From a long time i have this era in my mind , but didnt put it on forum as i think it might sound any great but as i see now ads himself made a thread asking new ideas , so i will put this down , hope u guys like it
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Alien Invasion :
This era will start as any other era with teams allowed to plant anywhere and grow , but anywhere after tick 300-400 when the newbs have come out of protection and everyone has conquered their share , 10 colonies (looking similar to our galaxy colonies) will appear on 1 continent , it can be any continent decided previously by admins or by those 10 players picked by admins. As those 10 players were placed after 300 ticks , hence they can be given units with higher range like R27 something or with high resource income (something to give them advantage to give tough fight to all alliances that come for them) , their squads, colony and nukes shall look like those galaxy stuff to keep giving the feel of the alien thing
. Also those 10 alien space stations/colonies shall stay in protection for 12 ticks when placed , so the particular alliance of that continent doesnt get picked fast.
I know the idea isnt perfect but i hope with ur valuable suggestions it can be perfected and implemented on E1 or E4 . Also i remember Ilona said on some thread that she wanted to do an era where a team made of 10 pro people will fight the whole world , so i guess those 10 aliens can be those pro people .
Pls quote all ur suggestions and i hope this idea get implemented after some positive changes.
~Bane
Something similar was attempted on F4. After HORD dominated the era, the admins took them out for an era, but made them an event. They were given super units and at a certain tick came out of protection. Not sure how well that worked out though