Reavers / Scavengers
I have occasionally seen suggestions for new races and except for just having something new to play with have never seen the need. But, it now occurs to me that we could use this mode to solve a long term problem - game drops.
My ideas would be a new race named Reavers based on the Firefly Series Reavers (or alternately named Scavengers.) This race would have the Lizard 150% combat strength and the Pirate ship list but not the Pirate ROB skill. Their race skill is that immediately after any other player drops or resigns a game - all the dropped players ships and maybe bases? - but not the remaining planets, would transfer to the Reavers. The story line is that this is what happens when anarchy strikes.
To somewhat limit this race from being too strong and to keep with the story line, they obviously do not "play well with others." They cannot ally with any of the traditional races and in fact have no Diplomacy Screens to do so with.
Here we would have a vehicle for players wanting a new challenge and a possible solution for the holes left in a game by players dropping.
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Johnny Rotten commented
This would open up another big hole itself, as i am afraid this would get hugely exploited by players with bad character.