entitled to full compensation)

I respect stephen and other members of GC.
But the point is, if someone did, it would be the end of GC..
(I studied law, so i know what im talking about)

Anyway, what if some new player joins up, and within a month gets forse reset. They would leave, It would quite honestly destroy GC...

Best way would be, do 90% reset`s on minerals and cash ;) people of GC support,
it happens.. And no one leaves ;)

hey i wonder if you can do 2-3 more uws right now on rt, that would be really fun force restarts and all that :)

The latest UW proved that the server needed it.... It`s been so long since the last one. I just restarted my empire a few days ago so that would have been really annoying if i had to restart after i just restarted.....
I think everyone just supported the the UW so it was very successful.

lol :P
At least GC takes skill... on UC if you have a fed and everyone has ships in their outpost, no one can attack you...
also, only 6 types of ships are allowed in a stack...

that was better lyriel.. abolished UC :P

A lot of people would frankly be pissed if the server was restarted, because many people put like 100+ levels into infrastructure before they start expanding...
I have no idea how to fix the lack of people here... maybe if we abolished UC :)