I think that we should be able to designate a planet as our home planet. You can only designate one planet as your home planet, and this would provide a passive +100 cloak, defense, and attack bonus, along with +100% production bonus. If that planet is captured then the invading party would not recieve the passive bonus or the production bonus, and the party that lost the planet would not be able to designate a new home planet, they would have to recapture that planet. Home planets cannot be fluxed, as the player will always know where their home planet is.

I think the bonus of a homeworld should be a credit income, a population bonus, and a small percent bonus to all production of that planet. It sounds overpowered, but it can remain balanced by requiring three things:

1. only one planet at a time, and the planet must be at least medium (in-character, this represents the need for a planet big enough to support being the center of govenment)

2. requires a building to be created on the planet called "capital city". The building can be on a new research chain called "Political Science" and have a huge size requirement. (more details on the research chain will be in the thread "Political Science Research" I will soon create)

3. the planet has to be a breathable atmospheric planet, representing the in-character need for a life-supporting egosystem to mantain the high-traffic capital city. (Such planets would include Oceanic, Terra, Exotic, and Dyson; Ice and Desert may also work but that is up to the makers)

On #3 of Zopha's post, there are different species, and each species might have different planets that it can live in, such as Vygoids, they are almost entirely machine, so they could live in Toxic, Volcanic, Terra, Dyson they would thrive in, and Exotic. But Desert, Oceanic, and maybe Ice, their electronics would get fried. And on Gas, you know.

On intro, you can increase credit income with taxes, but if you make the tax rate too high you'd decrease the population(they'd move to the colonies) and if you made it REALLY high you'd start riots, decreased population, damage to buildings(that would decrease production), and much lower income(people refusing to pay) or REALLY low you wouldnt be able to make new buildings. To determine what high or low is for different homeworlds depends on population.

Also, I agree with Headless saying it needs to be an acheivment, you need to have a certain size of civilization, NOT legions, some people dont want random guys being their freind so that they get a bonus in a game, I mean planets, like lets say 6 colonies.

Also, if it gets invaded and captured they could still flux it, but if that happens you can reassign a homeworld but you would need to recover first, like gain 2 more colonies or reach a certain amount of money based on yur income from the homeworld( which would be determined by population).

And I think that you should have a higher amount of attack and defense on yur homeworld.

what about konquel aerelen inergon and silix