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Forum: Planetarion Discussions 15 Oct 2016, 09:27
Replies: 2
Views: 6,926
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Shuffle

Indeed, move your slow butts.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 14 Oct 2016, 21:26
Replies: 265
Views: 233,041
Posted By MrLobster
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 4 Apr 2016, 21:50
Replies: 16
Views: 4,169
Posted By MrLobster
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 4 Apr 2016, 05:43
Replies: 16
Views: 4,169
Posted By MrLobster
Simple Additions to Def Page

Could we get the Roid Count for an alliance member on the alliance def page please. Should take all of 5 mins to implement.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 26 Mar 2016, 00:51
Replies: 3
Views: 2,924
Posted By MrLobster
R67 Stats Makers

My idea isn't really special other than the fact it helps manage resources.

Race Specific ships have a resource bias

Terran uses more metal in ships
Cathaar uses more Crystal.

Except when...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 18 Mar 2016, 21:00
Replies: 254
Views: 32,320
Posted By MrLobster
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 15 Mar 2016, 06:07
Replies: 35
Views: 7,126
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion app

I went for a job interview a few months back, and mentioned I did a few tools and graphics related to Planetarion.

I stated that in PA's heyday it had 200k players (didn't mention bots), and that...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 8 Jan 2016, 18:21
Replies: 320
Views: 40,747
Posted By MrLobster
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 20 Oct 2015, 10:19
Replies: 2
Views: 3,159
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Dear Devs

Its not that people don't offer help towards the betterment of PA, there is just no one to implement anything suggested or created.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 16 Oct 2015, 20:05
Replies: 307
Views: 67,478
Posted By MrLobster
Forum: Strategic Discussions 2 Oct 2015, 21:57
Replies: 36
Views: 14,803
Posted By MrLobster
Re: A better planned way to sort stats.

Has anyone thought about just refining the stats from the previous round.

Say two rounds per stats, with the second being tweaked/balanced?
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 30 Aug 2015, 18:37
Replies: 39
Views: 9,166
Posted By MrLobster
Re: The power of Cloak.

Yeah its the zero fleet sized defence that has no counter.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 30 Aug 2015, 11:52
Replies: 39
Views: 9,166
Posted By MrLobster
Re: The power of Cloak.

Cath has the positive of being able to stop ships very well, but countered to this is inability to kill ships.

Every option should have a counter.

Attacking fakes are countered by the "incoming...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 30 Aug 2015, 10:33
Replies: 67
Views: 15,313
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Alliance size

So if somethings been mentioned before, we cant mention it again?
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 25 Aug 2015, 17:34
Replies: 1
Views: 1,829
Posted By MrLobster
Single Player Alliance

While having alliances with only 1 player isnt harming the game too much, I do feel they could all contribute towards each other.

So I propose a new way to create alliances (yep I realise that...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 25 Aug 2015, 17:27
Replies: 67
Views: 15,313
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Alliance size

Why don't all alliances have a full tag of "pro" players then? Because they want to help less active players, or just to fill out the ranks?



As it stands most alliances are napping each other...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 25 Aug 2015, 12:00
Replies: 67
Views: 15,313
Posted By MrLobster
Alliance size

With ever decreasing player base, is 60 alliance size to large?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 24 Aug 2015, 17:29
Replies: 13
Views: 3,753
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Downtime

Your always coming off negative, instead of saying "no they dont" say "they already did".
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 24 Aug 2015, 11:53
Replies: 13
Views: 3,753
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Downtime

PA Team still need to clarify whether the round will be reduced by 24 ticks, or if the the round now finishes on Saturday rather than Friday.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 23 Aug 2015, 16:33
Replies: 276
Views: 247,771
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Nagging over tiny things thread #2

In the Bot Dump Files, could we replace the EOF random number line with the Unix Timestamp of the file when it was created.

It should not take too long to change over, and it will be a unique...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 23 Aug 2015, 15:58
Replies: 13
Views: 3,753
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Downtime

Well fleets are not rolled back, so opening up the game will allow everyone to Prelaunch def now instead of what would have happened at 3am in the morning, if fleets were recalled the game would be...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 22 Aug 2015, 20:51
Replies: 25
Views: 6,370
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Round 64 Stats

I don't have the knowledge or the willpower to try and do stats, but the least I can do is get the ball rolling, I have no affiliation to the PA Team.

I sat there thinking about the "basic brief",...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 21 Aug 2015, 17:04
Replies: 25
Views: 6,370
Posted By MrLobster
Round 64 Stats

OK so we all saw how rushed and unfinished the stats were for R63.

I propose everyone who can start looking at new stats EARLY for next round.

The basic brief

1) 2 Pods per Race.
2) Xan =...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 21 Aug 2015, 16:15
Replies: 39
Views: 9,166
Posted By MrLobster
Re: The power of Cloak.

Data isn't required when the theory is there plain to see, its not that Xan is overpowered, but the cloak is overpowered.

Just because you don't see a Xan at the top every round mean there isn't...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 21 Aug 2015, 09:11
Replies: 39
Views: 9,166
Posted By MrLobster
Re: The power of Cloak.

There isn't anything wrong with my argument, what if we gave cloak to Cat, Ter or Zik. Would you say its balanced?

I'm not talking stats here, as they should be pretty close vs AC vs DC, against...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 20 Aug 2015, 16:18
Replies: 39
Views: 9,166
Posted By MrLobster
Re: The power of Cloak.

These are my perceived designed race specs.


Xan has been High damage, low armor, low init (fires usually after EMP).
Ter has medium damage, High Armor, medium init.
Zik "Steal" has high...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 20 Aug 2015, 14:27
Replies: 39
Views: 9,166
Posted By MrLobster
The power of Cloak.

I'll start by saying that I'm against Xans(Etd) cloak ability, in its current form as being out of balanced with the rest of the races (Zero ship sized def fakes).

Lets start a scenario.

4...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 19 Aug 2015, 08:13
Replies: 276
Views: 247,771
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Nagging over tiny things thread #2

When you click to queue a research, it removes the time and RU text that needed to complete this item.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 18 Aug 2015, 09:41
Replies: 276
Views: 247,771
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Nagging over tiny things thread #2

I would only ever allow a-z, A-Z, 0-9, space.
Forum: Alliance Recruitment 16 Aug 2015, 19:23
Replies: 37
Views: 17,521
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Norsemen

Then PA needs to update the in game alliance tools for politics. This should be a given if a new player has never played PA or used IRC.



If PA moved to slack, then the game could create thier...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 15 Aug 2015, 09:28
Replies: 276
Views: 247,771
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Nagging over tiny things thread #2

You have insufficient funds to build another structure, it requires 5,952 metal, 5,952 crystal and 5,952 eonium

Finance Centre - M: 4,473, E: 4,473 C: 4,473

When one is currently building it...
Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 13 Aug 2015, 08:16
Replies: 3
Views: 6,099
Posted By MrLobster
Re: cant allocate 300 units of my starting bonus on constr.

This needs to be fixed, this happens a lot.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 10 Aug 2015, 22:17
Replies: 4
Views: 2,452
Posted By MrLobster
Show prelaunch fleets in galaxy

Show pre-launched fleets, whose destination in gal defense fleets to all who are "Trusted".
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 10 Aug 2015, 00:05
Replies: 276
Views: 247,771
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Nagging over tiny things thread #2

#1 Its just the click game to get to alliance defence page

#2 I think I prob ment alliance fund

#3 well some of the links are in groups, and some are not.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 5 Aug 2015, 11:38
Replies: 295
Views: 31,048
Posted By MrLobster
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 4 Aug 2015, 16:49
Replies: 295
Views: 31,048
Posted By MrLobster
Forum: Strategic Discussions 2 Aug 2015, 23:49
Replies: 55
Views: 13,586
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Yet another set of stats

Its now set to 2?
Forum: Strategic Discussions 27 Jul 2015, 04:45
Replies: 34
Views: 7,629
Posted By MrLobster
Re: m0rph3us r63 stats proposal

Would it not be easier for stat makers to replace EMres with shields. A lot easier to control and fine tune. And you can even use the current damage attack formula, but just place these ships in emp...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 26 Jul 2015, 10:58
Replies: 102
Views: 26,336
Posted By MrLobster
Re: R63 stats

Did you use fortran?
Forum: Strategic Discussions 24 Jul 2015, 21:09
Replies: 39
Views: 7,386
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Blue's Stat Set Rnd 63

Mz what would a good land chart look like?

2-3 lands per race pod?
Forum: Strategic Discussions 23 Jul 2015, 01:10
Replies: 34
Views: 7,629
Posted By MrLobster
Re: m0rph3us r63 stats proposal

I would like the idea that xan get a Meta 2+3 pod, to combat the cloak ability.
Forum: Strategic Discussions 23 Jul 2015, 01:08
Replies: 34
Views: 7,629
Posted By MrLobster
Re: m0rph3us r63 stats proposal

Fairyfly NO JUST NO

Firefly Yes JUST YES!!
Forum: Strategic Discussions 20 Jul 2015, 05:52
Replies: 102
Views: 26,336
Posted By MrLobster
Re: R63 stats

I would love to see travel time equal for all meta classes (MAX ETA FR/DE, 2 Ticks for def).

Then have FI/CO that can fire on CR/BS (and vice versa).
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 10 Jul 2015, 15:31
Replies: 5
Views: 2,566
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Single Roid Type, Multiple Outputs

Can we try a single resource next round?

Or a least put open market to 0% tax. As we have no control on what resources we can produce.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 10 Jul 2015, 05:01
Replies: 276
Views: 247,771
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Nagging over tiny things thread #2

put land tick as well as launch tick on the prelaunch boxs..
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 26 Jun 2015, 02:49
Replies: 276
Views: 247,771
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Nagging over tiny things thread #2

I do notice at xx:30 all game page can take an extra 10 seconds to load, is there a ticker at this time?
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 23 Jun 2015, 20:43
Replies: 276
Views: 247,771
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Nagging over tiny things thread #2

^Remove meta travel times.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 22 Jun 2015, 20:58
Replies: 276
Views: 247,771
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Nagging over tiny things thread #2

add vacation to bot files.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 21 Jun 2015, 21:47
Replies: 276
Views: 247,771
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Nagging over tiny things thread #2

Open bcalc, place 500 in the def roids box, leave coords at 0:0:0 and hit calc.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 20 Jun 2015, 14:16
Replies: 1
Views: 2,233
Posted By MrLobster
Merge PU & CU

Premise
Merge Construction Units (CU) and Production Units (PU).

Result
You either use your population to build ships, or build constructions.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 20 Jun 2015, 03:05
Replies: 276
Views: 247,771
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Nagging over tiny things thread #2

I did mention that here (http://pirate.planetarion.com/showpost.php?p=3243416&postcount=22)...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 17 Jun 2015, 05:39
Replies: 276
Views: 247,771
Posted By MrLobster
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 7 Jun 2015, 13:45
Replies: 276
Views: 247,771
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Nagging over tiny things thread #2

Move Galaxy Status and Alliance Defence onto the same page, under two tabs, even if they link to two diff pages.

Move Galaxy fund onto mining page, again under a new tab, rename mining to...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 7 Jun 2015, 13:23
Replies: 276
Views: 247,771
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Nagging over tiny things thread #2

They need a dedicated responsive mobile css files.

http://danielmarkavis.co.uk/pa/overview2.html

Obviously you need to create the files for larger screens.

The above was designed for tablets...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 7 Jun 2015, 02:31
Replies: 276
Views: 247,771
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Nagging over tiny things thread #2

Any where there are coords, make them links to the location. Galaxy status, and alliance defence page are two needed the most.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 6 Jun 2015, 11:59
Replies: 276
Views: 247,771
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Nagging over tiny things thread #2

Why would anyone send an ingame mail with no message?
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 6 Jun 2015, 03:07
Replies: 21
Views: 8,510
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Add Another Iniative (Stats-Mechanics)

or just thinking off the top of my head, inits are shifting by 1 in favor of the defender?

