If I hadn't just finished myself off, I think this post would be my porn for tonight. Nice thread. Now...
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Originally Posted by Banned
You also 'lose' money if you bid for a bunch of planets that don't want to join your galaxy.
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I can see this being alot like the old Stargate thing where noob galaxies would save up all their resources to build something completely useless. I can't help but think that the already "uneducated" GCs would rally to recruit the #1 planet. However, there is probably an incredibly easy way of preventing this, so your idea is still OK.
However, I still think this will just lead to power houses again, unless we can stick to a fixed number of planets in each galaxy. I am a great fan of 8/10/12 planets to each galaxy because once my randoms are in, I know who they are and I can begin teaching them the game basics. I don't want to have to fakenick ALL round (yes, yes, I know I don't HAVE to) for when random signup #17 joins my galaxy. I want to begin building a team, not a core. Again, this is nothing to do with what you wrote.
On another note, if everybody in a galaxy is randomly placed, who decides to offer a player a place in the galaxy? The GC I assume, although this is worse than exiling - "will you donate to the fund so we can replace you please?" - because if this were to be implemented, I think it should force a player into a 'good start' or 'good galaxy' position in terms of available resources.
Also if you were a big planet, why would you join a crappy galaxy because they offer you all their resources? What use is a large planet without a large galaxy other than being a farm to medium sized players?