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Re: Suggestions for Starburst next round

For real now:
larger map, more planets, more space for everyone
drafts get allowed whatever race they want
1 week of no attacks/opps/market
8 fams max, or less
more players in each fam
getting rid of inactives quicker should be something to look into


One extra family member spot has been added to all families in Starburst due to the galaxy filling up.

Do not add a spot when most fams still need more players... wait untill its completly full, the ones who can't join can then inform a mod (give this as a msg when players try to join and can't because full) and then and only then you add new spots...

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Re: Suggestions for Starburst next round

The extra family was added 20-Apr-2015, the round had already started Mar 27th. We don't add spots unless it is full.

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Right, so what are we waiting for?  Can we get this going?  Any other feedback?

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Re: Suggestions for Starburst next round

you had fams with less people when the spot was added KT

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Re: Suggestions for Starburst next round

exceed wrote:

For real now:
larger map, more planets, more space for everyone
drafts get allowed whatever race they want
1 week of no attacks/opps/market
8 fams max, or less
more players in each fam
getting rid of inactives quicker should be something to look into


One extra family member spot has been added to all families in Starburst due to the galaxy filling up.

Do not add a spot when most fams still need more players... wait untill its completly full, the ones who can't join can then inform a mod (give this as a msg when players try to join and can't because full) and then and only then you add new spots...


1.  Map size was perfect in my eyes, made for good long expo phase followed by a good long war phase, nothing wrong with it at all and infact this felt like the most balanced round in a while
2.  I like the idea of drafts being able to be any race.
3.  attacks/ops already are 7 days and this was great
4.  more players in each fam.......I COMPLETELY disagree, if you do this it ensures one fam with max players, say 10 or 9, run away with the round while other 7 man or less fams have no chance...I like exactly how it was this round and if anything, cut it down by 1-2 players so we have more fams...But PLEASE DO NOT  make it more players per fam
5.  Inactives...Leader should have some kind of function to boot them faster

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Re: Suggestions for Starburst next round

I know it's a thing of the past but everyone says they would like to be able to have allies, so is it possible to have allies?

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Re: Suggestions for Starburst next round

Is it possible to have allies? That's what I really want to know.
If it is let's do it cool!

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Re: Suggestions for Starburst next round

i agree allies would rock again

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We should have a vote system where if one fam are being pricks we can all gang up on them for one week tongue

That would solve a lot!

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Re: Suggestions for Starburst next round

Something- that's what I'm saying.
As it is there's no balance or recourse but with allies enabled at least we could have better options for this big fam eat little fam crap

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Re: Suggestions for Starburst next round

Auto assigned allies would be interesting.

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61 Reply by ~Pw 32~ Random Hero (edited by ~Pw 32~ Random Hero 15-May-2015 07:48:18)

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Re: Suggestions for Starburst next round

Families - 12
Players - 6
Attacks/opps - 4 days
Map - same as this round
Systems - same
Round - 6 weeks
Drafts - Complete Random or 1 draft
Allies - 1, random and/or auto assigned as orbit said

Just my suggestions to make the game fun and more interesting again

In fact as far as the allies piece goes, it would HAVE to be something out of the players hands and cannot be broken. Or else many fams will go without allies due to incompetent leaders/inactives and it would be abused by the more communicable/affluent players to take over. So the mods would just draw numbers and throw them together. I think the randomness of the whole operation would be the success of it in the end.

Also 6 week rounds were always the best parts of pinwheel and in a game where everything worked towards can be practically lost in a few short days I believe it to be fair to allow players to stay around for the next round.

Drafts should never be an option in a game with a core player base of about 20, however if people actually still buy VIPs I guess they need some sort of feature so 1 is reasonable.


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Re: Suggestions for Starburst next round

I bought a vip but I have no V.I.P. tag cool

The only thing that concerns me is what about an ally that goes inactive?
Then you're stuck with that assrabbit the rest of the round... That crap ain't right!

So that would be my issue with assigned allies- but other than that, I agree to Cloud's Galaxy

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63 Reply by Swagga (edited by Swagga 15-May-2015 19:57:33)

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Re: Suggestions for Starburst next round

By the way, whatever happened to the stay in fam option?

I have at least one player whom wants to stay in fam

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Re: Suggestions for Starburst next round

Allies is broken. It used to be if you dropped allies you would auto get a pnap with each other and you could only change allies once. So many changes had to be made to it due to abuse or player requested I think it just imploded. Some of the things that happened were allies attacked allies. Some families would ally hop to attack a family due to good shares and then unally and ally another family with shares of a different family. Some allies did not get along so we allowed 1 ally change with pnap to prevent the ally bashing and the ally hopping.

We have done the families of 6 before and there were a lot of complaints because of inactives.

Stay in family is broken. With such a small player base it will create superfamilies.

I am just giving you the reasons of why some things are not being used and what happened with the small player families. I am not saying we can't try it again but that was the reason we have steered away from the 6 player family.

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Right, so what are we waiting for?  Can we get this going?  Any other feedback?

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Re: Suggestions for Starburst next round

well spoke KT
Thank you for taking the time out to set the record straight

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66 Reply by .:]FfT[:. Dead Kennedys (edited by Gwynedd 21-May-2015 22:51:19)

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Re: Suggestions for Starburst next round

[Next time just say you dislike Stefan. The swearing and off topic spam is not necessary.]

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Re: Suggestions for Starburst next round

would it be possible to have a game time like king of the hill that makes everyone gang up on whoever the first ranked fam is?

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