First, it would eliminate the figure of the Viceroy, and replace it for a classification of prestige by planet, where all the beacons of the planet contribute. The planet with the greatest prestige is considered the capital of the known universe, as the core of our civilization. The capital gives some small advantage such as a 5% reduction in portals fuel, for example.
In this way, we changed the insane interplanetary competition, for a cooperation of the planet and a healthy competition against the rest of the planets, promoting construction, just as it is today.
Second, it would change the system of footsteps-settlements to footfall-planet. The more you contribute in prestige to your planet, in addition to the footsteps for your beacon, an extra is added for contribution to the planetary prestige. This can be balanced by developers.
In the classification and list of settlements, at least the TOP 30 should appear and the TOP 5 or TOP 3 should be highlighted.
While the guild figure represents an organization of players with common interests, the settlement figure should mean an organization of beacons located in the same area or territory. I think that the use of something like a book for settlement control could be a good line of development to give the players more options would be ideal.
Please, this thread is about brainstorming a hypothetical change in the entire prestige-footfall-settlement system. Do not start a discussion about whether it is necessary or not to make those changes. That is up to the developers to decide.
Keep the thread clean to offer ideas, it is not necessary that you think about whether or not you like someone else’s idea. Expose your own ideas, the more ideas, however crazy they may seem, the better.
That’s what this thread is about, doing an imagination exercise and proposing ideas that may be useful to developers if they decide to make changes to these game mechanics.
Edit: If you see writing failures, excuse me. Tell me and I can correct it. Thanks in advance for your consideration.