The cost to abandon (5 credits) and the fact that new players get stuck with bad planets was brought up again in another thread. Here is a suggestion on an alternative solution:

Abandoning a planet costs 5 credits. OR it costs the price of your next colonization x2.

Colonization is EXPENSIVE at any level. Plenty of people would still just pay the 5 GC, but people with no credits or people with multiple crap planets would have another option available - invest in paying off the population.

5 credits? You do realize thats nothing, even at rank 1. Now if it was like triple what colonization costs then maybe, juuuust maybe. I mean we got to feed Dan somehow.

Why does it cost 5 GP to abandon a planet? To colonize a planet you use energy and money but to leave you have to spend GP? What is the sense in that? A real civilization would leave a planet behind if they found a better one, why can't we?

Change it so that abandoning a planet costs something reasonable and moves everything to a new planet.

Id rather see a way of getting GP that dosnt require money available so that you can get rid of them when you realize that you messed up.

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Id rather see a way of getting GP that dosnt require money available so that you can get rid of them when you realize that you messed up.

that mission stuff sounds better, for those who cant get GP's (cant afford or like me cant buy cuz of country i live in)
but mission reward should be not only abandoning it should be abandon+flux to prevent ppl dropping nice player made planets for free.
also mission should be "This mission can be repeated at any time." but dead expensive.
1k energy a pop and lets say 50k energy total + some bunch of artis

Top 20 damagers of the entire game? All the GP would go to the high ranks, which defeats the purpose of previously mentioned GP suggestions - or even giving newbies a chance to lose the nasty planets.

that would be purge, not flux~
although at the same time of purge, active alerts are also removed.(not sure if that's the way it works now... if u alert a planet then purge it... does the alert still work?)
in any case... i would perfer a fairly easy limited missions, so it helps the noobs w/o being too painful
but i'm also fine with a repeatable that ALSO give the artifact, but at a much more expensive cost.
something like 20x100 for the first 5(maybe first link in chain)
and then 200x300 for the repeatable(maybe second and final part of the chain)


sorta like flux and flux orb, except instead of being weaker on the repeatable, it's more expensive(partly cause i dunno how to make it weaker XD. maybe first 5 don't purge?)

or something like Decrypting the Vault mission, which go to ridiculous amounts of energy...
also by planet flux i meant, that even if that "crappy" planet is on other ppl scan list it purges from there also, i have some ppl who ask me to sell some of my planets cuz they have scanned it, so abandoning+purge dont really work... just completely reset the planet nobody have it on scans and its unocc