I've added a couple advantages to new players -- capital defense (the red dashed ring), and reduced costs for ships. I'll also be adding some damping factors for older empires.
Yeah, lots of people have multiple accounts -- I don't love it, but trying to stop people from doing it is basically impossible (well, it would limit multiple accounts to people who are clever-er than most), so I only allow random initial placement, etc... Which at least keeps most of the multiple accounts from joining up.
