Gold badges

Can be used for various items such as

5 Badges= 5 points to a random ship crew
10 Badges= Planet location (could be any type,resource and either enemy owned) (including fully cloaked planets )
25 Badges= 1 Random daily reward
50 Badges= Random 4-8-16 or 24 hours production of a random resource
75 Badges= 1 free galaxy wheel spin
100 Badges= Random 1-5 Energy refills
150 Badges= Star chart purgers (amount = your level / 2 )

The only way to gain these badges is by completing in game feedback polls and things, different ones have different amounts of badges it would work something like this

Dan posts a question such as

What game feature do you want upgraded the most ?
1)Bases
2)Legions
3)Medals
4)Research
5)Planets

Reward 5 Gold Badges

Other rewards can be 10,15 maybe even 20 badges per survey

Dan gets feedback and we get something in return so it benefits us all.

What do you all thing of this idea ?

I would switch the energy refill with the star chart purger one and make it Rank/5 instead. Otherwise I feel it will give too much.

+1 to the idea, very nicely thought out, although given all the new ideas we as a community come up with(most of which are simple and could take all of 30 minutes to code) and those that are actually implemented, it honestly doesn't seem like Dan goes by what we want, unfortunately, as otherwise the game might cater more to bringing in more higher ranked content.(including new NPC's, and making troop carriers continue to appear past rank 2200).

-1 to the 10 Badges = Planet(including fully cloaked planets), the cloak is there in-game for a reason, i use it for the very purpose that it does make my planet unfindable(lest a critical hack of course).

That said i'm not opposed to it granting say one "free planetary scan" using the persons current scan rating as to what cloak the person can defeat.

+/-1 to the 75 badges = 1 free galaxy wheel spin - i don't think many will choose this option, i personally wouldn't but maybe some would.

+/- 1 to the 100 and 150 badges ideas - maybe 100 badges = 1 free refill(guaranteed refil reward at 4x the cost of the 25 badge reward) and maybe the purgers could be 1/5 as suggested by shortwave.

There could be more better focused questions depending on what rank you are.