what about

21 families of 5 players each

families are formed according to the player pool I designed last round, so we avoid multis/inactives/suckers

tri alliances are back, but they are permanent (allies picked cannot be changed) --> 7 tris
max 6 naps allowed (2 tri alliances or 6 single fams, or 1 tri and 3 single, etc, depending on strategy)
max 3 wars allowed, so you can declare on a full tri

Sounds good

let render go!

it'd be interesting to see again a family chat of 3 fams working together, thats always expected to be fun

let me tell u about the player pool I designed:

1st we need 21 leaders, its easy to find out 21 people who wants to lead a fam of 5. I could easily draw the list to make it a competitive round, but we better let the people decide.  Any leader should make an anouncement about him and what he's looking for, his style of playing, etc..

2nd every player interested in playing apply to 1 leader' list, only one. This is what I call reversed-drafting

3rd every leader chooses 4 players from his list, so the family is formed.  If a list has less than 4 players or its empty (no one applied) then it stays for a second chance. The leftover players in the full lists are sent into a general pool.

4th the players in the general pool take a 2nd chance and apply to an incomplete (or empty) leader list

5th the leaders of incomplete lists can now choose their crew, any leftover player is sent to the general pool.

6th the leftover players in the general pool are now randomly placed in the incomplete fams (if any) or randomly placed in new fams (this will only happen if we have more than 105 players, which is highly improbable)

lol shadow dont be so negative, you are right but also mistaken, with the reversed-drafting a leader cannot really choose, if you as leader have just 4 n00bs that applied to your list you are forced to take them as your crew.

Also, do you think there will be an important distance from the 'big' organized fams and the 'small' inactive fams??
its 5 people fams, the differences are minimal, and its very important that the pool is formed with players REALLY interested in playing, 105 to be exact (leaders included) and all of them known, no one hiding, everyone with his name and surname so we avoid multis.

think it twice, do you really think people will go inactive in a setup like this?? it will be hard to set the contenders bfore the round starts, we'll have a good competition.

> Render wrote:

> lol shadow dont be so negative, you are right but also mistaken, with the reversed-drafting a leader cannot really choose, if you as leader have just 4 n00bs that applied to your list you are forced to take them as your crew.

Also, do you think there will be an important distance from the 'big' organized fams and the 'small' inactive fams??
its 5 people fams, the differences are minimal, and its very important that the pool is formed with players REALLY interested in playing, 105 to be exact (leaders included) and all of them known, no one hiding, everyone with his name and surname so we avoid multis.

think it twice, do you really think people will go inactive in a setup like this?? it will be hard to set the contenders bfore the round starts, we'll have a good competition.

Not being negative I am being realistic
When you force people to do something in this game like a certain fam strat or a race or whatever they are bound to 1. not listen 2. go inactive 3. delete.
If a leader has 4 n00bs then what? He mabye teaches them a bit (if he want that in the first place) or mabye he is done after a week cause he get assraped by a powerhouse fam which is sitting next door.
And yes there is a important distance between big organised fams and small inactive fams cause those small inactive will get farmed by those active fams that has happenend, is happening and will happen.

Like the thinking very much render problem will be we will have 1-2 powerful tris farming the rest Random out the alliance ftw?!

We don't want your help render! Me and the mods will make it work just fine

Good leader + organized family = increased activity.

Good leader = patient, people person, committed, creative.

tim has been leading some very good fams. he has a way of including everyone..his actor ass has some leadership skills imo.

make 30 planets per system!!!!!! maybe, 50 planets per system!!! :-P