I think you both have good points.

Quote from mortouvif

it s war game

I agree totally! I don't mind people attacking me at all! The more people raid my off line resource build up, the better chance I get at doing a ninja on their attack fleet, and one small ninja gives me more profit than the loss of resources from them stealing every few hours.

Quote from KagujaChisei

but not all gamer have the time to play nearly 18h each day

This is the big issue I feel. Mortouvif is doing well, and he needs the rewards according to how the game is designed. If I had as much time to play as Mortouvif , I think I would do similar resource raids all day lol! But I agree that this doesn't help the others that cannot play for this much time each day.

Quote from KagujaChisei

ps i dont know how it was on french server in past but at german once simply wars for delete raidlimit were forbidden

That's a very interesting point. If something like this was present, it might help more people to be active so Mortouvif has more people to attack.

How about a different limit on attacks that go to planets with no fleet? So if a planet has no ships, only res, then the attacker can only do 1 or 2 on that planet per 24 hour period. But if there is fleet on the planet when the attack is initiated, then 5 per 24 hour period?

This would also help turtles to grow more. I love smashing a big turtle wall, but if I can get enough fleet to do a turtle smash, I will definitely use all 5 of my attacks to get the most benefit that I can. But if I only have 2 attacks, the turtle can rebuild before I get to hit him again.

EDIT:
How about a different limit on attacks that go to planets with no fleet? So if a planet has no ships, only resources and defenses, then the attacker can only do 1 or 2 on that planet per 24 hour period.

EDIT 2:

Quote from mortouvif

com play for fun back To 1 min speed Attack

I think that something else that can bring the fun back, is that the station, transport, recycle flight times should all be fast. Only attacks should be 5 minutes. This way Mortouvif can attack all day, but anyone with small skill can ninja his little raid fleets. :):):)

Quote from Mariusz025

There are people who do not work from Monday to Friday. There are players who play in work (:D :D) if they can only not in free time after work. Dont forget about this.

Think here about Premium V-mode with lets say 50 % production, taken "few times" per this uni maybe. So at the begginning of active play players start with mined ressources.

Good point. I forgot about that possibility. Having a VM mode that encourages players to come back and check their accumulated resources may help.

Quote from Mariusz025

Hi speed: Production - yes, Research - Yes, Flieghts - No, I belive it would be better for players if this uni would run on 2 or 3x speed not bigger.

Yes! I didn't think through the specifics of what speed. I agree that flight speeds should be different to the other speeds.

Quote from Mariusz025

Maybe shorter time to became inactive after VM activation ? 5 days and you are yellow if you dont come back playing at least for 24 h.

Interesting! I think that might create some variety.

Quote from KagujaChisei

thats the only point i cant see like you but all other are correct

Thanks!

I’m not sure if any of these ideas have been discussed before. I know that most of the players in SI are not English speaking, so I thank you for taking the time to read something in another language!

I think a number of players have made some observations (not judgments, just observations!) over the last few years, and I think there might be some kind of a solution to address one or two of these observations. I am not a programmer, so many of my suggestions might be impossible. The hardware and related costs of my suggestions might also not be possible. It is still worth mentioning these ideas.

• Observation 1 – players that do well are often unemployed, or retired, or on long term leave. Time = success and growth in this game. Those of us who love the game but who work long hours cannot compete.
• Observation 2 – Players that lose their fleet often give up.
• Observation 3 – New players often give up on the game before getting into the deeper tactics because it takes too long to build a strong account (the high speed unis help with this, but then fleet loss becomes a problem before they can build the skills to protect their fleet).
• Observation 4 – the interdimensional transmitter, the paid assistants, and other seasonal fun activities help to keep interest in the game, these are great ideas and should continue. It’s just that sometimes these fun activities don’t have a direct connection to in-game skills.
• Observation 5 – the new paid features are really helpful, but they create an uneven playing field. Money wins.
• Observation 6 – the same players always get to the top in ranking, either because they are 1 – more skilled, or 2 – have more time to play, or 3 – spend money to get there, or 4 – all of the above, so other players don’t have the chance or motivation to compete.