So the defender get to fire the init first.

Att #? / Def #1
Att #1 / Def #2
Att #2 / Def #3
Att #3...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 6 Jun 2015, 02:23
Replies: 2
Views: 2,710
Posted By MrLobster
Re: This colour means the ruler is a Galactic Commander.

Change the color to orange (#C60)

http://danielmarkavis.co.uk/pa/galaxy.html
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 3 Jun 2015, 17:32
Replies: 15
Views: 5,174
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Themes

Just send me free a credit every round, and you can use the ones I recreated :) and i'll also fix the problems with them too.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 3 Jun 2015, 09:57
Replies: 15
Views: 5,174
Posted By MrLobster
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 3 Jun 2015, 07:19
Replies: 4
Views: 2,267
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Population %

The sliders act as a bonus, they should act like a setting.

Say you get max 100 RU.
You set the slider to 50%, which gives you 50RU.
You mine Max 100,000 resource.
You set the mining slider to...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 3 Jun 2015, 04:30
Replies: 0
Views: 1,923
Posted By MrLobster
Xp change?

I was just ready a thread about XP problem a few rounds ago.

Basically a guy piggy backed a larger attack force, which pulled alowing the VERY small guy to get 61k XP, landing him in the #6 spot,...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 3 Jun 2015, 03:55
Replies: 21
Views: 8,510
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Add Another Iniative (Stats-Mechanics)

I love the idea, but the stats need to be made less huge, perhaps reduce to 3 races.

EMP
DAMAGE
NANO.

Some of the ships have the extra ability to cloak, so it keeps that strategy open..
...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 3 Jun 2015, 03:34
Replies: 5
Views: 2,566
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Single Roid Type, Multiple Outputs

It was also part of a bigger change on the whole, mix up the ratios of resources for different section.

Initing roids not needs 4:2:1 ratio of each.
Terran need 3:2:1 for ships
Cathaar need...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 3 Jun 2015, 03:17
Replies: 4
Views: 3,180
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion ReDesign

Yes its a necro, but I didn't see it till just now.

While I will go through this list one by one, some of them fall under the same categories, which are money and time. PA has very little of both....
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 2 Jun 2015, 17:45
Replies: 3
Views: 2,634
Posted By MrLobster
Re: ship upgrades

I think it would be better to use a commander type role. Where you can hire commanders to go with a fleet, each commander has abilities. Such as +10% to Armor, or +10% to Damage.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 2 Jun 2015, 17:38
Replies: 5
Views: 2,566
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Single Roid Type, Multiple Outputs

I saw this as a middle ground, between nothing and full on code change.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 2 Jun 2015, 15:30
Replies: 5
Views: 2,566
Posted By MrLobster
Thumbs up Single Roid Type, Multiple Outputs

Premise
I want to change from initing multiple roids, to initing 1 type.

Theory
The game has changed a lot since the very first round, in fact it changed a lot in the first 6 rounds. War and...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 31 May 2015, 23:46
Replies: 276
Views: 247,771
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Nagging over tiny things thread #2

Remove Quests from the overview and place into the menu, will help people with slow connections, or over mobile.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 31 May 2015, 20:42
Replies: 276
Views: 247,771
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Nagging over tiny things thread #2

Single Resource:
Perhaps now we can move to a single resource type "credits"? I know this isnt really a small issue.

Resources have moved away from the early days where most ships needed lots of...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 31 May 2015, 19:53
Replies: 276
Views: 247,771
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Nagging over tiny things thread #2

1) Add a header title to the "Open Market Trade" tab.

2) If any resources are set to "not wanted" disable them from the galaxy trade function.

3) Add a blank column at the beginning of each...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 31 May 2015, 19:46
Replies: 276
Views: 247,771
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Nagging over tiny things thread #2

Give us back the buttons for

Self Hostiles/Allies - its nice to see if you are getting attacked and defence
Galaxy Hostiles - only need to know about hostiles
Alliance Hostiles - same as above.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 31 May 2015, 19:41
Replies: 276
Views: 247,771
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Nagging over tiny things thread #2

redesign these pages using the data in tables.

Constructions - http://danielmarkavis.co.uk/pa/cons.html
1) Description is always there anyway why not show it.
2) Split resources up into seperate...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 31 May 2015, 19:28
Replies: 276
Views: 247,771
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Nagging over tiny things thread #2

Put the asteroid on the HEADER back on the overview.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 31 May 2015, 19:26
Replies: 276
Views: 247,771
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Nagging over tiny things thread #2

Regarding pages with tabs

the following need changing to the tab_container version;

covert
production
alliance
universe
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 31 May 2015, 19:22
Replies: 276
Views: 247,771
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Nagging over tiny things thread #2

Remove "Planetarion Universal Information Service" from the game forum section, as it shows nothing.

Edit from Appoco: done

Show the alliance forum on the galaxy forum by default and rename it...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 30 May 2015, 22:19
Replies: 9
Views: 3,641
Posted By MrLobster
Forum: Programming and Discussion 30 May 2015, 18:17
Replies: 17
Views: 27,102
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Artificial Intelligence

paol bots (http://pastebin.com/Z8BdnwqZ)

This simply uses a fleet design, and build according to to that, a little random in the building but will generally build close to it. Same with...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 29 May 2015, 21:15
Replies: 66
Views: 169,070
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planet Dumps (Last Updated: 10/06/10)

Well could have warned us about the extra line in the planet dumps...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 28 May 2015, 17:01
Replies: 9
Views: 3,641
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Clean up the HTML

Also if anyone wants to they can host it themselfs, I can copy it to a zip file and you just have to modify the script to point to a new location.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 26 May 2015, 20:49
Replies: 9
Views: 3,641
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Clean up the HTML

Posy added to the top.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 16 May 2015, 17:48
Replies: 11
Views: 4,013
Posted By MrLobster
Just had a thought about astropods.

Cant we release the astropod from a class into its own class (AP).

This way the stats could be such that a number of variations, rather than just 2 per race.

Astropods would be targeted by...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 15 May 2015, 14:04
Replies: 9
Views: 3,641
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Clean up the HTML

TM is easier for me to host the CSS / images, and I can update+fix if the need arises.

But thanks for the help :)
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 15 May 2015, 12:25
Replies: 9
Views: 3,641
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Clean up the HTML

Your code didnt work for me, however I did find tamper monkey code that just removed the "link" to the pa style sheet, then point to my own without needing stylish.

So now i'm redoing the CSS with...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 15 May 2015, 08:58
Replies: 9
Views: 3,641
Posted By MrLobster
New Skins / Clean up the HTML

Premise
As some of you may remember, I always miss the old skins from PA, and every once in a while I remake them for the current round. They never get used because of "reasons".

Here are a few...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 23 Apr 2015, 00:49
Replies: 66
Views: 169,070
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planet Dumps (Last Updated: 10/06/10)

sorry let me say the planet count for the galaxy...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 22 Apr 2015, 14:30
Replies: 66
Views: 169,070
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planet Dumps (Last Updated: 10/06/10)

Could the galaxy file include planet count? saves having to go through the planet list each time.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 29 Jul 2013, 22:10
Replies: 102
Views: 36,075
Posted By MrLobster
Re: My 2 cents about the future

After watching the indiegogo intro video, I have some assumptions (ass-u-me)...

AD2460 is an evolution of the original PA, and tries to remove the elements that make current PA out of reach from...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 26 Jul 2013, 18:45
Replies: 102
Views: 36,075
Posted By MrLobster
Re: My 2 cents about the future

Thanks for proving my point, they run PA with no development and still get $5500, thats certainly not how much it costs to run the server (which I say they own). So thats still income for nothing.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 26 Jul 2013, 16:33
Replies: 102
Views: 36,075
Posted By MrLobster
Re: My 2 cents about the future

Its time to let the game die.

With the game having less than 1000 players (809 according to Kia (http://kia.cthq.net/)), and "perhaps" only 200 of them being active, whats the point in trying to...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 8 Jul 2012, 23:22
Replies: 319
Views: 184,547
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Jagex - Ominously silent

You know who fault this problem is... the paying minority. If we dont pay for a few rounds, PA gets shut down.

1) Everyone gets time off to sleep.

2) They might sell the name on again.
...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 8 Jul 2012, 17:14
Replies: 62
Views: 93,689
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Jagex Introduction / Q&A

EVE isn't as much of a time sink as you think, you can be a lot more part time in EVE than in PA.

Yes its a grind to get the ISK and Materials, but you can easily fly around in cheap T1 Frigates...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 8 Jul 2012, 12:27
Replies: 10
Views: 4,219
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Slight changes to Galaxy Status

Why do my posts keep getting deleted?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 14 Feb 2012, 02:44
Replies: 51
Views: 22,837
Posted By MrLobster
Re: How (and why) Planetarion fails

basically everyone needs to quit whining, and then quit PA.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 10 Jan 2012, 02:44
Replies: 51
Views: 22,837
Posted By MrLobster
Re: How (and why) Planetarion fails

I was under the impression that Cin and the rest of the PA Team were part time, and had full time jobs elsewhere. So coding anything was going to be uber slow or non existent.



99% of changes...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 8 Nov 2011, 16:10
Replies: 9
Views: 3,096
Posted By MrLobster
Re: benefits of war

You would need something for the alliances to "fight" for.

Such as a flag that gives the whole alliance a bonus in certain things like attack, defence, mining, remember any suggestions will be...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 8 Nov 2011, 13:58
Replies: 15
Views: 3,355
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Reduce fr/de and cr/bs ETA to fall in line with fi/co

I've wanted Unified ETA for years, but adding it through research is the icing on the cake.

Too many times Fr/DE target Fi/CO without a chance to defend outside of galaxy.

I want my Terran...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 12 Oct 2011, 19:40
Replies: 17
Views: 3,299
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Suggestion for Havoc

I'm not sure that music will solve PA's problem, however...

Development needs funds from Jagex to get started, but I see Jagex taking over the development.

The current PA Team are just the...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 12 Oct 2011, 14:10
Replies: 17
Views: 3,299
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Suggestion for Havoc

Unfortunately I'm not optimistic that PA will get any development for a long time (if at all). Even if apoc has asked the community about the use of structures to reduce roid cap.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 3 Oct 2011, 14:49
Replies: 39
Views: 9,244
Posted By MrLobster
Re: WE hate SK's what do you think ?

Combat would still limit to 10% total structures destroyed per tick.

I suppose that Levis could target levi at T2 level.

Name: Termite
Class: LE
T1: ST
T2: LE

Any idea on SK are limited...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 25 Sep 2011, 00:09
Replies: 39
Views: 9,244
Posted By MrLobster
Re: WE hate SK's what do you think ?

Move SK's to a new class

"Leviathans"

Create a PDS unit that targets "Leviathans".

Add another level to the hull tree for the Lev's.

PDS can be built early on.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 6 Sep 2011, 09:14
Replies: 13
Views: 4,444
Posted By MrLobster
Cluster Alliance Defence Speed

Basically -1 extra travel speed to alliance members in cluster.

So all alliance members get -1 to def, while members in the same cluster as you get -2.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 2 Sep 2011, 23:41
Replies: 10
Views: 4,219
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Slight changes to Galaxy Status

or perhaps PA should do a small screen version of PA??

what too hard? too much time, not enough money?
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 18 Aug 2011, 00:01
Replies: 34
Views: 7,527
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Secrurity Risk

Just because your paranoid, doesnt mean someones not after you....
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 17 Aug 2011, 12:56
Replies: 34
Views: 7,527
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Secrurity Risk

While first letter approach is even better, the fact of trying to remember that in a pinch, is lot harder.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 17 Aug 2011, 12:50
Replies: 34
Views: 7,527
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Secrurity Risk

A good way to do passwords is to use a phrase.

e.g. "i love pa"

Having it relevant to the website helps in remembering it.

