I like the idea, but kinda see it as a waist of time.

If it helps keep more players in the game its not a bad idea most likely.

I would change it though so legions could put if they were looking for players or not, and what level players they were looking for. Most likely the top 10 to 20 legions don't want players below level 200 or so. While established lv 4,5 base legions would most likely take lower level players to help flesh out their legions. It may also stop the annoying 1 person legions that keep getting formed and take up more space on the game servers. Have it something like this:

Legion Rank, Legion Name, Score, Looking for recruits (rank level if yes/NO if not looking for recruits)

1. The Dysonians...... 63000 NO
2. Empire Of The Sun 57568 900
3. The Honey Badgers 51480 600
4. Galactic Paladins... 51414 100
etc.

+1

adding the required info into your own base shouldnt be so hard either.
simply add a few option boxes with rank brackets, one for wanting recruits or not... seems pretty simple.

+1 to the suggestion

-1 to the fact that it'll likely be used to just funnel new players into "training" legions, which will starve smaller legions of vital and valuable new players.

i think thats the point. to starve smaller legions so that they combine with other small legions or get the players to sister legion so they have a bigger opportunity.

+1, really like this ideas, seen a similar thing work in many other games, can't seeing it slowing the gaem down at all/ very much and it will mean other legions in top 50 can compare with others and cause more competition and rivalry between say factions/ legions meaning more people will stay with the game! Great idea!

+1

Maybe they can break it up into 3 groups. Top 50 Legions with Artifact Bases, by rank and strength. Top 50 Research, by same, and of course Top 50 with Mining (if there are 50 with mining), by same. Base type decided by allocated points into Base Resource Richness, or in the cases of tied richness, the category with the larger pay out.

This will make it easier for people of all ranks to find exactly what there looking for and apply. It will also be interesting to really see what the top 150 legions are v.s. just the traditional top 50.

We could even keep a tab for the traditional top 50 or maybe turn it into a top 100 to better compare the legions of all category's side by side when not sorted by specific type.

So rank the legions by base level, and then strength, and list what levels of players they are looking for in each category, sounds good to me.

All that'll accomplish is exactly what I've already pointed out. Strong legions get stronger as they get listed ahead of smaller legions.
And ranking via base level means jack-all as Nam just proved, boosted a base up to level 7 on his own. Yet another way of showing big/strong legion getting listed ahead of smaller legions.


if there was a way to do this fairly so everyone had a shot at being listed, instead of "Oh we've got the backing of a big legion, ergo we're better than 'X legion'" then I'd support it.

i dont understand what the issue is, why would you want all the 5 player legions to be listed equally with the ones with 40 members... clearly the 40 member legions are more well established. and in NAMS case, his base level will dictate who comes to him easy enough.
the suggestion is clearly in hopes of COMBINING all those 5 man legions that will eventually fail, and merge them into a much nicer and stronger 40-50+ person legion.

I'm merely speaking out against the implications of the game actually being programmed to show favoratism towards the higher ranked legions.

If a solution can be thought of that doesn't show rampant favoratism to big legions and legions that are backed by leaderboard legions then hell, I'd be all for that.

all the solutions that have been proposed essentially provide a lifeline to larger legions while systematically cutting any hope for small legions to grow to the size of the midsize/larger legions that everyone seems hellbent on protecting.

You don't want all legions to have a fair shot, you want the better legions to have the top spots. You want smaller players to join a larger legion instead of starting their own only to stop playing because they get a ton of lv 1 accounts that join their legion just to see what they have and then stop playing creating a dead legion. Those dead legions take up sever space and fill up the sever long before it would be full otherwise. Players are more likely to stick around if they join a larger legion then a 5 man team that does nothing for them and can't raise a lv 3 base even.

The idea is to get more members for the legions that are doing something and get rid of all the wasted space of those 1 person dead legions.

Those larger legions most likely only want 400+ players, the way I described that is that it would show in the search function. Players could go to the second, third or 4th pages to find the smaller legions that are looking for smaller players. If you see numbers like this on the first page:
Looking for players:
1: No
2:700
3: 450
4:400
5:350
6:200
7:250
8:300
9:150
10:200

Most likely if you are lv 20 and plan on playing you will flip to the next page to see the other legions that are a smaller but looking for players your level. If you are not bothered to do that then most likely you would stop playing anyways. Besides once people play long enough and read the forums they start moving to the better legions anyways no matter what game you play.

We also don't have over 100 bases to lv 7 in any artifact, research or mining (from what I know) so the middle legions would be in the top 20 legions anyways.

The idea looks interesting, but its not necessary because even when your not in a legion you can still check out the leader boards.

-1

its not about seeing the leaderboards, its about seeing which legions are looking for people and WHAT they are looking for.

Then click search legions simple as that. Or if your a forum user check the legions section. It defeats the purpose of making new legions, people would only be checking the leader boards based off of rank and or strength.

you just arent getting it... please, go to the legion search area, and go through the first 100 pages.. tell me how many legions have 35+ members AND are giving research output... and send a message to them as well...
this is a serious task i want you to do. shouldnt take too long.