My suggestion is to start a new “Weekend Warrior Universe” that has a few special features to address the above observations:

• It should run on a weekly cycle. By weekly cycle I mean this:
  
  
  • Full-features between Friday 18:00 GMT to Monday 06:00 GMT (over the weekend)
    
    
    • Everything runs normally, attacks, EF, building, research, etc.
  • Attack Protection between Friday 01:00-18:00 GMT and Monday 06:00-12:00 GMT, so basically there is a “warm up” and “cool down” time each weekend.
    
    
    • Only Recycling, EFs, transports, colonizing, building and research. No attacks.
  • Complete stop from Monday 12:00 GMT to Friday 06:00 GMT.
    
    
    • Nothing can happen. All fleets should have a system recall to the planet where they started. All buildings and research should freeze.
    • If players want to log in, they can. But they can only enjoy the view, rename planets, chat… (Active players who have free time during the week can play in other universes.)
• It should restart from zero regularly. Every 3 months? Every 6 months? Yearly? But it shouldn’t be a place where massive dinosaur accounts can fall asleep and go extinct. Keep everyone active.
  
  
  • There can be a “Legends Hall of Fame” to show all amazing successes over previous versions of the “Weekend Warrior” universes. Highest fleet, fastest to AZ 17, highest research, etc.
• It must be high speed.
  
  
  • This can compensate for only playing weekends.
  • Possibly the high speed flights should still have a minimum 5 minute flight time on attacks like the speed universes now.
• It must have limited VM choice!
  
  
  • If players sign up for this universe, they have to take the risk of needing to at least do an escape flight every weekend. The blue of VM planets will seldom be visible here.
  • If someone cannot play over the weekend, they have 18 hours “warm up” time on Friday to do an EF. If they really can’t do an EF on Friday for that weekend, they may lose fleet, but please read the fleet loss compensation below…
  • There should be a 1 weekend VM option per month (for emergencies). But after their VM time is finished, they cannot go into VM again for that month.
• It should have a fleet loss compensation system so that people don’t give up.
  
  
  • If a player loses over 50% of their fleet, they should have an option to go into a system VM for one weekend to rebuild, with a large resource gift (enough to replace about 60% of their loss, maybe up to 70% replacement with purchase). The gift should be resources, not actual fleet (they still need to build fleet, not just receive a gift). Also, it is possible a player wants to change fleet type, so resources are better than straight ships. But in any compensation system, they must still be a little weaker than before their crash. (Please read about gifts below, fleet compensation resources should be the only gift in this universe.)
• It must have better features earlier on, for ALL players, but with purchasable upgrades (I know the game needs to make money).
  
  
  • An example of getting better benefits early in the game is that all players could get one asteroid on a planet of their choice, but only after some stage in development (maybe after reaching a certain AZ).
    
    
    • This asteroid should be very small – only space for 1 or 2 levels of scanner, further fields should be available to buy.
    • At least this way, all players get to experience the gameplay of seeing other players’ fleet movements.
  • Another feature suggestion is that players should have assistants during the active fight time 1 weekend a month, the rest of the time they need to pay. During the week, and even during the Friday and Monday “safe time”, these assistants will be turned off.This way they enjoy the benefits and are more likely to buy them. I know that is how I first bought anything – after I tried the EF assistant during an event, I fell in love!
    
    
    • To clarify, I think the assistants are well designed and are good features of the game. Let players taste them regularly, but not enough to make purchasing them unnecessary.
• It must have some limits on “pay to win”.
  
  
  • To clarify, the paid benefits that are provided now fall into two categories:
    
    
    • Gifts
      
      
      • Any resources or ships that the Interdimensional Transmitter gives are not earned. Fleeter packs are gifts that are not earned. Many of us have registered for a new uni just to play with the IT during events to see how much you can get in 10 spins every day. Look at “Krzysiek_1987” account in Retro – Building 1, Research 0, Fleet 8358, (179 transmitters, 492 spy probes, 370 recyclers) Cool! Obviously that is just IT spins.
    • Enhanced game play help
      
      
      • All assistants are very powerful, and they require you to engage in the game to benefit from them. You must build ships and mine or steal resources to use the EF assistant for example. This is much better as a paid benefit, it’s not just a gift.
  • I know the game must make money, but hopefully players that begin to really enjoy the game because of this uni will join other unis where they can spend money to become top 100. This uni should be a more level playing field.
  • Buying fields, planets, and assistants should be fine. But no fleet packages, no extra transmitter spins (only the daily free spins during weekends). Only “Enhanced game play help”, no “Gifts”.
• This universe can still add “luck” that engages with in-game play. For example, it could have a “Turbo boost” random gift each weekend after the universe is one month old.
  
