lol +1

If the wiki is correct, you would have to take a football 99 times to get that 10% invasion bonus. With the 24 hour invasion timer (and assuming that every invasion is successful) you would have to work at it steadily for about three and a half months. That's a lot of work.

It also seems like footballing might the only way to rank the ally in any kind of reasonable time frame given the "you must invade something you've scanned with the last 48 hours" limitation. Unless you are able to scan new invade-able planets every few days (who can?) or people generously share lots of invade-able planets with you, you have to rely on footballing. In fact, there are a great many people who might never have bought the ally if footballing wasn't an option and, even then, it's a slow, time consuming option.

So, if Dan were to take away footballing, there will be lot fewer takers on the ally offer next year. I think the "invasion of something you scanned within 48 hours" rule should be removed if footballing is limited and that you should let any successful invasion rank the ally. Then a lot of people might get back to taking the planets they really want that provide resources instead of wasting credits and time chasing footballs.

boo hoo, footballers can take their sweet time ranking. did you see the FOUR HUNDRED ranks requirement if you play like your supposed too... slow rankers can football forever and get stronger.. negating the rank gain

Theres not really a rank retirement at all. With gp you can easily do it with no ranks gained and without you can just steal planets and let them get taken back.

no, but IDEALLY, you ONLY steal planets that you WANT to keep, and as such it REQUIRES 400 ranks.. realistically, given a 10-20% reclaimation rate, it only requires about 350 ranks. but thats still a hell of a lot more then ZERO RANKS from footballing

Icarium81, do you agree with the idea of taking off the "must invade within 48 hours" rule on the ally? I think as it is, that limit is the biggest incentive to footballing introduced in the game recently. It also discourages you from taking "good" planets that have been in your scan for more than 48 hours (if what you want to do is rank your ally) with all the talk about Dan doing something to inhibit footballing. So more people may actually be actively footballing right now so that they can get all the benefits they can before it's limited. If that limit didn't exist, I think more people would take planets they actually want to keep. Just my opinion.

oh hell yeah, or atleast extend it to TEN plus days... that gives you time to invade off anything you scanned recently.
that timer is the biggest load of crap ever. expecially with the glitches ive heard of that work to level it.