Here is a little suggestion to get new players.
Please bear in mind I have not played PA in a long while so am not up to date with the changes, my suggestion does however reply on having a way to allow 'private' galaxies. You will see why.
OK here goes, many people who work in offices cannot play the game because we are supposed to be working....often the planetarion domain will be blocked and this has always been a problem for me. Most of my working day is spent at a desk where I am not allowed to access
www.planetarion.com.
but this is a huge potential for new players. So why not make this game a legitimate place for office workers to come?
How do you do this you might ask?
Well, if the game is so 'strategic' and geared for 'teamwork' why not target corporate companies with the offer of cheap accounts to have their staff join a private galaxy and advertise this as a 'team buiilding excercise'? Many companies are very big on team building
This gives the company a reason to allow their staff access to the site while providing an influx of players who will be of varied skill.
If this is an idea worth persuing it could be tailored to suit the purpose, for example perhaps allowing the company who signs its staff up to display their logo as a galaxy banner, allowing them to have links to their products and services in the galaxy view, etc.
Anyhow, thats the basic idea...corporate team building galaxies/accounts