[Declined] After tick player placement

[Gerbie]

We have been discussing galaxy setup. Another thing that did not go well this round was the placement of planets after tickstart. For instance exiled players, self-exilers and new players. I personally think this is worth a discussion as well.

We have seen several ways to determine where players are put this round: completely random, based on activity, or filling the best filled galaxies first. In my opinion the placement of planets should be different for different categories.

First I would like to suggest a new way to distribute players. It is clear that one of the problems in this game is that people who end up in a galaxy in the bottom of the universe have wasted their money. People will farm them dry. My suggestion would be: place the people in the bottom hundred galaxies of the universe. This will make these galaxies keep up in score, making them less usefull as roidfarms. Some galaxies that succeed in getting their act together have a decent chance of growth (because they have more galaxy members).

Ofcourse these galaxies will not be the best. I would only exile people who self-exile (I don't even think this option should be there tbh) or people who get exiled there (or in the current setup - who exile themselves from the C200s). I'm not sure about the new accounts maybe these should be distributed randomly over the universe, or perhaps even initially placed in the non-bottom 100 galaxies.

Anyway: feel free to disagree and let me know about your opinion.

[Kal]

Actually the gal setup proposal did include distributing players after the shuffle. They go into a random gal selected from all the gals in the bottom x% by planet number

[Gerbie]

Ah, I missed that. The good part of that is that galaxy size will slowly increase over time. However some galaxies will start to functions as dumpsters for inactives and will be used like roidfarms. Are there any objections to using galaxy score in stead of galaxy size to determine which galaxy to place the planets?

[Kal]

Originally Posted by Gerbie

Ah, I missed that. The good part of that is that galaxy size will slowly increase over time. However some galaxies will start to functions as dumpsters for inactives and will be used like roidfarms. Are there any objections to using galaxy score in stead of galaxy size to determine which galaxy to place the planets?

yes if we have self exile, no otherwise

[Banned]

Originally Posted by Kal

yes if we have self exile, no otherwise

It should be no either way. The currently proposed system (random placement in one of 20% with fewest planets) is a lot better than automatically putting people in the largest (or smallest) galaxies. Number of planets in a galaxy is something everyone can adjust to their advantage, not just the most active/inactive.

[mist]

if you put people in the worst gals when they excile then you make your origonally identified problem of those who end up in crap gals being in trouble even worse.

if there's a chance you can excile to a decent gal it's worth trying, you might have a decent round. if you know when you excile you're going to end up in another crap gal then there's no point, might as well just delete

-mist

[Kal]

THe next round galsetup is done and dusted and should be pretty robust, so declined it is.