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Ok so now that Emi is reading the forums me and my bro (Qualopec) decided to come up with some suggestions since there is a chance they will be implemented.
Here is what we came up with:

1. Forums
We think that the forums are a little to geared toward SO Main.
We mostly play Wars but since everything in the forums seems to be about main no body used to listen to our suggestion or say that they didn't need added cause they would probably just be thrown in without testing.
So we think that maybe it could be divided into 3-4 different parts:
1. General (for things that apply to all servers and for stuff like stories, contests, games, etc.)
2. SO Main (for all things pertaining to the Main server)
3. SO Wars (for all things pertaining to the Wars server)
4. SO PVE (for all things pertaining to SO PVE)


2. Alts
We were trying to think of some ways to make alts unprofitable.
1. Ip address cannot attack same Ip address. (to prevent someone's main sponsoring their alt)
2. If you have a counter on someone with one account no other accounts with same Ip address can attack whoever the counter is on.
3. Everyone who signs up gets a special ID number. If an Ip address that is already signed up signs up for a new account they get the same number. Then that number wouldn't be allowed to be in the same alliance as itself, wouldn't be able to attack the same person twice in 24 hours, etc.
4. Have in-game Moderators who would have the power to ban someone for 1 day. Whenever they ban someone it would send a message to Emi that they (the person who banned someone) would put in the reason why they banned them. Then Emi can extend the ban, cancel it or make it permanent.

3. Bounties
1. People be able to place bounties on whoever they want.
2. Keep same fleet power restrictions. Base reward on the fleet power restrictions ie. 10x whatever fleet power restrictions would be. Whoever put the bounty on that person would then put their credits up like if they were bidding on an item in the market.
3. For commander xp base it off the money put up for the contracts. I think about 1/200,000 of credits. ie. someone does a bounty worth 50,000,000,000 credits. He would get about 250,000 commander xp.

4. Alliances
We think these could make alliances a little better.
1. Alliance members can't attack another alliance members.
2. Alliance members can't attack alliance stations or planets.
3. Make it so someone can chose to give their counter to an alliance member.
4. Give a private market for alliance members.

5. Possible PVP increase
This may help get more pvp.
1. Make an auto-inteller ie. if someone doesn't move position for 24 hours they are automatically put into intel.
2. Make a vacation mode accessible in Account that, once checked, keeps them from being auto intelled. This would automatically de-activate next time they logged on.

6. Everything Else
This is a list that doesn't really fit with anything specific.
1. Make an "Interactive Content Creator" This would work like an editor for the game then Emi could put whatever he likes into Test Server for 1-2 months then have a vote here in the forums to see if people want it added. To make sure people tested it auto pm everyone every time a new thing is being tested.
2. Make it when people sign up they automatically get signed up for the forums with the same info as their account ie. same username and pass. Also send them a pm with a link to the forums telling them to login with the same username and pass.


I think this is all we have. Please comment on it and guys don't just say "BAD IDEA" try to come up with ways to make it a good one.

One last thing not really a suggestion more of a question for everyone who plays and reads the forums.
Do you guys think that with all the negative nuts you have posted in the forums that maybe you are scaring new players away?

well player based bountys would be a great idea, but it still says "abuse" all over it.. you would have to find a way to make it work so that players dont just place up huge bountys, let a newb kill a few trillion in p shiips, then collect the huge bounty or something... one way of abuse.. HUGE player places up HP only hulls (of massive power) allows newbie to power up and board them with the bounty.. the newbie will not only get massive bonos with the chance of captureing the ships.. but also that bounty.. no warp aswell.. and crap load of exp.. so this is gauranteed to give the newbie profit....

splitting up the fourms, how about just Main and Wars.. PvE dosnt seem worth a fourm of its own yet.. and would just waste alot of space.



as for in game mods... that would be amazing.. a mod would probaly be faster to ban someone placeing fear into cheaters... emi may be hesitaint due to money loss/ not haveing time.. there should be a player or two that can shift though emi's mails.. send him the important ones.. and go over the in game player problems that can be solved with logic and dosnt really need emi's help... this could be good for ALL severs too...

Privite market? how would that work anyways... maybe it should be an option for the allaince leader to make.. i doubt emi would want to waste all that space if 90% of the allainces wont use it.

and for automatically signing up for the fourms.. it would be a nice idea but i dont think the fourm or the game are attached at all.. i dont think its possible...

This could work the same as he does the affiliate account auto sign up for Main.

As for bounties we want them to be profitable so that people actually do them and if we get in-game mods then they could ban people for abusing it.

you autosign up for affilate.. im pretty sure you have to make your own account there too.

and its easy to stop alliance members from hitting other members-send truce request to ur own alliance and accept it :D

i like most ideas jan, but the choose counter idea wont work... wouldnt it suck if say, you attacked paralax and he gave the counter to nightguard?

yah you got a point there.. giveing counters would suck...

Yeah but it would give you more of a reason to join an alliance. People have been complaining of alliances doing virtually nothing for ya. I was just trying to think up ways to make em more useful.

they give you a group of players that are willing to help out out and play with you to keep you company.. useally one allaince trys to dominate the game.. cause isnt that an allainces's goal?

well alliances need a limit... sure trading and stuff like that could work with a few limits as well


but giving counters would suck on any server

One thing I remembered but forgot to add make it to where you can't hit an alliance member in bounty.

use ip hunters for enforcement, this means mods who do nothing but check ips and jail offenders.

I think if emi actually played the game himself he might make better updates for it.

thats true lol


and as for the ally members cant bounty? still wont work they will eaither leave the allaince or in my cases like mine were members not in my allaince are helping me out.. it wont make much of a difference anyways..

would be nice to most of these tested. 

alliance members wont attack other ones, well if they are a real alliance, so i dont think that stuff is neccessary.

the ability to place bounties on another commander is one of the better ideas ive heard in my time here. it could be abused and stuff, so id say place a max on the amount of creds able to be put up for reward. base it on commander level, that will stop ppl from using low level alts. there are fewer high level alts than low level alts, but it doens't solve the problem completely.



new mods, this forum will be a lot more active and to-the-point now, more people will listen and hopefully express their support or un-support (<-- made that word just now) for an idea giving emi a better idea of what people want implemented. :D

+1 reputation for u jan, great ideas

that wouldnt work eaither.. a guy could just keep posting the small reward over and over...

maybe if you added a "can only bounty the same guy 4 or so times" rule.. anything less than 4 times and it wont make bountys to effective for real attacks.

best thing is you cant attack someone more than 500x your fleet cost on a bounty.. therefore an alt with 10 billion wont be able to hit someone with 5 trillilon cost - this will remove low level alts from any gain at all - as for high level alts? how about real time staff/mod help?

then you would only be left with allainces boosting their weak players useing this method right? and then and again for wars that isnt such a bad thing - is it?

m8, a bounty would have to be a successful atk. meaning 10% killed at least. 20% gives neb so u couldn't do it 4 times in a row.

500X is a bit too much for wars server.

Bountys go though nebs...

and even if you changed that aspect do you know how easy it is to break a neb?

Terminator Vlad(#4389): nine
sagb(#4772): eight
Jan`go Vhett(#4692): six
cameron07(#5): five
jessiedog(#3475): four
Rabbites(#730): me three
Sev(#2028): me too
Nautilus(#4127): am getting bored
Nautilus(#4127): no one's on intel

for one, you guys cant count.

for two.. im confused uhm in that case me seven. ? there now i feal better :p

No I told them they couldn't count if the rest was posted  :P... They are just plain geniuses lol... But seriously... The auto-intel needs to be implemented because the lack of pvp on wars...