PW things to think about

[GoogleFrog]

I'll just list some topics here so we don't forget.

[GoogleFrog]

This is an anticipated issue, but we had trouble predicting how much of an issue it would be. How much of an issue is it currently? Licho says:

sollution could be to allow people to move to defense from attack (entire squad ?) or auto do it on alst moment?

I am not sure I want to have people get into such race conditions. My hope was that the incoming attackers thing would have encouraged factions to self-sort into leaving some defenders behind. But the random buttons and incentives may not go that way.

[GoogleFrog]

Galaxy structures may be a bit hard to kill in battle. At some point we forgot that a pattern of invasion could be a throwaway attack to kill structures, followed by the real attack. Currently the structures seem to err a bit too far on the difficult-to-kill side, to the point that sniping them may be less certain than just playing out the game. We will have to reassess it later.

[GoogleFrog]

Neutral planets should be defended by the non-attacker faction with the most IP on the planet (if such a faction exists). Throwing a defense on another front becomes a thing late in PW, because the "uninvolved" faction often has a strong opinion about who gets the planet. This "most IP" idea is there to clear up the ambiguity of three-way IP situations, and should mostly make sense.

[GoogleFrog]

I think we may want to make PW last for a set duration, possibly turning on and off over the course of a weekend for timezones. Factions would accrue VP without limit, and whoever has the most would win. The ability to trade VP in diplomacy should be removed in this case because it would make last-minute kingmaking trivial. It is also hard to know what to do about the end of the game, when the victor is unreachable.

[GoogleFrog]

I think it would be healthy to block people from joining PW attack/defense queues while their current PW game is ongoing. People were leaving mid-game to go defend or attack other planets, or joining attacks with the assumption that their current game is going to end by the time they enter the new battle. This can be a fun "commander deployment" logistics puzzle, of who leaves which battles when, but I think it would be better off being removed.

• The players that aren't so clued into the metagame get annoyed at allies leaving.
• Leaving mid-battle is an imposition that makes PW more hardcore, potentially too hardcore, but will move things in the direction of burnout.
• Burples are most likely to use this tactic, which leads to people fighting against more burples, which is something we might want to avoid.