However having SSL as an option is good.

Even if you use...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 13 Aug 2011, 09:31
Replies: 6
Views: 3,572
Posted By MrLobster
Re: battle solutions

APOC, install these ideas immediately, and i'll see everyone at ad2460's door....
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 4 Jul 2011, 22:30
Replies: 188
Views: 111,261
Posted By MrLobster
Re: If I could make three changes to Planetarion, they'd be .....

Seriously ignore PA, they are not going to do anything to it.

Around a year has gone by and Jagex has done nothing. Thats a fact, not just a troll!
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 26 May 2011, 10:40
Replies: 73
Views: 21,898
Posted By MrLobster
Re: 10 Months on...

I sucked at english when I was at school, and have never tried to understand what are verbs and nouns.

But when did having a "Facebook Account" become having a "Facebook"?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 26 May 2011, 01:17
Replies: 18
Views: 4,995
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Jagex we demand an update!!!

I think the best thing we all can do, is not pay for the game at all.

Free accounts are pretty good, and paid only gets a small advantage.

I would see Jagex killing PA because its not making...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 25 May 2011, 19:30
Replies: 73
Views: 21,898
Posted By MrLobster
Re: 10 Months on...

Abort, Retry, Fail...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 22 May 2011, 10:52
Replies: 38
Views: 6,978
Posted By MrLobster
Re: New race(s)

Unified ETA

Fi/Co that target BS/CR
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 21 May 2011, 20:37
Replies: 73
Views: 21,898
Posted By MrLobster
Re: 10 Months on...

Well then you need to open up a "dedicated"forum then :P (remember a small few dont use facebook).
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 21 May 2011, 00:07
Replies: 73
Views: 21,898
Posted By MrLobster
Re: 10 Months on...

Also what about an SDK/API kind of thing, where other people could create the Apps and they would have to look after them?

Fifth season could hand out the API keys so to control the stem of "bot"...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 21 May 2011, 00:02
Replies: 73
Views: 21,898
Posted By MrLobster
Re: 10 Months on...

I basically designed around a HTC Desire HD (800x480)

PA App Overview (https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_7T_SYniN864/TdbyYLwVk8I/AAAAAAAAAIY/VM99eRkSjFk/s576/PA%20App%20Overview%20v2.jpg)

PA...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 20 May 2011, 10:22
Replies: 73
Views: 21,898
Posted By MrLobster
Re: 10 Months on...

You're correct that ad2460 does not have to affect the player base of PA, but i would "assume" that more than a handful want more than PA is currently giving.

PA has been stale the last 5 years, I...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 20 May 2011, 00:49
Replies: 73
Views: 21,898
Posted By MrLobster
Re: 10 Months on...

As I have played both EVE (since April 2006) and PA (Since R2) I do have a little knowledge and "opinion" on both.

-EVE Online-
While EVE is very nice graphically it does lose substance once you...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 13 May 2011, 01:21
Replies: 73
Views: 21,898
Posted By MrLobster
Re: 10 Months on...

I've seen a lot of people/companies use Facebook as a means to hold media, such as Team Lotus (Formula 1).

They uploaded footage of the new car pre-season to Facebook, which if you don't have an...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 13 May 2011, 00:42
Replies: 12
Views: 6,870
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planning on coming back

Dont do it dude, the game sucks, and its only kept alive by the grace of god.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 11 May 2011, 23:05
Replies: 73
Views: 21,898
Posted By MrLobster
Re: 10 Months on...

The only thing missing from the "other" game is using twitter.

As I dont use facebook (deleted my account), twitter has become my main source of social media.

So spinner if your reading this,...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 11 May 2011, 09:03
Replies: 73
Views: 21,898
Posted By MrLobster
10 Months on...

...26 Jul 2010, 19:18...

10 months on from Jagex buying up Planetarion.....

So whats changed?

Well we've had 4 rounds (Acquired pre-r38).

PA is not even on the Jagex home page yet.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 10 May 2011, 00:00
Replies: 2
Views: 2,408
Posted By MrLobster
Re: PA compatibility with Opera mobil.

Is this still a problem on opera 11 mobile?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 5 Apr 2011, 22:05
Replies: 23
Views: 6,622
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Jagex' conditions for a PA link on their Website

Regarding communication between the "Owners" of PA and the "Customers"...

When have they ever been linked, not since the spinner era.

To be honest I would not be bothered with the current...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 2 Mar 2011, 16:05
Replies: 38
Views: 16,653
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Jagex investment

Indeed, however PA needs to learn to improve on the wheel (i.e and rubber etc).

As I see it, we've gone from stone wheels (Beta), Wooden Wheels (R1 - R9), to Rubber Wheels (r10 - r15), back to...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 24 Nov 2010, 19:18
Replies: 91
Views: 18,663
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Christmas Mini Round

well that's my first idea out of the window...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 24 Nov 2010, 13:14
Replies: 91
Views: 18,663
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Christmas Mini Round

Well then...

1) You could try sorting alliances by alliance points, rather than score, to see how that works.

2) Try Lights idea of a single race, but multiple branching Tech.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 15 Nov 2010, 17:49
Replies: 2
Views: 2,484
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Facebook / Twitter comercials?

"fix" is putting it lightly...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 13 Nov 2010, 02:15
Replies: 255
Views: 447,216
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Nagging over tiny things

Perhaps Sec Guards affect how many agents are killed?

100 Guards to 1 Agent.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 12 Nov 2010, 22:02
Replies: 255
Views: 447,216
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Nagging over tiny things

Realise this is the game mechanics not actually needing guards, but it still sucks.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 12 Nov 2010, 21:21
Replies: 2
Views: 2,196
Posted By MrLobster
Re: trade tax

http://pirate.planetarion.com/showpost.php?p=3201256&postcount=5

better idea
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 10 Nov 2010, 15:01
Replies: 24
Views: 4,684
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Jagex

While I like playing for free, I can also see the fact that you dont get any real benefit from paying, all you get is access to auto report incs, and a small resource influx.

For most people who...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 10 Nov 2010, 04:03
Replies: 24
Views: 4,684
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Jagex

There are 2 sides to this

1) Optimist - Can wait until Jagex decides what to do, and will trust them to do bring PA back to its former glory.

2) Pessimist - Has seen what happened to the game,...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 9 Nov 2010, 15:40
Replies: 255
Views: 447,216
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Nagging over tiny things

Why isnt the alliance resource fund on the mining fund, along with galaxy and open trading?
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 6 Nov 2010, 15:54
Replies: 255
Views: 447,216
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Nagging over tiny things

1) Why on the research screen can I not see what my current research actually will do. I have to stop it and then the drop down works.

2) When doing a bcalc, I add my fleet, then go to add my...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 6 Nov 2010, 15:51
Replies: 6
Views: 3,161
Posted By MrLobster
Re: bbcode tag for bcalcs

I actually didnt want url pasting, as certain people may use that to gain information on others, links to rogue websites etc...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 6 Nov 2010, 01:45
Replies: 45
Views: 54,878
Posted By MrLobster
Re: A Sandmans Replacement

if it aint broke dont fix it.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 6 Nov 2010, 00:32
Replies: 6
Views: 3,161
Posted By MrLobster
bbcode tag for bcalcs

Could we include a bbcode tag for display bcalcs in PA Mails.

I ask this because PA Mail doesnt convert links to url, so while using my phone I have to write the number down and type it in...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 6 Nov 2010, 00:24
Replies: 45
Views: 54,878
Posted By MrLobster
Re: A Sandmans Replacement

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/5046/rockmanlogobg.png

You can guess the rest...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 5 Nov 2010, 12:11
Replies: 45
Views: 12,807
Posted By MrLobster
Re: multihunters are utter fail

While I agree that some planet and ruler names cross over the line, I do completely disagree with lack of response from MH when a case arises.

More communication would help stem the backlash.
...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 1 Nov 2010, 13:39
Replies: 18
Views: 5,647
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Galaxy Fund Banking System

Mainly its best to try to help out smaller galaxies and to restrict the bigger galaxies.

1) The shaved off resources should be placed in the gal fund.

2) The fund should only be transferable to...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 1 Nov 2010, 02:12
Replies: 66
Views: 169,070
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planet Dumps (Last Updated: 10/06/10)

Can we have "Real Score" added for galaxy please (in player dump)? As this is used for gal score and not the one currently included in the dump file.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 24 Oct 2010, 12:49
Replies: 50
Views: 12,144
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Comparetheallyname.com

http://www.facebook.com/pages/PUNCHING-ZEBRAS-IN-THE-FACE/325001254526
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 22 Oct 2010, 13:20
Replies: 45
Views: 54,878
Posted By MrLobster
Re: A Sandmans Replacement

Are you going to release this on Open Source?

Sad that sandman didn't release his code in the end...

Btw I saved as many pages from sandmans that I could think of, just in case the code wasn't...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 22 Oct 2010, 13:17
Replies: 255
Views: 447,216
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Nagging over tiny things

Why do we have to build a wave amp to do a landing scan, as the scan ignores distorters?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 17 Oct 2010, 18:56
Replies: 4
Views: 2,803
Posted By MrLobster
Galaxy Banners

When are they going to be enabled?
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 16 Oct 2010, 08:43
Replies: 255
Views: 447,216
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Nagging over tiny things

Why, as GC, are you not auto set to trusted?

Does all "wanted" status reset if the GC changes?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 14 Oct 2010, 21:48
Replies: 39
Views: 7,567
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Mr. Netgamers 2010... and A Bold New Project?

Seems its pretty hard to get any code from sandman, he isnt answering any messages or even returning my love letters...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 14 Oct 2010, 19:01
Replies: 255
Views: 447,216
Posted By MrLobster
Forum: Strategic Discussions 9 Oct 2010, 18:52
Replies: 78
Views: 31,926
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Round 39 Stats

/me watches the tumble weeds blow by....
Forum: Strategic Discussions 8 Oct 2010, 11:25
Replies: 78
Views: 31,926
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Round 39 Stats

For those of us that cant see (that means me), what are the problems specifically?
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 3 Oct 2010, 03:32
Replies: 82
Views: 18,348
Posted By MrLobster
Re: What I'd change and how I'd do it

Alliance Limits:

I believe that success of the new "Alliance Points" system that is currently being tested, would lead to the removal of alliance player limits.
So a small 30 man BG (DLR) could...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 3 Oct 2010, 03:06
Replies: 86
Views: 20,089
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion Redesign

With the current XP system, if a smaller player actually succeeds and gains a huge XP boost, they then become targets for larger "value" planets. Making the point of XP pointless.

Also by using...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 3 Oct 2010, 01:32
Replies: 86
Views: 20,089
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion Redesign

Does it really punish them?

or are we going to stay with the current, "NAP all and wait till the end of the round before killing things".
Forum: Strategic Discussions 27 Sep 2010, 22:35
Replies: 23
Views: 9,398
Posted By MrLobster
Round 39 Ship Stats?

Who is doing them?
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 25 Sep 2010, 17:31
Replies: 86
Views: 20,089
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion Redesign

So, lets look at this.. im a low ranked planet.

At the end of the round, if i hit any top player and i can still hit and cap any top player without defence.

