[Nadar]

I don't think we should "whine" too much to be honest. Compare it to the earlier rounds. Sure, you had more fun playing back then, but there were only a handful of people maintaining the game. I'd say we have more 'educated' and skilled people doing the development now than we had back then. The game didn't go from 180k planets to 3k planets just because of p2p, races or whatever, but also because people go tired of playing PA, just as they do in any other game over time.

PA was a "hit" back in the days. It was innovative and something special. Now it's old and there's tons of browser-games such as PA on the net.