I have logged onto the server but it says that I am unattached. Not sure if I became an idler or not.

- Double-move: Although Book's 10 hr block patch is useful it doesn't fix the double-moves for units loaded on ships. So, in practice double-move at turn change tactic is still alive.

Am I correct that you still need to wait ~10 hrs?? It isn't as bad as making a landing 5 s before TC and moving aright TC.

- Diplomatic Chance: Last few games except LTXV had diplchance 80%. This is not as bad as I thought for city stealing b/c it costs a lot of money for size >2 cities. However, as me and others in LTex proved, high diplchance is very annoying due to tech stealing. In LTex eventually everyone (probably except a few isolated nations) changed their research to minimum as others easily stole their hard-earned techs. I am glad we reduced diplchance to %50 in LTXV, but I think the ideal value of diplchance is even less, maybe 30% as a 1000 bulb tech should cost way more than 30 shields.

I can't speak for everybody, but a lot of your tech was being leaked via the GL. High dipl chance allows even tech across the whole game (I think it has worked very well in LTXIV). New players also start with a good tech supply, so there is also less incentive to make new techs.

- The unhapiness problem: This is a rare problem. Maybe I was the 1st player to discover it. When I reached 60 cities in LTex2.1 (in monarchy) my size 1 cities started to have 2 unhappy citizens. If I get 72 cities, size 1 cities will get 3 unhappy citizens, and so on. So I had to disband one of my cities and stop expanding or conquering. I had expanded all the time as I thought unhappiness could not become negative but apparently it does. Although there are many ways to reduce unhapiness, I think this is not realistic. It is already hard to manage cities with every citizen being unhappy and I am OK with that but it should not get worse than that.

Seriously, what do you expect with 60 cities?? How do you expect to manage 60 cities (let alone 60 cities which are unhappy??). I am glad your size 1 cities were so unhappy :-)

- new players: I like that LTex allow new players and I understand that they start with average # of units. However, they start with too many ships and too close to existing players. And then they can easily wipe half of a nation off the map in a few turns. This is too annoying for an old player who spent hours investing in his nation. For example, in old servers of MMORPG games, new players start at level 1 even if the average player is level 40. It'd be much better if new players started with less units and most importantly only on empty land, or on the ocean but close to an empty land. And if there is no empty land, new players should not be allowed unless new land opens up either by an old player signing off or losing cities. Alternatively, the best solution would be to have the developers find a way to expand the map dynamically as new players are being added. This then would turn the game into a never ending MMORPG.

If the newbie is too weak, he is just going to get beaten up straight away (or have his boat sunk by a submarine before he has even moved) as has occured in the past.

Also, remember this is an experimental game.