The Emperor contest rework

2016·07·14 by Auxilium
First and foremost, this idea is still in its planning stages so anything posted here may change at any given time. The purpose of this thread is to give players a chance to weigh in at an early development stage. We welcome any questions, concerns, and suggestions.

What exactly is changing and why?
We are planning to move Anatolia, which will be surrounded by a cluster of galaxies (more on those later) to Wild Space. This means that the galaxies will all become buildable. We made this design choice because permanent drones have become less powerful compared to player ships over the years and a small squad can take down 30 permanent Drones without too much trouble. As such, Anatolia requires a 24/7 active watch from the claiming team. While there is nothing wrong with the Emperor system being dependant on a team’s activity to some extent, the current lack of interest in defending Anatolia makes it clear that the player base would prefer a new system.

Anatolia will still be the galaxy where the Palace rests and it will be surrounded by a cluster of galaxies. We haven’t settled on a layout of the zone just yet, but you can expect something along the lines of this:

Anatolia and its surrounding galaxies will become buildable. This means that becoming Emperor will be a King of the Hill contest. At the start of the universe King Midas will be the Emperor of the universe. Anatolia (and likely its surrounding galaxies to a lesser extent) will be defended by a good amount of Midas-type stations that players will have to BvB. We’re doing this to prevent players from instantly claiming Anatolia when the universe resets.

Once King Midas has been dethroned and his galaxies laid to waste, players will be able to own the Emperor zone for their team. With ownership also comes the standard rules that apply throughout Wild Space: you must own an adjacent galaxy for 24 hours before you are able to lay BvB kits in the galaxy you want to assault. The only difference is that you can only own the galaxies in this area by using outposts.. The reason we don’t want them to be ownable by linking them up to a team’s HQ is simple: we don’t want a team to absorb these galaxies into their teamspace, making it more difficult for other teams to assault. The only way to dethrone a reigning team will be to blow up their palace, which they will be able to defend with their own stations.

Ability to create one Unclean Imperial Seal every 24 hours on the palace. (already ingame)

A 10% tithe to the reigning team that applies to colonies, sales to AI bases and credit scoops. (already partially ingame)

A team-wide aura that will give a percentage boost the reigning team’s experience gained, shield, energy, speed and possibly an increase in hull space. We are still considering whether to apply these boosts to their bases as well (we haven’t decided on any values yet).

The director of the team that has successfully docked the Crown in Sol will be given the opportunity to create an item of their choice (keep in mind that we do not intend to create new item types, as that would take a lot of development time). If said person would rather not design an item, they will be given a custom holo projector (which will be awesome, we promise).

Also, this rework will not go live until we are absolutely sure that BvB is stable and will cause no lag. The last thing we’d want is another Anatolia that is unkillable not because it’s so strong, but because your client crashes before you’re be able to kill anything… *cough* old Andaman Drones *cough*.

I think theres a little more emphasis on this than needs be. I have a great computer, but fairly lacking graphics card, and I run tons of clients during bvb and never had an issue with the old anda drones, in specific bvbs when others were having issues. I came to the conclusion after lots of experience that this was the result of others' potatoes, and the current SS BvB is totally doable. I have no issue with 40 kit gal bvbs currently.

so my only question: what about the other current requirements such as being in top 3/5 and colony population (colony population would be fine to leave in, in my opinion, but also fine to take out).

Sexy update, glad to see old content becoming more relevant.

P.s what's the matter DS? No Pokemon go where you live?

what is the current population requirement?

Will the Crown Ship be able to use a transwarp device, or be able to be in a squad with a Fleet Commander that can transwarp it to Sol?