Yeah let lee take my spot

i do like the idea of leader placement, however, rest randoming after that will be the same as other rounds.

for example, i took the leadership this round in SB, then i got some players who are not very active, i cant kick them out, but we lacked coordination in infra building plan and we kept falling behind, then #1 fam hit us hard with raid, then after that, skirmishing with #2 fam, everyone lost motivation, except me and Dimpel, but I had two weeks for Christmas and New Year so I didn't care much for the round as we came to the last place.

After New Year, I came back and try to live up the family. But only dimpel is motivated. I took planets off inactive pax and build infra on them. Then one week later, others turned up with inactive last log in tag, no point in try taking their planets and try to grow.

It will be the same next round regardless of this idea. It's not IC game that's the problem, its the problem with players who are not very active. I mean, if you are not active, why bother joining?

I agree with Lee. Player pool might work, BUT there will still be inactive players joining, ruining someone's round. :-P

cant do a player who we dnt knw whose actually playing and the noobs and some semi active players are too lazy do post.. IC draft pool is nice but far from gonna work.. u'd be left with several issues with noobs lazy players and people who want to try and hide.. i agree the delete option should be taken off for this round..u stay where u land... with the randoming.. i'd say mods should cap the gal and expand from like 5..then when all 8 fams get 5.. expand to 8.. then 11.. i know u mods aint that active thats why i said fro 5-8 give u guys sleeping time

yea.. so Replace Mizzle with Lee and u got our 8 fams..

yeh arbys right really....

BUT if i get all inactives i will die...literally, Poof! just fyi

i dont like ic deaths idea of making the join process limited, i.e 4-5, when all fams are full add more spots, don't like that at all...stupid idea just open it as normal as you would have done any other time....i mean ppl will get fed up of waiting to join when there are no spots left you know? and not bother joining in the end, so potentially missing out on players.

idk..just open it

hey im not being negative, iam being pro active.

Im excited to play again. Looking forward to a round where people cant mass delete during registration to be with friends, it should have been done a very long time ago. Keeps things fresh, Circulate.

Although I must say this concept sounds really good! And I curse you Torqez for doing it when I have to sit out this round

You guys don't understand, that a players activity is driven by the situation.  You seriously can't think that activity is instilled into people by mods.

From previous rounds, and every round, we can see a LOT of 'vets' playing, but they just idle in the fams.  People who you think are inactive, are just sitting idle, doing whatever they want.  Some of them are actually really experienced people.

One example is hardcore4eva.  Joined up, and promised to do stuff - and we never saw him since.  Another example is me.  I joined a family and have literally done like 1-2 things on my own initiative.  Else i've just REALLY lazily done what my leader has wanted.

It's like Arby said, playing with 2 actives or 10 shouldn't be the differentiator.  It's up to the leader to drive his fam, and get people motivated.  Yes, there are some people who aren't going to play - but we have the ability to remove those after 2 days.

You can't do a player draft - because that limits the player pool.  You can't guarantee who will be there at start, and who will join later.  Our main galaxy is always meant to be open to all.

What ends up happening though, is if you have normal drafting then the most active people (there aren't that many) get into 1-2 fams and they create super fams.

The best you can do, is at least try to get competent leaders and forcefully split them up (kinda like what this idea does).  Then just have a randoming session for everyone else.  That's what it's meant to be - random.

We 'could' look into the option of removing the delete option at round start (e.g. for 2 weeks or something), but I need to still figure out if this is possible.  It was already suggested by Gwynedd, so it's something I'll look into.

It's easy to do. Just remove the code that shoes it lol. You can't delete in the 1 man galaxy. Boom!

Well said. Like! I've done this, this round and i don't even have experience leading an IC fam. Just do what u can with what u have. Issues, it's always there and players will not run out of it. Play for fun not only for top spots. Keep the game alive.

8). Arby Or Weedkiller

i am okay if both do and i get switched

depends on need and what you want :]

they are more active as i am i guess, but not as nice as i am