Well, a fam needs to work on motivation and willingness to play. It's part of managing a fam. Your excuse for not having more, is just that: An excuse.

Just like my fam has the excuse of having 3 active players, none of them actual hardcore attackers. But it's just an excuse. We lost, and there's nothing more to it.

Surely, if we had more overall activity, and attackers that didn't delete out of the blue (eg Lee), we would have had more planets as well.

Did you totally miss the point of my post, or something? ;p

somone have to much time on their hands

True, Spam. But then you won the last four rounds, not this round. Simply because it's near impossible to have 3-4 attackers active for 5 rounds in a row, since, you know, attacking takes a lot of time being active ;p

A very clear example of this is 49 and 54 who PNAPped us instead of agreeing to fight a cancellation war at the end. Maybe it's their strategy to win the round?Must say it did work for 54 and nearly for 49 but still, what's the fun in that.

I think part of the problem with finding attackers is the fact that as soon as someone chooses attacker, there fam expects them to be online 24/7 if need be and 99% of the time thats just not possible. On the other hand, I am a believer in picking the role that suits your activity, so if you will only be able to play for 2-3 ticks a day, attacking is prob not a good fit for you.
I myself prefer attacking to any role in the game but I very rarely do it because I put too much pressure on myself to be on as much as possible and then RL suffers haha.
One thing I am seeing less and less of though is active retakers who arent attackers. People seem to think that just because your attack bonus doesnt say +50% that you dont need to send retake fleets, simply not true.

> Remo wrote:

> I think part of the problem with finding attackers is the fact that as soon as someone chooses attacker, there fam expects them to be online 24/7 if need be and 99% of the time thats just not possible. On the other hand, I am a believer in picking the role that suits your activity, so if you will only be able to play for 2-3 ticks a day, attacking is prob not a good fit for you.
I myself prefer attacking to any role in the game but I very rarely do it because I put too much pressure on myself to be on as much as possible and then RL suffers haha.
One thing I am seeing less and less of though is active retakers who arent attackers. People seem to think that just because your attack bonus doesnt say +50% that you dont need to send retake fleets, simply not true.

Wish we had people in our fam that were on top of retakes like you

Honestly there is a solution if this game is boring you: go attacker in a mid-ranked fam and war all the top fams. It is great, tons of fun. If you're in a top family and bored, why don't you fight other top fams instead of napping them all? There isn't any need for a solution from the mods, it's all up to you how you play the game. If you're bored in a top fam, leave the fam and try something else. Once you stop caring about winning the round (with like 100 active players this doesn't even mean anything anymore) you allow yourself to just roll with the punches and enjoy the game for what it is, Imperial CONFLICT.

Talic

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Surely, if we had more overall activity, and attackers that didn't delete out of the blue (eg Lee), we would have had more planets as well."

How can you say that? Lee deleteing is THE NORM, not out of the blue

and Dsup, most of us really wanted to EOR war you guys even though everybody in the gal was too scared to do so.  but a number of us had RL stuff come up after our war with 48 and it wasn't till 2 days ago that we regrouped.  that's why our pcount stayed exactly the same for over 1.5 RL weeks.:/

we forgot to jump with our remaining 240 mil iron.:P

boo