Its looks and first impressions. When I first started playing the thing that kept me going was how cool my planet was. When I introduced deidara to the game he told me it looked dumb. I convinced him to stay and gave him an hours worth for an acs defense. I sent him a rip to acs him till he was over 10k. He thought it was really cool and made it his goal to build his own. So its little things such as graphics and ships that keep newer players until they pick up the bigger mechanics. In fact, I was talking to a new player who was asking me about the game. I told the player this game is really math heavy but if you can manage that you will come out on top. The guy had no idea this game was math heavy. New players don't see how this game is, they see it how it looks. if we want to keep new players then id say we revamp the pictures and graphics of the game. I'm not asking to revamp the games layout, the layout is great, just the pictures need to be changed/updated.

I agree. It has become a little stale. The game itself, the personal interaction is great. The overall look and feel to it, jaded.

^ zorg will NEED this if this game is to compete against the snazzy facebook armada

(I have seen other very competitive games suffer due to newbies entering, and thinking that the game will be boring becuase of the lack of graphics)