It's a little disheartening to be exploring galaxies, and then, oops, you died. Now you must tow. Maybe it isn't so bad to die *one* time, but if aggroing is free, it wouldn't be one time. I'd wager half the game would aggro their galaxies. And on a much, much smaller WS map, a third of the layer being aggroed? Every three galaxies you go, you die. How fun is that? You didn't mean any harm.

Also, you can be a dick and plop down aggroed Junk kits to fuck with people. You can place them on an AP route, you can place them around some noob team daring them to shoot back. You can make people miserable for no damn reason.

But if you had to pay a significant fee to aggro your bases ... I think a lot less people are likely to do so. SS players are asinine about losing money to "tithes". They make 1600% profit (yes, thats a 16, multiplied by a hundred) and start to threaten to unsub en masse when you force them to pay a tax or reduce the profit margin by a small number. There was a time multiple entire teams of 10-20 people each were threatening to unsub all their accounts when Jey123456 got emperor. That was 5% of their scooped credits.

As I said, we already have /avoid and /avoidteam functionality in the client, and these will be built off of to naturally avoid all aggro gals that aren't owned by your team.

And preventing prospectables from getting backed up in aggro galaxies?

I don't see the purpose of this.

Especially considering that you can aggro all your borders and just let prospecting commods build up in your galaxies. Prospecting is not supposed to be something you can farm it is supposed to be chance based. But this change will allow people to basically grow and harvest free commodities in their areas.

As I said, we already have /avoid and /avoidteam functionality in the client, and these will be built off of to naturally avoid all aggro gals that aren't owned by your team.

Also, just an off hand question since we're on bases. Did you guys add BvB outpost galaxies that can be used to hit Biologique for next universe? Because that is years overdue.

Unless specifically stated, Bio is not being changed in any way. I would be open to make it un-ownable if people are interested in that.

That would actually be really cool. Kind of silly that a resource like that is completely uncontestable due to the strength of bases.