I agree.  99% of people think its best, and try to do it, and can't handle it.  And like you said, screw it up and it hurts them even more.  Thats kinda what I said.  The only difference what you and me are saying, is I see your system/idea as improving Fam Bank (because your system makes everything available all the time).  I'd rather get rid of it.

Fam Bank didn't just crop up like you said with PP or whoever.  It's a strat thats evolved.  From individual play -> team play -> fam bank system.  The teams (when we used to play with banker-attacker, then banker-attacker-resourcer), grew more and more efficient and encompassed more ppl.  This turned into Fam Bank.

Tbh, if it were entirely up to me, and yes, perhaps a bit radical, I would get rid of it altogether.  I would disable aid, and redesign races (or make them less variant on specialisation), and make people bank and attack for themselves.  This is how it used to be in the early rounds and in my opinion, the most fun.  I'd still have the Families, because teamwork is an important aspect and makes the game fun.

But I'd love a shift of IC where it wasn't so reliant on your fam.  Why should my empire and round suffer because of inactivity of others?  I'd love to be able to do my own infra, and attack whenever I want too.

Sounds like he just dislikes you, Joseph.

i dont think this will breed activity at all, people will stop logging in at ugly hours to aid but they still gotta build, check history ect. logging in simply to send all your stuff out at 3am or crazy times is rediculous imo and probably pushes possible new players away.

Concept seems good, not sure how it will work in practice.  I support testing though!

Allow it for next round PW to see how it runs?

Half the pw players are multis anyway

Render, no bumping! hit me up on chat!

support  - thumbs up

There are no new players anyways and the end of IC was years ago!

I like the idea, but it can cause inactivity like Torqez said.

How about this: players start sending aid automatically to leader after not logging on for 24-48 ticks? This would be effective if a player suddenly went inactive. And Orbit, sorry for putting a new idea here.

I also like Torqez' idea of removing aid.

I'm for it, I hate fam bank and anything else about the game that requires me to play more rather than less

I actually only read the first post... too much else to read.  I hate having to ask fam bank what is in it, then wait for someone to come back, etc.  Not sure if this was discussed, but I would imagine a pool (like the defense fund) to which everyone can contribute if/when they want, and from which they can take funds.  Perhaps a private tag could be created for those who would have permission to take from the shared bank, so as not to allow an untrusted player to grab the whole bank and delete.