MW doesnt want IA. U can just merge the MW and Andro right now

How are we going to moderate IAs?

The brutally honest answer is: we won't be able to any more than we we ever were, which isn't much.

This has been part of my stance all along, but players still want a reversal of the rule so this is a way to give them what they want even if "enforcement" is practically an illusion.

DustyAladdin had a good post here regarding this:

We'll be assuming/hoping that people follow the rules and play by the honor system.  If smart cheaters are able to circumvent it, there's not much we can do.

It'll be the same as IC has handled IA for most of its history, but contained within Andro.

HC is likely next after this one.  Andro is taking priority to address the IA feedback.

Soon though!

Yeah if nobody else in mw allies I'm certainly not going to. With only 7 fams it would be much better if there were no allies. Hopefully no naps pop up in that status bar because once they do it probably won't take long for every fam to fall into one of two alliances since you will be forced to either join or fight multiple families at once.

For andro, it has to be unique from existing galaxies or don't bother opening it. I like 1x resources but variety is good so anything there is fine I guess. Currently SB has lots of small families (I don't know if the plan is to keep it that way) and MW has fewer bigger families. The only way I can think of to really set apart andromeda would be to have a different length of round. Maybe make the galaxy even bigger too. Would make pop banking bigger so I think it should have morale that disregards nw (MW current setup) and disabled in game naps (pnaps disabled at the very least).

Cool to see mw with old morale. Andro the same would also be good. But.... 4 gals. 60-80 players?
We ran 4 gals with over 1000 players. It worked.

With the player base now it just seems to me we will be making each gal have smaller amounts of players. As people split off to dedicate their time to the play style they prefer.
I think 7 fams sucks. I know we been playing 8 fams or so for years now in SB. But after the fun of 16 fams in SB this round. Even with the Ia bs. It's been fun.

IMO, Andro basically running the same as mw is a waste of time. You won't get the players. If allies get made in mw.its a waste of time for the players. Again imo.

I agree with fagwing. If there is another gal to be made it should be HC. Change it up and keep things different for the players.

Why have multiple gals basically the same when everyone complains about something, give them massively different options so there really is something for everyone.
There will still be whiners. But maybe just a few less that way.

Back to my beer. Peace bitches.

I'm sorry pie but tbh less fam is better more players per fam.. their are not enough leaders.. if u watched SB u will see their wasnt that many decent leaders for all those fams hence why some just played bank for other fams.. if u did like 6 fams and 12 player fams or something maybe that might work.. u tired the small fams and more fams its clearly not working.. if u havent noticed as well sb has been dead for like ummm shit week 2 lol its boring as hell in sb.. nobody is really doing anything.. this is by far the worst round in a while..

Too many galaxies. I've already seen people slacking because they are too busy playing or waiting on other galaxies. The tiny player base doesn't need 4 galaxies.

Limiting galaxies = 60 players get divided into even smaller groups.

Feedback on IA has been divisive, some have very clearly (and very loudly) stated how much they dislike it.  However, others have stated the opposite.

There isn't a clear majority, but the purpose of the IA change wasn't to do what the majority of the players wanted.  Rather, it was to expose imbalances with the game and to that end is working as planned.  Short term pain for long term gain.

There's a larger explanation in this thread about IA.  It's a lot to read, but I've reached my limit on explaining the reasoning over and over again so I just reference that thread now.

Anyway, IA isn't changing as a default any time soon (for reasons described in the thread above), which is why a separate non-IA galaxy (Andro) is being considered.  For all the players who think it's stupid, they can simply not play in the galaxies where they don't like the rules.

A HC gal is coming back soon, although it isn't clear yet if it will be SD or Orion.  If it is solo, it may in fact replace SN altogether (it isn't a newbie galaxy anymore anyway) but that decision's a little further out.

Time to do some promoting then pie... All these options are awesome. But as it has been for years. Not enough players. If we could double player base most of this would work fine.

Facebook advertising? I have no idea about other forms of game advertising. I know you use reddit. Maybe you can create a link that current players can paste into forums n such around the interwebs , a link to the site containing descriptions of the game, even have player reviews on there, some action packed screenshots

Ideas I'm sure you've heard b4 but anyways