Ok.  Working now.  Mabey it was just a glitch, or wifi connection was lost.  No idea what happened, was on the road when it happened

Well he can have my spot in Milky Way next round.  I won't be here

Why yes, yes I do! 

Question? What do you think they went inactive

As for the rest of your comment really, your going to compare yourself to them.
Those that took a few planets to solidify there core, compared to your family that just out to ruin a family's game.

As for this post

So you expoed into their core at the beginning of the round, and they cleared a planet or 2, and this gives your family the right to ruin a round for another.  Yup great game play there, dam we need another 100 players just like you. Just imagine how great the game would be, oh one minute we did, and look where the game is at.

I agree with you on the system side as well. Too small. That's an average of 82.5 planets per person.
But then again, hopefully it will generate more fighting

Families keep it at 50, but keep an eye on bottom ppl to see if they are active. If not kick from game to let those that were not able to join, join! After all we know some of those empires were just multiple accounts.  Trying to get good map position

DS.  I like the 3 DS, after all there are no core's, your not even safe in your home system. Looks like only on your HW is safe, but then again that's only on fleet attacks

Question? Are you able to build another DS, if one gets destroyed!

Yea but your still willing to feed from the bottom aren't ya Pickles!

Ppl have already been going inactive, why continue to play, when all your doing is for not, or to be farmed by family's you can't defend from, or have the planets blow up, and lose all infrastructure anyway.

The attack % should be jumped to 75%, and should take in the size of the whole family, not just the attacking players size in said family.

After all, we all know the smaller families were the ones who didn't get setup at the start due to inactivity from those in it because they didn't land in a family they wanted, or waited for others to take the lead, or for REASONS of being a multiple account

We can point fingers at this or that, but what it boils down to is we're limping along the edge of the black hole, just waiting to be sucked in. Unless you up your game in the attacking %, and truly make it a military strategy base game.

Also would you be able to make it so there are no shared systems.

No 2 family's can share the same system by exploring into it, but to do so would trigger an automatic war response from the family first in there, and must be dealt with within 24hr time period
Or the first family will lose their planet in that system, giving it up to the 2nd

Let the belittling begin

Could you also set a limit on the amount the amount that may be passed per tick, even per player per round

It's been like that for a couple rounds now

Now another funny thing about this is that
THE DEVILS MADE THEM DO IT !

i don't think that you figured in the increase cost of a new DS every time you buy one, as well as the fact the cost goes up as the family grows as well.
Add on that you could be under attack by another family, so now your resources are going to that, etc etc. 

I really can't see more than 10-12

So this in it's self would detur larger family's from farming the smaller ones.   Giving the atleast some sort of hope in the round

Once again you are missing mine, and others point.
Yes I have looked at the announcement on the December game
It does say that IA's are allowed.
But again it does not say that the rule book was thrown out the window for said round, nor any other round

You post the rules for the game, you expect ppl to read them and abide by them. If they are wrong then by all means close that page, state that rules and regs are coming soon.

But to  change the rules in the middle of the game is wrong.  Special since you have banned others for what they did in chat, ( don't get me wrong, it was deserved on the one topic) but here is someone breaking the same rule you in forced in others, yet it seems that him/her being a mod rates above the rest.

See the point

But you allowed IA's this round, you gave permission for all to IA.  What you didn't do was suspended all the rules of the game.

So what if he is the only person in his family, sux to be him/Her, but we all knew coming into this round this was going to happen

But to change the rules to fit the crime is not a very good confidence booster.

Have to say -1 respect on that one Pie

He broke the rules, now just because he/she is a mod you change the rules

Just sayin, that's what it looks like