Here's a few ideas as I'm sitting at work bored!!!
How about making alliances only between Galaxies? max number of galaxies allied to 4-5? Make exiling people only possible with damn good reasons, not just the old "he aint active enough" rubbish - exile requests to be passed to admins to decide if the request is reasonable. Devise a mentoring scheme so experienced players can mentor less experienced Gal mates. Introduce more technologies, attack formations, defence formations (hehe could be fun). Have diplomacy - declaring war would increase roid caps for example, trade agreements whereby each person can nominate 3 trade routes which would bring in extra resources (outside own galaxy only) depending on the size of their trading partners - which also would allow a player to blockade trade routes until the traders saw him off.
Just a few ideas thrown into the ring off the top of my head. Not easy to do them i know but as we were bandying stuff about hehe
side note - I played early rounds, then missed a load of rounds and came back 2 rounds ago, if these have been tried already or thrown out then excuse me
I copied this from a thread i posted it on as its more at home here.
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