The new, improved PlanetWars is currently undergoing beta testing. All players are welcome to participate in this game of galactic conquest (and report any bugs you see). Bear in mind though that we may decide to reset the galaxy when round 12 formally commences.

In the meantime, here's some stuff you asked for (and some you didn't but was a good idea anyway). Enjoy!

Game

If there are two teams left and one has over 100x the assets of the other, the smaller team's units are permanently revealed (and any units outside the map bounds are killed outright).

Overdrive scheme can be changed in modoptions. The options are:

• Investment Return (default): Energy sources give increased OD income to their owner until they have paid for themselves, after which it gradually declines to the normal sharing rate. Lifetime ROI (not counting normal share) is 150%.
• Delta-based: awards bonus metal based on change in contribution to the change in OD energy input, relative to three minutes ago.
• 100% share
• 50% share (previous)

Interface

• Improved chat console
• Optimizations for several widgets (particularly the Deluxe Player List)

Graphics

• Improved LOS mode - displays radar with a blue outline at the edge of coverage. Radar colors are completely configurable in Settings/Graphics/Radar View Colors.
• New Shadow model
• New CaptainBenz models for Hermit and Infiltrator.
• Big mushroom cloud (from Silencer) dissipates faster
• New map icons for several energy structures, particularly solar and geos
• Tweaked some award icons

Balance

• Banisher range 460 -> 430
• Crasher damage 400 -> 320

Start resources reduced:

• Resources 650 -> 400
• Storage 1000 -> 500

Commanders

• Baseline comm pays 50 metal for its beam laser

The storage nerf doesn't geek me out as much as the resource nerf, although thats something I can deal with. Definitly makes your start all that more important so as not to stall.

Neon-K its real.

Mmm, yeah, getting lvl 1 comm modules kinda hoses your eco now.

How about making comms start at lvl 0 with nothing except peashooter, and making lvl 1 morph free? (ofc you'd have to play for modules still)

That way, you won't stall at start with any comm.

quote: How about making comms start at lvl 0 with nothing except peashooter, and making lvl 1 morph free? (ofc you'd have to play for modules still)

Just change the com Weapon to lvl 2, cause if you make a lvl 0 com with no modules, Energy Cell will be useless, its only good thing is that you have E from start, having to morph to use it make it useless.

Heavy Machine Gun (125m) + Autorepair System (250m) = 375m
Your start metal

400m - 375m

25m = can not even build a mex (or even a wind) lol.

Nice point, Forta.

Autorepair System is worse, cause with Energy Cell you do not need to build solar/wind any more, just mex, at least in begin, so you "just" stall metal (but can only build one thing at time or will still stall E).

But with Autorepair System you STILL need E, and "can not" even build one wind (35m), even worse is that i think Autorepair System to work use/need E, so you get a useless module, and can not build anything cause stall metal AND energy.

Fortaleza:
Autorepair doesn't need any E to work. This applies to any unit with autorepair not only coms.

@Wolas:
I agree that weapon costs seems unbalanced. Beam laser for 50m is noticably cheaper than others but is also a very good weapon. Has perfect accuracy and is good vs raiders, and its DPS and range aren't bad either.

E-cell + HMG is my loadout on like half my comms.