Metaverse Bugs and Sugestions

"Manage My Account" is broken from the Metaverse pages but that has nothing to do with your MV characters or empire, it only has to do with your Stardock user account. There's no need or special benefit of managing your Stardock user account from the Metaverse pages when you can simply go to the forum pages to do so.

However I do agree that it would be nice for this to work from the Metaverse pages as well.

But as far as MV characters and empires I'm pretty sure you can still do everything that you used to be able to do. I don't think you can actually delete a MV character once created but "Edit My Characters" allows you to change any character's name and logo, clear the scores of any character and make any character your default. I don't think that you ever could totally "delete" a character. Also once you've selected one character as default then you can certainly change that to another character but I don't think you were ever able to go back to not having a default character set, but I could be wrong.

As far as empire's you can still manage your empire from "Edit My Empire" but like characters you can rename it, change the status, change the logo, motto or website, but I don't think you ever could actually delete an empire, I think the closest you can come is to set it to "closed".

On a related note, didn't there used to be a link that would show an "influence map" of the top 10 empires?  I vaguely remember seeing it once and thinking it was really cool, but have been unable to find it since.

Here ya go Davabled. Its under High Scores in the Metaverse, Galactic Map it's called.

http://metaverse.galciv2.com/index.aspx?g=map

Thanks Neilo!  I must have gone blind or something.

Mabye the Metaverse should be mod compatible.

actually Seth, that IS something that I believe was looked at by Cari (a SD developer/MV guru); she had added some checks to later be able to allow some mods but I don't think it really went anywhere or got implemented.  This was all awhile ago, and I wasn't really privy to the discussion on it.  But I thought that the goal was to allow for some major mods to be MV-friendly (in particular Kryo's Hull Mod and LogicSequence's Graphics Mod- mods that add to the game without giving a player an unfair advantage).   Maybe its something a few Devs still have hope for, and I'd be thrilled to see in 2.0 or one of its patches.

That being said, allowing just 'any' mod would never happen as it would create an unfair playing field. 

Realize that you can use some mods and stuff now, but the games will come up with a cheat flag next to it.  The scores are NOT used in your ranking or empire.  They however ARE used for AltMeta rankings.

I've thought about designating one of my characters strictly for mods and such, it would be completely useless for MV standings, but it be cool for A/M usage.