this in no way stops them from auto ranking off energy donations if they already can. it only prevents those who cant from getting a huge jump start with one refill and being able to rank a bunch of times off of that boost.

Hopefully, I wouldn't mind a few more base mods. Though that would still leave an empty 5-10 space should you choose to level up your base to 9. Unless of course you were to plan ahead and only add extenders as space is required.

or if dan has something special for 9 already planned that we just dont know about.
or maybe lvl 9 doesnt increase in size or cap just production

The way I read it was people can donate as much energy as they'd like without ranking up.

All possible, though highly unlikely. Considering the cost involved I wouldn't put millions of energy toward a lvl 9 base on the off chance there may be something special waiting for me unless Dan made some hint implying as much. I *might* expect something like that around lvl 10 though.

Well, here is my view on auto-ranking with whatever method.
let them auto rank if so they choose, easily if it also make other ppl's life easier.
But revoke their right to complain about lack of high lvl content. Anyone who can auto rank, especially via base donation, probably knows the adverse effect of high lvl. If they choose such a method, it's their own problem.

I mean really, the only reason auto rank is discouraged is probably the fact that high lvl content can't be kept up. And the ppl that can auto rank probably knows it. If you know there is a cliff in front of you and still runs full speed off it, I don't think it's anyone's fault but your own.

That said.... I don't really see the point of opposing an idea because it would make auto ranking easier.
unless it can be abused by multi which this one won't as it requires an absurd amount of prisoners to get anything notable out of.

Bingo

Legion wide missions give out legion base mods? Wait like a month for the mission to come out and you can see if the legion wides have a base mod in them.

That's actually a fair point. I'll be back to discuss this after legion missions are fiddled with for a while