[Appocomaster]

as an aside, plans are in place to be able to scan a full galaxy at once to some degree.


Jester, while you've covered one person running many accounts, you've not yet mentioned sharing accounts between people. I take it that it'd still be the case that this is against the rules?

I think that allowing planets to play in different styles would make the game more interesting [if also more complex].

Scanners are obviously relied upon, but there seems to be two separate points here. On the one hand, there's the point that playing hardcore relys on players being scanners to assist you. Either you need a planet playing as a scanner, or the tech tree needs to be adjusted so it's easier to research scans. We have to keep in mind that many feel they can't play active and want to help, and traditionally do so by becoming scanners.

On the other hand, we have the issue that with p2p, will one user bother signing up lots of accounts and paying for them? Also, how is it possible to show that a free planet signed up by the same player is going to become a paid account? from a Multihunter perspective, closing 2 free accounts that are "going to upgrade in the next week or so to become paid accounts and therefore be 'legal'" is always going to be problematic and hard to enforce.

If we are going to introduce the ability to have more than one planet, it'd have to be either by having an extra ingame option for paid planets or some sort of clearly defined and simple system for signing up more than one planet.