I actually don't have a good idea to solve this but my "problem" is that I play as a miner in Quantum. All my planets are together in galaxy 9. I have 10 planets and 5 of them have a moon. I use only 1 of those moons. The other moons are never used by me. They don't have a phalanx and also no jump gate. Because I would never use them.

In my opinion it's a pity that it's not really necessary to use more than 1 moon. If I were a fleeter in that uni I would know it, today I would manage to get a moon everywhere. Inclusive phalanx and jump gates.

Maybe we can discuss about a new moon building which could be implemented to help the economic part of the game. Something which support the mines for example.

I know it's difficult to get something genius. I read several threads about this subject but nowhere was a really interesting idea. I thought at the origin board with all those smart people here we could do it :D

I slept a night thinking about this problem and maybe invent something nice! It is meant to make moons for miners useful.

My idea is to implement a special mine only for moons. This mine produces "lunar soil" or "moondust" (which word do we like more?), as you can read in this article it has some special characteristics which make it a wanted substance.

theconversation.com: theconversation.com/moon-minin…lunar-soil-simulant-12310

Wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_soil
content.time.com: content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2117143,00.html

As the word says it could be only mined on a moon, because we don't have it on earth or other planets.

The idea is that fleeters choose for a sensor phalanx while miners now can choose for a "lunar soil" or "moondust" mine. The idea is that players can exchange this moondust for only resources boosters. To prevent we get a fourth resource and to prevent make dark matter useless. However it could be stolen by 50%, just like normal raiding. Honour 75% and bandits 100%.

I took the same prices as with the dark matter, so a bronze resource booster cost 2.500 moondust/lunar soil, a silver resource booster cost 8.500 moondust/lunar soil and a golden booster cost 25.000 moondust/lunar soil.

The mine produces per level 10 extra moondust/lunar soil. So level 1 produces 10 moondust/lunar soil per hour. Level 2 produces 20 moondust/lunar soil per hour , level 3 produce 30 per hour , level 4 produces 40 per hour and so on.

The cost for level 1 are 100.000 metal, 100.000 crystal and 100.000 deuterium. The costs will double for each level.

Of course is energy needed for a mine. I thought about 100 for level 1 and doubles per level. Only solar sats can be build on a moon so that's the only way to make energy, which also prevents that inactives produce moondust/lunar soil because when you want to steal it you have to destroy the sats first.

Summary: A new produced resource, which could be stolen and only spend on resource boosters. It's especially made for miners so they have an alternative for the sensor phalanx which is useless for them.

Of course the numbers in this idea could be changed. Maybe you like the idea but not the costs for a particular element. Please say how you would like it then :)

I thought about your idea but I think gameforce isn't going to accept it because it would be a copy of the plasma technology then.

I must say I like your plan more then it now is because now there's nothing. But I like my own plan most of course :lol:


Maybe we can ask someone from the development team for feedback :)

The whole idea is that you have to choose between a phalanx or mine, so highranked players (usually fleeters) build a phalanx, while miners build a moondust mine.

If nobody likes the idea about another resource then we could go for vulca's idea. The only thing I want to reach is to get something on a moon for the economic player.

What you say about the later phase is true of course but I think with almost every idea the higher ranked players have more advantage.

I believe long long time ago there was an ogame time without moons? When gameforce decided to add moons then the higher ranked players have an advantage because they can easier pay for the moonshot. They can build more lunar bases, they can build faster a jump gate and they can build more levels of the sensor phalanx. They always have an advantage...

We have a few problems to solve now (if we want to add something at the moon for the economic player).

- Gameforce isn't going to add a new type for resource. Period.
- We can't just say that the planet belongs to the moon produces more resources at the mines because that would almost copy the plasma technique.

An idea is to say that you can't build a mine and a phalanx on the same moon. But that would be very strange in my opinion, so isn't a good idea.


How does gameforce think about something on a moon for the economic player? I mean they could say we aren't going to change a thing, period. In that case we can stop inventing a better idea of course :P

Vulca has absolutely a point here, but I think it's not a surprise that I say that

Would be awesome gameplay with more tries for moondestruction, but ninja through jump gate is possible too. Ooooh, can't wait for this xD

I still think that the part added to the idea makes sense. At least to create that other players then fleeters will use their moon. And it really adds an exitement feature to the game! Could we get some more feedback to maybe change/improve the idea?