[Zaejii]

I suggest that protection be changed so you tick your planet by pressing a 'tick' button, similar to PA offline.

Each signup gets 24 hours of protection. During this, you have 72 ticks to 'spend'. You set your orders, press the tick button, and your planet ticks as normal. After the 24hrs, protection & unspent ticks are gone.

Possible implementations:
a) First 35 ticks on this system, followed by the normal tick 36 shuffle & 36 normal ticks of protection.

b) First 72 ticks on this system. On tickstart, everyone's shuffled into galaxies and out of protection. A 12 hour break could be introduced for galaxy mingling & attack preparation.

Unpaid planets could be predetermined or have other restrictions (eg less ticks to spend or manually have to play the first ticks)

This method reduces boredom and allows extra days of 'proper' gameplay.

Acknowledgments: Benneh, dec, Gate