Less planets more systems, like having only 8-12 planets each systems. Reducing chance to have an "early huge concentrated pop bankers" that very easy to protect.

Less fam members (max 6, may be 4-5) and more families (12 fams).

Ally option (max 1), this can make diplomatic more interesting also surprise attacks, 2 vs 2 also can be more interesting.

No PNAP (PNAP = IA).

Its rudiculous that a fam with very active vets members begin with 2 pop bankers having a hundreds planets within 4 days, funding their 3 uber active attackers to bully every other fam for full rounds. Imho, reducing planets inside a system can make them found neighbour boundaries early.

discrete we have done the smaller families and there were no leaders.
Also we have already reduced the amount of planets but we can look at it again. For this round we won't have time to do it.
If you ally and you only have 12 families that does not leave much left and we will discuss the removal of Pnaps but it won't be for this round either. Not enough time and it would be a rushed decision. Maybe for next round we can see about these suggestions.

I vote no pnap too!

ya allys was awesome.... don't think it would be possible though as it is with the player base. imagine two power fams? would be a terrible round.

If allys were set randomly then I'd be game but not if you could chose.

Of course this is idealistic, but if we would have alliances, those inexperienced leaders could team up with more experienced ones and gain knowledge about diplo, strats and leadership. Thus smaller fams with less people would be makeable and fun.

Of course that is the theory. In practise, veteran leaders would ally only each other, have kinda double the drafts (because they were divided in to two separate fams although playing like one fam), overpower smaller fams with reluctant and/or inexperienced leaders, kill their motivaton and ruin the game once again.

Maybe someone has a solution out there?

here is a wild and zany one.....sure to be unpopular

previous rounds winning family members become leaders of the following round....breaking up all the experience into parts and allowing it to be passed on to newer players that might not get the opportunity to play with those you can really learn a lot from.....about the game that is......life, another issue.

if 7 families,  top 7 become leaders for first month of following round and then democracy takes  over...

if 8 families, top 8

get it...???

this doesn't have anything to do with  alliances and on that topic the number of players is not high enuf in my vaunted opinion to allow for it...

We can try this again for the following round if you guys want. It didn't do so well when we did it before but we  can always try.

lol

Yea second

time killed me, sorry

sucks cause vip paying for half broken game

guess i have to attack

we need to do something about the farming.  i paid for VIP twice this round due to inactive fams.

If someone wants to play 15-18 hours a day but is an a fam of people who logs in once a week, it makes it a bit rubbish.

We need to speed up the killing inactives process also.

Some people register see someone they don't like in the fam then don't login again, and the fam then has to wait days to kill them off and get another random.

Also if i pay for VIP i should have the option to delete.