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if your argument is now solely based on Trade Masters wont get kills or wont fare well in combat then I think you are not helping your cause. Will smaller ships be targeted more? Yes, thats called strategy something that has been lacking from this game lately. This. I think one of the strengths of ...

I think it depends to a degree on the flexibility you're going to allow in newbie games (race changing after a certain time period, easier alignment switching?). It's important that if the newbies aren't enjoying themselves that they find a path which they can enjoy. For the most part, though, I agr...

I know this is not a new suggestion, but if we plan to keep npc's, can we please separate human pings from npc pings? Just changing the color of the scout message and putting them in two different stacks would be enough.

Sufex wrote:

seldum wrote:I think a good idea would be to make NPC kills appear different in the news.

I think it should be in a different tab.

This. NPC kills should not be mixed in with player kills.

Maybe a rotating compilation of images incorporating the new race art? For example, first screen shows a Salvene haggling with a Skant merchant. Next picture would be a one on one battle between a Creo in a Dev and an Ikky in an MS, with the Dev having 8 guns and the MS launching CD's. The next pict...

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Top tier: Medical Supplies
Mid: ?
Bottom: ?

I'd go with Books as Bottom maybe, depending on what ideas we have for another 'good' good.

Top tier: Medical Supplies
Mid: Toys?
Bottom: Books

I have fewer fleshed out ideas on politics, but I'll throw some funny ones and reasonable ones out there: 1. Each council can, by unanimous vote, choose to try to assassinate a competing president by sending a heavily armed NPC ship to attempt to take out the player. No idea how this would work, but...

I'll throw some ideas around that I've had for a while regarding planets to make them more interesting. Some are simple, some are crazy, but it should at least get the conversation going. 1. Return to the old days where you could choose what kind of weapon you want to stock on the planet. Instead of...

The responses to this topic need to be combined with responses in Jester's map post...

I hate to pile on here, but I think the design of this map is very poor. While the map is obviously for vets, the lack of almost any action, the requirement to wait DAYS for trading and ESPECIALLY for hunting has likely driven most of the active players away. The turns capped at 450 is way too low w...