Ok, so it's really hard to get started in this game as a new player (I don't mean moneywise, I mean, learning the game. Setting up empires, learning to invade, things like that.)
Personally, I've played Starcraft twice before I reinstalled it last week. First time I had fun for the first day, then was frustrated when I couldn't play as long the next. (Sad gaming ftw.) Second time, I played for a little longer but ultimately, I left because I found it TOO hard (getting caught robbing, not being able to build colonies fast enough - lack of money, but not what I'm getting at.)
Recently, I've played on two main servers. Classic Homeworlds and P3. I woulda only played on Classic, but someone helped me out and invited me over to P3 to learn to invade and general stuff. My problem was mainly on classic, as a newbie it IS hard to build a colony. Nobody explains that they need to be defended, at most a newbie will put down 8 flaks and consider it strong enough to withstand any attack. However, again, my problem is not with that.
I built my first real colony a few days after I started playing, dropped on a desert with beehive layout. I filled it with lasers and some mines around the biodome (btw, if you think this is a rant, I suppose it is, but it DOES have a purpose.) Solar was on 4, I think. So I considered it pretty well defended, as one does when they are still new to the colony side of the game.
However, inevitably it was taken. And so, after spending my last week on the game I am once again back where I started, no colony, no money, only a little more XP. What if we were able to designate a CAPITAL of our colonial empire, a colony that would not be able to be invaded?
Obviously, this could be severely overpowered. So perhaps, it could count as UN protection (Massive costs to stay in there, no interest earned.) Perhaps it could only be on 5/10k population planets too, although that might elimate the whole "protect the newbie" element of the idea.
I'll finish by saying that, after observing the chat on classic for a while, most of it to do with colonies is "OMG U TOOK MY COLONY!!! IM QUITIN" followed by a few "lol."'s, I think that this idea could seriously improve the size of the player base (which is what we all want? isn't it? - more newbies to kill for the evil players, more friends to talk to and help out for the nice people
) Please don't reply with "Bad idea.", please tell me why it is.
(Also, I understand if this was too long to read.)kthxbai, Fred.
