Galaxy Assault/Ownership

With the recent issues that arose from the recent galaxy assaults we would like to cover a few points in regards some of these issues.

Using base thrusters to fly away from defenders an unlimited distance

We have known about this strategy of flying your bases out an unlimited distance for some time and it is why we implemented the current system of requiring all bases to be within 30k from system objects. At this point we believed we had resolved the issued.

It has become apparent that our original solution to issue was not satisfactory and is now occurring in the current universe.

Using base thrusters to fly out while staying within the 30k limit, then placing new bases on the other end of the system.

It would be inappropriate to make a change to the current system mid-universe as players are not using any unknown mechanics to their advantage. They are stretching the system that was built to its limit, showing that our original concept wasn’t clever enough. We are also holding to our policy of not intervening in wars, for example the “sun tanking” controversy two years ago.

At the same time, we most certainly don’t support this defensive tactic as it means that clever and active defenders are essentially immune from defeat. obviously we don’t wish the game to be balanced that way going forward.

As luck would have it, we had already been in the process of developing an overhaul proposal to ownership and galaxy assault, which has been subject to extensive internal review and even received a fair bit of feedback from our public discord.

We will be holding an open forum on our public discord on November 14, at 6pm CST. This will be covering the new Ownership/Galaxy Assault changes we are proposing. If you have any suggestions/questions in regards to it we would love to hear from you!