the gtc is great as it is already however i feel it would be even better if we were able to put up a auction for a planet as you all know this is already done but it requires that you join the legion of the seller (if things havnt changed last iv ben on) so the way i see it this will make planetary transactions easier this suggestion may have already ben mentioned already or may be in development for all i know if that be the case just ignore this post and move on

Not going to happen Dan does not like planet trading...

No real point in planet trading either. Good planets are not that hard to find. Only Dyson's or planets from a certain legion you want to take are hard to get. From what I can see you usually find 1 in 10 or 20 planets are good. Sometimes you get lucky and 1 in 5 is good. If you can't find some good VL-R or above planets then your legion should be able to help you.

ahhh well i just thought it would be a easier solution to something already being done i figure some people would actually appreciat it but hay just a suggestion

yeah we would appreciate it but Dan wont allow it

If you dont me asking why does dan not support the idea of trading planets

not really sure but he did add in the requirement of being loyal to share enemy planets

also he wrote this in April last year though


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I think it might come down to how do you treat the scan data. If it is sold it should be deleted from the person selling it so that they can't double sell it. Also the person buying would need to know how many people scanned it since if 5 active people know of the planet already it would need to be fluxed after taking it. Then you run into the problem of if the planet is occupied and the person fails the invasion and the owner fluxes it do they get their money back as they failed? (I know they won't but it is a question that some will debate)

Simplest thing to do would be to require a flux probing of the planet just as it was listed and have it be required to be unoccupied, and not alerted. Then you don't have to worry about as much when it is put on the auction block for all to see.

+1

I think a fair compromise for this would be the seller transfers over to the buyers legion automatically and planets traded this way would require 1 week loyalty to share that specific planet if it's unoccupied and 2 weeks if it is an enemy planet

Dan doesn't like planet selling, but it will happen even if he makes it something you can get banned over it will STILL happen.

If he was smart he would make it so he can control how its done, granted it would be kinda low on the "to do" list even if he decided to make a system for it.

I wish he would post his complete list of stuff to do so we can see what things are getting done and in what order

You and me both, granted the updates about what he is working on now works just fine besides plans change after all he might end up haveing to change to to do list daily.

The only way Dan would be able to completely stop planet trading would be to eliminate planet alerts.


The way things are right now is just fine. It's a happy medium. Convenient enough that players still find it worthwhile, yet problematic enough that it keeps planets from being traded willy nilly. There would be way more problems created by adding planets to the GTC than it's worth.

Agreed the only way he could make a system in game for it is if it was harder then hell to use and then more then likely players would just use the old channels.

I disagree, most of the time you get crap and depending on what planets you value your scan run can return absolutely nothing you want. Planet trading is the fastest and most of the time easiest way to get a planet you want.
And besides, Mento buys all the dysons anyway.

i'm with Xzien on this one. just had a r100+ join the legion today with only 58 (total !) artifact production per hour. that's with 19 planets occupied out of the 21 he's scanned. i'll be tossing him a couple of planets to tide him over until he does another scan run, but a player like him would have LOVED to have been able to access a planet-trading feature in-game, even if only to see what was available. he says he's even belonged to previous legions, but no one ever clued him into how crappy his planets were.

Not my problem that someone doesn't read the wiki or the forums. I stopped taking bad planets a long time ago and wait until I find a good planet. With just around 50 planets scanned usually I find a few toxic/volcanic VL-R, a few Massive or VM Gas planets (most abundant or better 1 usually is rich) and several ocean/terra/ice planets of varying size and abundance (Which usually is the worse planets I find) the rest are tiny, barren and poor. Seem to be finding a good amount of the larger player owned planets also which is a pain as I don't feel like taking planets from Unknown and the like. Out of 100 planets in a scan run 10 to 15 of them are usually the ones that people are looking for on the trading list I assume as they are VL+ and Rich+, with 5 of them being occupied and 10 being scanned by other players but unoccupied. It sounds more like people need to upgrade their scanners and read the wiki for what to look for. I have gotten so I alert most of the better planets I find for mining and research to my legion as I am starting to top out on production for those currently.

I'll be honest, your planet standards are poor.