[Declined] Cooperation within a Galaxy

[Judge]

I just had an idea to possibly improve galaxy cooperation (between planets)

Allow the MOD (Minister of Defence) to build and deploy a Mine Field around the galaxy.

This would require that the MOD planet be given access to some extra page to build and deploy the mine field.

Cost of building it would come from a fund set up specifically for it, that is funded by a 2% - 5%per tick tax (variable set by GC) Funds cannot be used for anything else. By default the Tax option would be switched off and require a vote by at least 2 Galaxy officers to switch on.

Now to the mechanics of the mine field.

1) Mines can be constructed and provide Equal Defence to all planets
2) The Mines can only be made active for short periods (say 5 ticks)
3) Once activated they are spent and die at the end of the period of use.
4) Mines would be capable of only affecting Structure Killers (obviously this would mean that SK's generally would have to be SK's and not any other ship type)
5) The mine field cannot be detected by any sort of General Scan type, other than as below.


Now to give a counter to this, and to possibly introduce further cooperation, a Mine Scan should be avaiable to the MOC in each galaxy, again would require construction of scans/amps in a soecific area, but as they cant be blocked would only require a throw away amp/scan. Minimal cost 1k C/E per scan/amp that again comes fom the fund above.

Feel free to blow me aways

[noah02]

oh MoD means minister of defence?
I never did read that properly i always thought it said This colour means the ruler is a Minister of Development.
But otherwise mines around a galaxy? Sounds bit dodgy but i know 1up wont like it coz they attack ppl's in other 1up galaxys (before you burn me i know you report the incomings aswell well some do)
Otherwise it just sounds a bit complicated to me so dont know if PA could even attempt it.

[Judge]

Defence/Development whatever?

It still makes for a more actuve and cooperative galaxy, also would make the positiions of MOD/MOC worth having, as the moment they are pretty useless.

Would probably also make alliance members in galaxies more motivated to take up an officer post.

[noah02]

Think this would be the job for the MoW if anything as I have been MoD for quite a few rounds and a been MoC in rounds of old (rd2 etc..) and MoD is quite the busiest job around if its done properly.
So lets go with the MoW if anyone agrees with the idea

[Alessio]

as if I build structure killers..

but I think u still dont need ur galaxy coz ur alliance probs has enough MoC's that can do that scan..
(I know what u guys are gonna say now)

[mist]

i'm 110% against any mandatory tax, and without one this feature seems tricky to impliment/abusable. as such i'm not hugely convinced

[noah02]

Originally Posted by mist

i'm 110% against any mandatory tax, and without one this feature seems tricky to impliment/abusable. as such i'm not hugely convinced

I feel sorry for the 1 man galaxys and the 2 man galaxys

[Orion Treet]

Originally Posted by Judge

Defence/Development whatever?

It still makes for a more actuve and cooperative galaxy, also would make the positiions of MOD/MOC worth having, as the moment they are pretty useless.

Would probably also make alliance members in galaxies more motivated to take up an officer post.

MoC is very important, he's like the second GC of the gal, and helps a lot with relations with other gals, especially with old style clusters he set up cluster alliance/made sure gal got in one. MoD if done correctly is also an important job, it's more the MoW that has very little to do since almost all attacking is done through alliances.

So the top gals can make it so they can loose no structures ever in an attack (always have someone online, and can call MoD if he's asleep, all top gals have phone systems in place) Maybe just removing structure killers and replace it with some sort of unique ship per race or something like that would be best

[Neferti]

i think it's been suggested before, just a few weeks ago, but couldnt an MoW power be a 'notify alliances of incs' button? Doesnt mean the MoW knows who is in what alliance, or even if they have one at all; and can only be used for the whole galaxy at once.

Seperate suggestion really but does fall under the 'MoW is useless' theme

[mist]

i think the button to notify alliances scheme was dropped about a week ago

[Kal]

i'm declining this becuase I think the actual idea isn't going to work to well, but the motices behind it were good