  
  • This turbo boost should be a random lottery that gives some players (let’s say 10 to 20 players per weekend) a boost for one weekend.
  • The boost should be in production and temporary research – NOT a gift.
    
    
    • Production boost can be 5x higher for that weekend.
    • Research boost can be an extra 3 levels of all research for one weekend. After that player’s boost weekend, all techs go back to where they were. Previously queued research would continue, but no new research can be started during the boost weekend.
  • This boost should only happen once or twice per player in a year (maybe not per year if the restart is every 3 or 6 months). If the player gets a boost on a weekend where he/she wants to use the limited VM time, they lose their chance.
  • The turbo boost lottery spin should happen on Tuesdays, so the winners have time to arrange for their weekend.
  • The benefit to this kind of random “lucky” gift compared to the Interdimensional Transmitter is that the lucky player needs to play actively for that weekend to benefit from the boost.

I would be interested to hear where my ideas are not feasible. Please feel free to reply in other languages, I think google translate is ok.

Please excuse my lack of German, but I think this thread is a better place for me to post than to start a new thread.

Regarding the original post here - "Click-friendly Space Invasion", is it possible to bring activation access to the Teleporter to a more convenient place? Each time to do a teleport, the buildings menu needs to be opened, then scrolled all the way down to activate the teleporter.

I realise that I don't play SI as often as many others (I only come back and create an account every year or two), so maybe regular players don't mind the inconvenient location of the Teleporter. I also don't know if it is a programming nightmare to move it...

I am seeing the same error. This happens only in some galaxies. For example, in 1-90-8 I see 1.2 krypt on that player's planet, but all neighbor galaxies show 1. 200 krypt for a destroyed spy craft.

I had a shock a few days ago when I made a small hit and saw a tiny amount of res after the hit! I was just about to write to the GO's (angrily) when I thought to wait for my recs to collect. When they collected the full amount of res that I expected from the hit, I relaxed...

But still, it is a display error that I have seen in a number of galaxies... but the rubble is actually all there.

I use Chrome, but I also see this error when I use my phone (android).

By the way, I have discovered that I cannot cancel projects, neither research nor buildings can be canceled... It's not a big deal since I try to never cancel anything, but every now and again it can be useful. Again, this is something that happens both on Chrome or on my phone.

Sure, but it irritates me that I need to do some basic calculations when I log on each time to see when I was spied on etc...

Yeah, the timezone thing keeps resetting to the wrong time for me the next time I log in...

No problem, one more thing that I forgot, the player you are donating to cannot be in the top 100.

Yes, you can give freely to players who are less than 75% your points. So as you are 19,000,000 points, you can give to anyone who is 14,250,000 points or less.

To make it safer (just in case the other player has a big building or research about to finish - and the admins will be understanding with that I think), just use 70%, so that means 13,300,000 points or less is fine.

I think this idea does have some merit, but as Mariusz says, the protection is already active in all unis anyway.

I think there need to be two fundamental differences to a standard uni to make this viable.

1 - high speed as Mariusz says - I think a big problem with players not continuing to play is that it takes too long to grow. But speeding up play for players in a big uni will just make them vulnerable, so a high speed in a training uni would be good. Maybe the plan is to get them to 1,000,000 in under a month. (100k is too small - teles and higher research with varied game play only happens when points are higher.)

2 - Fleet compensation. Before they learn to use their EF well, losing their fleet even once will often make some new players quit. If they have a 6 hour fleet restoration window, it will keep them interested.

So, if they lose their fleet, they can get it all back if they click the restore button within 6 hours of the battle. But then they also get put into a 6 hour "attack protection" so they can't use that as a weapon against someone else. For 6 hours after they click restore, they cannot be attacked and cannot attack, but they can be spied, they can move fleet around, they build, etc.

EDIT:

And yes, once they get to 1,000,000, they should be allowed entry to other unis at a higher than 0 point base, or at least they should have a big resource and/or speed bonus package to use to grow fast in the first few weeks of entry into the big uni.