weeee i was allied to IC Death )
damn it was nice

Xelus we still have time for everything
let the teeth begin

attackers were not inactive grrrrrr attacker aka veg was inactive

And another round ends anti-climatically, with the same systemic problems with the very design of the game that leave players feeling disappointed.  Same old story:  everyone had made their EOR jumps and a couple battles were waged to gain a couple positions in rank.

/me yawns

Personally, at EOR, I feel this is when the fun is just beginning.

We need something MORE than just a couple battles and fleet jumps made just for the sake of boost fam nw and gaining a position or two in the rankings.

What I think would be cool is a civil war at EOR:

Faction Wars: 

At EOR, market shuts down.  Naps and pnaps are forcibly cancelled.

Every fam is forced to build enough fleet to their maximum upkeep capacity (after their inactives are automatically deleted). 

All fams are divided into 2 factions according to their NW after they've jumped their fleets.  The NW of each faction must match as closely as possible.

The two top NW fams are assigned as the leaders of each respective faction.

Then a civil war ensues until all the planets of one faction are completely taken by a fam of the other faction, or until there is an agreement by all the fams of one faction to resign (whereupon their remaining presence in the galaxy will be deleted).

Then, again, every fam of the remaining faction is forced to jump their fleet to their maximum upkeep capacity.  The top two fams in NW become leaders of two new factions, and another civil war ensues, until all the planets of fams of one faction are taken by fams of the other, or until there is yet another agreement by all fams of one faction to resign.

Then again there is a split of the victorious faction into two others, again lead by the highest NW fams after a forced fleet jump, and then again another civil war.

This repeats until there are only two families left in the galaxy, whereupon they fight one another to claim permanent ownership of the galaxy. 

This would be their reward for their hard work: a permanent claim to that galaxy and the right to form a permanent family, called a faction. 

The galaxy they have worked so hard to conquer becomes their permanent faction's home turf.  And that galaxy stays open.  The faction can keep building infra as much as they want in peace, saving for the future intergalactic wars they will have with other factions.

After many such rounds, there will be multiple factions who have won the right to own their various permanent galaxy (or galaxies).

At that point, we could think about having inert-galactic wars.

This is what I think the game needs, an ultimate objective of each round, and the the chance to form a faction and own their galaxy or galaxies permanently.

yes but ... how did it end?  nobody even kared about it?  no kongrats to the winners, etz...?

lol it seems you guys were forzed to play, will this be the last & definitive round of IK?? 

we need a player revolution.

dunno about others, but i found this round ok.
activity (partial due to time difference)ok, banking ok, cooperation ok, overall a good round.

but i saw some things that i didn't liked since i joined back.
players are not interested anymore. i see that IC Death as a pax was upset because he didn't op......why weren't you?
ops becamed like attacking.....nobody really cares about it.
i remember in the old days, i had a special forum where i random oping players from fams near my systems.
this round we had only the leader who was making this thing....last round nobody. no yamas no coordonations, no nothing.

this is where players are making a mistake. they don't give enought interest in the game. for half of the players that post in forums i see only routine, nothing else.

and guys please learn how to lose. and have fun!!

Thank you Xelus and Teeth family for giving me a good round.

Ty fam 91 had a fun time playng there

Congratz Rizzy good playing

thx mizzle sorry we had to hit you guys at the end there but the dogs took our taregt so i took thier next one. was a great round everyone lets make this next one better. o just fyi im not the only attacker in my fam got 3 this round

lol

Going to have to agree with Mangoza on this.  PNAPs in this game really has to go, especially ones between the top families.  Essentially a PNAP is a form of an limited scope IA.  When top families NAPs another top family, essentially it makes smaller families the only targets and they become farm families.

Also, going by the player base numbers, I think 8 member families are still too big, especially if the active player base is concentrated within the top 3.