[Declined] Sponsored galplaces
Every round we see several people sponsor their galmates by upgrading their accounts. Ofc this is good for business (Jolt). One of the problems with upgrading your galmates is that they might go inactive. For this reason I would like it if it were made possible to upgrade "places" in addition to planets, so if they go inactive and get exiled, another planet landing there would automatically receive the upgrade.
The system would require that only free accounts land on these spots. Since free accounts are often less active, I think it would only be fair to have two types of planet placement, with a higher chance for an active free account to land in a sponsored place than for an inactive account. People who don't sponsor then get both upgraded accounts and free accounts. The free accounts will be less likely to be active than without such a system.
I'm not sure what to do after tickstart though. Accounts started during the round might decide to upgrade, so placing them on a sponsored spot might not be wise. That would leave the exiled free accounts as most likely candidates to join the sponsored places (unless we allow self-exile for free accounts).
An exile will have major concequences for the sponsored player: further tech tree advancements may abruptly become impossible.
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round 6 noob
round 7 noob: rank 6.198 25:20:25 - VoC member
round 8 noob: rank 4.112 7:2:3 - TFD member
round 9 rank 941 23:1:9 - TFD HC
round 9.5 rank 860 22:7:3 - TFD HC
round 10: rank unknown (was #1 for a while) 5:2:5 - Vengeance pe0n
round 10.5: rank 683 19:10:2 - VGN member
round 11: rank 138 8:8:4 - VsN member
round 12: rank 515 - VGN 'special attack officer' -> jumped ship to Rock
round 13: rank 85: NoS
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