Asking you for evidence is trolling? 

And yes, LQs now house 650 pop.  That should probably be updated. 

@xeno

If I were to listen to you on what the Libertarian stance on global warming is before listening to Spock, it would be no different than if I was to find out your viewpoint by asking Kemp.

@Kemp

I'm going to hold off my input until after Flint answers.  Good to see a reply, though. 

I'm not asking you to answer that as a conservative.  Answer it as a libertarian.  Go for it.  Just give a policy proposal.

Wait... You all WANT to help him stay on IC? 

> Paininside wrote:

> so whats the difference now then? anny proper fam wont have much in bank unless planned for a jump, if a inactive gets online and askes what he can do, the answer usually is nothing cuz theirs nothing in bank inactives dont grow properly whatever rule or reason we can think off.

I never said it would promote leaving inactives behind.  Let me rephrase this whole thing.

Say a fam has 8 active players, the fam only needs 1 or 2 active bankers (one pop, one CF) and 1 or 2 resourcers (one farmer, one iron resourcer), because every other player in the family can just pass those two their planets, and there is no benefit of dividing up planets among players to avoid large empire size, since everyone incurs large empire size.  That would mean the only slots left for the other players would be attacker.  However, as we've seen, the general strategy with attacking is often to jump on or two big attackers, with others in the family being retakers or doing very minor roles.  Thus, the family only needs, at an absolute maximum, 6 players.  The other players can ONLY contribute to the family by sending 8 expos and passing them to the core bankers/resourcers, regardless of their activity.  Even if a banker is on 10 hours a day, if the other 2 bankers are on 13 hours a day, that 1st banker is relegated to being crap.

The problem is that this reduces incentives to train new players.

If, in the most extreme example, ALL OB and empire size penalties were incurred as a family rather than individually, there would be little incentive for a family to distribute its construction among all players in a 12-person family.  Instead, there's an incentive for a few active players (probably the drafts) to employ a parasitic strategy of taking planets from fam members to put all construction in the hands of the few most active players.

Is Bara's secret identity

> TheBigOne wrote:

> > Zarf BeebleBrix wrote:

> We need a neverending galaxy!

we had that

virgo

Then apparently we didn't. 

You can't really say one is better than the other, because both are trying to do different things, and appeal to different audiences.  Armageddon's a comedy, fundamentally, although it's dealing with a serious situation.  Deep Impact... pure drama.  So it's really more a question of personal preference.  Personally... I have a preference for the non-comical version... but that doesn't mean Armageddon was worse than Deep Impact by any means.  They're just... different.

Lost his shit