From my perspective, getting rid of glass bases is just a bad, bad idea. No one seems to think this through, but experience gained by extreme basing is really wasted experience you could have better invested in PVPing or NPCing and makes you rank faster than you should. Crank out 10M+ in damage on a bigger base and see how many times most of us have to rank doing that...and all for the same rewards you get from glass. No thanks. Glass bases, per se, are the best energy/experience investment for the rewards gained.

Now, the change that should have been made long ago was to keep raising the minimum base level scanned as your base kept growing. For instance, no one wants to waste a bunch of reds flipping through a list of dead level 4 bases when your base is at say level 9. No level 9 base is probably ever gonna lock a 4 except by accident or something. Most won't even lock 5s, so seeing all those dead 4s and 5s is just a waste of hard earned red badges.

And, yes, as stated earlier, the number of glass 7s has been growing. It is true that the Eye of the Universe used to be a special find, but now we find many more due to legion death, legion consolidations, etc. But that's just a symptom of a different, probably larger problem in the GL universe, that won't be solved by just hiding them. I have the same problem with my battle tab. The same set of ships will cycle around way too fast now. When I'm on a PVP run, if I trip someone's halc, they'll usually be back well before the halc even expires now (not a bad thing from a PVP perspective since a good percentage will not have reset the halc yet, but a symptom of just too few non-disabled players in my badge range).

Finally, in the wake of the Ni vs EOTS battle awhile back, the atmosphere for battles against the tougher higher level bases has chilled. Knowing that someone will share the damage list with EOTS (hmm, why would anyone do that?) and that EOTS will lead an attack in the forums to get you banned if you do 20M+ damage against them in say 4.5 hours and that Dan will actually ban those players apparently based on such a weak argument alone has left fewer of the serious base chasers willing to do massive damage against higher level bases out of concern for similar shenanigans now that it's been proven they can actually work. Why risk getting banned over something you can get for practically nothing? Not to mention that the experience you gain doing 20M+ damage to a base is just a waste from a strategic point of view -- particularly if you're still below rank 2200 with plenty of good NPC and PVP opportunities still available.

now getting rid of the dead legions from rank 5 base and lower i think should be done and another code put into the game if the legion is not say 75% active with 20+ members no trainee should enter the legion allowing the trainee's to be placed in active legions to give them advise instead in a dead legion with no1 there

And I thought that a legion could not scan a base less than half of theirs in level, which means that a legion with a level 9 base should not be able to scan 4's... Except that this is the one time in the game that Swedish Rounding doesn't occur...

just make it so that you can only scan bases within 1 level (either way ) of your base level, should get rid of the glass problem, since big legions will only be able to lock other big legions.

In a closely contested field that is quite possibly the single most ridiculous suggestion I have seen this year on the forum.
*slow hand clap in disbelief*

3 words ONLY.

EoTS, level 10.

*starts clapping with Deigobene*

Not looking for a flawless option, looking for one that will stop the problem for the largest number of players. I am sure their are or will be level 9 and 10 bases EOTS can fight.

It is certainly far from a flawless option, that's for sure. Understatement of the year award is also on the way.
What "problem" are you trying to solve that *this* is your idea of a "solution"?
Seriously, no need to double down on the ludicrously bad idea.
The fact you obviously have absolutely no clue about numbers and base levels - probably with exceedingly limited experience in base combat by the sound of your lunatic idea - means you should either use your brain or close your mouth to "stop the problem for the largest number of players".

The issue is presented in the thread as "get rid of glass bases" my long term solution will. Over time all bases get more powerful, even your "I am a level 10 base so will have no targets" is only a short term issue, EM/CTP and Energy are unlimited resources in the game, their is no finite limit, as long as people are collecting minerals, have energy bars that need refilling or are scrapping/killing npcs their will always be more resources, and eventually said resources WILL be put in to bases, there is motivation to do so because bases give perks for having them upgraded. Even if their is a shortage short term, long term the solution will weed the problem out as active bases will grow and inactive glass ones will stay the same, as they grow they will no longer be able to target the glass bases, effectively removing them from the pool.


Do you honestly think the bulk of GL players are sitting in level 10 bases?

The issue is presented in the thread as "get rid of glass bases" my long term solution will. Over time all bases get more powerful, even your "I am a level 10 base so will have no targets" is only a short term issue, EM/CTP and Energy are unlimited resources in the game, their is no finite limit, as long as people are collecting minerals, have energy bars that need refilling or are scrapping/killing npcs their will always be more resources, and eventually said resources WILL be put in to bases, there is motivation to do so because bases give perks for having them upgraded. Even if their is a shortage short term, long term the solution will weed the problem out as active bases will grow and inactive glass ones will stay the same, as they grow they will no longer be able to target the glass bases, effectively removing them from the pool.


Do you honestly think the bulk of GL players are sitting in level 10 bases?

remove glass bases whos with me guys

I think the request to remove "Glass Bases" (very weak or inactive Legion bases) misses the point. Glass bases pretty much exist because a lot of players have left the game and abandoned their bases.

So the real solution is to get and keep more players in the game, and that means focusing on game changes that will increase player retention. And that, for the largest part, is balancing out the players' ship size/damage cap/rank stats and improving PvP to make it engaging, infinitely replayable, and balanced for rank. I think the best PvP in these FB space games I've seen so far is that in VEGA Conflict, so that should probably be the baseline for what needs to be implemented. Make PvP a graphics-based online battle arena and that'll solve the glass bases issue.