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.
Well unless they are willing to travel to combine their forces, or they have enough time to just keep creating accounts till they get some that are close by each other.
