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  • Darknight659855
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Feb 28 2013 10:07 am

There should be an easier way to locate other players/AI&#039;s like for example a ship flying around and mapping out the galaxy of inhabbited planets and then&nbsp; just searching for their name or something like that after its done.A downside could be it takes a week and costs a decent amount of resources.In beta and the full game the galaxy will be so big it will be near impossible to find a particular person easily.<br /><br />

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Feb 28 2013 10:39 am

There is a infiltrate mission that finds planets owned by players once you know where one planet that they own is at.<br />I actually did this on purpose so people could hide in the galaxy. <br /><br />I&#039;ll let others make comments on this to see what more think on this suggestion

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Mar 15 2013 1:47 pm

i&nbsp; like the opportunity to hide in the huge galaxy very much but i can also think of some situations you really would like to or even need to find some special players. by now the galaxy has 100 sectors and its very time consuming and not easy to find a special player. now think about it if we have 1000 sectors or even more. then it will be almost impossible.<br />so i think there should be an opportunity to find special players. <br />imagine you are on domlvl 4 and all players around you are either much higher in domlvl so you cannot attack them without being totally destroyed or much weaker than you are, so it won&#039;t be any advantageous for you to attack them. then you could look in ranks who is at your level too. if there was any possibility of finding this player you would really appreciate it, wouldn&#039;t you?<br />maybe something like a spying drone. of course it has to be costly, but affordable for weaker players too. maybe nearly as costly as an agent. then you give it the name of the player and it will randomly check the sectors for this player and when it gets the first match it will tell you the sector and stop searching. you can not use it again and maybe you could add a counter, that counts how many sectors it checked and in order to get the information you will have to pay for every sector a very little amount of res or naq or whatever (lets say for operating power). and lets say to check one sector takes 10minutes or so, so you pay for the information where one planet of the player is and you do not know how long it will take to find it or how costly it will be in the end but you can be sure you will have one result and that will help you. <br />you could also make it being blocked after use for a short time period to avoid misuse. so you can only do this once every 2 weeks or so.

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Mar 15 2013 8:43 pm

oh that&#039;s invidious. but actually not a bad idea. that would definitly limit the use. ;-)