So wouldn't it be great if planets that were at 20x got some sort of special marker or designation for being older? So like each round beyond the 20x mark a planet would receive some sort of rank insignia or something. It would be added onto the profile screen so other people could see how many planets of various rankings someone has (without giving away location information of course).

... just random thoughts passing through my head this morning ...

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I think that is a cool idea. I would limit it to oldest 5 and perhaps ID numbers instead as those are pretty cool when you find a really low #.
I think showing all planets would give information on production levels which I would certainly use to my advantage.

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With about at least 1000 planets out there (most of which are occupied by inactive players)- the information (if published) would take several pages.
Now what might be a valid way of handling the issue is that pirating a ship, or destroying a ship would yield "classified information". Information such as build planet and location, maybe a "port of call" record for where it docked or was stationary last.

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yeah my idea was less of a gameplay change / addition and more of a just random fun side thing to show old planets and who has them as whatnot.

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@Tom - I think players might overall prefer not dropping that information. The counter I imagine would be used would involve moving resources to another planet, building their fleets in batches, then obliterating the planet - no benefit to the attacking player, and a fair inconvenience to the defender. As most players are both attackers and defenders, I worry that it would be a net negative.

@SS - I could do that - seems lower priority, but feasible - I have the date each planet was created, even though the production points stop updating after a while. Actual age in rounds would be more difficult to calculate due to occasional service disruptions (like 2006-2008).

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Force of nature.

Instead of mentioning who has them could just have a list of the lowest planet IDs that are still in existence... I'd wager one of Dios' is probably the lowest currently