Hello,

Been really enjoying the game just as many others. But just wanted to bring up something i've been thinking about.

A great way to mix up the game a bit would be to add objectives to complete rather then just completely wiping out your enemy.

One thing I find with just wiping out the enemy is that it takes a significant amount of time to go through each planet and destroy it. Its not really fun for the person winning or losing.

One way to alievate this (and its something that is done really well in boardgames and miniatures games) is to add objectives to the game. This can be anything from protecting a planet, to destroying a convoy. It adds a way to end the game quickly, and gives the teams something to focus on.

A quick way to add this to the current game would be to have the objective be to destroy your opponents capital planet. This adds a few elements to the game:

• Decisions on if to beef up your capitol planet, or beef up the planets surrounding your capitol planet.
• When on offence, you should be careful on sending in your full force to attack your enemy. Perhaps he/she has a fleet just waiting to warp onto your capital.
• Enemy discovered where your capital planet is? Perhaps its time to move it. Start searching the galaxy for a new place to host your capital planet (if we upped the cost of moving your capital this would make this a tough decision).
• Keep your opponent guessing as to if you are going to make a strike at his capital or if you are going to pick off some of his out lying planets to reduce his resources.
• Broastcast center's suddenly become far more valuable as you will most likely want to tuck your capital planet in the corner somewhere to keep it safe. Broastcast centers will be your key to keeping your allegience up in your out lying planets.

Now with all of that said, there is of course the problem with the early game where someone could rush your home planet. If this becomes an issue perhaps there are some solution to do with either the tech tree or count down timer.

What do you guys think? Would love to hear what others think of this idea.