Been thinking of ways which could boost activity in Skylords and make things more fun.
I remembered back to the time of when the Aliens were implemented and it was a pretty good idea at the time from my point of view anyway.
If they were brought back it would be a new and fun addition to the game, which after speaking to Iiri would not be that hard to re implement.
People may see advantages and disadvantages but with a discussion we can work together to tweak things maybe and make it a real cool addition to the game which could boost activity and maybe even bring back a few old faces

Theres alot of things which could be done with the aliens, for instance it they could be used to lower the number of inactive homeworlds maybe have the aliens attack and bring down homeworlds of players that havnt logged in after a certain time period such as weeks, months etc..
This could also solve the problem of Spc homeworlds. They are useless and just sitting there. Nobody will take them due to the points which you would get for taking them being considerably lower than the points you would get for taking a player homeworld, why not have the aliens attack and capture the Spc homeworlds? Thats just another benefit we could have of having the aliens back around.

- Id like to hear other peoples ideas and whether they would like to see the return of aliens.

Welcome back EL.

I support your idea of eliminating the SP planets. Don't really know adv/dis aliens brought to game, but definitely agree that game needs more activity and challenge to stimulate, maintain and increase interest.

Do we need aliens to do that or can't we have Iri just eliminate them from database.

Eh. I don't really mind Aliens coming back to take SP homeworlds as they have no reason in the game, but i don't think they should take inactive player's homeworlds. If i was inaactive it would not be an incentive for me to play because an Alien can take my homeworld, but rather a reason to not come back if a computer player randomly decided to take all of my built up resources

Id have it where by they take SP planets, but if theres a way that the aliens get stronger HW than sps when they caputre it perhaps

What's the difference between an alien owned homeworld and a SPC owned homeworld? Little to none?

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the points for attacking it

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Would it be visible in the news?

Alien Invasion Fleet has taken over SPC planet HOMEWORLD 1234:3456:5643!

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good question i guess so as thats wot used to happen wen aliens took over planets

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I'm up for it. Get rid of the SPC Homeworlds above 5M defense.

...and reduce the number of x20 planets.

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When I aliens take the spc homeworlds I ment the aliens capturing it.
That does not mean they have hws popping up all over the place.
They could capture the homeworlds and use them as production planets?
Them just taking over the homeworlds and turning them into there own homeworlds would not solve the problem of pointless inactive homeworlds floating in space.

Does this mean that we'll have a chance to interupt Alien HW Captures?

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