i still think a country team gal should be done again

I just read it all in 3mins lol. Ignore him.

I think Farming as an accusation is overused and often unjustly these days. As you said there shouldn't be anything wrong with a big fam taking planets from a smaller fam because it's not like one started out with an advantage over the other in most cases. The problem these days is that as soon as you make 1 attack on a smaller fam, they cry 'farmer' and make a whining post in uni. I do however think that truly raping a fam for planets over a prolonged period of time should still be avoided, whether because they're a small fam or a fam destroyed by you in war. Taking half a fam's planets during a war is overkill.

I agree with you about the NAP stuff.

I also agree that drafting doesn't need to be reduced anymore. It is certainly an important aspect of the game to be able to make sure you're playing with friends. I don't however agree that drafts and fam sizes should be increased and the number of fams decreased. I can understand your logic though - more full and bigger fams = more competition. The problem is that the fams still wouldn't fill up if we made fewer bigger fams, and those with the best players would still get massive leads early on. The only difference after this would be fewer fams to fight at each level (big fams, medium fams, small fams). It would end up like the last few rounds of Tri, where most of the fams below the top 5-6 were a joke, and beyond 10th-12th there were only small fams.

fwap

"i can careless what you think of me"

does anyone remember where i wrote my long ranting post about how stupid people are being when they say that? I can't really be arsed to type it out all over again

elro - does that mean members of 92 cant vote middle best attacker when i dont think anyone else in the gal did as well as him this round? or members of my fam can't vote me best leader? or members of 77 can't vote aleph most dishonourable?

aleph try the other way around. If we hadn't napped you would never have been let into s4 at all lol.

however often you may try to tell the ladies that lee, doesn't make it true

we've only napped little fams or fams we've fought

The idiot thing?

My brother's being an idiot

of course you can vote for your own fam. You're only not allowed to vote for yourself, and try not to vote for your fam members just becos theyr the only guys u know or because you're being biased. If your post is just a bunch of votes for your own fam and thats it, it will probably be discounted.

I think everyone misunderstood tymo's post lol. He is quite obviously in favour of lowering the no. of systems.

And I have to say I disagree. We(94) secured alot of systems, as did our allies. we dont actually have all that much expo space left, but we havnt filled it up yet becos we cant build expos that quickly lol. To a certain extent 80/77 also secured alot of expo space, but we took alot of that from them when we beat them. The problem this round was that all the other big fams just decided they would secure a fairly big core(very big in 82's case) and then leave it at that. 76/91/88/87 all started off the round with very little expansion, whether that was intentional or not. 76 have claimed on many occasions this round that they started off very relaxed becos they had no intention of competing, which frankly explains alot. One of the top 3 fam in nw had no intention of competing.

Normally expo doesnt last this long with this amount of systems relative to this number of players because the top 6-8 fams are all competing early on for the more free expo space. Granted the top 2-4 tend to come out with most of that free space, but the other fams still get some. This round 92/94 both went out and gained a ton of expo space. 76/91 didnt try to stop them. 80/77 also went out to secure some, but lost alot of it to 92/94 later on. 87/95 didnt try to expand really. Nor did 82/88 much (88 got distracted by war with 92). The onl other fam that made an effort to expand properly was 90, but they imploded and dropped down the ranks into inactivity.

What I'm trying to say is that this was an abnormal round. People were lazy because it was summer. Many normal top 5 fam players were taking a round off or having an inactive round. I would bet that next round when people are more active again after the summer that the expo phase would last for a much shorter amount of time given the same number of systems.

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are we done posting random things now?