What about nice little mini games to play while we wait for our energy to restore
These don't require any energy to play and are mainly be there for fun... Here's what I had in mind

Defend your legions base

This requires you to defend you legions base
In this mini game you require to shoot from a turret mounted to a legion base and shoot incoming ships coming at 8 directions
You have 2 weapons you can switch to during the battle
One is a laser that deals BIG damage to larger ships but deals LOW damage to smaller ships
The other is a machine gun turret that deals LOW damage to larger ships but deal HIGH damage to smaller ships

Types of ships coming at you... Frigate (Weak against machine), Titian (Medium against both turrets) and Star Destroyer (Weak against laser), and the boss Galaxy Destroyer (High health, use a mix to defeat)

You have special abilities as well that enemies may drop, for example EMP (Weakens energy ships making them slower with less health), Disarming Bomb (Reduces attack by 50% on all enemy ships), Tactical Nuke (Special weapon, In a blast radius reduces all enemy ships caught in it by 33%)

Small rewards like 10 mineral points (Increases by 2% each wave, rounds up to nearest whole number) for each wave you successfully defend against (Each day only the first completion counts for each wave)

Maybe a leader board as well (Top 10 players will be rewarded artifact points instead of mineral points)

Could be good for waiting until your energy recharges. +1

As long as it's not a memory minigame like the one for the daily mission... hate those lol

Something as simple as Asteroids or Alien Invaders, would be fine to me.

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If you want to play a game like that, go ahead- but it there is no reason for it to be a part of GL. Too much Server waste, and really, that's beside the whole point of the game.

+1 to this. If you want to play asteroids, go play asteroids. This is GL, any changes made should be the things that are needed to improve the game, not add pointless time wasters

Still would be nice to have a reason to play when you have zero energy remaining rather than stare at the battle tab.

Get more Engineers. Problem solved.

Get a bigger energy bar or recharge more...

Also there is plenty to do when you are out of energy. Strategy, planning for the future, chatting to legion mates... As many a lecturer has told me- There is never nothing to do

How sad for Namekian that his browser doesn't have tabs...

When EQ added its version of tetris in game back around 2002 it was pretty cool because the game usually needed groups, it could take an hour for someone to get there, and it was the age of dial up so minimizing and opening up a website could disconnect you from the game. For GL, its a browser game on a phone that could get you to the moon and a connection that can download the complete works of Shakespeare in a matter of minutes, and even asteroids is going to be more server intensive with its moving parts than the clickclickclick on pictures that it currently runs on.

And if you're on a computer there's 8000 other things more interesting than asteroids you could be doing while you wait.

Devil's advocate here. Asteroids could (and should) run entirely on the client side, so it would only require the bandwidth for the JS to the client, no additional server load.

Is your life limited to GL?



You actually do that in the mechanics of the game. Buff base's stats and do emergency repairs with ap. And a full repair available every 4 hours. And you can arti spam players attacking your base.



What about quasi-chaos turrets?



Just what I need! A few more mineral points to help me ... what? I get about 50B credits a day selling minerals and 2B from research every hour. A more productive way to get mineral points would be to raid enemy ships. You get badges doing that too!



Yes, make a leaderboard to show who wasted the most time playing mini-games.

Well im not gonna say good or bad, BUT, if your out of energy, your time and productivity in game would be to review the worlds in your empire and make sure your getting the most out of them. Asteroids?! well, i have a MAME emulator for that as i was an Arcade/Atari kid...

Turret combat?! Shoot. Just go to Rogue Synapse and Download "The Last Starfighter" game, a recreation of the Never released Atari Arcade Vector Graphics game based on the Lorimar Movie with the Same Game that Alex Rogan Broke the Record on and called Centauri that took him to Rylos to Join the Starfighter Legion.

While im all for improvements to GL, lets try to keep the Suggestions relevant to the game we're all playing.

This whole suggestion sounds like your wanting Dan to make a GL version of "Dark Orbit" or something. While i wouldnt be opposed to something of that nature, i would hope that it would be limited to say Real Time Legion Vs. Legion real-time combat, but keeping the main focus of the game as it already is and has been for 3 years.

Maybe just reviving the old scruuge memory game then... where you have to match the symbols... that surely can't be too difficult to do

Ya this is not going to happen, perhaps people should stop bumping it.

I'd rather have to agree, let this thread die already. I think it deserves a L.O.C.K.

This sounds like an awful idea....

Spend time playing a mini-game, taking away actual useful time from making your ship stronger for mineral points

I'd rather go have a quick pint down the pub, watch a movie, climb a Tree, fight with Wolves or ponder why Pugs look like that, all better uses of my time.

You could play Sponge Bob Square pants while your energy recharges....

geezzzzus... mini games.

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