Rogueleader89 wrote:
As to the problem of nobody being on to defend at different times of the day for some factions, this is largely a numbers issue, and honestly its not a fun one for either of the sides involved, on uef we had people on and sieging planets almost constantly throughout the day/night, some may have been afk but most were actually there and just chatting in aeolus or uef chat or browsing the internet instead of having the fun galactic war games we were hoping for, if you enslave a faction this becomes a larger problem, if your faction has more people than the other factions without enslaving this is a problem.

I think there are a few solutions to this problem, but none that will get rid of it completely, the first and most obvious thing that could be done is to get rid of the enslavement system, I would propose replacing this system with one in which the defeated faction can rebel to retake their homeworld at a high cost, they would gain the credits to reach this cost by hiring themselves out as mercenaries to the other factions, this will likely mean they don't end up working for the faction that defeated them and instead help bolster other factions; which should be a very good thing since a faction that manages to defeat another is probably winning and needs some counter balancing on the opposition. The conquering faction could still be provided with tech of the defeated faction as a reward, maybe throw in tech 1 engis of that faction as reinforcements as well and the reward is well worth defeating another faction and will still create fun play between multiple factions racing to defeat another first, but it is countered a bit by having more enemies to deal with consistantly and if the defeated faction successfully rebels and regains their homeworld the conquering faction no longer has access to this tech (outside of whatever they have already purchased), decreasing the likelyhood that the conquering faction will hire the defeated as mercenaries of their own.

As to how this mercenary mechanic would function, I don't know fully, probably wouldn't want to require that the other factions directly pay for mercenaries, perhaps higher ranks in a faction could have a sort of bounty fund set up that goes to pay any defeated faction player whenever they attack with one of their own players or defend one of their planets successfully (though we have to ensure if that if they can defend alone their loss doesn't impact massively on whether or not that planet falls, don't want more issues with people feeding an enemy); might need a seperate mercenary chat or something aside from the normal private chat channels to coordinate squads.

Gerfand wrote:
just saying, but a thing that could be done is:
after a certain time, or a faction dominate the galaxy the entire galaxy reset and every one pick a faction!

pip wrote:
I can't answer most of the questions because it was too long ago. I simply don't remember. As for the maps, a significant amount were not good enough or had some issue. I think excluding the problematic maps that were not fixed is a priority before reopening GW, because there is already a document to sort out the maps:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc ... ring#gid=0
Then replacing the problematic ones by new maps (lot of new ones were created over a year, including Duck_42's), and it's possible to keep the last amount of maps Zep stopped at, with only decent maps.

Also, at some point, it would be cool to allow Nomads engineers / units to be hired as mercenaries, or even to inhabit certain neutral planets that would need to cleared (players would have to fight against Nomads AI on some unclaimed planets instead of being able to occupy them without a fight). There could also be some random attacks from Nomads AI / players, since they are a kind of space pirates, to stir things up. Just some ideas, might be complicated to code.

Eximius wrote:
I updated the form to clear some confusion as to what Clan Factions might mean. I changed the name to 'Galactic War Companies'. You can imagine it as a clan for GW, but let's name it as 'company' for now.

The idea is to allow players to form companies themselves. These companies could potentially control their own little piece of land. They could form/break alliances with other companies as well. They would be rivals to other companies and would fight for supremacy in the galaxy. Lone players might join companies that are recruiting.