Hello everyone,
I've been working for a year in this proposal. With it I try to solve the issue of depopulation. In addition, Gameforge could earn thousands of euros.
This is a very serious and ambitious project; I hope you all will appreciate it.

Introduction
We are seeing how fast the old universes are losing players. The fusion of universes is just a partial solution. The active players of these universes are barely 500.
The main reasons for the depopulation are:

• Nobody wants to start from zero in an old universe, because, as much as he attempt to, he will never reach the level of the top 100
  
• The players who are already in the universe start to run out of targets and gradually they leave their accounts

This proposal gives a solution to the previous points, and also it could attract new players, so the old universes could recover:


How to implement it?

1. Register: choose the option "Start with opening credits"
   
2. Our Planet: The home planets are randomly placed throughout the universe.
   
3. Our points:
   
   • 5% of the points of Top 1.
     
   • Another way to calculate the starting points:
     (Days since the beginning of the universe * 1200) = Account points.
4. Our account: We will have a number of points in accordance with one of the previous formulas. The points will be invested instantaneously in what we select: buildings, research, or defenses. We could also invest to create colonies. You will not be allowed to invest in fleet.
   Note: We give you points, which will be spent on what we choose: Rocket Launcher 2 points; Research Lab 0.8 points at lvl 1.
   
5. Play: There will be a button: "Finish Selection". After clicking on it, we will start to play.
   
6. Action: At the beginning we will have a protection for newbies. But, when we exceed a limit of points, we will start fighting.

What do we solve doing this?
Essentially the depopulation of the universes, how?

• Hundreds of new users would be attracted by these accounts
  
• Solved the problem of not wanting to start from zero
  
• Users of the old universes would no longer have problems to find targets and they won’t leave the universes by boredom.

Benefit for Gameforge
Thousand of euros.

• Many new players would buy dark matter.
• This will increase competitiveness. The game will become more famous. This will make more people play. More dark matter will be spent

The problem of possible farms: FALSE

• You cannot make multiple accounts
  
• A special protection of newbies. Until not reached X points you cannot receive attacks.
  
• The planets are randomly generated, so you can get your farm in g9 when you are in g1.

What happens with players who have less than 5% of the top1’s points? Easy solutions:
Firstly, they aren't more than 50 active players.
Secondly, we can appreciate that if 5,000 (100 times more than 50) new users are registered, is a good recovery for an old universe.
Here are the solutions to this problem:

• Offer the possibility of obtaining a new account in the same way that it obtained the new players.
  
• Give these players the possibility of receiving an aid of X resources.

Any figure is purely indicative

VOTES (Spanish community): 336 votes 90% LIKES



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First of all, I like the focus of your idea. I think something like this is useful to keep more players in OGame.

Nex wrote:

Our points:

• 5% of the points of Top 1.
  
• Another way to calculate the starting points:
  (Days since the beginning of the universe * 1200) = Points account.

The second formula is out of question. If an universe started 2 days ago, it would not be fair to start with 2400 points ... (I know, you are talking about "old unverses" here, but I can not find your definition of "old". )
However, since the daily amount of points gained grows exponentially, a formula with a linear curve does not seem right
I think the first one is a good option.

Furthermore, I got a question about the distribution of the points.
For example: You got 1.000.000 points to invest.
Are you able to select exactly in which way your points will be spend? I want metal mine 20, crystal mine 18, deut synthesizer 16 on planet A and metal mine 18, crystal mine 15, deut synthesizer 15 on planet B. 30 rocket launchers on planet A, 10 heavy lasers on planet B ... etc.
I think you got my point

Thanks for reading me noot
About the formulas, I agree with you, I prefer the first one (5% top1)

I can not find your definition of "old"

An old universe for me is an universe that has started 1 year ago more or less

Are you able to select exactly in which way your points will be spend? I want metal mine 20, crystal mine 18, deut synthesizer 16 on planet A and metal mine 18, crystal mine 15, deut synthesizer 15 on planet B. 30 rocket launchers on planet A, 10 heavy lasers on planet B ... etc.
I think you got my point

Yes, of course Thats what I attempted to mean with this

The points will be invested instantaneously in what we select

I have to say that this idea is just an example. OGame needs something like that. But, obviously, not exactly this.

SAVE OGAME

Labeled as "Feedback please" and moved to the corresponding section

As Raz said, this suggestion (or a quite similar one) has been already posted and it's waiting for GF's feedback.
So I gonna merge both threads to get all the discussions around at the same place

Super idea.

It will be supported from Denmark.