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[The420Freedom]

Alright,
I was reading back through the old forums about multi's for something to do and one convo about a guy who had a multi for a "rock farm". Well he got banned which is great, BUT, there's a really good idea there.
- if the game had a planet per galaxy that was a non-playing Tough Planet,
IE -Boss planet's, essentially with high pop, but large fleets, always defending. Their just tough targets, alliances could team up to take down different planets and share rocks.
 
Maybe 1 planet per galaxy and 0:00 daily it changes status, i say that so that each player in every galaxy has an equal chance at every different type of target

Outpost ~ 100-250k pop, 2.5-7.5k Units
Colony ~250-750k pop, 5-15k Units
Military Base ~750k-1.5M pop, 10-60k Units
Empire Fortress ~ 2-5M , 50-125k Units
Alien Civilization? lol ~20m-50m , 750k-2.5M Units

*Alien not serious, would just be a good challenge to have one super powered planet type that doesn't show up very often (maybe 2 times a month or something like that) and it would require an entire alliance or maybe 2 to take it down.

These are numbers i pulled out of my ass obviously, They are just good figures i figured to get the ball rolling.

This doesn't sound so complex, unfortunately I don't know if it would be   or not.

[Eldrad]

this is how i imagined doing that kind of thing.

http://www.colony-wars.com/forums/index.php/topic,1091.0.html

http://www.colony-wars.com/forums/index.php/topic,1132.msg20854.html#msg20854

[Samus_Aran]

I remember talk of this before i left. I guess it never got implemented. I feel like this is a good idea, but could be easily exploited. If we can get it to work without it being too exploitable. It's definitely worth looking into.

[The420Freedom]

ok that's fuckin brilliant, i was trying to think of placement for the planets that wouldn't stack certain galaxies so that one gets a huge advantage. Having an entirely separate galaxy with no players is great.
That doesn't allow for planning of alliance attacks against any planets though. How would launching into be worked i.e. can you combine fleets with other players?

Maybe launching into the nebula can be done alone or through your alliance, via something like a staging area/border/edge where fleets from the same alliance can meet to launch from.
This could be done with an extra tab in the alliance (Nebula Raids or whatever. and from there players can launch fleets to other players staging area. It launches once all players have clicked Ready to Launch, or  w.e. once a fleet is in the staging area it can scan the nebula, but it can only do it from there?  If you already have an idea do tell lol.

[Eldrad]

well scanning of the nebula would be required to find a target (this replacing bonus scanning) and once you have a target you can share it with your alliance, matching eta's might be harder as 'Anomolies disrupt FTL' - so some ships may become delayed, or hit by ion storms... basically the nebula is a dangerous place (which is the explaination for why people don't colonise it...)

Also why rogue fleets hide there...

At the moment it is still a little vague on the details. I hope it will become a reality soon.

[The420Freedom]

here's an idea on how to make the nebula a little bit less like bonus scans so it's not just click and either die or get resources/units.
Here's an example of a nebula report. Btw i cant claim credit for plague but i dont remember who suggested "plague" idea.

Nebula Expedition Report

(the basics obviously)
Name              Count         Losses       New Count
Hawk                2300            420              1880
Punisher         7600               7000           600
Scavenger       1700           1700              0
Nemesis       20000            300              19700
Discharger      1700           1000              700

(below that the story and possible effects)

Captain's Log
~Day 12 -We've entered into the Dark-Blade Nebula, at last. As soon as our hull had crossed the threshold we lost all contact with (insert players planet name here). Multiple attempts to raise them on the Sat-Com proved futile, decided to venture forward anyways.
~Day 19 - Until today, no contact with life or civilization of any kind. However at 14:00 the ship sensors detected an alien planet in our current galaxy. From the data,it seems beneficial to explore. We're landing soon.
Planet Scan
*Non-natural, non-human energy sources detected. Possible unknown resource
*No lifeforms detected
*oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere Safe To Breathe
~Day 21 - It's unbelievable! It seems this was an alien planet, somehow either through a social or environmental disaster, the entire race is extinct. But much evidence remains of a prosperous, however primitive alien culture. Our search revealed resources scattered throughout all the lands temple's and palace's, but no stationed soldiers to guard them. My men have of course loaded all that the ships could carry, and possibly more. But i will appreciate the slower speed on the way back. Time to prepare my celebration speech...
~Day 22 - It has all gone wrong. Many of the men have taken ill. I fear the planet was contaminated, perhaps even cursed. Migraines have seized me, I cannot walk, as i will vomit. I hope only that the crewmen are able to remove the ship from auto-fly. Or surely it will reach (insert planet name here) and decimate all my people...Mus-..Stop disease...Destroy the shi-.....

-  35% population
+  Metal : population lost by disease x 500
Energy : population lost by disease x 500

*Yeah, i know it's long but all the reg players would read them once to find out what happened and from that point on only read the first sentence and go Oh, or sh!t, or great. Would depend on which expedition they got.

[Eldrad]

yes, i have that kind of thing in mind.

i just need a good way of doing it well enough.

kind of what inspired this thread - http://www.colony-wars.com/forums/index.php/topic,2376.0.html

[Samus_Aran]

That looks cool.. maybe less... wordy? Idk. But I like this idea.

[Rorschach]

Yeah, looks good. Looks like you lost more than 10% of your troops though.

I'd like to see it as a mapable area, with different destinations, so each expedition uncovers more and you can revist areas with the appropriate forces at later dates.

With a few targets requiring massive forces to take on, based on a percentage of all ships in game?

Starting to sound like a WOW party raid or something now.

[The420Freedom]

Yeah, looks good. Looks like you lost more than 10% of your troops though.

I'd like to see it as a mapable area, with different destinations, so each expedition uncovers more and you can revist areas with the appropriate forces at later dates.

With a few targets requiring massive forces to take on, based on a percentage of all ships in game?

Starting to sound like a WOW party raid or something now.

lol @ wow party raid,
no i fiddled with the battle report to hide any accurate numbers(lil' paranoid haha)
And, ok, a mappable area would i think make it too difficult,
but the few targets requiring massive force could be done, only if your launching into the nebula with your alliance members
@eldrad, lol and i thought mine was little bit wordy 
DBN= if a player launches alone they only run into pre-scripted events
that are population based? fleet based? random?
DBN(alliance)=if a player launches with their alliance they run into a totally different group of events. Much harder.

[Hunter49r]

I like the idea of reports. I'd be willing to try and write a few if we were gonna go with this. 

[Galvatron]

I'm still waiting on that Darkblade Nebula!

[King Woof Woof]

heh if cw becomes like wow, i'm outta here 

but i like how the dbn is sounding

[Samus_Aran]

Yeah. This will be fun. Just so long as it doesn't turn into bonus scans.

[The420Freedom]

thats the whole point on having one's like the plague i listed,
so that they are not ALL good, although, it could be useful you lose pop, build up your fleet with extra resources and hit people that wouldnt give you anything before
@hunter- that's good, eldrad put some up if you check the link he had in here earlier.