i didnt mean THAT low. i just mean we should let it run its course for a little while have sum fun with it

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I don't think we're too far from that already. Today there have been 13 planet captures of players, only 4 of them from active players. That's not exactly a great ratio.

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and ppl are coming back 2
what else can we do but watch and wait?

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now that i think about it a bit, the reason we are losing planets so fast is (obviously) because we instantly oblit anything thats not green. i think that this should be done in TOTAL WAR ONLY. like if your realy trying to kill someone off. leaving or giving back seems more apropriate

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@blazecon0 - I tried that stance for a while. Player response was, "you'd better drop more planets for us to oblit" .

@Dyingbreath - We've dropped planets with resources before in the past, as I recall it wasn't difficult to mod it. We've also had the aliens for points in the past.

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This is why I propose changes in the New Player's Arena, if we make x20 more rare, there's greater incentive to keep planets such as x16 and above. I remember when people would make home worlds on x15's because that was the best they could find. Now, if it's not x20, it'll be obliterated. I'd predict over 25% of the planets existing now are x20. I can remember when that was more like 5%.

Number of active players needs to be considered when figuring planet count, somehow.

I'd also like for a graph to be placed on the statistics page, showing the planet count after each day, so we could easily pick out trends and decide what needs to be done to keep it straight.

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@Pray: sounds like a ticket.

Pray is also correct about the number of 20x planets... I think part of what kept them down before was the constant obliteration of them as HWs.

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Force of nature.

i think a new stat screen for Planets Obliterated would b quite fun

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and basically this keeps leading back to the same problem. the game is set up to have more activity, we need to find a way to attract players and if not were going to have to force things to be how they should be rather than let things even themselves out

well is someone able to make a advert for FB?? could be an idea you could post it on ur status bar or summit n see what happens?