Encourage rapid empire growth on IGH - Poll added

[duece]

On intergalactic homeworlds more should be done to encourage empires to expand more rapidly. Since the server rebangs every few months there's no reason to be concerned with things like inflation. So make building easier than it is now, and make resources more plentiful to promote more conflict between players.

For IGH only:
-Eliminate equiptment and uranium costs to produce weapons in the weapons factory.
-Double income from taxes
-Remove the mandatory 5% tax during un protection.
-Increase harvesting rates across the board by 50%

The larger empires are, the more likely that conflict between them becomes inevitable, and the more resources (credits, weapons, etc) they have at their disposal, the more they are encouraged to initiate bolder confrontational strategies. I think these changes would make the server funner.

-Reduce the maximum penalty for death to 100,000 exp.

This isn't related to the rest of the idea, but I think it would be good for IGH. The typical strategy now is for high exp people to not invade any col or engage in any fight in the final month of a round, and recruit friends from other servers to fight their battles for them because a single death can reverse weeks worth of progress. Capping the exp losses encourages people to fight their own battles all the way up until the end. Right now the cost/benefit of invading is too high in the last 6 weeks, because a cap typically gives 30k-40k exp, and that colony if held for the rest of the game (a huge if) will generate about 200k exp per person (in a 5 person corp), but a single death costs can easily cost 10 times more that.

EDIT:
On this server solar should be capped to less than 10 shots. I'd prefer 5, but maybe as high as 7. I think this is necessary with the increased harvesting rates so not everything is a 10 shot.

[awesomepebble]

this idea is great.

[Dark.Cloud]

this idea is great.

[Mr Cow]

make a poll nd i vote yes.

[gamanche]

this is probably one of the best ideas ive heard in a long donkey time

[JuliusCaesar]

this is probably one of the best ideas ive heard in a long donkey time

[JesusRocks765]

this is probably one of the best ideas ive heard in a long donkey time

[P-i-m-p]

this is probably one of the best ideas ive heard in a long donkey time

Quoting because I'm cool like that

[duece]

Just a thought I had after the permaverse idea thread in the a tavern.

On this server solar should be capped to less than 10 shots. I'd prefer 5, but maybe as high as 7. I think this is necessary with the increased harvesting rates so not everything is a 10 shot.

[awesomepebble]

5 shots would be cool, would be more high mili invades without a 10/120

[JesusRocks765]

Good idea, would this be applied to IGH, or this new permaverse we are speculating about?

[duece]

Good idea, would this be applied to IGH, or this new permaverse we are speculating about?

I only have igh in mind.

[JesusRocks765]

Good idea, would this be applied to IGH, or this new permaverse we are speculating about?

I only have igh in mind.

Very good idea. Toonces, please Seriously do this to IGH and see how active it becomes. At least try it?

[Toonces]

Well, IGH is already set to "easy" difficulty level for colonies. I could move it to "extra easy" but it already has lots of IGP worlds, aren't those pretty easy to get going?

I do like your idea about the 100k exp cap on dying!

[JesusRocks765]

Well, IGH is already set to "easy" difficulty level for colonies. I could move it to "extra easy" but it already has lots of IGP worlds, aren't those pretty easy to get going?

I do like your idea about the 100k exp cap on dying, though!

Thats part of it, but why not go all the way by changing to 1 shot solars that do 10x damage instead of 10x burst?

Then see how active it becomes.

[omlow]

Well, IGH is already set to "easy" difficulty level for colonies. I could move it to "extra easy" but it already has lots of IGP worlds, aren't those pretty easy to get going?

I do like your idea about the 100k exp cap on dying!

i agree it is easy, but it's only easy for builders, hard for invaders. making colonies extra easy would make invading extra hard. what JR suggested (which is what i suggested) will balance that. on top of duece's ideas.

[duece]

Well, IGH is already set to "easy" difficulty level for colonies. I could move it to "extra easy" but it already has lots of IGP worlds, aren't those pretty easy to get going?

I do like your idea about the 100k exp cap on dying!

That would mostly work, but I specifically want to encourage weapons production, and I don't want every colony to be 10/120 solar. So somehow that has to be taken into account. I think the trade off for building nukes and lasers should be reduced in terms of credits/pollution etc.

I guess I want invading to be easier, but then building should be made even easier to compensate for that. Just making building easier, makes invading harder and vice versa. I think at its best, igh would be a one-two punch of a rapid building phase for the first month, then a war phase for the final month and a half.