Disclosure - this is a self serving suggestion.

Hi rankers have a hard time as it is getting badges.

As people slow down playing they are pvp-ing less and halcing more.

Why not change the set up so halcs either dont apply past a certain level or it has to become a different artifact or perhaps just limit their use to a set amount per week.

If people can't halc hopefully they will pvp more.

Even if they don't i'll be able to

The wheels on the bus go round and round

If people can't halc hopefully they will pvp more.

Congrats on your 1000th post!

This will encourage quitting. If people can't enjoy playing the game the way they want to play it then why would they want to play the game? You can't force people to PvP...

we're not talking the low rankers playret. We're talking the higher rankers. I also didnt say eliminate them completely. I said change it.

Change is good for you otherwise you stagnate.

This will encourage quitting. If people can't enjoy playing the game the way they want to play it then why would they want to play the game? You can't force people to PvP...

A possible way to fix the pvp for high rankers would to have an open badge range at rank 1k. I don't see halc traps as the problem.

I.E. when you hit rank 1k, you can be badged by anyone and they can badge those players back no more of the -40% stuff.

PvP would actually be an option for everyone if this was introduced and there would be a much larger pool of ships to target so less of hitting the same person every day for a month to get that ck69 ^.^

As it is PvP is dead to me and changing halc traps won't bring it back so -1 to the OP.

Make it so attacking a base or a planet counts as an offensive action and problem solved.

won't be right to allow a 1k to badge a 50...
However, it would be ok if the rank limit stop moving up at some point. For example, the range NEVER gets above 600 (the badge range for 1k), so even a 2000 can badge 600s.
Or it can grow at a slower rate pass some mark as opposed to a hard stop, whatever works out the best. But yeah, current state of game makes limit above ~1200 (badge range for 2000) a bad idea, as the target pool dwindles significantly

I think you read it wrong. He's not saying 1k+ players would be able to badge anyone. To me it looks like he's saying anyone above 1k can badge anyone else above 1k. I'd like the open badge range, but I think a better cutoff rank would be 1500.

Yeap he read it wrong, heck 1k was just a number I threw in, could make anything tbh. 1200 would work because you loose a bunch of NPC's so more reason to PvP?

I didn't read it wrong, you wrote it wrong... "anyone" includes player who are below 600 and certainly they can badge a 1k+ player(they can now), and to say that the 1k+ can badge "those players" back which happens to equate to the aforementioned "anyone" would mean that includes 600-
But yes, the correct version of the suggestion would be a feasible plan. It would probably be best determined by Dan by running some kind of algorithm into the current player base and find, from highest rank to lowest, 100 ships or so that are not disabled and not protected by amp/halc and then round that player's rank down to the nearest hundred should do. That means there would usually be at least 100 valid target floating around. Granted the open range might cause the supply pool to dwindle faster, so this might have to be adjusted a few times after but I think that's a fair pool.

While I understand the frustration at Hallucinations and other high rankers by a lack of targets, I am not sure an "open" badging range would really help in the long term.

Clearly, the average Rank 1000 would be at an extreme disadvantage against any of the highest ranks, especially those with the advantage of high AP and longer play times.
This is similarly true of the average Rank 1200 or even Rank 1500.

Let us opt out of pvp and your target pool will be much better. I wouldn't need halc's if I never had to worry about pvp or pvp badages. just let me click a button that goes "never be in pvp again" and I would.