now i recon this would be interesting but hard for those people who aren't good at multiplayer would be a fun change though

Igw multiplayer system.

Host and join on particular stars as certain races. IF you win , that star moves alignment slightly. Fully aligned stars to a race will make adjacent stars contested thus other stars will now be able to be played on. Thus map variety.

Players must choose a certain race and this stays with that account. They can have an account for each race tho. When they win a Igw game on a star , they gain rank points.

The star system is split evenly between advent , tec and vasari. At the borders between their races the stars will have contested alignment. Pick any of these stars to host a game on and someone with an account using the other race can fight you on it to try and move its alignment.

moi? , nah I stole this from Total Annihiations highly successful Boneyards , and its spinoffs .. Pheonixworx and another one i forget..

the Devs have clearly stated

"If it seems like a good idea, we may do it and may charge you for it. if it seems like a bad idea no, you cannot do it"

i was just thinking of an active online today   

Thats why their would be AI worlds and empires that would attack each other along with real players. Their would need to be some sort of tribute system and the AI charactors would need some sort relations tiers. The AI would buffer empires from one another so that powerful empires could not just destroy new players because it would not be worth it with the AI. Also there would need to be some sort of honor/prestige benifits; i.e. Massive Mullti-World Empire attacks Migitworld Inc. Massive Mullti-World Empire would of course destroy Migitworld Inc. If there was, however,a stystem were the Massive Multi-World Empire took relations penalties with their AI allies for annilating a Empire that was far beneath their beneath their martial and economic level. New, weak, empires would be placed in one area were they were about the same level as their opponets, both AI and players. They would grow in power and expaned out into the galaxy at large. When players were offline their planets would disapeer and would show up as blank Phase Lane locations.

Aye I get it , but the abuse of a system of shutting down lanes would be definitly there. Eh, sense there really is no offical subject on it, I will wait to hold my ideas. If the devs one day say, "hey guys, guess what we are doing!" then I will be all over with my suggestions on it hehe

Was a thought never the less, just was curious if they devs ever thought about it.

By shutting down Phase Lanes i ment that your planet would disapear but the lane would still be active. As for the Uber Fleet of Death their would be a fairly stiff relations penalty for annilating a smaller empire.

keep going....

Or go another route... a half MMO and half RTS.

You must pick a race and defend that race. Have 'unexpected' attacks from things, like Pirates taking a system, that everyone must work together on to defeat.

Just another idea!

Maybe I missed something, but wheres the R, Schod?

Superior intellect, indeed!

Lol.

Yes, they do have a MMORTS in developement, its called society. However, it wont be out anytime this decade.

Heh, as Great Emperor said, we do have an MMORTS in development called Society (http://www.societygame.com), however it won't be completed for several years yet.

Our next project is The Political Machine 2008 which is due out in a few months.