I think this is where a lot of where the problem lies in IC today, sadly.  No player initiative.  You guys expect the Mods to do everything.  Hell, I was even the one to message you, to see why you weren't leading - despite ICD telling me that you and him both would be doing this. So yea ... /shrug

Everytime ICD comes to me with an Idea, I tell him we're not against anything and that he can create a thread to gain support.  Next thing I know, I get called lazy, lol.

Render, Warchild UK were exceptions to this.  They actually show initiative and get stuff done.  ICD been similar as of late, at least he's trying hard to affect change.

You guys forget, that we're players too.

You guys don't understand, that a players activity is driven by the situation.  You seriously can't think that activity is instilled into people by mods.

From previous rounds, and every round, we can see a LOT of 'vets' playing, but they just idle in the fams.  People who you think are inactive, are just sitting idle, doing whatever they want.  Some of them are actually really experienced people.

One example is hardcore4eva.  Joined up, and promised to do stuff - and we never saw him since.  Another example is me.  I joined a family and have literally done like 1-2 things on my own initiative.  Else i've just REALLY lazily done what my leader has wanted.

It's like Arby said, playing with 2 actives or 10 shouldn't be the differentiator.  It's up to the leader to drive his fam, and get people motivated.  Yes, there are some people who aren't going to play - but we have the ability to remove those after 2 days.

You can't do a player draft - because that limits the player pool.  You can't guarantee who will be there at start, and who will join later.  Our main galaxy is always meant to be open to all.

What ends up happening though, is if you have normal drafting then the most active people (there aren't that many) get into 1-2 fams and they create super fams.

The best you can do, is at least try to get competent leaders and forcefully split them up (kinda like what this idea does).  Then just have a randoming session for everyone else.  That's what it's meant to be - random.

We 'could' look into the option of removing the delete option at round start (e.g. for 2 weeks or something), but I need to still figure out if this is possible.  It was already suggested by Gwynedd, so it's something I'll look into.

So, someone compile a list of competent leaders and volunteers for this.  Time is running out.

Why does this have to be Mod driven?  You players want it, so you should show an interest for it.  Don't need to rely on the mods for everything - you've already gotten committment, saying we'll try it, given there are sufficient and decent people to do it.

Ya, maybe - I'm not sure who and when it was changed.  But now, you don't need to have someone marked 'inactive' to not blow the planet.

Planets will never blow up now, in intra family trades - regardless of networths.

You know there's like only 4 days left, right?

Anyway, how's the 75% thing working out so far?

I think a scaling thing would be best overall, like something different as round progresses.  But for now, I'm curious to see how this 75% thing works out.

There's always the risk that someone 74% of your networth sets up around you and takes you down.  But these days, it seems all of you are craving for smaller guys to take down bigger guys.

Reality Check...

This game has been going down for 10 years

I'm not sure why we still have PNaps.  They should be removed from the game.

Looks like all talk, and no action.

Ah well