you CANT have your fun with random guys if you're having the crap pwned out of you. a galaxy has to be evenly matched for there to be good competition, and therefore fun.

of course not everyone will agree with the merger, but iv only seen a few ppl disagree entirely so far, and if it drives them away. the idea is to make the game better and more appealing to new and probaby retired players. sacrifices will have to be made for the good of the game. and personally i dont have any problems with sacrificing WS, anyone else?

also i dont believe you glue cos i barely ever see you with the same people

and if you only just noticed it you've probably missed half of it already

well sorry to lynns and others that want lots of drafts, but i think that for the advancement of ic, sacrifices must be made. 1vip/1draft still allows you to play with 2 friends, and tri alliances allow you to ally 3 or 6 more friends if you want. but we need as big a player base a possible and that would require putting all 3 galaxies together. andro with its 3 drafts/3 vips was rubbish this round, barely any decent fams. pw looked pretty shite as well with 1 tri completley dominating. mw went well last round with 1vip/1draft and it is the compromise between current andro and pw.

the more players the more fun. you will quickly make friends with the randoms in your fam. if you dont think thats right then think about the fact that people enjoyed playing this game for several years before drafting was introduced.

hydroP your father brought it up not me

this is the discussion thread...

thank you someone for finally having the sense to remove the reason i gave for adding lethal in suddenly

1. GoKu
2. evilsheep_Naked
3. Edge
4. Lyvidian
5. Scorpion
6. fygaro
7. Eminence
8. IC Death
9. Naci
10. Middle
11. steam
12. WhiteShadow
13. SkunkThaFunk
14. Pitaya
15. gratitude
16. Artic
17. BusturchopS
18. Undeath
19. Nolio
20. Piggy
21. Rocklee
22. Thunder
23. xeno syndicated
24. Aces High
25. Blizzardbeam
26. Energy
27. tough
28. Glue
29. -RPA- [Shady] Space Cowboy
30. Triqster
31. RSSU Centauri
32. M
33. Empire
34. Doomer
35. RzM/twistednewbie
36. Anubis
37. Xanthus
38. arms
39. TheDarkOne
40. Dutch|Wing
41. Iggo
42. Barbossa
43. Translucent
44. Archangel
45. Gamer
46. CrazyOne
47. Stryker
48. Pelaithsol
49. Forza
50.Pharoh
51. Martian
52. WiLd
53. Garm
54. hutsumberg
55.kratom {pee-stoner}
56. Aaron SK
57.Frenzy
58.Ariakan
59.darksoul
60.DeAtH RiDeR
61.Warhammer
62.DeAtH RiDeR
63. EDN
64. Talic
65. Metatron
66. Lethal - he and talic posted right after each other and so he got missed out

you didnt raid our banker. you made exactly the same mistakes as when you backstabbed us in sd. you ran his ground and cleared all shares and then did nothing.

i deleted my post. voila:

1. Warhammer
2. evilsheep_Naked
3. Edge
4. Lyvidian
5. Scorpion
6. fygaro
7. Eminence
8. IC Death
9. Naci
10. Middle
11. steam
12. WhiteShadow
13. SkunkThaFunk
14. Pitaya
15. gratitude
16. Artic
17.BusturchopS
18. Undeath
19. Nolio
20. Piggy
21. Rocklee
22. Thunder
23. xeno syndicated
24. Aces High
25. Blizzardbeam
26. Energy
27.tough
28. Glue
29.-RPA- [Shady] Space Cowboy
30. Triqster
31. RSSU Centauri
32. M
33. Empire
34. Doomer
35. RzM/twistednewbie
36. Anubis
37. Xanthus
38. arms
39. TheDarkOne
40. Dutch|Wing
41. Iggo
42. Barbossa
43. Translucent (got deleted along the way sumhow)
44. Archangel

the fewer players in the fam the less interesting it is. 12 player fams is good. 1 draft/1 vip is also perfect becos it allows there to be a large number of competitive fams.

Pw needs to be merged too, becos otherwise we wont have a big enough player base. i would suggest then that wot is needed for n00bs to still get interested in ic is for virgo to be revamped. give it real competition and get rid of the stupid 10 planet limit, passing ppl through only when the mw/andro/pw round ends or has just started. make the galaxy huge so that there's no chance of n00bs running out of space, have a decent number of fams, but dont make the space in each fam too big and put two tutors per fam again. more fams = more competition. keep the rule about tutors not being able to attack the n00bs definitely, but even just ecoing is quite fun if you get the chance to do it properly, ie: working with someone else for greater efficiency. and if you have 2 tutors per fam, you will inevitably end up with 1 banker and 1 resourcer/attacker, which means we can get competition going between the tutors as we can have them leading their n00bs in wars against enemy fams, teaching them the basics of fighting, which doesnt at all happen at the moment in virgo. the tutors would fight the enemy tutors and vice versa, while at the same time the n00bs fight the n00bs, each side getting advice from their tutors. this would truly test the tutors ability to teach rather than his ability to make large posts in the forum at SOR and then go inactive Finally I would also add a higher nw limit to attacks if possible, like 50% instead of 35%, becos n00bs arent all going to be joining at the start of a new round, and we dont want big n00bs stopping smaller newer n00bs from getting a gd start.

warsie i heard from nolio that they intend to implement this after the ICC.

and definitely bring back tri alliances. they made the game alot more fun. if stefan has time to fix the forums at sum point over the summer, that would be great, but i think tri alliances would still be better than 1 ally or none.

thats if ur playing in pairs or on your own. if you're playing in a larger team you want to be taking advantage of research. the way i do it is to start off filling up your planets with cfs, and once you have full pop or near to it on a planet, start building it to 25 or 50% with lqs, depending on how big your team is, and when you have sum spare res go to 50 or 100 with rc, taking 100% con.

when you have a decent con and a decent amount of planets plus sum expos piled up, send out ur expos so that they all arrive the same tick, and the tick before that, kill all your cfs and rcs. the next tick your nw drops and you fill up your old planets with lqs and ur new ones with TOs. its also good to try and overbuild as soon as the lqs finish with more lqs becos the pop hasnt come in yet so costs are still low. but this is optional. with smaller teams i would go from a quarter built to FB and then 100% on ur old planets with lqs and then with bigger teams i would go half built to 50% ob and then to 200% ob, if u have enough stuff