July 26... mark... there are 29,509 planets

Planet count is crazy. I don't remember ever seeing that high back when I was playing. For that matter I don't remember ever capturing so many planets in a turn!! Not complaining just very surprised.

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Yeah this is insane. Even with this many active players we aren't making a dent in them. Maybe the SPC drop rate should be slowed?

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Future SL Ruler
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Planets have been reducing in numbers. The SPC drop rate has been constant for awhile now. The new player infusion has affected the number of planets.
At this time our stance is the same as on credits.

Increase player activity to match or exceed current input to put the equations in equilibrium.

The less devs directly influence individual resources the better. If required in the future of course we will do what we have to.

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29,600! Getem!

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There are 30,311 planets in the SkyLords Universe.

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There are 34,757 planets in the SkyLords Universe.

Let's say 35,000. Let's also assume 20,000 is a reasonable number where you can no longer find unlimited coordinates.

That is 75 million non def of each kind. I want to look deeper at these numbers.

15,000 planets will take on average 12,000 defense.
180,000,000 defense.
Your costs to destroy this defense would be in the ballpark of 112.5mil give or take depending on SPC levels.
If you ran into all 10x SPC it would be ideal but that is unlikely to happen and so some efficiency will be lost.

This would train 50 assaults. The value is a trained assault is roughly 1.45mil.

Trained assaults worth: 72.5mil
Vital: 75mil (32.5mil T)
Gold: 75mil (7.5mil T)
Silicon: 75mil (6mil T)
Iron: 75mil - 25mil for assaults (5mil T)
Uranium: 75mil -20mil movement (8mil T)
Hydrogen: 75mil (10mil T)

Total value: 141.5mil Troops
- cost 112.5mil
=29 million troops for capturing SPC planets.

We should not have the abundance of planets we have now. These numbers are guesses at current values. You also cannot ignore the opportunity to find player planets, pirating and lucky breaks that would also be achieved by capturing that many SPC planets.
The new player number alone of new players who are not actually playing would add a large number to the extra non def as they produce for a month after inactivity.

Thoughts?

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Yeah as I had stated before, it's a smorgasbord out there of resources. With enough time on my hands I plan on doing just that, training up some assaults while raking in massive amounts of resources in the process. It's just the time factor currently I suspect not many of us have that kind of time on our hands. Which is why/how it grew to be such a number. But the recruitment and retention of new/returning players can also help cut that number down and bring those resources into the game.

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Previous Aliases:
JR Scovill
Future SL Ruler
Reaper Of Souls
Reaper Of Souls2
ReaperOfSouls90
RosReborn

it broke 40,000 planets

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I guess now we get to experience the whole "hiding in the crowd" concept Iiri was talking about. With so many planets the chances of someone coming across your planet will get slimmer and slimmer. Probes will only detect up to 9 planets or 3 systems. And nearby only does the two closest planets usually in the same system.

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Previous Aliases:
JR Scovill
Future SL Ruler
Reaper Of Souls
Reaper Of Souls2
ReaperOfSouls90
RosReborn