I participating in one pbw game (actually I'am replacement plr), but have awfull research and military activities. And even worse - I'm in the center of quadrant with huge empires in east, west and even north-south. So it's just a matter of 2-3 years who exactly will eat me. But I dont want to be eaten. Heh, kinda eternal Q: "Eat or be eaten". But the worst part - I'm bad military leader (so why I'm still playing SE? Hell, I really don't know why). So one day following ideas come to my mind: "How to survive? -> Diplomacy? You aren't so mighty ally, dude. -> Ask mercy? You are man, not snot nose. -> Entertain people? Wtf are talking about? Want to be a clown?" But I catched this idea, and here are the results:
1. Battle Arena: Empty sector. 2 or more competitors send their ships to this sector (or they can build them on rented SY Bases). And. They fight. All kinds of disputes can be settled here.
2. Handbook man's Office: here you can stake on the competitors.
3. GalaBank: credits, borrowing against security, low percents, good conditions, benefits for reliable bank customers. Depositions with nice yield rate of interest, if you don't want to mess around with res storages (extremely needed to maintain bank balance).
4. Insurance (????)
5. Interstellar Casino (?): I can use random number generator for this.
6. High Court (yes, you guess right - I'm the judge
So, I want to ask: if all (or something) of this make sense or game mechanics won't allow such perVersions. And more important - if anybody could find this intresting or I'm pushing a RL boredom? Any ideas/flame/praise are welcome.