PROTECTION

 
What is it ?
 
The galactic council grants you protection so no other empire can attack you. There are two types of protection which are:-
 
Newbie protection or Below 5,000
 
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)
 
Once a player suffers tremendous amount of losses this empire will be placed under Damage Protection (DP). A player can get minimum of 4 to 8 attacks before dropping into DP. 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 if players builds any ship classes (Fighters, Corvette, Frigate, Destroyer, Cruiser, Battleship, Dreadnought, Juggernaught and Special) except Starbase and Scout or launches any attacks.
 
Damage protection lasts 24/48 hours (depends on the server speed) before it expires. Clicking on the `Command` -> `Military` -> `Intelligence` or `V` in the ranking page will show you exactly when the damage protection will expire for a particular empire.
 
Special Exceptions
 
Exceptions will be given to the `threat` of the galaxy during a galactic crisis. This will effect the server in which the galactic crisis in effect. Protection rule will resume as normal once the crisis is over on the particular server.