Trying to get ppl to play

LordaeroN, what did I tell you? Don`t get caught up on the details.

And spamming is part of the game.

One thing I`ve always wanted to see changed tho is the part of the game where flanking ships without "no retal" die to ships they flank (for example, 10th stack garuda dies to 1st stack 1 ship Lyth spam on 2nd wave). It kind of detracts from the whole idea of flanking with those ships in the first place and rewards people for spamming those ships.

i like the idea of a winstreak O.O should get a bigger bonus if u do it wth asmodai O.o or another npc >.>

yeah mw2 you log on and see millions of people. you put some kind of bonus on something to make this game better then oh lets see youll have way more people hundreds. or thousands... and on and on. but right now its say same dry gcrt. as it has always been you sit and wait. and then build and fight. but if your gettin killstreaks. hell yes more people are going to be out and about fighting to spruce the game up a little bit but if not itll still be same old dry gcrt. same people top emps. with different people coming and going and not staying

I don`t mean to offend anyone but Rag,this is a horrible idea. What about pure pyth/lyth/lictor or whatever the OP 1 stack ship spam ,starts spamming people ? 500% turn regeneration ? I`d rather not see that.

And the killstreak idea is awesome(like it as I myself play MW2 and love the KS rewards :p) as long as it`s balanced and the bonus ain`t fairly overpowered. Small,tiny ammounts of cash/resources and maybe even artis as you said won`t hurt anyone,but PLEASE don`t mess up with the turn regen again. I doubt anyone here wants havoc on TB servers again.

nice ideas, and i honestly would mind seeing some implicated or working on something of the sort...but sadly all this takes stephen to do. and even if we started bugging stephen now it`d be 6 months before he looked over the ideas and probably another 3 years before they got implemented. but by all means email stephen your idea`s, not necessarily in complete details, but just the basic ideas.

Raistilin, that`s just my point though with the 500 turn thing. You wouldn`t need the 400b in cash because every miner would be able to do it.

And yes, 500 turns is a bit excessive when you put it that way (unless it`s in RT or something). Again, that`s why i say don`t get caught up in the specifics. =P

But my point is that significant boosts are needed in order to severely mitigate some of the advantages that come from being well researched with a lot of land.

Killstreaks, lol - Smooth definitely plays some MW2.

But actually that`s an idea I`ve never seen before, and it`s early so I`m not thinking clearly might have potential - Except perhaps as a paid only thing, Would make it even harder to play without paid, which is bad. You COULD just raise the streak reward slightly for a paid empire though.

I`d like to point out that a ` 500 planet monster ` probably either is decent in who he hits * ie watching the ranks for those pesky tax empires who have no fleet * or is good and wins consistantly. =) 500 turns , if say... <.< a 1 planet aminer with 400b in cash, thats 1000 lyths of no upkeep. Kinda abuseable. add in the turn boost and yeah. I`m not getting caught on the specifics, just pointing out it`s ability to be abused. I`m not saying don`t keep up with ideas mate, but just think about the rammifications too. Best of luck =)

I forgot to add artifacts to this as well. I might also add the disclaimer that a "powerful empire" is useless if you generally stink at battle in recent days or have to VM a lot due to real life issues. =P

Well the unlocks would have to be sufficient enough that research and land are not the end all and be all of a powerful empire. Plus, they don`t have to be permanent. For example, lets say you managed to win 3 battles in a row totaling a 9 planet win in a 24 hour period, you could get like a 50% boost to turn regeneration for a day and 0 upkeep for all your ships for like the next 500 turns. If you make this feature only available to paid, it would provide an incentive for players to buy paids too.

As you can see, a low pr and relatively new empire could easily get this just by hitting 3 fleetless planets, but it would be much harder for a 500 planet monster to achieve the same thing unless he were good or managed 3 fed war wins getting 9 planets with 3 attcks. The powerup would enable the low land and relatively new empire to (temporarily) compete with the 500 planet empire.

This is just an example, and the specifics can be modified to whatever is deemed "balanced" so PLEASE don`t get hung up on the specifics and think "oh 50% build rate and 0 upkeep for 500 turns is "overpowered" so your idea sucks". This is simply an example to illustrate my point.

C.5 you gaiz

Is this a recruitment thread? Label your posts properly!

Also, old empires already have a massive advantage thanks to their research and land. I see no reason to have unlocks amplify this.

30day*

i think this game needs some unlockables. like on some of the video games you fight so much you level up.

like a infra boost when you hit 1k kills or so and then just goes up from there

ship buildrate boost for killstreaks over like 8-12.

better artis digs or explorin luck when you complete the projects. then when you like a 0day old empire. and goes up from there