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All this suggestion does is to make activity even more useful than it was before. I am absolutly opposed to it and would be very disheartened if the old 'hardcore' players manage to force its return. Pre-launch was one of the best things instituted in PaX, because it opened the game up to so many more people - those who can't stay up until 3/4am, or can't get up in the middle of the night to attack.

Pre-launch has allowed smaller alliances to be more effective because their members are able to attack together properly. If we got rid of it, the universe would be again dominated by the top 3/4 alliances with the smaller alliances a long long way behind.

Not pre-launching still has its benefits, because people often jgp themselves before they go to bed. This is why I've always told VGN members to only pre-launch their attacks when they have to go to bed, and no sooner - certainly no pre-launching on claiming a target.


Just remember: the forum users are in general the more active, more hardcore players. The casual gamers whose planets depend on pre-launch aren't really represented except by conscientious alliance leaders such as Wakey. So - remember the little guy, the person your target got their roids off. The universe is one big roid chain, with the roids moving up from the smaller planets to the bigger ones. If it's harder for the smaller ones to attack for roids, then the bigger players will have fewer roids to get anyway.