Gratz guys.  Was a fun Turtling round.

My name, Sammy Turtle, was named after the nickname for my daughter's favourite movie!

Sorry, my mistake!

Not my fault I made so much gc that you didn't know what to do with it.

Sounds fair enough.  I do try to do this.  I even comment on peoples' Ideas.

Perhaps we need a few other mods to do the same, that way we're not all stretched too thin.

I never took it as criticism.  And if it were, it's constructive, so quite useful.  I was portraying that yep, we listen to players cos we don't always have the best ideas.  Afterall, we ourselves are players.

But I do agree about the whole not listening too much, and as of late, you'll see certain decisions which had to be made, despite some more vocal people being against it.  Sadly, not the way we want to go, but sometimes a necessity.

@ Render:

I thought a lot of the problems you had were around the new design and the map for mobile phones.  Have you had a chance to look at the new map since the update yesterday?  I'm sure your input would be helpful.

Yep, Valenka is a good leader.  He's not around though, I believe.

In my experience, it is unfortunate that this is the actual variable that influences things the most.  We can't accurately guess how many active players there are in the round.

An extra 10 people active even, means another 80 planets a day occupied quicker.  Then you couple that with fams who in general aren't that active, and don't share resources around to get to their 8/day, delaying explo even further.

More often than not, we gauge how the previous round went, and adjust accordingly.  It's always been an iterative process.  This is why the last round's stats are always compared to the current set up in the Announcement Post.  We don't need a formula as such, but unfortunately due to variability out of our control, we can easily get it wrong - and do.

To counter that, we sometimes have Feedback threads on how to set up the Round for next time.  This doesn't usually come up with too much credible stuff, however.

Then on top of that, as of late, we've had a lot of changes with galaxies, which further upset the balance.  Eg:
- Short PW round (as a filler)
- Merged Galaxies
- New Galaxies (Starburst)
- etc.

Point is, we're always ready to change stuff we can within reasonable parameters.  We just need feedback on what players think they'd like.  Recent examples:
- Lower Number of Planets / System
- Free Drafting (Next round Starburst)
- Render's Full Drafting for Pinwheel
- Single Man Families
- Standardised Races
- etc.

All of those are examples of players' ideas that were implemented.

Yes, this is a Bug, it should not be this way.

It needs to be fixed!

Yep, no doubt about that!

I don't think that information is available in real life.  Only what volume of stuff has been traded during that particular day (or whatever period).

Shows which stocks have the most activity.