This isn`t really about improving the game, rather than improving the quality of players. Its a few ideas.
A tutorial server where people can learn and go through live tuturials of how to play. Yellow flashing buttons (much like the private messaging system) can be used to direct players what they need to do.
Step by Step you are lead through the aspects of the game, and to make things go faster the tutorial will skip research to allow all ships to be accessable for convenience rather than spending a day on research.
When the tutorial comes to stacking and attacking, there could be another robot player(s) to attack each with different unknown stacks + other players in the tutorial.
Income is limited to what planets the tuturial gives so everyone will be in the same battleground (within attacking range).
Put a link to the game manual on the server choice screen "Slow, Normal, Fast, Ultra, RT, Deathmatch"
Also if i make manual (hopefully easier to flick through than the current one) i will post a link, you guys can decide whether its good enough and hopefully link it somewhere on gc.
The reason i made this is so that new players who first try out gc and don`t fully understand how to play or haven`t seen a MMOG or browser game may be confused and give up trying. If they can get interested in the first half hour then perhaps gc`s popularity will increase.
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Photom2OP