The Allies feature doesn’t work anymore unfortunately; we can change things up but only in terms of current galaxy settings.
Same issue here. While I agree, changing the code here wouldn’t be ready in time.
Can definitely do hyper. HC might make more sense now as well, given that newbies can now start in Manthano.
So maybe:
- Move galaxy to hyper server.
- Make galaxy Hardcore.
Another suggestion: Limit planets per system. Instead of 10-13 as voted here, we could do 1-3. We tried this in Delirus to great effect imo. The game sometimes does tend to become a planet hoarding situation, which is indeed boring. Fewer available planets = lower available resources over all = increased opportunity for conflict.
We could even increase the amount of systems compared to normal. It would shift the round more towards a battle of systems than just a battle of planets.