I can't control what my players say but overall the family responded well to this challenge. I will admit that Parrot is definitely one of the best at what he does, from seeing it first hand. Our choice of not having a real ally is somewhat on purpose, we wanted to find out what we can do on our own and I think we fared just fine.
For the record, PNAP was repeatedly offered to 2264 starting at 200 initially and finally decided on 50 planets. There were countless whine messages but that's all past us now. What we did to 64 is what 48/51 is doing to us now, put families in the right place based on their skill-level.
Haven't had a good one here in a while also. I just wish we had a little more man-power and activity 
can't you tell??