Having seen exotica, this proposal is about having a small number (Between 30-300) of 'special' planets in game, that could be found through regular scanning. Each with special effects that would make the hotly contested in the same manner that exotica is. Although found through regular scanning, their locations would find their way on the the high rankers planet lists quite fast, due to all the passing around and co-ordinated invasion attempts.

As suggested below, a legion will only be able to occupies one of these planets at a time. I suggest two options for enforcing this:
1. Make it impossible to invade a 'special' planet, when your legion already occupies one. IE Invasion button greyed out.
2. If your legion occupies 2 or more special planets, the game will infrom you so, by adding an additional legion announcement. While this announcement is active, you can abandon any special planets free of charge, until your legion only has 1. If the necessary number of planets is not abandoned within, say 48 hours, the game randomly abandons the appropriate number of special planets.

Some people have suggested having these found in missions, like exotica, but I belive this should not be the case because A: Would mean adding at least 100+ more missions (Not chains), and B: would mean that the planets would be TOO hotly contested, in the same way exotica is. My solution, if we can't have the random scan system, is to have and extremely rare (Not expensive, so we can keep the low rankers involved) arty haul arty that gives the location of a special planet.

My suggestions for the first few:

Earth, Average sized Tera planet, Resources: Mining 3x Mega Rich, Artifact 100x Mega rich, Research 5x Mega.Ability - Excellent Arty production

Energron, Small Electric planet, Resources: All Extramly Sparse, Ability: can recharge the energy of your, or an legion mate's ship, once every 8 hours.

Fereti, Very Massive Demonic Planet, Mining: 15x Mega rich, Artifact Rich, research 4x Mega rich. The only planet in the galaxy where the extremely hard Copernicium metal ore can be found. Every 20 hours it allows the owner to build 'Copernicium plating' - Limit 1 per ship - adds 2,000 hull, and gives a 1% Hull bonus.

And so on.. for 30-300 planets

NOTE: The above planets are a tad OP, I admit - they were just there to convey the main idea - I'm more interested in having the idea in the game, than those actual planets.


Benifits - Will encourage high ranker to engage in planetary warfare due the benefits of the planets.
Has good benifits.
Adds more variety

This could be an interesting idea. It would certainly encourage more active legion-based planetary defense strategies, and in its' current form, there is very little chance of anyone other than the most powerful players/legions owning Exotica. Since these planets would be random scans, there is always the possibility that low rankers could benefit too.

+1 from me.

itd be kinda cool to own earth +1

If a legion can only own one 'special' planet at a time, it would help too let them make the rounds.

Basically, if you own Exotica, you can't also own Earth.

i like that exclusivity ... guarantees that there are targets

EDIT: just saw DF's comment below ... i think having a few more missions for each planet would be ok too ... juicier planets getting more levels in the chain

heck, roll one out once a month and you have new monthly content for 2 years

Problem is, if they are only gotten through scanning, one person could control one for a LONG time. I have several planets that I've had for over a year without anyone else EVER scanning them.

Would spread all the high rankers away from just one planet (exotica) and make it more fun >:D


btw Earth already exists, search forums.

Eh, just add it as a new mission after Exotica in that chain, or at the end of the Terrain Outsiders chain.

this sounds like it would be fun +1

They would rapidly fall into the hands of the most powerful legions and stay there just like Exotica. As for the suggestion of a legion only controlling one at a time, all the checks in the coding would be a programmer's headache. What happens if the controller of one joins a legion that already controls another?

-1 on the Demon losers will just pass it around to there legion. **** any idea like that .

Those planets would make things much funner in this game. +1 from me. As long as high ranked legions don't pass them around and crap.

The Idea was that they'd start off slow, then as more people found them and scan shared, and attempted invastions, they would start to spread quickly

My point was though, with 4,272,362 planets in the galaxy, it could take several months or even years just for a second person to find one. And KotH planets should never ever be alertable.

Simple... The planet auto "abandons". It would just revert to a "natural" state.





Idea +1
Your specifics -1.
(your demon and "electric" planets are totally OP. NRG regen caps @ 120 for a reason, there are no new relays for a reason.)

Why would you create a planet that benefits the owner, yet a legion is limited to 1?
If you are going to limit a planet based on legion, its benefits should be legion wide.

Instead of benefiting the player who owns it, the planet should benefit the legion.
Examples being: a 5% hull boost for every legion member
a % base production increase (minerals artifact or research)
a "trade hub" which will increase credits gained from selling minerals.
a "factory" planet reducing the cost of repairs


Or why not transfer some of the worthless base modules to planets so they are used? So planets with "abilities" rather than a passive legionwide bonus.
IE: a planet when guarded will repair your ship once every 4 hours. Or will recharge your shields when guarded once every 4 hours. However unlike the base neither of these actions would trigger your timers, nor would it be 1 use per legion cooldown.
It would be 1 use per person per cooldown(so 60 members would get 1 use each every "x" hours). Personally I find it laughable thatthe base repair bay can repair 1 player every 30 minutes. A whopping 48 repairs a day if maximized, a whole legion cant even use it under the best of circumstances. (aside from its other issues)


Of course all these planets would suffer the same diminishing defense as Exotica.
Of course a legion could own only 1
Bonus' would only apply to loyal members to prevent excessive "jumping"

They would all be named, and all would have an associated quest to "unlock" and add the planet to your logs.


*edited for excessive quote tags lol

From a coding standpoint, I seriously doubt it's "simple." Why should Fred lose his KotH planet because George is already in the legion? How is that fair to Fred? He found it, he paid costs to own it, he has defended it. Shouldn't BOTH people lose theirs? How then would that be fair to George?

Look at it this way.
- No one "finds them". They are like exotica and have a related quest or story line(varying level requirements).
- From a coding standpoint its not simple, but its not difficult either. (you already lose planetary bonus' every time you join and leave a legion. The mechanism exists, just need to change the outcome from lost stats to a lost planet. The mechanism for losing planets already exists as well in the form the 5gp abandon)
- Planet benefits should be benefiting the legion as well as the owner. (See Above post)
- You must be in a legion to own one.
- Like Exotica their defense will diminish to encourage thefts and player combat as well as prevent a legion from dominating a certain perk. (well it will attempt to prevent that as best you can)

As for the Weasly twins you mentioned:
This is also simple.

When a player willing leaves a legion while owning an "exotica" they forfeit control of the planet. The planet abandons in the same way a planet does when 5gp is spent.

"well that screws the legion" Thats the point. You would want to have your strong active and loyal players be the invaders. Lest they leave, the planet go "rogue" and another legion scoop it up.
It makes the legion decide as a whole which planet benefits the legion. It makes the legion decide whom they trust to colonize. It also punishes the legion if they choose poorly.

best way to do it is with a mission add on to a chain to get the alert. then make the planet have to be at peeked for the ability to work. immune it like exotica. and have not mod's like you get with exotica . make it a planet u keep not pass around like a bunch of chumps. No medal points for taking it, no ship mods just the planets ability that u need to hold it until its a peeked colony.

But knowing do doubt if we do get more planets like this there will be metals and cool ship mods and they will be past around and abused .

Bottom line is this... There is already enough grief and drama surrounding ONE KotH planet. Guarding while halcyoned, defriending people so you can attack them, passing it to legionmates for the medal, etc. Why in Dan's name would we want MORE?

Silly he would make more so many of us can finaly rage quit .