I definitely feel like the senseless attack on noobs is dragging new people away from the game. I have referred two friends to the game and a few other people, and they all dropped out because within a few days of joining, they were attacked by someone. They just didn't get "into" the game. Perhaps there should be a grace period from when a noob starts out of 1 to 2 weeks, or are at least a level of achievement over 15 or 20 in level that will allow them to get interested in the game long enough to do get involved enough to play. I think it would be splendid to have more than 13 or 15 people playing. I certainly would like to see more than 100 people online if not more.

    Additionally, I also feel that the whole idea of attacking while nebbed sucks. It sucks that people are self-nebbing each other, or asking friends to do it for them. Why not remove the neb if you attack someone else? Granted there is a counter, but in most cases the other guy drops down in FP so that all you can really hit is a few pships and nothing more than that. It's a crappy way of playing the game and offers a dreadful imbalance. Perhaps the game should allow you to counter your enemy with the same fp he attacked you with - regardless of whether he powers down. That is, if I attack someone with 10 bill and then power down to 500 mil, when they counter - it is done with the same ships I had when I was at 10 bill. If they try to sell their ships after attacking a player, then make it a negative credit incentive if they do it. I.e., only give them 10-25% of their value so that they think twice about doing it. If I knew that selling my ships was only going to give me 10% of the credits I put into it after attacking someone 24 hours ago - I probably would stick to someone in my own general experience range.

    - I also feel that there should be some kind of limitation on the whole power down strategy. Perhaps fp is not enough to limit how powerful someone can be to attack. Should it perhaps be a combination of fp, gp, and level or experience?

     - I do like the idea of cloning and editing of own fleets ( and deleting your own fleets too )

     - A little automation with the build station level to: xx would be nice too.

     - A few optional graphics would be nice too.

     It's my 2nd round, and there is a LOT of competition with other games ( i.e., bullfleet ) which are all vying for our attention. Despite my loyalty - it would be nice to have an applet or something that would be a little nicer  with graphics ( with keyboard commands too ) or at least give us some skins to choose from.
     The game is great. I love it, and I love playing against others. I've told many people about the game, but I've come close to quitting a few times because of how frustrating it can be. I don't mind getting attacked at times, and I certainly welcome the competition. However, it all boils down to making the game friendly enough to allow more people to join and play. That way - there are more people in our general stature that we can pvp against and know that it;s a fair fight - without having someone who's 100bil fp go after someone who's 10 bill fp. In the end, if you're making some money off of this game from the donations - then you're going to swim in it if we get to a point where we have 100 - 1000 people playing. That would also enable you to jack up the jackpot to say $500 vs just $100... Once again - more players...

     I too would really enjoy seeing 500-1000 players online.