Sounds like someone screwed up their build

Your attitude is part of why I avoid forum. Too many wise asses. Your attitude deserves a wise ass answer. You just come off as a whiny #$%^&
The other is that top legions are beyond the game envelope
because greed and cowardliness makes them huddle. Or maybe people of the same ranks play together so they can see the same alerts?

This is destroying the game. There are vacant level 6 and level 7 bases.
It means that some put in a lot of effort and said the hell with it. Some people move on instead of staying loyal to a crappy legion which is sapping their strength and enjoyment of the game

Many still benefit from illegal gains obtained early on in this game
when the server was vulnerable to deliberate exploit. Example?

Some legions, since they can have an almost perfect score on legion missions grow geometrically, the struggling ones have to face the odds and a more linear process. One would hope that it would be self evident for the interest of the game to take a larger view.

So you think passing legion missions is the reason the top legions grow faster?
Wrong. The top legions got there by being more active and maximizing their AP production. Billik is correct it's easier than ever to build a great ship.
I doubt it's possible.

I'll keep playing and I just want to say : this isn't a community; gamer communities think of the welfare of the game first. I played in private guilds on private servers. The command staff always joined the underdog during a campaign and many didn't mind switching races to balance teams. So... you want the top ten legions to disband and get dispersed evenly among the galaxy or something? Most would quit if they couldnt play among their peers.

There is no balance. If this was an arcade game it would be reviewed to oblivion. I played almost 4 years and what a waste. Only in this stupid game have I seen geometric growth favor highest players while the crud down there is stuck with linear progress

Your attitude is part of why I avoid forum. Too many wise asses.
The other is that top legions are beyond the game envelope
because greed and cowardliness makes them huddle.

This is destroying the game. There are vacant level 6 and level 7 bases.
It means that some put in a lot of effort and said the hell with it.

Many still benefit from illegal gains obtained early on in this game
when the server was vulnerable to deliberate exploit.

Some legions, since they can have an almost perfect score on legion missions grow geometrically, the struggling ones have to face the odds and a more linear process. One would hope that it would be self evident for the interest of the game to take a larger view.

I doubt it's possible.

I'll keep playing and I just want to say : this isn't a community; gamer communities think of the welfare of the game first. I played in private guilds on private servers. The command staff always joined the underdog during a campaign and many didn't mind switching races to balance teams.

I agree that there is "no balance" in Galaxy Legion. (You know Human Merchant being a worse choice than Talth Excavator.) Not trying to be offensive, snarky, or aggressive, but I believe one of the D&D designers argued (and I am paraphrasing) that he put crappy feats in D&D on purpose to let the players make efficient and inefficient choices. Likewise, Galaxy Legion has efficient and inefficient choices. For my first 15 months or so of play, I made a lot of bad choices (and I even reset in the middle of those 15 months), but since then, I have improved a lot. Early, I did not understand how players who started around the same time were so far ahead of me, but once I gained more experience and skill, my rate of growth improved exponentially.

I am presupposing when you say "highest" and "down there" you are referring to rank. I would argue that the early game (lower ranks) is the time to set yourself up for success (granted, you can start later, which will be more challenging), and yes, improvement will be linear during the early phases of growth (usually due to low Artifact production). Later, (at higher ranks,) growth will be geometric, since if you had worked hard to push your Artifact production, your stats will be growing at an amazing rate. In short, a correlation exists between rank and Artifact production, and Artifact production drives strength. However, I would disagree if you are suggesting that either high rank in and of itself causes exponential growth or low rank in and of itself causes linear growth. (Correlation not being causation and all that stuff.) In short, those who made the better choice of pushing Artifact production early (and I was not one of those) do benefit from superior growth later, while those who did not simply have a lot of work to do to catch up.

On the other hand, if you do mean Artifact production when you say "highest" and "down there," then I would argue that the hard work put into obtaining Artifact production (NPCing, scanning, trading, etc.) is the balancing factor in Galaxy Legion.

Wrong. Ship growth is exponential as a lower rank, then over time (as you achieve the +12 production mods) ship growth becomes geometric. If anyone's ship is growing at a linear rate they're doing something wrong.

Wrong. Ship growth is exponential as a lower rank, then over time (as you achieve the +12 production mods) ship growth becomes geometric. If anyone's ship is growing at a linear rate they're doing something wrong.

I've been growing linearly for months on end. Doubled my artifact production, but it doesn't seem to help in terms of how many prisoners, brackets, xcharges, etc. I just get more junk artis per pull. I wish I knew what I waa doing wrong so I could fix it.

And to the point of GL being "unbalanced", I tend to agree. Take one of the top minions, look at their stats to see how many planets they have, use probes to see their resource drops, then divide. You'll see ridiculous numbers like 700 AP per planet. PER EFFING PLANET! Let that sink in for a bit. There's no way to even start to catch up with that.

I just added my production up(res+art+mining) then divided by the amount of planets i have, and i got 645(if thats the way you were working it out). Im not a minion, nor in EOTS, nor in a top ten legion for that matter(hell im not even in a top 50 legion lol). So im not sure what your saying rings true. Im decent for my rank, but i know of many others, higher and LOWER rank, with much better stats. I have literally hundreds of planets i could abandon for better things. Just gotta keep working at it.

Actually the lower ranked players are at an advantage over us, all of our strategy and planning at their fingertips, higher output bases, and better missions, if they take the initiative they can easily surpass us.

I definitely disagree with you on that. The time that older players spent building their ships make it impossible for newer players to "Easily" pass them in any shape or form. It's just the way it is, so I just sit back and enjoy the time hanging out with people. :)