I get 17.58k XP gain. I gain 1054800...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 24 Sep 2010, 10:47
Replies: 198
Views: 60,468
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Alliance Size for next round

Unfortunately Alliances wont go away just because they are deleted in game. They existed before any alliance feature was placed into the game, and will continue to exist if anything is removed.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 23 Sep 2010, 09:47
Replies: 86
Views: 20,089
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion Redesign

I suggesting that we replace XP with Value gain.

So instead of gaining 120k score from 2000 xp, you would gain 120k score in resources.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 22 Sep 2010, 22:37
Replies: 86
Views: 20,089
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion Redesign

Example 1:
XP Gained = 2,000

Score increase is: 2,000 x 60 = 120,000

Resource equal to score: 120,000 x 100 = 12,000,000

Resource Distribution: 12,000,000 / 3 = 4,000,000 per resource.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 21 Sep 2010, 13:01
Replies: 86
Views: 20,089
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion Redesign

That only happens because the techtree is linear when it comes to hulls.

Allowing any hull to be researched, brings in more tactics.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 21 Sep 2010, 12:33
Replies: 86
Views: 20,089
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion Redesign

Sorry for the misunderstanding, I'm against locking out any units. Opening up the stats to everyone brings in more tactics. I foresee people suggesting a restriction.

The problem I see with...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 21 Sep 2010, 12:15
Replies: 86
Views: 20,089
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion Redesign

Converting XP to resource should be included.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 21 Sep 2010, 11:59
Replies: 86
Views: 20,089
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion Redesign

I think its time to do this.

Its always been a problem that cat have total emp, which is good for the start of the round, but the end round its hard for them.

People will now ask for a choice...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 20 Sep 2010, 15:28
Replies: 8
Views: 2,525
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Round lenght

PA would love shorter rounds, mainly for money.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 15 Sep 2010, 17:17
Replies: 27
Views: 12,937
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion - Put an Axe through it

Thats ok for People starting at the same tick.

But people starting later than another person (that includes new players) is a problem.

Let the players have a chance.

I'm bringing up an old...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 15 Sep 2010, 14:09
Replies: 27
Views: 12,937
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion - Put an Axe through it

New planets do not join alliances at the start, they may take up to a week to even think about an alliance (if ever). This leads to them not having access to an alliance scanner. Making dists a game...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 15 Sep 2010, 13:42
Replies: 27
Views: 12,937
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion - Put an Axe through it

I think a case in point is the latest C&C4 game.

It removes all the base building elements, and gives you units almost instantly. I for one (and with the majority of the C&C community), think this...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 14 Sep 2010, 19:19
Replies: 86
Views: 20,089
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion Redesign

Population Death

Rather than just a random pop death formula, base it like this.

1) Any structure that's destroyed, has up to 20% of its workers killed (1 minimum, 20% max).
2) Bunkers have...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 14 Sep 2010, 11:40
Replies: 86
Views: 20,089
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion Redesign

I just had a thought about mining roids.

1) Spaceport.
You build these constructions (M/C/E sliders or something) which takes the usually 50 pop to fill each, and it works the same as 1 pop per...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 13 Sep 2010, 18:11
Replies: 66
Views: 169,070
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planet Dumps (Last Updated: 12/04/06)

ooh that would be nice :)
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 13 Sep 2010, 13:45
Replies: 27
Views: 12,937
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion - Put an Axe through it

Most "features" in PA were poorly implemented and rushed in. Population, Covert-ops are the main ones.

With more thought to them (as per lights design document), they can become much more useful...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 12 Sep 2010, 15:46
Replies: 86
Views: 20,089
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion Redesign

A previous suggestion by me was to have individual spies, each with their own alert/stealth status.

This would only require 1 pop then, which isnt a huge loss.

Once you start down the hiring...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 12 Sep 2010, 10:21
Replies: 86
Views: 20,089
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion Redesign

Can we please have a techtree that takes longer than the current one, most people do travel, hulls,HCT, and the rest once those 3 lines are finished.

Took me less than 500 ticks to get the major...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 12 Sep 2010, 09:09
Replies: 86
Views: 20,089
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion Redesign

An upper lock is the problem we have atm, most people put 25% into mining, 50% research, 25% cons. Then switch research to security at the end.

Its because the current system just "adds" to...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 11 Sep 2010, 18:23
Replies: 86
Views: 20,089
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion Redesign

Well all you need to do is place a "k" char at the end of the number :P

I would say that population structures be named "cities" or something like that.



if you have 100% working in science,...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 11 Sep 2010, 15:10
Replies: 86
Views: 20,089
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion Redesign

Thats if the new stats for Light's design are different that we have now, if it goes back to metal>crystal>eonium, then I see no problem (as long as other areas also vary the ratios. I dont want to...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 11 Sep 2010, 09:56
Replies: 86
Views: 20,089
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion Redesign

a) So much easier to balance.
b) You can max out in spending your resource, no need to swap around resources.
c) Easier for new players to understand, I could walk around with my money all in...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 11 Sep 2010, 07:50
Replies: 86
Views: 20,089
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion Redesign

Please can we remove to pretty useless 3 resource and just use a single one?

I would think a change to roids could be better
1) Renamed "moons"
2) HP increased x10
3) Output increased x10
4)...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 8 Sep 2010, 02:21
Replies: 12
Views: 3,928
Posted By MrLobster
Re: PDS against SKs

or perhaps just remove sk's all together?

Killing structures need a new direction anyway.

Perhaps using your own population.

#1. Population Education - Train part of your population to be...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 4 Sep 2010, 00:11
Replies: 7
Views: 2,659
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Salvage in the bcalc

and can we have a small comment line above each fleet, for perhaps coords of the defenders/attackers?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 26 Aug 2010, 21:20
Replies: 168
Views: 61,815
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Replace the incompetent MH staff

I say lets have a round where we can "cheat" however we like...

...much like eve-online allows players do anything in game they wish.
Forum: Programming and Discussion 18 Aug 2010, 17:07
Replies: 20
Views: 7,899
Posted By MrLobster
Re: PHP IDEs

Notepad++ is also a very good one, if i didnt use dreamweaver then N++ would be it.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 18 Aug 2010, 06:48
Replies: 16
Views: 8,933
Posted By MrLobster
Re: The Problem with Eonium

You do realise he isnt on about what to do with E, but that it now looks like a plant.

I actually posted about the effect of E on classic PA, but then re-read the OP, and deleted it.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 16 Aug 2010, 17:41
Replies: 14
Views: 3,894
Posted By MrLobster
Re: In Game/Alliance Forum

Also adding alliance defence (and perhaps attack) to below galaxy status link.

and merge politics and galaxy screen.

Move Alliance tax, and scan options to the alliance screen, under a new tab.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 15 Aug 2010, 07:55
Replies: 14
Views: 3,894
Posted By MrLobster
Re: In Game/Alliance Forum

Necro, but valid.

Ok now that the game menu is more separated, you could include "Alliance Forum" below "Galaxy Forum" link.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 15 Aug 2010, 07:25
Replies: 61
Views: 30,116
Posted By MrLobster
Re: About time for a GUI update

Another year, another bump for my work.

I'm available to work if Jagex has any free spaces?

I've not looked at the graphics since last year, so adjustments would be in order.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 14 Aug 2010, 16:06
Replies: 21
Views: 4,877
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Cluster defence

Sorry to necro, but I was going over old ideas.

I think Cluster Alliances now fail, because the majority of players are in Player Aliances.

As such people will either see def against them, or...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 13 Aug 2010, 15:04
Replies: 14
Views: 4,213
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Credit Bonus Modification

Thats why we can just increase roid output to 300-350 for upgraded accounts. That way its not a short term, but long term bonus.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 13 Aug 2010, 15:01
Replies: 14
Views: 4,213
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Credit Bonus Modification

And who do you think most of these paid accounts are? I would say they are Hard Core players, or at least addicts.

Hopefully with the jagex buy out, we will start to see increased number of...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 12 Aug 2010, 23:23
Replies: 14
Views: 4,213
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Credit Bonus Modification

I say bring back the 72 hours protection.

-Free Account-
A free account will be upgraded for the first week, after that it reverts to a Free Account.

A) 250 resource per roid.

B) When you...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 12 Aug 2010, 00:01
Replies: 5
Views: 2,358
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Techtree

So I'm back from work, so I'll try to explain the myself....

The above techtree is based on these premises;-

a) Single Race Ship Stats:
Using research you enable the damage/cloak/emp/steal...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 11 Aug 2010, 13:25
Replies: 5
Views: 2,358
Posted By MrLobster
Techtree

I created this techtree, in an effort to make PA a little more fun.

Note: Its by no means complete, as I'm late for work....

http://www.fresh-lobster.co.uk/media/other/techtree_mrlobster.jpg
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 7 Aug 2010, 19:03
Replies: 188
Views: 111,261
Posted By MrLobster
Re: If I could make three changes to Planetarion, they'd be .....

ALLIANCES!

a) When a player signs up to the game, they are placed in to a starting alliance (randomly or based on currently player quantity).

b) The two alliances will be called RED and BLUE.
...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 7 Aug 2010, 16:59
Replies: 16
Views: 13,344
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Alternative approach on ship stats

Yes Necro!

hmmm I'm against this because the best ships to use would be FR/DE.

FI = -25%
CO = -10%

FR = 0
DE = 0
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 3 Aug 2010, 13:03
Replies: 76
Views: 12,674
Posted By MrLobster
Re: [Discuss] PA Merchandising

I would think thats down to alliances to provide that type of merchandising.

PA stuff would be more open to everyone (open to ex players too).

I tried to get a PA mouse pad a few years back...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 2 Aug 2010, 12:30
Replies: 98
Views: 41,570
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Hi from a Jagex fansite

You just know someone will translate it all to klingon :/
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 1 Aug 2010, 23:55
Replies: 21
Views: 5,451
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Limit the numbers of research labs you can build

why not just change the way it works and each res lab adds 3-5% to total RU. So the more you make the faster research becomes.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 1 Aug 2010, 11:07
Replies: 31
Views: 6,530
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Dear Jagex

Can we now go back to the old logo?

http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/4055/palogo.png
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 1 Aug 2010, 09:59
Replies: 98
Views: 41,570
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Hi from a Jagex fansite

Its not the amount of time needed to play this game, its the time of day its needed to play.

Everything happens at 8-10pm (target pick), 3-6am (launch attack / send defence).

You can pretty...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 30 Jul 2010, 09:38
Replies: 40
Views: 13,342
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion deterioration procedure

if everyone stopped playing, PA would go bankrupt and then might either

!) Release the code to the masses and could find its way into a group that would expand on new ideas.

2) Release its...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 28 Feb 2010, 21:00
Replies: 17
Views: 5,081
Posted By MrLobster
Re: returning fleet

The problem I see with a fleet catch is this. The majority of the time an FC will be done to reduce an enemy alliances score.

This really does mean a kick in the teeth for the player getting the...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 2 Feb 2010, 18:12
Replies: 11
Views: 3,690
Posted By MrLobster
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 2 Feb 2010, 16:14
Replies: 24
Views: 5,245
Posted By MrLobster
Re: IRC client

One line at a time i guess?
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 2 Feb 2010, 11:36
Replies: 26
Views: 7,203
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Pa api

If bots were never a problem then why do we have a bot checker? Bots also now are sophisticated enough to understand the bot checker picture.

I also never said that botting was bigger than any...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 2 Feb 2010, 09:29
Replies: 26
Views: 7,203
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Pa api

At this point the big siren from QI would be screaming...

Anyone who remembers before the introduction of the bot checker, will remember the name Killmark. This guy managed to get hold of I...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 2 Feb 2010, 08:16
Replies: 26
Views: 7,203
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Pa api

Your right i didnt read it as hard as i should.

