Congrats

This is good news!

...which is why their votes weren't considered, I assume.

Extension Poll!

I'm telling you it's 30%, lol.

If you want to discuss how we can change it to make it better, feel free

But I send my soldiers through a portal in my living room to the other side of the galaxy!

Cool, thx - hopefully gets fixed one day

Actually, there's no change to starting family size.  Infact, it's more this round.

Last round we started with 8 and increased it as the galaxy filled.

This round, we're doing the same except started with 9.

This is the exact mentality I'm talking about.  Trust me, I know.  There's a LOT of old vets out there who are in this and not even playing SN, but just idle in forums or whatever.  If everyone played, and contributed proactively, we wouldn't be in this situation where you'd have these "dead" fams.  It really sucks.  So many talented players around, but all just waiting for each other, or someone to show initiative.  Really sad to see.

Edit:  If we could solve the above problem, IC would be back in it's glory, imo -_-

Umm -_- ....it's kind of exactly put in for this reason.  To stop people from deleting from said 'dead' fam, and instead contribute to it.  When delets were allowed, there'd always be 2-3 dead fams where people would just delete straight from it and try to random into a fam with more players.  Throughout the round, and you know this, these fams have very limited chances.  At least this way, everyone starts off on an equal footing - based on who's in your fam ofcourse, but then - that's all random.

I don't see it as mutually exclusive.

Sometimes we can have drafts, and sometimes we can choose not to.  There's enough people on both sides of the camps that want both - or so it seems, anyway.  The round before last round, we had drafts.  Last round we had pre-selected leaders.  This round, it's purely random.  We're trying new things and keeping it varied.  Maybe next round we can have drafts again? I don't know - but the feedback helps in what we create for the next round.  It's useful to get this feedback BEFORE a reset or so - because as of late, we've pretty much done exactly what the players wanted.  They wanted a networth limit increase in Supernova - so we increased it.  The wanted a decrease, so we made a poll and decreased it.  Last round they wanted to try something new in Supernova and cried about people always deleting, so we tried something new with leaders and no deletes.  Etc!

Unfortunately, IC is in such a state that we can't have galaxies offering both - which really sucks.  Would be awesome to have a non-drafting galaxy and a drafting one.

But do you really want to split up our 90-100 players?  And having the ability to play in both wouldn't be that good either, since you can already play in 2.  Some people can't even handle the activity playing in 1 galaxy, let alone 3.

So, yea...

In an ideal world, yes - which is why we've had Allys before.  Definitely more fun.  However, of recent times, the IC community has displayed that they're not mature enough to handle allies.  We've had incidents of ally's killing each other.  Ally's changing at the drop of a hat, just to suit that particular situation.  Re-allying someone else to 2v1 someone else, or whatever other shenanings.  It's a huge mess, that sometimes you guys want policed (by way of restricting only 1 ally change and what not), and sometimes you don't.  So with all the tweaking, the whole system doesn't evenw ork properly now.  So yea, allies won't be happening for a while.

And the problem with tiny fams of 3-5 people, is that you usually only have 1 attacker. Then that's a lot of burden on just one person.  And if they happen to not be able to be on for a war or something, usually the fam gets smashed and is completely up to liberty to the fam that cancels, and usually they lose motivation or their round is lost.

You guys know all this - I dont even speak of this as a mod or dev.  This just what I've observed as a player even.  IC is a funny game where you want something, yet its the players driving somethign else and the mentality of the game (weedkillers mentions a "win at all cost" mentality) has been driving it into decline for years.

Meh.

The delete restriction is also still in place.  Players are not allowed to delete their empires.  Hopefully this promotes healthier competition and a longer term attitude towards playing the round.

Good luck all!