The "Stonehenge" structures that provide teleportation between systems should also allow the transfer of goods instantaneously between systems. This could provide some real use to them.

In order to use them, they must be found then hooked up to the trade network by road, airport, or harbor in the same way as any other building.

• Two empires, hostile to each other and everyone else. The umpire has total authority over both, allowing oversight and enforcing the rules. He will use this authority as sparingly as possible.
  
• Players can vote for a team start, each team starting in one system, or a deathmatch start with each player in a system. In a deathmatch start, players are encouraged to manually attack other players on the same team. We'll have to see how well that works. More teams can be done, if there are enough umpire volunteers.
  
• Avatars cannot join after game start. Avatars can join who already exist in the universe, but they must enter the game naked, not on the roster of any ship and with an empty bank account. Fresh avatars are recommended. Highborns not allowed; demis allowed if you're a masochist, but once they're dead they're dead. 
  

• One sector is added to the zone for every two signups. Leaving the zone means you're disqualified. The umpire can see the empire starmap so he'll know.
  
• The zone will be fully surveyed by the umpire before game start and starting systems allocated to players.
  
• Players will be transported naked to their starting locations by the umpire.
  
• Warp permitted or not permitted based on player vote at game start. For small games, no-warp is encouraged. Umpire can see the patent lists.
  
• The zone will be in a remote location revealed only to participants. Unauthorized ships entering the zone will be destroyed by umpire forces.
  
• Umpires should survey the area using their own empire, so as not to reveal the starmap to the participants at game start.
  

• The game has a maximum time of 4 weeks, increased by 1 week for every player above 4.
  
• The game is over when the time expires, one team is destroyed or a player/team is declared winner by all other players/teams. A game can be declared stalemate by unanimous vote.
  
• There is a grace period of 48 hours at the beginning of each round, during which players may not leave their starting systems. Particularly in small games, this prevents the player in the earlier time zone from running around grabbing everything.
  
• The game is scored by developed systems owned and cities conquered. Each system owned is worth one point. Each city conquered is worth 4 points. Conquests must be reported to the umpires as they occur and will be counted throughout the game. This scoring system will develop over time. Umpire decides whether a system is developed enough to count.
  
• As a prize, everything in the zone will be surrendered to the winning team. The winning team has a week to remove what they want to the wider galaxy before the umpire deletes everything in the zone. The umpires may at that point remove anything still remaining to their own empires.
  
• To help ensure the availability of umpires, the winner of each round is expected to umpire the next round unless there is a good reason not to.
  

• Rules will develop over time; the umpire has authority to enforce fair play as he sees best. That authority will become more circumscribed as concrete rules emerge.
  
• No lag-bombs or exploits affecting quality of others' gameplay.
  
• No unconquerable cities or indestructible spacecraft. 
  
• No creative use of pirates. Pirates which emerge organically are thrown into the mix.
  

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The Weltreich empire's favorite military HQ design is exploitively designed so that it is underground.
This prevents AI ships from attacking the building because they can't get a clear line of sight to the building without hitting terrain.
It also makes it impossible to destroy the buildings without explosive weapons. For example a spacecraft with only a energy weapon bay will be unable to ever destroy it. This is even true when the building is still under construction.

Blueprints:

An airport that has been destroyed, reduced to 0 HP because of a military base and can't be repaired because of missing materials, can still detect cities in other solar systems.

Might be related to the issue with under construction radars too.
See: (Bug report) Unpowered and Underconsruction Radar Provide ATC

It is possible to place additional military HQs while the there are no finished military HQs on the world.
This means that you can place more than one military HQ on a world.

This can horribly exploited, which the Weltreich empire has demonstrated to infuriating degree over the last couple weeks.

See attached pictures. Red dots on the map are military HQs.

Also the (Bug report) Power Plant Prevent Military HQ Demolition/Destruction bug makes it impossible to get rid of them even while they are under construction.

See also: (Idea thread) Move/Replace Capitol and HQ

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If you are starting inside a building, or close enough onto its site, when the building explode you are teleported to the opposite side of the planet.
My guess it is that you somehow fall through the planet? Not sure.

Easy to reproduce, and really annoying.

A ship of mine seems like it's consuming materials without using them to actually fixing anything. It requests repairs, and all the panels show that it is being fixed, but the health remains at zero.

It might be interesting if every month or so, all the new black holes would open up wormholes to a small area of sub-space, maybe a few sectors in size. Inside this sub-region are exotic materials, and controlling a majority of the space grants empire-wide bonuses to the empire holding the most territory. After a week or two, the region collapses in on itself and all cities inside are lost. Any cities and ships inside are destroyed, and avatars teleported back to the main galaxy.

Buildings without capitals are entirely undetectable unless in their system and still function fully. They should still show up on the starmap in the same way that normal cities do, maybe labelled as "structures present".

Been bulldozing a lot of cities lately. It is very common for the client to crash to desktop when bulldozing multiple buildings quickly.