When people talk about api, I think of eve-onlines version which just is read only and you cannot control the game unless your using the client...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 1 Feb 2010, 15:07
Replies: 26
Views: 7,203
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Pa api

Isnt the whole API thing just a read only affair?

If so then why would bots be a problem?
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 21 Jan 2010, 10:28
Replies: 38
Views: 5,875
Posted By MrLobster
Re: PA World cup 2010

Or the scotish during the week...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 21 Jan 2010, 10:26
Replies: 24
Views: 5,245
Posted By MrLobster
Re: IRC client

I still have to join each channel manually, because (i think) comunit doesnt auto join the channel.

In mirc I only have to hit a single command script to login and join all the channels.

The...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 21 Jan 2010, 02:21
Replies: 24
Views: 5,245
Posted By MrLobster
Re: IRC client

thats the only reason i'm not using the current comunit, having to manually type in all the commands to get invited to all my channels and login to P.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 21 Jan 2010, 00:13
Replies: 12
Views: 5,347
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Bring back the Tech Tree

Research

Hulls
5% Armor per level

Also a level activates a shiip class

FI = LVL 1 .. BS = LVL 6

Fire Control
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 20 Jan 2010, 12:20
Replies: 11
Views: 3,876
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Proper help for newcomers

Yep Quick to start Long to finish.

Rather than having a 2 minute cycle, each tick your given a total of CU to use. Every con takes increasing amounts.

1st Wave amp = 5 cu
2nd Wave amp = 10 cu...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 20 Jan 2010, 10:11
Replies: 18
Views: 7,430
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Game Direction

I also still think we need to reduce the 3 resources into a single one, or at least make them unique again in certain situations.

Add to the fact the tech tree is boring, and to have so many...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 20 Jan 2010, 00:39
Replies: 11
Views: 3,876
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Proper help for newcomers

Rather than giving out tech, what about giving out RP/CU (same as the upgrade bonus does).
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 19 Jan 2010, 23:14
Replies: 18
Views: 7,430
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Game Direction

I've said that PA went backwards in design when they removed the mail/news buttons away from images to crappy links.

Thats why i always use my own skin..
...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 19 Jan 2010, 05:47
Replies: 30
Views: 9,188
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Dear zPeti - the response

http://simrepublic.com/

Is this the new game?
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 16 Jan 2010, 17:52
Replies: 18
Views: 7,430
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Game Direction

Edited slightly..

1) Welcome to your planet. This is your base of operations and improving this planet is the point of the game.

2) To improve your planet you need to do 5 things.
a) Research...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 15 Jan 2010, 08:36
Replies: 6
Views: 3,316
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Dear zPeti part 2.

I do feel that a number of people in the community could spend a month of coding and get something more worthwhile than what PA currently is.

I would try if I didnt have to sleep and work.

We...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 13 Jan 2010, 00:48
Replies: 32
Views: 9,422
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Make attacking more interesting

I'm going slightly off topic...

Astro Empires (AE) has a combat engine that is similar to the way it used to be in PA round 1 (no inits, everything fired at the same time).

The more I look at...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 12 Jan 2010, 13:29
Replies: 7
Views: 2,999
Posted By MrLobster
Re: 48 Hours

does the delete account have to take so long? I'm not allowed to create another for 48 hours.

Resetting a planet is not the same as starting the new account (unless you do get the startup bonus,...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 4 Jan 2010, 04:32
Replies: 41
Views: 7,250
Posted By MrLobster
Re: 10th anniversary

Seeing as steve is so fond of the set in stone "voting for round name " system, perhaps PATeam can set up a new poll, to see if the public would like to postpone the current naming poll to round 36...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 2 Jan 2010, 19:34
Replies: 9
Views: 3,028
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Hull change

This isnt a stats thing, more a gameplay thing.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 2 Jan 2010, 17:38
Replies: 9
Views: 3,028
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Hull change

The current ETA system was based on the old style single pod stats, now each race has a POD type(s).

TER have to train up to DE before they can get an attack fleet (most will likely go to BS),...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 2 Jan 2010, 17:04
Replies: 9
Views: 3,028
Posted By MrLobster
Hull change

1) Make all Hulls available to research from the the start.

2) Each research for hulls is 3600 (36 hours approx).

3) Remove the research restriction on Xan.

4) Unify ETA on all units.

5)...
Forum: General Discussions 1 Jan 2010, 09:50
Replies: 7
Views: 3,339
Posted By MrLobster
Re: New Years Resolutions

1360x768 - HTPC Downstairs (only a cheap 32" Samsung LCD).

1280x1024 - PC upstairs (Dual Monitor)

1024x768 - GF's PC (She doesnt like small Icons).
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 30 Dec 2009, 20:36
Replies: 6
Views: 3,301
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Remove Combat "Tick"

Sorry to Quote from two threads but I feel your in contradiction or at least not fully explaining your side of the argument.

While you are not stating specifically in the second quote that...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 30 Dec 2009, 14:13
Replies: 6
Views: 3,301
Posted By MrLobster
Remove Combat "Tick"

I will list the quick things I think could change PA.

1) Remove defence from the game.

2) Replace the current land tick combat with a physical Push button attack system.

This means that you...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 30 Dec 2009, 13:29
Replies: 22
Views: 9,547
Posted By MrLobster
Re: So round 36

I did get a lot of defence last round from F-Crew, but I also gave a lot in defence. I only attacked about a dozen times in the whole round.

But perhaps it will be better for attacking to be more...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 30 Dec 2009, 06:33
Replies: 22
Views: 9,547
Posted By MrLobster
Re: So round 36

Guess your talking about single targetting? It will mean that smaller alliances will find it harder to get defence while attacking as a whole gets easier.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 29 Dec 2009, 12:55
Replies: 76
Views: 23,691
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Changes for next round

Any ideas created by the community have to be treated and subjected to the same premise...

"If it takes more than a day to code, its unlikely to see the light of day"

That is also why we get...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 28 Dec 2009, 17:51
Replies: 17
Views: 3,881
Posted By MrLobster
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 26 Dec 2009, 09:21
Replies: 15
Views: 5,520
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Merry Christmas

Happy Easter!
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 26 Dec 2009, 09:09
Replies: 64
Views: 23,192
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion the game we love to hate

Wasnt Zoltan the alien that was worshiped by the bubble wraped jump suited geeks from the film "dudes wheres my car"?
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 24 Dec 2009, 08:52
Replies: 105
Views: 14,204
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Make a big change

Also I was thinking about "Single Targeting", perhaps a further simple reduction in the T2/T3 effectiveness would be better

T1 = 100%
T2 = 25%
T3 = 10%

So in theory you could have a lot of T3...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 24 Dec 2009, 01:53
Replies: 105
Views: 14,204
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Make a big change

I think that random events that the player has no choice on isnt a good one.

I would rather the random event occur due to risk taking...

"Scanners have detected an unstable wormhole near our...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 22 Dec 2009, 11:08
Replies: 64
Views: 23,192
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion the game we love to hate

The Facebook Idea is a case of Chicken and the Egg.... which to do first.

1) I believe the idea of the facebook app is to create an influx of players to join the main game.

2) However if the...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 22 Dec 2009, 00:25
Replies: 64
Views: 23,192
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion the game we love to hate

What?? Where is this feature?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 21 Dec 2009, 08:25
Replies: 7
Views: 3,502
Posted By MrLobster
Taking bets....

With no real money of course, just pride if you win...

Now onto the question.

#1. WHAT WILL BE THE NUMBER OF THE LAST EVER ROUND OF PA?
(currently we have just finished Round 34)

Might be...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 21 Dec 2009, 08:19
Replies: 21
Views: 5,081
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Guess How Many Support Members Will Help Newbies This Round

So in other words you addicted and will still be playing then...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 20 Dec 2009, 08:21
Replies: 21
Views: 5,081
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Guess How Many Support Members Will Help Newbies This Round

It will take 1 person to write it, and 14 people to spell check it.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 19 Dec 2009, 18:35
Replies: 105
Views: 14,204
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Make a big change

- Convert XP for resource.

I think prelaunch has to stay.

Covops should be replaced with single spys which you have to train, and also place the waves under spy control. I do think that there...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 19 Dec 2009, 09:15
Replies: 105
Views: 14,204
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Make a big change

I think 8 is a little low

FI+CO+FR+DE+CR+BS+SK+POD

You need 2 or three of each, also dont forget the different types EMP, STEAL, Damage and cloak.

I would think my list of ships...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 19 Dec 2009, 08:58
Replies: 15
Views: 3,811
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Userfriendly deleting

Should have just launched on the #1 guy, then the nice guys in #multihunters would have kindly deleted your planet for you :)
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 18 Dec 2009, 19:24
Replies: 11
Views: 2,760
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Once more and for good

I've found it hard to get into a "better" alliance.

The game is research till tick 500 ish, then its just a game of attack and recall, maybe once in a while you risk a land in case of fake...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 18 Dec 2009, 17:21
Replies: 11
Views: 2,760
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Once more and for good

So we all like playing the same game with slightly altered stats for like 15 rounds?

Not everyone is in an uber active "we will flagship you" alliance, I've been in rock most of the time and...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 18 Dec 2009, 16:55
Replies: 87
Views: 61,579
Posted By MrLobster
Re: A plea to the multihunters

But if defenders get back at least most (but not more) of what they lose then defending isnt a waste of resource and time.

But if you get something for nothing then it can and will be abused.
...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 17 Dec 2009, 19:38
Replies: 3
Views: 2,626
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Donation and Salvage

Zik's work like any other damage races, in they still cause losses to the other side, however they swap ships by losing their own. They shouldnt be able to benefit from stealing ships, they should...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 17 Dec 2009, 19:11
Replies: 3
Views: 2,626
Posted By MrLobster
Donation and Salvage

Ok so this is the second time i wrote this as the gf decided to close the browser after she looked at facebook :(



Nice idea, that means I can launch on the #1 without fear of getting closed.
...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 17 Dec 2009, 16:31
Replies: 87
Views: 61,579
Posted By MrLobster
Re: A plea to the multihunters

I remember years ago that most people just suicided their fleet at the end of the round at #1. I did it this round and got closed :(

Not that I was bothered, I was outside top 400 on score.

Its...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 17 Dec 2009, 05:30
Replies: 51
Views: 9,840
Posted By MrLobster
Re: To continue JBG's request...

I dont think its PA that has created politics, its the instant communication that IRC.

AE doesnt seem to use IRC in the same way PA does. IRC is a must to work in any alliance.

One other game...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 16 Dec 2009, 18:06
Replies: 28
Views: 4,418
Posted By MrLobster
Re: ETA and all that jazz

CR/BS = 2 ticks to get defence (CR/BS/DE/FR).
FR/DE = 2 ticks to get defence (FR/DE/FI/CO)
FI/CO = 1 tick to get defence (FI/CO).

I think this is unfair to people who like the big ships. It also...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 16 Dec 2009, 16:32
Replies: 11
Views: 2,659
Posted By MrLobster
Re: A suggestion for Stats

Its not a full set of stats as its only the whats targetting what scheme.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 16 Dec 2009, 08:57
Replies: 11
Views: 2,659
Posted By MrLobster
Re: A suggestion for Stats

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AmpUlH_UjQsFdGNuM0M5dDFCYkhubTl4YlhXVFhmaFE&hl=en

Thought I would have a go at a set of stats...

EDIT: Unlocked
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 16 Dec 2009, 06:47
Replies: 28
Views: 4,418
Posted By MrLobster
Re: ETA and all that jazz

/signed and a big hug from me

..although stats would need fi/co that target BS/CR, but i see no problem with that.

eta = current fr/de one.

or eta = BS/Cr and then add one or two more layers...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 14 Dec 2009, 22:48
Replies: 12
Views: 3,708
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Pa more fun?

ban everyone except the new players?
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 14 Dec 2009, 22:25
Replies: 51
Views: 9,840
Posted By MrLobster
Re: To continue JBG's request...

