I suggest that either a "grace" period be given where attacks cannot happen at the start of a uni for (x) amount of days, OR players are incapable of being attacked until they have completely finished the tutorial. This would cut down on losing player counts by making it impossible for a player that is very knowledgeable of this game to raid fresh new prospective players within the first hour of the uni start just because they have the ability to swipe a bank card. This would somewhat level the laying field, and allow players to advance their accounts and actually have time to build a connection to their account rather than get raided at the start and feel more inclined to cut their losses. people will still buy DM, IM SURE OF IT, because they want that overall rank score. But instead, they'd invest it into economy or research, and let new players do the same

Any notes or attention to this?

Of course it's a PvP game, but the long standing issue with Ogame has been player retention. A day or two? I don't think that will solve issues. Most players who cannot open a wallet are not done with the tutorial by that time. People who have DM certificates or bank cards jump out to an exponential advantage. Now, I'm not slighting that, but it does make players walk away from the game when they can't stack res because of DM users. To say, "it's against Ogame's nature" is accurate, but clearly in a depleting game, that nature needs to change.

Any thoughts or update on this?

Well, what I also talked about too with other GF people is a default “shield” time. So, let’s say a player doesn’t complete the tutorial, maybe (x) amount of days, and he automatically gets thrown in the fold