When we talk about 'levelling the playing field', we're talking about one empire, really.
Weltreich. The second-largest empire has a tenth of the worlds.
If you're so scared of Weltreich, then go defeat them yourself! Make a quest out of it! Band together in a great, glorious rebellion against the fascist menace!*
It's true that there aren't many currently-active empires right now, and resetting would get rid of a lot of left-over gaff. But I also think that it would destroy the history of this universe, like it or not. The universe is huge, and as I've said in the discord, most of it is still untouched beyond being scanned. If you go to another galaxy, you'll never even know it wasn't reset. We could easily get the best of both worlds just by Haxus moving the Default galaxy to be a different one.
And even if we DO reset, there's still nothing stopping another veteran player from getting up to Weltreich-levels of power in a few weeks, due to the aforementioned balance issues. Weltreich has a monopoly on the universe because there simply isn't anyone else as devoted to expanding as he is. More players will come regardless of whether we reset or not. And anyway, where's the fun in starting over again? The idea of a permanent universe is that it is permanent. If we reset again, we continue the tradition of resetting every couple years, ensuring that the next time it'll be 'easier' to reset, we will. Most of the people saying they'd come back for a reset would have no different of an experience if they just came back now and started over now, ESPECIALLY if they could start in a different galaxy!
* -- In my experience, by the way, Mortius has been nothing but a helpful person. Maybe back in the days where he had competition he was more of a warmonger (from what I've heard, since I wasn't really around then), but he's genuinely a cool dude. I don't get where all this stuff about 'stomping newbies' comes from. The only time he killed me was when he accidentally broke my life support while we were hanging out, and, like, I ended up crashing maybe seven more of my own ships that same day, so it wasn't exactly an impactful death.
I DO see him cleaning up after empires that have left, but that's... not noobstomping.
Weltreich. The second-largest empire has a tenth of the worlds.
If you're so scared of Weltreich, then go defeat them yourself! Make a quest out of it! Band together in a great, glorious rebellion against the fascist menace!*
It's true that there aren't many currently-active empires right now, and resetting would get rid of a lot of left-over gaff. But I also think that it would destroy the history of this universe, like it or not. The universe is huge, and as I've said in the discord, most of it is still untouched beyond being scanned. If you go to another galaxy, you'll never even know it wasn't reset. We could easily get the best of both worlds just by Haxus moving the Default galaxy to be a different one.
And even if we DO reset, there's still nothing stopping another veteran player from getting up to Weltreich-levels of power in a few weeks, due to the aforementioned balance issues. Weltreich has a monopoly on the universe because there simply isn't anyone else as devoted to expanding as he is. More players will come regardless of whether we reset or not. And anyway, where's the fun in starting over again? The idea of a permanent universe is that it is permanent. If we reset again, we continue the tradition of resetting every couple years, ensuring that the next time it'll be 'easier' to reset, we will. Most of the people saying they'd come back for a reset would have no different of an experience if they just came back now and started over now, ESPECIALLY if they could start in a different galaxy!
* -- In my experience, by the way, Mortius has been nothing but a helpful person. Maybe back in the days where he had competition he was more of a warmonger (from what I've heard, since I wasn't really around then), but he's genuinely a cool dude. I don't get where all this stuff about 'stomping newbies' comes from. The only time he killed me was when he accidentally broke my life support while we were hanging out, and, like, I ended up crashing maybe seven more of my own ships that same day, so it wasn't exactly an impactful death.
I DO see him cleaning up after empires that have left, but that's... not noobstomping.