(-: << This has been missed greatly!!

I remember the days when all alliances had logos for the galaxy banners, now you're lucky to find any decent gal banners (bring back grendal and legion). The...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 14 Dec 2009, 22:07
Replies: 105
Views: 14,204
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Make a big change

How many "people" actually have access to the DB to change these items? You could let 1 person 1 day to look over the descriptions and change them.

I find it most annoying that PA is run with so...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 14 Dec 2009, 17:31
Replies: 5
Views: 2,411
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Changes to construction costs

I agree with this.

And doing so means that SK's can be made into pod classes...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 14 Dec 2009, 17:29
Replies: 23
Views: 4,192
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Of score (and game mentality)

I have said the last couple of rounds that we need to go back to pre-r6 ways, give everyone a chance to build all type of ships. However that doesnt solve the fact you wouldnt get XP for killing...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 14 Dec 2009, 16:58
Replies: 22
Views: 3,959
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Make every galaxy a small fortress

Perhaps the problem is the idea of the galaxy and alliance?

#1. Galaxy fleets are the last line of defense. If your in a crappy galaxy your last line will be crappy

#2. This game is all about...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 14 Dec 2009, 16:17
Replies: 51
Views: 9,840
Posted By MrLobster
Re: To continue JBG's request...

http://classicplanetarion.blogspot.com/ *Cough* Been showing these off for years and hardly been chased up for them and these are things I cook up over weekends (havent really been polished though)....
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 30 Nov 2009, 01:50
Replies: 12
Views: 3,708
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Pa more fun?

I dont see why xan should get the cloak bonus with faking. Incoming scans should at least show cloaked ships at say eta 1-4.

I think the cloak should be more like stealth..
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 29 Nov 2009, 19:58
Replies: 12
Views: 3,708
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Pa more fun?

I agree, I would remove cloaking all together...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 10 Nov 2009, 05:37
Replies: 17
Views: 4,428
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Incoming Scans - Amps vs Dists

tbh I think my degradation is ok, as anyone at the home planet can look out a portal at eta 1 and see the ships outside. So dists are redundant then.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 10 Nov 2009, 05:34
Replies: 17
Views: 4,428
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Incoming Scans - Amps vs Dists

Round up to 10 (from 9.99) or down depends on PA policy

EffectiveDists = Dists * (CurrentETA / MaxEta)

ED = 37 * (3/11)

ED = 37 * 0.27

ED = 9.99 > 10
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 10 Nov 2009, 01:44
Replies: 17
Views: 4,428
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Incoming Scans - Amps vs Dists

Yeah so if a fleet has a max eta of 12 and the fleet is 6 ticks away from the target dists have 50% actual strength, so the player with 20 dists has 10 effective at eta 6.

Not too bad an idea.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 8 Nov 2009, 21:41
Replies: 1
Views: 2,263
Posted By MrLobster
To unit stat providers

I know this is a lot to ask, I would do it my self but I dont have a clue how to start...

I want to see if anyone can come up with a ship stats set which ignores ship eta, with this I mean that...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 8 Nov 2009, 21:31
Replies: 8
Views: 2,966
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Change in travel times

All ships = same eta.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 5 Nov 2009, 13:23
Replies: 4
Views: 2,660
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Research feedback

Thanks HanZi.

PA was never as loved as it was before PAX (X being the roman numeral for 10, so it was round 10 when this all started).

Some of PAX (which i'm going to include from round 10 to...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 5 Nov 2009, 02:01
Replies: 4
Views: 2,660
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Research feedback

The tech tree has been made simple for easier understanding by the new players.

But this also means that it changes very little from one round to the next.

The linear progression is pretty...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 4 Nov 2009, 13:03
Replies: 1
Views: 2,377
Posted By MrLobster
Slimline pages

So I only just started using my phone to play PA (using Opera mini) on my newish phone (new to me, but a hand me down from my girlfriend's sister... and no its not pink!).

I just find there is a...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 31 Oct 2009, 08:35
Replies: 7
Views: 3,155
Posted By MrLobster
Re: A Universe of Change

Currently having an alliance is already a must have, the fact that any person that claims to play solo and gets a good ranking, still friendly with at least one alliance.

Actually I think my idea...
Forum: General Discussions 30 Oct 2009, 21:09
Replies: 22
Views: 6,838
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Would you rather shoot or shag Katie Price

I was deciding whether its better to shoot her before or after...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 30 Oct 2009, 20:08
Replies: 6
Views: 2,717
Posted By MrLobster
Re: bye bye tick 1 ?

is sandmans working?
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 30 Oct 2009, 19:08
Replies: 9
Views: 3,744
Posted By MrLobster
Re: quest

Doubt it, as these forums are not connected to the game...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 30 Oct 2009, 18:20
Replies: 7
Views: 3,155
Posted By MrLobster
Re: A Universe of Change

Maybe so (not seen that before I posted the idea), however i'm trying to not stray too far away from current PA Design.

I'm also keen to keep things as simple as I can, while trying to include...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 30 Oct 2009, 18:15
Replies: 7
Views: 3,155
Posted By MrLobster
Re: A Universe of Change

Mz do you do anything but stalk the forums all day and night :P

The majority of the game is intact.

However the idea of the "Galaxy" is removed. I feel this would help the current farming...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 30 Oct 2009, 17:20
Replies: 7
Views: 3,155
Posted By MrLobster
A Universe of Change

So I was looking at the way PA currently works. Mainly at the way the universe works.

I was thinking of a way to include planetary conquest, without getting bombed to the stone age once you lose...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 28 Oct 2009, 08:11
Replies: 3
Views: 2,711
Posted By MrLobster
Scanning Chance... again

I've many times stated that i dislike the way scanning works, either yes or no (amps v dists).

I always liked the early rounds of chanced based, where by everyone had a chance to use their own...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 22 Oct 2009, 21:40
Replies: 20
Views: 6,110
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Plans

You cant create a cutdown facebook version of PA,its like giving people sponge cake and letting them find out carrot cake is the full version. Not everyone likes carrot cake..

The game suffers...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 16 Sep 2009, 11:48
Replies: 37
Views: 5,261
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Substract XP for hitting smaller targets

Hmmm, first thoughts are these...

XP could be removed from the score calc and used directly where it will hurt you... in the wallet.

The more you bash (XP reduction) the less effective your...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 13 Aug 2009, 13:43
Replies: 12
Views: 3,725
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Can we reduce the number of ships and add flagships?

I do think that the bigger ships need to cost more, people used to fear 100 BS, mainly because they did a lot of damage (100 guns per BS).

I still believe that a bigger gap in quantities between...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 31 Jul 2009, 19:09
Replies: 90
Views: 11,376
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Officers, a dying race?

This game only comes alive when most people are sleep, you wont find that in many other games. Many people who are in PA would most likely now be in full time employment, and staying up till 4am in...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 2 Jul 2009, 11:52
Replies: 17
Views: 3,824
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Keep capped roid until fleet returns

hmmm could someone point me to a thread exposing this feature being included in PA?
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 2 Jul 2009, 07:46
Replies: 17
Views: 3,824
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Keep capped roid until fleet returns

Agreed! I mentioned this idea a while ago.

Currently all roids move at the same time, and depending on where you are in the Universe, depends on if you gain roids or lose roids when attacks happen...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 1 Jul 2009, 19:57
Replies: 35
Views: 6,197
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Game changing ideas.

Most of the ideas are a way to ease in new players.


Its a unreasonable restriction that has no releveance to real life (basically RL is land limited), and real life relevence is the basis for...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 1 Jul 2009, 17:47
Replies: 35
Views: 6,197
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Game changing ideas.

But all its really doing is slowing the stagnation, not stopping it.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 30 Jun 2009, 11:11
Replies: 160
Views: 30,189
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Round 32 Predictions?

#1 Rock
#2 pateam
#3 Hellkicker
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 29 Jun 2009, 06:27
Replies: 3
Views: 2,509
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Can someone fix this please

you talking changeing the stats, or the wording? Because the wording looks ok to me...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 28 Jun 2009, 09:06
Replies: 12
Views: 3,233
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Remove limits on population settings, with side effects.

I was trying to think of non-crappy sounding names.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 27 Jun 2009, 07:37
Replies: 12
Views: 3,233
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Remove limits on population settings, with side effects.

If you look at the first way I try to go about it is, you can get up to 100% mining (25% is current max), but you have to reduce at least 1 area by 100% to balance out.

Basically I wanted to see...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 26 Jun 2009, 21:04
Replies: 12
Views: 3,233
Posted By MrLobster
Remove limits on population settings, with side effects.

So here is thought on alernative population settings.

The Alternative Way (Dont get something for nothing)

1) All population areas start on Nominal levels (Zero)
2) To increase in one area,...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 26 Jun 2009, 20:32
Replies: 35
Views: 6,197
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Game changing ideas.

Regarding #15 (All players are given 1x Research Center, 5x mines, 1x Power station, *1x Construction Yard).

Ah I did forget to mention that I wanted to reduce most areas default starting values....
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 26 Jun 2009, 18:04
Replies: 35
Views: 6,197
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Game changing ideas.

Ok ignoring the debate on HCT for a second, what about the other ideas? any problems that can be foreseen?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 26 Jun 2009, 12:04
Replies: 10
Views: 3,315
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Meeting people from PA

hmmmm HK drizzled in honey...hmmmmm
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 25 Jun 2009, 14:42
Replies: 35
Views: 6,197
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Game changing ideas.

You cant say the HCT is a guide to initing roids, as there isnt anyway to stop a new player initing 1000 roids, even though they dont get the resources for 800-900 of them.

Including a few quests...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 25 Jun 2009, 12:39
Replies: 35
Views: 6,197
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Game changing ideas.

Ah your reasoning is because your thinking of current mechanics of building 1 structure at a time. My ideas included building as many structures as you wanted.

Building All FC's hurts your planet...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 25 Jun 2009, 12:15
Replies: 18
Views: 4,233
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Problems with the login question

I thought i was going crazy, and even checked with a calc.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 25 Jun 2009, 10:46
Replies: 35
Views: 8,061
Posted By MrLobster
Re: All for 1 and 1 for all (ETA)

Indeed but the problem your showing is the fact of the stats fitting the current mechanics of PA.

Just think of rock, paper, scissors. The stats try to do this but when you have rock travelling...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 25 Jun 2009, 10:28
Replies: 35
Views: 6,197
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Game changing ideas.

I dont see how they can compare Mz, FC gives a percentage bonus, my HCT idea is only 7 or so researchs, which has you neglecting other areas of research if you dedicate to that area alone.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 25 Jun 2009, 00:25
Replies: 35
Views: 6,197
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Game changing ideas.

I presume crunch numbers on my new HCT idea...

HCT Level 1
Old: 200 Roids (250) = 50000 Credits (Max Limit)
New: 200 Roids (100) = 20000 Credits

HCT Level 2
Old: 300 Roids (250) = 75000...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 24 Jun 2009, 20:26
Replies: 35
Views: 6,197
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Game changing ideas.

So in you first paragraph, the idea behind HCT is to show a new player how many roids to init?

I actually thought it was to slow down expansion.

Currently there is nothing to stop a new player...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 24 Jun 2009, 16:09
Replies: 35
Views: 6,197
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Game changing ideas.

The HCT in my version could be spread out more, so the higher ones get less.

My version also means that newbies are not restricted to initing roids, but are limited to what they get out of them.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 24 Jun 2009, 11:48
Replies: 35
Views: 6,197
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Game changing ideas.

