Protection


Background

Protection is given to players in order to protect them. This occurs to ensure fair play, and that helpless players will not be attacked. There is two types of protection in this game, one is the Newbie Protection and the other is the Damage Protection.


Newbie Protection

Each player who is below 5,000 Pr will be under Newbie protection. No one can attack those under newbie protection under normal circumstances with the exception of some special projects. Some projects built by the player may disable newbie protection from taking effect.


Damage Protection

DP: Damage Protection

Once a player suffers tremendous amount of losses this empire will be placed under DP. A player can get minimum of 5 to 10 attacks before dropping into Damage Protection. If the amount of percentage of Pr loss per attack is very little then the number of hits to qualify for DP will increase. DP given is a length of time, in which the player can not be attacked during this protection period. DP can expire, the length of protection will be determined by the game speed. The slower the game speed the longer the protection period. DP will be removed when the player builds any offensive ships or launches any attacks.

Advanced DP calculations (Newbies please skip this)

Players gets DP when players has accumulated 10 DP tokens. DP Tokens will be awarded to defending players when they get attacked, as below:

1 token given for losing >= 2% ShipPR
2 token given for losing >= 5% ShipPR

or

1 token given for losing >= 2% planets lost (in a system)
2 token given for losing >= 4% planets lost (in a system)

The DP refreshes every 1 to 5 minutes. When an empire's DP runs out, there may be an additional few minutes worth of DP before the system refreshes and move the effected empire out of DP.


Additional Sections

Attacking
Winning / Losing battles