For the first few weeks, whilst there were plenty of missions to choose from I could be done with GL for the day in less than 30 minutes.There are still plenty of low level missions at lv 350 and I can still be done with most stuff in less then 30 mins, I spend more time talking to my legion then actually playing the game.But you can spread out your energy more. You can still spend a decent amount on missions and then occupy your time with other tasks. When you've got less than 500 energy, splitting your energy is practically useless.

I already stated I didn't have any ideas; I still don't. Perhaps something arbitrary that takes some time to complete; costing relatively low amounts of energy for standard sized reward for the rank but still consuming a fair amount of time.Sounds like another mission, I have enough of those stillA mission takes a long time to complete overall, but you do them very quickly. I meant where spending, say, 10 energy gets you a whole minute of activity. Missions will take your entire energy bar in under a minute at low-ranks (Presuming decent connection).

Not too much that people can't find the time or patience to do it but not so little that their energy bar is gone in less than a minute and they have to wait an entire day to do the same thing again. At higher ranks, you may be able to spend your energy in fairly short amounts of time but you also have a good charge rate and you'll have energy again much faster; you've also got much higher productionI have to wait 8 hours before my mining fills up because I don't have the GP to get the good mission planets plus have a few junk planets I got before I knew to look for at least VL planets, and also have mostly better productions then all the rest of the people that don't spend GP GP for mining planets? Um... I can understand if you meant arties, but I don't think anybody in their right mind would spend GP to buff their mining when toxics are so easy to upgrade. I have more defensive modules on my ship than all of the modules combined on a typical sub-100 ship.

so you need to manage your arties and stuff along with far more other things to control.What other things besides resources are there to control, maybe check in and do some new elite npcs but I can't control that really.Any decent legion probably alerts elites/bosses regularly enough for there to be almost always something big to shoot. You've got many more planets to take care of, watch for scan, defend from attacks (Which are more likely by virtue of the fact you have more planets); more modules to move around to arrange your ship better; more artifacts coming in to manage and, presuming prisoners, spend the rank points of. At low ranks, you have to wait hours to be eligible to receive artifact shipments at all.

At level 20, you come online, collect arties, look at what they do and find you can't use them, collect and sell minerals, spend your research and, if not all of your energy got spent in 25 seconds on a mission chain you picked based on the energy:xp ratio then maybe you'll do a little bit of scanning and turn up, usually, with nothing spectacular.I am still doing that (not the scanning)at level 350+. Really? At rank 350 I was doing NPCs and Missions side-by-side whilst keeping up the ability to do mini scan-runs to use excess energy before ranking on top of one or two weekly PvP runs when I'd gotten trap probes and null fuses; not to mention duties with my legion. My charge rate was 92/hr at this point, so it didn't take long to get back into the game after spending all of my energy.

Lower ranks seem to get a higher abundance of plantary 'entities' than high ranks which may have been something introduced to give them something to do but from what I've seen most low ranks just complain about how hard they are to kill and then waste the artifact that it drops on the first mega rich planet they've seen because oh my gosh there's a number in the best resource box!That is because they haven't read the forums or checked the wiki, nothing to do if they had GP or not.I'm pretty sure my point here was content for low ranks, not GP for low ranks. The discussion, if I remember rightly, went something along the lines of "Sell GP for cred? > No, big gap. > There's already a big gap. > Doesn't mean make it bigger, low ranks need more content to keep them hooked. > There's already loads of content! > Here's the content and what flaws I see."