Not really a massive change, you still get all the things that make PA what it is today. Its just the implementation is different.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 24 Jun 2009, 09:09
Replies: 35
Views: 6,197
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Game changing ideas.

Ideas here would promote;-

A) The idea of SK's in an attacking fleet class a viable idea.
B) The ability to build up dists and amps at the same time as other structures.
C) Easier to understand...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 24 Jun 2009, 09:06
Replies: 35
Views: 6,197
Posted By MrLobster
Game changing ideas.

Basically all the changes I propose drastically change PA, however I feel them to be better...


1) Remove Restriction of building 1 structure at a time (new limit would be based of current amount...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 24 Jun 2009, 07:15
Replies: 32
Views: 5,276
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Regarding Sk´s

So in other words most people think SK are a bad idea all together. Then maybe a complete change (http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=197980) is needed.
Forum: Strategic Discussions 23 Jun 2009, 05:59
Replies: 131
Views: 19,678
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Should SKs be changed for R32?

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=rtw0uUpYj5_ibnF8trErBCw

Different way to show costs per armor, resistance and damage.

1) EMPShields are the proposed EMPArmor (works same way normal armor...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 22 Jun 2009, 19:17
Replies: 131
Views: 19,678
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Should SKs be changed for R32?

I say bring on the round!!!

I'm going TE DE (against Xan SK's) with a smidge of BS (for attacking).
Forum: Strategic Discussions 22 Jun 2009, 14:28
Replies: 131
Views: 19,678
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Should SKs be changed for R32?

If many people go xan than most people, as you state, will use SK, thereby everyone attacks everyone and everyone wins/losses.
Forum: Strategic Discussions 21 Jun 2009, 20:29
Replies: 131
Views: 19,678
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Should SKs be changed for R32?

Obviously I wont take this literally as 700 people havent voiced against the idea. But if 50% dont like the idea, 50% do (or dont care).

There are a few reasons why people say SK in main fleet are...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 21 Jun 2009, 07:11
Replies: 131
Views: 19,678
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Should SKs be changed for R32?

Cochese just convinced me into saying yes and keep them in main attack fleet classes.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 21 Jun 2009, 06:57
Replies: 6
Views: 3,164
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Round 32 comments so far

I am also unsure why the figure of 5.57 was come upon. In any business you try and make the value a nice figure

So why not 4.99 (people see the 4 and totally disregard that its actually 5.00). Or...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 20 Jun 2009, 20:07
Replies: 131
Views: 19,678
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Should SKs be changed for R32?

Including a small amount of salvage for destroyed structures helps.

I say keep that allowing them in attacks fleets is ok, because if this was a brand new game no one would be any of the wiser.
...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 19 Jun 2009, 14:25
Replies: 203
Views: 47,380
Posted By MrLobster
Re: R32 Shipstats

Yet again I will state that unify all etas to Frig based eta, will cut out the "lets go xan because of quick eta" idea.

Would that screw over the current stats? Maybe, but then the Xan FI ST...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 17 Jun 2009, 22:23
Replies: 57
Views: 7,983
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion Banner

My version was large due to the glow effect around the text (flash doesnt support glows), so the way it encoded it was by actually rendering each frame as a single image. The end result is a big...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 17 Jun 2009, 14:45
Replies: 57
Views: 7,983
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion Banner

Indeed i did. At 2 in the morning, my eyes were not proof reading :P

PABanner v12 (http://megaswf.com/view/87449ec3740833fdd26de9451b5aeb91.html)
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 17 Jun 2009, 01:02
Replies: 57
Views: 7,983
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion Banner

Yep I noticed that too, so i sort of included it in the banner.

PABanner v11 (http://megaswf.com/view/e46ee536f5e8044aa378f0fec9ea167b.html)

Now i'm off to bed...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 17 Jun 2009, 00:18
Replies: 57
Views: 7,983
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion Banner

PABanner Version 10 (http://megaswf.com/view/da89218ccddec768f43c21cea55ef9a9.html)

Summary:

"Supremercy will shape the universe"
"Choose your allies... Face your enemies..."
"The game that...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 16 Jun 2009, 23:39
Replies: 57
Views: 7,983
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion Banner

Uploaded to new host...

PA BANNER (http://megaswf.com/view/c6f62824b89e7daf2b8d8fc13ef4a4b9.html)
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 16 Jun 2009, 22:44
Replies: 57
Views: 7,983
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion Banner

PA BANNER (http://megaswf.com/view/c6f62824b89e7daf2b8d8fc13ef4a4b9.html)

EDIT: Had to relocate file as the quick usage actually got the file deleted from the first host...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 16 Jun 2009, 21:18
Replies: 57
Views: 7,983
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion Banner

It needs moer bling -> http://eve-files.com/dl/199066

Safe to click, or i'll eat my hat
Forum: Strategic Discussions 11 Jun 2009, 12:22
Replies: 203
Views: 47,380
Posted By MrLobster
Re: R32 Shipstats

As i like doing crazy crap with PA....

http://pastebin.com/m1be10316 Also includes research tree etc.

Overview:
1) All races get a set of 8 basic ships (6 attack ships, 1 pod, 1 structure...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 11 Jun 2009, 08:54
Replies: 45
Views: 10,357
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Notifications on in-game events

Actually recalling is the same as attacking/defending.

In game notification of an attack happens at the tick, but launching a fleet happens pre tick (with in the last hour or even prelaunch).
...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 9 Jun 2009, 23:20
Replies: 72
Views: 11,602
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Round 32 Changes

If the idea of smaller tags doesnt sit well with the people looking at the graph, then they also would see that the alliance limit is not needed.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 9 Jun 2009, 18:39
Replies: 71
Views: 11,466
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Update

I do think that the majority of EVE (and PA) are older than 20 and are a little more mature with regards to the game (apart from the goons), and WoW are mostly below 20.



Is it "need"?

It...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 9 Jun 2009, 15:21
Replies: 203
Views: 47,380
Posted By MrLobster
Re: R32 Shipstats

The only fix you can give to reduce the effect of massive Fi/co usage with any stats, is to unify ETA's, this will be the last time I will post this.

I also think a large increase in ALL armor...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 9 Jun 2009, 05:45
Replies: 35
Views: 8,061
Posted By MrLobster
Re: All for 1 and 1 for all (ETA)

Your arguement has nothing to do with my suggestion, your talking about cost of unit to each other.

And yes peoplego for 2 classes which are Meta1 and Meta3, many never choose Meta2 because both...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 9 Jun 2009, 05:41
Replies: 72
Views: 11,602
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Round 32 Changes

The XP formula already has the "score" variable included, so XP whoring should'nt be as bad as the early days.

tbh i think most people (including me) attack people who are smaller to try and...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 8 Jun 2009, 15:09
Replies: 14
Views: 3,763
Posted By MrLobster
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 7 Jun 2009, 17:11
Replies: 35
Views: 8,061
Posted By MrLobster
Re: All for 1 and 1 for all (ETA)

I didnt suggest this just because of the current stats. It was something I have seen since the introduction of multiple pod classes (from round 6 onwards).

So you say the round stats were shit?...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 7 Jun 2009, 07:50
Replies: 35
Views: 8,061
Posted By MrLobster
Re: All for 1 and 1 for all (ETA)

Indeed thats why i suggested this in the first place, as to equal out the fleets.

Apoc: Look at it like this: R31 has been a Fi/CO round, due to the amount of those ships amungst the races. This I...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 6 Jun 2009, 13:49
Replies: 35
Views: 8,061
Posted By MrLobster
Re: All for 1 and 1 for all (ETA)

The idea for using either Large ships or a carrier type class is nice, but it actually makes smaller ships less attractive for the attackers, as you would have to build up to include extra ships in...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 4 Jun 2009, 23:13
Replies: 19
Views: 3,924
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Encouraging people to make more diverse fleets

Basically its down to the faster ETA of Fi/Co over Cr/Bs is why most people choose Fi/Co.

This: Unified ETA (http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=197900) fixes majority of the problems.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 4 Jun 2009, 18:31
Replies: 4
Views: 2,412
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Full usage to developement

The problem I see with outside help in the form of coding, is that ALL code will needed to be looked at to see if any back doors/nasty code have been added, because some people would include them.
...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 4 Jun 2009, 13:57
Replies: 4
Views: 2,412
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Full usage to developement

"PA Freelance Agency"
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 4 Jun 2009, 11:17
Replies: 35
Views: 8,061
Posted By MrLobster
Re: All for 1 and 1 for all (ETA)

I now made a seperate thread to discuss the issue of Change Tracker.

http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=197901

So try to keep on track :P
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 4 Jun 2009, 10:26
Replies: 1
Views: 3,567
Posted By MrLobster
Change Tracker v Suggestions Forum

So why do we have both Change Tracker and Suggestions Forum?

When clearly apoc's reply to my own change to pa thread in the trackers was this



However I placed this idea under
...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 4 Jun 2009, 10:05
Replies: 35
Views: 8,061
Posted By MrLobster
All for 1 and 1 for all (ETA)

Ok so we have had different ETA for all ships classes (and now meta classes) from the time PA began.

But with multiple pod types, Fi/Co fleets seem to be the best on paper because of the speed...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 25 May 2009, 17:50
Replies: 18
Views: 6,213
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion Development Blog

http://www.planetarion.com/feeds/devblog.xml

Windows Live Mail doesnt see it as a valid RSS Feed, but opera does...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 25 May 2009, 17:42
Replies: 54
Views: 12,514
Posted By MrLobster
Re: r32 ship-stat suggestions

Dont think balancing would be too hard for the stats maker, you would think of the stats as one huge race, not as seperate areas.
Forum: Strategic Discussions 25 May 2009, 08:15
Replies: 54
Views: 12,514
Posted By MrLobster
Re: r32 ship-stat suggestions

We could do a bonzai and change PA completely, open up all areas of the ship types (steal, damage, EMP and cloak) to everyone.

Each area is opened up by research, so everyone can have all ships,...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 25 May 2009, 07:49
Replies: 20
Views: 4,095
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Set Base Fleet to not take part in battle

Side track (and prob a idea thought of many times), include production ships in a scan and eta to completion.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 25 May 2009, 07:47
Replies: 19
Views: 11,367
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Explanation of tonight

its just a better time of day for the servers to go down.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 25 May 2009, 07:45
Replies: 9
Views: 3,617
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Fleet Commanders

Yep a player seeing a 10% extra damage isnt going to worry about any silly formulas, they will just know their fleet does more pew pew.

And most of the figures would be included in the bcalc,...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 24 May 2009, 19:35
Replies: 9
Views: 3,617
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Fleet Commanders

The best defence is a good offence.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 24 May 2009, 15:54
Replies: 12
Views: 3,562
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Prelaunch LT info

its either people are annoyed about necros on old posts, or people get annoyed when people post a fresh thread on an old idea.

Most of us cant win :P
Forum: Strategic Discussions 23 May 2009, 20:53
Replies: 3
Views: 6,121
Posted By MrLobster
Re: New players and a few hints about fleetcomposition for new players

Current my xan fleet consists of

Banshee 4000
Phantom 2000
Revenant 1000
Bomber 2000
Illusion 500
Mirage 100

Its has a problem with hostile xan CR (bombers fires after them), but its not...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 23 May 2009, 20:37
Replies: 9
Views: 3,617
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Fleet Commanders

Why not just give different settings in a drop down box.

1) Fused Hull - Increased Armor
2) Overload - Increased Damage
3) Shield Modulation - Increased EMP Resist (or "EMP Armor" for next...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 23 May 2009, 20:24
Replies: 12
Views: 3,562
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Prelaunch LT info

I for one would like a land tick attached to any ETA display.

