Do you even play this game, why do we pass planets ??
MORALE ! stupid

Size
Rank      Family      Planets     
1    DeathStar     3058     
2    Cartoon Network     3045

with 16 hours till end of round, we were blown back to 2765 planets,

1 last planned war on 98, where, cumville logged in 2 min before we were decalring war, with his 100 mil iron, we said screw it and decalred,

moments later Dimple logged in, oh crap, lost some portals while raiding cumsville, somehow i guess he only logged in and out quick,
so never built or aided, we were able to p mode him, when Dimple had to sleep, even tho we had 0 cash from fighting 00 and banker still with 0 money,- 98 needed ressie, so they feed us fleet

and spyro, was up retaking, sent mass retakes, and left portal with like 50k ground, so spyro passed out, and we took another 100-140 off him, with fleet out,

and with 1 tick to go, retakes were crazy back and forth, we were down by 100 on the last tick, and i only had 17% morale, but my team all pulled through with retakes,

my team crashed so many fleets, but we always picked up the spirts of anyone who did bad, and we just rebuild and keep going where most would quit.

3 rounds ago, i win people say, aw you had better eco, who couldnt win,
2 rounds ago, you have the most active players, who couldnt win.

this last round- yes i  had an somewhat active team, but truth is, they all went inactive after first raids, from 99 and 03. they log in 1 time a day and aid, and that was it
our core 5, just never quit, and with our backs on the wall the entire round, we had a why not try? if we fail, were still in last attidude, even after our war with 02, 8 of 10 players on my team said size is not reachable, but,
sure i might not be the best leader of all time, hell not even close, but i get my teams to work well witheachother and show them spirit of never give up, and showed that doesnt always take eco to win with the right stratagy,
the whole round how many times we get nuked,
i had 20k-30k agents, if they only sabbed all my portals, they would have been better off... the pax cammar team can overwell most attackers, and hard to fight with no spread

about Render-- this guy said he would never nap us at start of round, and we would be going all round and he would ruin our round, and for a month we had to fight him, and when we gained planets, in last 3 days its farming, no he tried to ruin us, so we got him, this guy is the bigges baby in the game,  people holding grudges , no wonder people quit, when you refuse to nap a team all round, and when you get raped you cry about it, ( after you demo all your fleet, quiter)

anywho, this was a crazy round in all we could never repeat,

not sure how many leaders are even willing to lead again,

i say just do 8 fams, 1 draft, 0 leaders,

since i know flashy myself, 2 old leaders arby and glue need to be removed from the list, and maybe mizzle,

so leaves dimple, lee, lol still dont know who is leading 00

i had my stag do, hence wassnt online, wassnt bothered about eor i was the best resourcer all round thats good enough for me. i should have got #1 size (again) but i didnt. ah well. never mind i wont be playing the next round but i may come back later on in the year.
nice to play with spyro - what an awesome banker.

and fair play to dimpel who didnt want to attack, but due to venom and rizzy (both apparently good attackers) going inactive and awol he did, and he kept us alive.

I don't dispute the skills of the top players or there achievements  and there where some very well executed tactics by various family's

I just remember a different game which wasn't win at all costs hence why iv left

And you would be better with family's of 3-5  with Ally's

lol  I never said that, not as a SS quantum lol devilz you are full of poo. and i never demo all my fleet lol I just hit a lasertrap of one of the inaktives in my fam when I was grabbing planets to pay you for a nap.  When I saw your small bugs were able to take my portals and keep my infra then I demolished all the infra and kept only 200k agents, that I grew later to 1.2m to nuke your fam.  And i never kried about anything, I just blaklisted you and your minions and let my nukes fly until eor.

In an ideal world, yes - which is why we've had Allys before.  Definitely more fun.  However, of recent times, the IC community has displayed that they're not mature enough to handle allies.  We've had incidents of ally's killing each other.  Ally's changing at the drop of a hat, just to suit that particular situation.  Re-allying someone else to 2v1 someone else, or whatever other shenanings.  It's a huge mess, that sometimes you guys want policed (by way of restricting only 1 ally change and what not), and sometimes you don't.  So with all the tweaking, the whole system doesn't evenw ork properly now.  So yea, allies won't be happening for a while.

And the problem with tiny fams of 3-5 people, is that you usually only have 1 attacker. Then that's a lot of burden on just one person.  And if they happen to not be able to be on for a war or something, usually the fam gets smashed and is completely up to liberty to the fam that cancels, and usually they lose motivation or their round is lost.

You guys know all this - I dont even speak of this as a mod or dev.  This just what I've observed as a player even.  IC is a funny game where you want something, yet its the players driving somethign else and the mentality of the game (weedkillers mentions a "win at all cost" mentality) has been driving it into decline for years.

Meh.