NPC's have 2x higher health and deal 2x more damage and have 2x more defences.
If your ship gets disabled your ship's weapons get disabled also.
Weapons sometimes will over charge and damage your overall hull.
AP is less abundant and artifacts are rarer to obtain.
Mineral points give less minerals.
Minerals cost more to buy but sell less than normal.
Ships cost more to repair.
All missions have a chance of failure and require additional energy to complete.
Planets cannot be found unoccupied and are instead owned by fractions, such as the crimson blades.
Legion bases give a lot less mineral points, artefact points and research points.
You rank slower than normal.
Valuable artifacts, such as android helmsmen and rescued prisoners, can only be bought form the artifact market.
Rare NPC's are rarer.
Elite/Boss NPC's are NOT shareable with legion members.
Invaded planets have 50% of their defence, cloak and attack reduced until they haven't been attacked for a week.
Fractions of different strengths will occasionally try to invade planets, planets owned by fractions may alter structures on the planet.
Energy charge rate is reduced.
Decks increase automatically as you rank rather being increased by rank points.
Shields take longer to recharge.
You will require more research to obtain new modules/structures.
NPC's have a chance to give nothing upon disable.
Debuffs occasionally get applied randomly, reducing attack or defence.
Items sold at the artifact market are doubled in price and galaxy points cost more.

UPDATE: This would be a separate mode to regular mode, so you would start at rank 1 again. You can change between both modes at will.

Benefits of expert mode!
More bragging rights that ever before! New leader board! (Because lets be honest, you only make the strongest possible vessel so you can brag about it)
Higher difficulty!
Expert related only items!

This mode will be playable after rank 100 and have been playing for at least 3 months.

sure...

and the purpose of this would be? what incentive is there to want to play in expert mode?

Ego and bragging rights

how bout smoking crack mode? a lot of people have head start!

If you have a suggestion, please post it in your own thread.
Thank you.

Hey look, lemme suggest an expert mode when my ship wouldn't even qualify for a beginner mode.







If anyone +1's this idea, they automatically forfeit their right to be considered an expert, because nobody would choose to have any of the things you mentioned.



NEXT

You obviously never played a game with a expert mode have you?

A expert mode is a harder version of the game, when you have played the regular version and you are ready for a challenge.

And PLEASE, if you want to suggest a beginner mode, make a separate thread about it.

expert modes in games like shooters are fine, in games where you grow over time its a bad idea

No to most of this, sorry. I am intrigued by the idea of decks increasing with rank , though.

-1 to the infinitieth power. everyone in the upper ups has all of the ego and bragging rights they could ever want already, so there are no real incentives.

Not to mention while Dan and his coders are working on your pointless expert mode, the standard mode would be neglected and die. In other words, your suggestion is so terrible, you could actually kill the game XD. Did I mention -1?

Hmmm...let me think....more work...less rewards....hmmmmm, tough choice here...best check my magic 8 ball....and the answer is...

No


Now we return to regularly scheduled rum.

You realize that if infinity is an even number, you just +1'd arguably THE worst suggestion ever made? Jussayin'

negative infinitieth then it exist in the opposite direction

I took all of the run and llamas with me! XD

damn llama thieves..plus +1 to more rum and llamas

but normally in expert mode, such as in fifa etc, you are rewarded with better items, or you get to unlock extra content etc. The player leaderboards are for ego and bragging rights, negatively impacting on our own ships and ability to play the game for no other reason than ego is plain stupid. MASSIVE -1 from me.

long live the llamas!! +1 to the infinity plus 10 - 3.265 x 629856478 to more pickled rum!!!

I'll just steal it all again Yank least I can do being a former leader of FU lol