Yes you could launch at no1 planet and check what tick it will land, but thats a long way of doing it, just adding the lines is better...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 18 May 2009, 21:37
Replies: 19
Views: 4,322
Posted By MrLobster
Re: This round from a noobs point of view

If the current version of PA was released in 2000, people would have loved it as much as the one that actually was released.

In 2000 the WWW was still only an internet cafe thing, and as such...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 17 May 2009, 18:21
Replies: 20
Views: 4,960
Posted By MrLobster
Re: PDS as structure

Building them means you still do damage to incoming fleet, even if you have run your main fleet.

SK only kill a % of structures per tick, so you cant kill all structures in one go.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 15 May 2009, 12:53
Replies: 20
Views: 4,960
Posted By MrLobster
PDS as structure

Ok the word PDS will scare and annoy alot of the old school.

But I have this (which may have been suggested before):-

1) The new PDS is not part of the fleet production!

2) PDS is a...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 15 May 2009, 00:39
Replies: 79
Views: 49,881
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion redesign update

Where would the intro page be shown? After you login, instead of the overview?
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 14 May 2009, 11:49
Replies: 31
Views: 5,737
Posted By MrLobster
Re: in-game levels of difficulty/expertise

There are 2 versions of the noob.

1) Noob - A player whos know enough of the game to do well, but doesnt (maybe through no fault of his/her own).

2) Newb - A player whos know nothing of the...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 13 May 2009, 23:21
Replies: 5
Views: 3,332
Posted By MrLobster
Alert Status on being attacked.

(Moved to its own thread).

Two things may occur with this suggestion:
1) Would most likely reduce multi fleets a planet would get.
2) Also may spread attacks through out the day.

Summary
1)...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 13 May 2009, 22:45
Replies: 31
Views: 5,737
Posted By MrLobster
Re: in-game levels of difficulty/expertise

What I see is the fact its hard to players your own size unless they have a class weakness.

Increasing armor across the board would help (yes i have mentioned it before).

I always hate getting...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 13 May 2009, 22:23
Replies: 7
Views: 2,852
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Donations out

If the guy who gets to be MoD isnt trustworthy, dont give them MoD.

But then where would the newb gals be :)
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 12 May 2009, 23:51
Replies: 5
Views: 2,766
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Alliance page idea!!! + bot idea's

of course not... but let me dream....
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 12 May 2009, 01:59
Replies: 8
Views: 2,999
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion frontpage

I do like redoing other people ideas... so with a few changes...

New portal? (http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/5162/indexguia.jpg)
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 12 May 2009, 00:58
Replies: 8
Views: 2,999
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion frontpage

Welcome to...

Round 3 (http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/9766/indexkvx.jpg)

Round 5 (http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3264/index2w.jpg)
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 10 May 2009, 23:06
Replies: 6
Views: 3,867
Posted By MrLobster
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 10 May 2009, 21:29
Replies: 5
Views: 2,766
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Alliance page idea!!! + bot idea's

At the minute we have the Planet/Galaxy/Alliance DB dump, but i think adding an API style access system would be very useful.

It basically can access all your info (Fleet/Res/Cons/Roids/etc) and...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 9 May 2009, 23:19
Replies: 21
Views: 8,497
Posted By MrLobster
Re: A few suggestions

Presume you mean my thoughts, and Its not random ideas, its called the Crazy Ideas.

1) Everyone starts on "All Clear".

2) Once you get attacked your status get modified, decreasing the max cap...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 9 May 2009, 16:28
Replies: 21
Views: 8,497
Posted By MrLobster
Re: A few suggestions

Do people get to see cov-op chance? But seeing as cov-ops are instant, then yes i guess some way of getting a basic info.

Maybe a basic system like All Clear, Yellow Alert, Red Alert and you...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 8 May 2009, 23:00
Replies: 21
Views: 8,497
Posted By MrLobster
Re: A few suggestions

Like losing all your roids.

The Cap % would increase after each tick without hostiles.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 8 May 2009, 21:25
Replies: 21
Views: 8,497
Posted By MrLobster
Re: A few suggestions

Ooohh i like that one, however is does restrict attacks, and doesnt pervent multi waves.

Crazy Idea #210
Capping % decreases the more times a planet has been attacked.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 8 May 2009, 01:22
Replies: 21
Views: 8,497
Posted By MrLobster
Re: A few suggestions

only allow 1 attack fleet? with 2 def fleets?
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 8 May 2009, 00:17
Replies: 12
Views: 3,446
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Did you know....

no god damn paperclip!!!!!
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 8 May 2009, 00:14
Replies: 52
Views: 11,497
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Some further observations

I say some features of the old planetarion are useful today, but trying to change the way people play the game is hard.

There are many different reasons why PA seems harder to play.

1) Alliance...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 6 May 2009, 17:41
Replies: 46
Views: 17,734
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Races "logos"

Created a blog with all updates on Classic Planetarion (http://classicplanetarion.blogspot.com/)
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 6 May 2009, 17:40
Replies: 61
Views: 30,116
Posted By MrLobster
Re: About time for a GUI update

Created a blog with all updates on Classic Planetarion (http://classicplanetarion.blogspot.com/)
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 6 May 2009, 17:34
Replies: 21
Views: 8,497
Posted By MrLobster
Re: A few suggestions

for those who cant read the block of text.

Anyway I was looking at 5 and thought of a different idea of sorts.

Trade links between alliance and player. It would be a link where your lower...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 6 May 2009, 12:06
Replies: 21
Views: 5,604
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion Speed Rounds

We need an R3 set of stats.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 6 May 2009, 12:04
Replies: 79
Views: 49,881
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion redesign update

I just sent Cin the round 3 files, so hopefully that gets put in.

I'll be redoing the round 5 one today to match the current changes the pages html (tabs etc).
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 6 May 2009, 00:21
Replies: 79
Views: 49,881
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion redesign update

I have a problem with the fact ogame website oversells it self, its just a browser game, but the website portrays it self to be much more.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 5 May 2009, 14:18
Replies: 46
Views: 17,734
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Races "logos"

I think my latest set looks the best, and i'm keeping all but the ETD.

EDIT: The image board in the quote isnt my latest (http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/3049/newracest.jpg), zik are still having...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 4 May 2009, 21:36
Replies: 5
Views: 3,543
Posted By MrLobster
Re: New Cath EMP

Perhaps the old subvert could be used instead of pure EMP.

Obviously would need a bit of thinking as red defence would happen again.

Quick one would be to have all ships subverted firing 1 init...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 4 May 2009, 16:35
Replies: 46
Views: 17,734
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Races "logos"

Yep i saw the 7 too, so I changed the font for that, and looks mighty!

Changes:
1) Terran font color change to gold.
2) Cathaar font color with added blue.
3) Xan "X" font changed to match full...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 4 May 2009, 13:58
Replies: 46
Views: 17,734
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Races "logos"

Yep your right.

Changes:
1) Moved the Xan skull to Zik and added cross bones (not sure if they fit the theme yet).
2) By adding a slight textured background to the Cogs inner, the Terran earth...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 4 May 2009, 03:34
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Views: 4,098
Posted By MrLobster
The PvE Bots

I propose a smallish addition:

The inclusion of bots as a gameplay choice

They could be introduced as a PvE (Player v Enviroment), where new/small players can attack them, but will gain less in...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 4 May 2009, 03:01
Replies: 46
Views: 17,734
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Races "logos"

Bam!

Terran, Cathaar, Xandathrii, Zikonian and EITRAIDES (http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/7895/tercatj.jpg)

TBH I should stop posting them here, as I'm sort of highjacking.



Yep thats...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 3 May 2009, 16:33
Replies: 18
Views: 6,213
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion Development Blog

It was good to read how things are shaping up :)
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 3 May 2009, 05:55
Replies: 46
Views: 17,734
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Races "logos"

As with peoples opinions I invested some time into redoing Terran and Cathaar logos.

Terran and Cathaar (http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/9931/tercat.jpg)

I'm liking them personally, but then...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 3 May 2009, 05:40
Replies: 18
Views: 6,213
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Planetarion Development Blog

I would say its easy to use a dedicated blog page until the whole portal is sorted.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 1 May 2009, 14:04
Replies: 49
Views: 17,564
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Covops

Would changing cov-ops to "time to target" based instead of instant be worth it?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 1 May 2009, 12:19
Replies: 27
Views: 5,136
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Dear zPeti

I also feel that the need to have new stats every round is ok for keeping it fresh for older players, but just inconsistant for newer players.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 1 May 2009, 12:06
Replies: 27
Views: 5,136
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Dear zPeti

Yes but it would be wise for him to listen and watch what the community is thinking.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 1 May 2009, 00:20
Replies: 3
Views: 3,073
Posted By MrLobster
Mid Round Problems

Ok so I was looking at which construction to build next tick (140), I realised at that point that 2 were completly pointless.

Amps+Dists

Now that the round has started, these 2 are not worth...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 29 Apr 2009, 22:04
Replies: 72
Views: 31,211
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Drastically lower alliance tag limit

Like Napping that we have currently, but more of.


"Great leaders are made, not born"...

I feel that because alliance limits are so large, players dont feel the need to step up and create an...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 29 Apr 2009, 19:06
Replies: 72
Views: 31,211
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Drastically lower alliance tag limit

The fact that most smaller large allies tag up early has been going on for years, it happens like this every round.

I still wanted lower alliance limits, yet enough people seemed inclined to not...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 29 Apr 2009, 17:31
Replies: 21
Views: 12,176
Posted By MrLobster
Re: End of protection impressions from someone who hasn't signed up for many rounds.

Considering the R3, R5. R6 (TE,CA,XA,ZI) was used in game, I dont think that too many problems exist with reintroducing them (even if recreating them).

I will have a look at perhaps totally new...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 28 Apr 2009, 18:36
Replies: 7
Views: 2,635
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Alliance Logo Service

To all those who contacted me, I'll be going through them tonight :)
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 28 Apr 2009, 12:29
Replies: 8
Views: 7,712
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Small change to ingame alliance attacks

imagine the amount of napkins it would take!!
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 28 Apr 2009, 08:36
Replies: 13
Views: 4,434
Posted By MrLobster
Re: If you remember the early days of Planetarion...

"Thiefs and Pirates" an BattleGroup of fury I think...



Downtimes? We still have that feature...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 28 Apr 2009, 01:58
Replies: 16
Views: 10,656
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Tick Plans Required

You build refinerys if your unsure if your gonna get over 800 roids in the round, but if your getting above 800 build FC.

You can switch at a point that you know you have a good galaxy, and only...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 28 Apr 2009, 01:15
Replies: 13
Views: 4,434
Posted By MrLobster
Re: If you remember the early days of Planetarion...

only 5 planets? I least played 7 at one time.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 27 Apr 2009, 22:07
Replies: 21
Views: 12,176
Posted By MrLobster
Re: End of protection impressions from someone who hasn't signed up for many rounds.

Should have mentioned its a Round 5 skin one that I recreated, and using the opera browser you can overwrite the PA CSS.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 27 Apr 2009, 21:59
Replies: 14
Views: 3,894
Posted By MrLobster
Re: In Game/Alliance Forum

As it looks, just assign the other old links to "tab_links" class should fix it.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 27 Apr 2009, 20:35
Replies: 21
Views: 12,176
Posted By MrLobster
Re: End of protection impressions from someone who hasn't signed up for many rounds.

I've been using this for my skin for the last few rounds (names and coords have been changed), the forums are a particular favourite of mine.

In Game Forum redesign...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 27 Apr 2009, 17:56
Replies: 46
Views: 17,734
Posted By MrLobster
Re: Races "logos"

Not trying to steal any thunder, but i made these a long time ago, however still not really convinced about my own Terran design.

RaceLogos (http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/772/raceboard.jpg)
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