Topic: Short optional rounds
It would be fun if there would be quicker and different rounds = ).
If you're crushed soon or have a bad round in another galaxy it's perhaps a motivation to have these kinds of side-galaxies.
Eg: One round with update every 30 minutes. Goes on for 2 weeks.
Two fams that play 1vs1.
50 players/fam allowed.
A set amount of time in which each family is restricted to a part of the galaxy, so no attacks can happen (and parts of the galaxy remain unexplored).
After that time, battle time. Access for both fams to the complete map.
Imo it's great fun without troubles of illegal alliances and raids of 3th fam and so on. But I'm guess it's a lot of work to arrange such thing.