Mods, I saw this ideas in the ideas forum and I think its pretty good.
Why dont we do 1 practice heat. No eliminations. Up to half the team can be switched. Gives people a chance to play with each other and get some ideas going and sort out inactives etc (a few fams started ICC last round just to have people get bored on day 3). Also, I know for a fact a lot of people will come out of retirement again so gives teh rusty's a little time to get back in touch. Finally, it gets everyone into the spirit of things.
We can change the actual amount of start resourses etc in the real round if people wanna start ICC with a different amount of resourses/expos etc. This should just get people excited.
And I really dont have a problem with removing nw limits. But as Jets said, it does encourage ONE good superactive attacker kicking ass left right and center (as we all know, one attacker with 2x the fleet owns 2 attackers with half each..) .instead off a bunch working together (some need to stay small to stay out of range of big attackers, its a valid strategy, while others need to stay small to stay in range of the people staying small in other fams
). Again, removing nw limits allows the elite to go at each other and since ICC should be full of the best players, with everyone starting even, I dont mind it.
Can you take the Chocolate Rain