Some of your suggestions are seriously unreasonable

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Go For It.

Just examples

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Here are some more then :

Premium players can capture planets
Premium players are allowed to move their ships more than one parsec per day!
Premium players recieve a 500% bonus to all points they score!

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Go For It.

Haha. It just means you are afraid to lose those features - that's why people will be interested to donate the game without getting an advantage in competition!

You should read more carefully as i wrote only those features that are simply nice and comfortable, while yours affect points

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PM
I mean come on lol, i get about 5 pms a day (Recently got 25 pms from 4 differernt people in 12 hours). Where we would be without pms!

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Go For It.

Mails, messengers - plenty of ways. Of cource not as comfortable

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Yea too much effort
My point is you cant take away game features and make them premium only, you must come up with new ones that can improve your game only in terms of efficency not in power/points/res. Like a super nearby button (doing all nearbies) etc.

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Go For It.

Well yes. That's a good one. But i hardly doubt that new features would attract donators afterall. While losing some nice but not essential old features should
Of course it would be much better to work out many such new features. But to find such that wouln't make an affect to resources/points and would be enough attractive to spend money for is a very hard task..

Personally i don't like that auto-harvester at all, while probing machine with some limits could be also added.

In fact we have many players coming. Those old features is old for us only

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Hope: Yes, removing current features from general use is something that I am very hesitant to do.

RBA: So we've gone past seperating market monetary units from credits into adding new upgrades too . Ah well, is not unreasonable (though I won't be able to do it in an afternoon ;P).

Autoharvester: I like the idea of charging for it, as that effectively limits its usage, and since I suspect it will be a bit of a hit on the server per use, that'd work out fairly well.
Auto-Probes: I just like this idea . (Could have something to do with proposing it ;P).
Flags: Personally, I feel that the side is a bit bare without them

Anyway, was just discussing with Prof, and it was suggested (I forgot who) that should we implement a dual monetary system, we could have one way convertability (MMU -> Credits). He pointed out that there'd be no source of liquidity however, which as Abe pointed out, would be a problem. Anyway, when he has the time he'll explain that idea better.

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Personally I like the game the way it is...There are some areas for improvement but charging for features that are currently in use might make people look for a different online game to play?
One reason I like this game is that it is free if you want it to be. If you want to purchase credits with greenbacks so be it . It your own disicion. I agree that it should be monitored....but what about putting a credit cap in place....Like the NFL or something along those lines...It would still make the game competitive but keep it in check.....If I have to start paying for features that might win the game for me I'm outa here...I can't afford to pay out on a game and pay bills at the same time.....I bet most people are on a budget and can't really afford another bill....This game is the first online game that I have played...and I love it!!! It's also free!!! Thats the cool thing about this game is that everyone can enjoy this game...even if you have to go to the liberary and use there computer....So all in all I think Skylords is a kick-ass game and the most important thing is the people that play the game....make the game awsome...!!!...

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