Beginner protection

Beginner protection

OGX uses a beginner protection system to prevent very small empires from being farmed by much stronger players, while still keeping PvP dynamic and competitive at higher levels.

This system is based on:

• A global protection threshold at 10 000 000 000 points (10 billion)
• A relative ×5 rule between two players below that threshold

Once a player reaches 10 billion points, they are considered a fully established empire and are no longer protected.

Global threshold: 10 billion points

Beginner protection is active for all players who have less than 10 000 000 000 points.

• If you have less than 10B points, the ×5 protection rule applies to all your potential targets and attackers (see below).
• If you have 10B points or more, you are no longer protected:
  • You can attack any player.
  • You can be attacked by any player, regardless of their score.

Example:

• Player A: 9.5B points → still under beginner protection.
• Player B: 10B points → no longer protected.
• Player C: 500B points → no longer protected.

Player C can freely attack Player B (10B+), but Player C may not be allowed to attack Player A (9.5B) if the ×5 rule blocks the attack.

The ×5 rule (relative protection)

As long as both players are below 10B points, the following relative rule applies between them:

A player cannot attack another player if one of them has more than 5 times the points of the other.

This rule is symmetric:

• It protects much weaker players from very strong ones.
• It also prevents very small accounts from interacting with extremely large ones.

More formally, if both players are under 10B points:

• Attacks are blocked if:
  • Attacker points > Defender points × 5
  • OR Defender points > Attacker points × 5

• Attacks are allowed if:
  • Attacker points ≤ Defender points × 5
  • AND Defender points ≤ Attacker points × 5

Example 1 – Protected difference

• Player A: 2B points
• Player B: 12B points

Player A is under 10B → beginner protection applies. Player B is over 10B → not protected, but protection can still apply to A.

Check the ratio:

• 12B / 2B = 6 → Player B has more than 5× Player A.

Result:

• Player B cannot attack Player A.
• Player A cannot attack Player B either, because the difference is also greater than ×5 in the other direction.

Example 2 – Fair difference

• Player A: 8B points
• Player B: 2B points

Both are under 10B, so the ×5 rule applies.

• 8B / 2B = 4 → less than 5
• 2B / 8B = 0.25 → at least 1/5

Result:

• The score difference is considered fair.
• Attacks between these two players are allowed in both directions.

Example 3 – End of protection

• Player A: 10B points
• Player B: 500B points

Player A has just left beginner protection:

• Because A ≥ 10B:
  • The ×5 rule no longer protects A.
  • A becomes a valid target for any player, including very large accounts.

Result:

• Player B (500B) can freely attack Player A (10B).
• This is intended: reaching 10B points means you are no longer a beginner.

Why 10 billion points?

Classic OGame universes ran at x1 speed, and beginner protection ended much earlier (from a few thousand to a few hundred thousand points, depending on the era and settings).

OGX runs at x100 speed, which means:

• Players gain points much faster.
• Empires grow far more quickly than in a classic x1 universe.
• A player with 10B points in OGX roughly corresponds (in “power feeling”) to a much smaller account in an old-school universe.

To preserve the same sense of progression and fairness, OGX:

• Keeps the classic spirit of the ×5 rule.
• Scales the protection threshold up to 10 billion points to match the higher speed.

The goal is:

• Protect genuine beginners and mid-tier players from being instantly crushed.
• Allow full, unrestricted PvP once an empire is truly established.

Summary

• Beginner protection is active for all players below 10B points.
• While under 10B points, the ×5 rule applies:
  • An attack is blocked if one player has more than 5× the points of the other.
• At 10B points and above:
  • The player is no longer protected.
  • No more ×5 limit applies: attacks from and against this player are fully open.

This system makes early and mid-game safer and more enjoyable, while keeping late-game fully competitive.