Goodbye - and a how-to for backing out gracefully.
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I love this idea. I think the reward should be something like when you kill them you find a world they used to own or something since many of the high ranking players have several 15X or better planets in their system. And yes I think it should include worlds that have since then been found and taken by others. But if that is to hard to do then something based on what race they where. Or maybe you get like a new mod with their name in it to put on your ship so others know who you have taken down of the old players.

8-) ...it would have to be reserved for those who had passed level 1k and had played for more than a year

...I dont think it should be a race...

...I think it should be like the ancient ones from babylon5 that went past the edge of known space and the encounter should be a rare event .
an event with a few possible outcomes based on your actions or a series of msgs between the player ship and the ancient one .

...I think the reward should be something like when you kill them you find a world they used to own or something since many of the high ranking players have several 15X or better planets in their system. And yes I think it should include worlds that have since then been found and taken by others...

...then something based on what race they where. Or maybe you get like a new mod with their name in it to put on your ship so others know who you have taken down of the old players.

Planets are not completely exclusive property of a player.
With that said, to be fair:
only planets that are NOT scanned by any other players that are in the DB of the specific "ancient one" can be given out as rewards. And the reward is removed from the "list" if they are recieved this way or scanned naturally.

Maybe but if you do it that way then the planet list could be all taken and then no one would get the planet scan from that player any more. At least my way you all ways know you will get a planet be it good or bad. But maybe if you do it my way you should only be able to find worlds with a 2X or higher rating since most players over the rank of 1K have dozens of these. I'm at 163 worlds with over a 2X rating right now and that can easily change daily.

i'm saying that it is unfair to the current owner of the planets that were once scanned by the big ones.
For example, before a big one quit, he SOLD his planets to some other guy, payment would be used after his restart.
Now, the buyer, knowing that only 2 scans(his own and the one going to reset) are on the planet, did not flux the planet. And he proceed to super-cloak the planet.

With the implmentiation of the suggested system, the buyer might lose the planet due to no fault of his own for no good reason.

That's why I say only those that are unscanned by others.

A middle-of-the-way option would be the "looted" ones does not count against the system(meaning u can "loot" a planet multiple times as long as it is not fluxed), but natural scanning of the planets need to take it off the list.

And besides, there can be other rewards to disabling a ancient, it doesn't have to drop planets every time forever and ever.
It's good enough that they all get handed out so that they are not wasted

in order to supercloak you will use Isolation Bureau... to use it properly you need "clean" planet... i Orbed all planets i bought so i can properly use few artis which requires "not scanned by any other ship"

Interesting idea here. Followed it a bit before I commented. I think the best way to handle it would be to create a new NPC faction wherein all the "resets" are members. All the other NPC factions have multiple characters, for example the Crimson Blades include Hawks, Tyrants, Scythe, Harvesters, etc. All members of this new faction should have at least Uncommon if not Rare status.

I think the best way to handle the "loot" would be for these ships to have 2 or 3 possible drops depending on whether they are classed as UC or R. If they are Uncommon, a common drop could be something on the order of a Crimson Amplifier (which are difficult for 1k+ to get), an uncommon drop could be a Terraformer, and a rare drop could be something like the Titancore Data (obviously redefining "decent" to VL 1x minimum). If they are Rare, a Terraformer, Quasi and "Ancient Star Chart" I think would suffice. Drop rate could be 80/15/5 or 85/10/5 or some such. Of course those are just examples of possible loot. A little more on that later...

Basic NPC stats would be what the ship had at the time of reset. Attack, Defense, Hull, Shield. Abilities could include a variety of what are normally PvP actions. KVT effect, attack buff equal to the 3 reds, a grid console effect, nanite swarm and shield amplifier, stacking EMP-ish effect.... To make things even more interesting, they could have shield recharge and a very small chance of a shield restore or repair nanodrone type event. It could be almost like fighting a live player while online. Obviously though, the more stuff you pile on, the greater the reward should be.

I do enjoy this idea but lets not do planets or other such just a ghost ship maybe minerals, artifacts and research from destroying based on how much they made per hour when retired.