Board Thread:Fiction Universe Discussion/@comment-25309944-20150418222705/@comment-5714344-20150418233457

1: Point conceded. 2: Point conceded. 3: But as an empire grows, its ability to get more Ad (proposed atomic symbol I'll use for now to make typing this easier) will grow with it. Why not just go to an area, strip it of Ad without settling there, and leave. You might solve this by imposing some fundamental limit on how much anyone could make in a given time, but that would cause other, worse problems. 4: Only Empires with Transwarp can found colonies elsewhere. New users aren't allowed to have transwarp, so they're fucked if they happen to be in someone's Ad-less halo. The only way around that will be to settle away from such halos. The closer you are to the nearest empire, the farther you have to go for more Andasium, so people will naturally make new empires really far away from others on pain of being doomed to economic obscurity. 5: Point conceded. 6: I meant on the meta level. Users will be assholes to each other over this. Keep in mind, you and I managed to make an entire thing out of the Aeoneonatrix's military power. If we play our cards wrong, such an incident could mark the founding of one in three new empires. 7: If users are that mature, where do the inside jokes in the bad starter example come from? Also, it could be a lot more subtle than I laid it out. It's hard to resist one-upping people when you legitimately have every reason in the world to. Also, no offense, but given what it was like to negotiate the number and power of my ships with you, I'm not eager to have to negotiate with you about this. 8: This depends on how important we make it. If it becomes the primary thing empires trade in, it will be extremely important.