Dan most of the time you adjust the game as we advance, adding NPC after people have gone past the old ones, leaving them bored until you make the new ones. Same with all content and glitches. You don't change something until people are so annoyed with it that there are hundreds of threads saying they want it change, a flame war and someone quits.

Instead of all that, why not just think a bit ahead see the problems as they are beginning to arise or before, nip them in the butt and avoid the angry mob that forces change.

he needs to sort his #&$# out we're all damn sick of it.

Yep, predicting the future is easy.

I agree that Dan needs to start fixing problems before they arise, but its not that simple, because first you have to know where the problems are going to be coming from.

I'll admit, some are obvious, like NPC ranks and such, but there are things that are more difficult to predict.

all minus 1 (me)

it is a game, where only the GM (Dan) is the "God". After 15 years of xyz games I learned that well...

YES, and this attitude would really help him realize the obvious problem...

lol well asking nicely gets you no response, perhaps a DDoS attack would do the job, who knows....

without his feedback, it is sadly only about guessing.
We, including me, know that as it is not changed (rank cap 2200), people slowly quit GL. So far few, but because of this for sure.

wondering, what would happen, if the rank cap is moved to rank 9999...
but not sure, how much grow the % of good and great planets in GL during 3 years and how much it would grow further.
When there is plenty of AP production now and it would grow higher, what would be the result of it?

Asking from pure curiosity as I plan to play GL further and I would like to evaluate what is better in long term. I do not include to this autoranking at all, I see it as separate topic.

Thanks.

Here's an idea: Rank X (The rank after Rank 9,999)

First, replace the Blade Harvesters, Troop Carriers, and LabPods with much rarer versions of them. Their rank cap would be at Rank X.

Rank X is the highest rank anyone can get to. After achieving rank X you can not earn any more xp, which means no free rank up refills. (To offset autoranking)

lol, that's already in place, you know Dan. Gotta have a paywall beyond a certain rank(cough 4k).... quitting in droves.....

People having infinitely growing hulls that make them impossible to kill while defending,
The game servers unable to keep up with people clicking causing planets, NPCs, bases to take more hits than necessary and purgers going to waste
Alerted planets wasting purgers
People with 0 disables on the bt and spamming people
The rank cap on several needed NPCs, (1200 and 2200 being the big ones)
Module abilities being activated because they take up more space causing the arrow to drop when flipping through modules.
Pillars having no stop warning and still saying the have double the effect on dysons metallics

All known glitches and problems. Some for a very long time, some becoming an issue.

Doubles on planets, NPCs and bases were known for almost a year before anything was done.

We tell him about plenty of glitches as they are found and he doesn't do anything until there is an overwhelming crowd demanding for change. He isn't going to do anything about any of the above until there is a mob screaming on the forums. That shouldn't be necessary imo.

I doubt Dan even reads these posts we address to him, let alone considers them. And seriously, he does NOT care about the players that don't buy GP. On top of that, he doesn't care about any one particular player who does buy GP. You'd have to organize a "Dan action committee" among players who all spend a minimum of $50/month to get any attention.