[GReaper]

The game does offer ways to help lower ranking planets compete in some way, however there is absolutely no guidance as to how to play in such ways.

To save Planetarion - make Planetarion look like a game again (no more walls of text for each page). Simplify the confusing crap formulas (if you need an entire page to describe formulas for each section then something is wrong). Drop any thoughts on gimmick improvements (Facebook, iPhone, etc.) until the game itself is improved. Go through the entire process of starting a new account and figure out what problems new players are facing.

Fiddling about with formulas each round and adding more complexity to the game when the site can't explain it well enough as it is to players isn't helping the game.