Ok, so whilst I'm all for the idea of more news, there are issues with some of the ones proposed at least.
Harry Krishna wrote:When planet ownership changes
9/16/2010 12:30:31 PM The planet In Your Face located in sector 1950 of the Tangeria galaxy was overrun by invaders and is now under control of the Adult Swim alliance.
This one could probably work, but there's already a news message if a team greater of 4-5 or more people attack a planet (and if there was a message for solo people taking over a planet I'm sure there could be some potential objections to that early on in a round)
Harry Krishna wrote:When alliances control all planets in a galaxy
9/16/2010 12:30:31 PM The Adult Swim alliance now controls all planets in the Tangeria galaxy.
I personally would just hold off on claiming all the planets in order to try and keep it secret what planet I was going for, so this would be fairly pointless most of the time (and if we did it for individual planets it'd mean a lot more potshots at planets when they're very early on and more chance of planet builders dying - not that I expect many bother to sit on a planet with current game speeds :P )
Harry Krishna wrote:When alliances no longer control of all planets in a galaxy
9/16/2010 12:30:31 PM The Adult Swim alliance has lost control of the Tangeria galaxy.
Again, would never have claimed all the planets so would never have lost control.
Edgecrusher wrote:"The port in sector 1416 has upgraded and now sells/buys good x"
Well issues have already been stated with this.
Edgecrusher wrote:"Alliance Adult Swim has a new towel boy/alliance leader"
It'd be easy enough to have a news message when the alliance leader changes, do people actually want this?
Edgecrusher wrote:"Alliance Adult Swim now has the first place in kills"
Again this can be done easily enough for both planets and players.
Are there any others people can think of that would work?