If you're deciding this end of the week, and you want a few days notice before 'ending the round', might as well let MW just run and finish when it normally would

Ending: Wednesday, Apr 12 @ 17:00:00 GMT

Less than a week from now

That's a fair point Hala.  SN/MW are really on their way out anyway.  This is really looking to be mostly an Andro thing.

I never said that.  The votes do very much matter, but they do not guarantee any specific decision.

To gather feedback.  It's served its intended purpose.

Votes are always for the purpose of gathering input.  This is an improvement over our past feedback process which was no feedback process.  I admittedly should have made that more clear up front.  I'll keep that in mind for next time.

39 votes
49 players in andro

Why so much time until reaching a decision?
I am not putting time in a galaxy that might get a reset. If you decide to keep andro going, pls role back again to the point before bug and announce when the roleback will be. That why we can anticipate for it.

This shouldn't have been opened as a vote. Rollbacks like these have happened before and are annoying as hell but you deal with it. I don't think anything was learned by listening to everyone's complaints. Lightguns is right when he says there's no point in holding a potential reset for this long over everyone's head while they continue to put lots of time into the current rounds. Make a decision and tell people what it is. Feedback is great but there's a way to gather it without all this uncertainty

A whim?  There was a vote to end the galaxy early (which is leading by double) ... how is that a whim?

It doesn't matter what happens. But in all fairness I say shoot 2 of the crippled horses. Both my present 2 families are inactive and disorganized. Expo-war, 24hr reset, and possible gal end, killed them. At this point I should change our names to "Free Planets".

There hasn't been a real victory worth playing for a while now (not that I've played all the galaxies). Marines round in SB was the last round that actually felt competitive and worth really trying to win for me at least. The multiple open galaxies, low max family size, and allowed IA all inhibit a good environment for competition. Don't get me wrong, it's still fun, just for different reasons -- mostly the people.

I stopped playing in Andro largely out of frustration. I invested a lot in to the round in the early stages (time spent coordinating, strategizing, staying up until early hours of the moring etc). This is not to say that other people didn't do the same but, for me at least, to see the effort get compromised is demoralising. It wasn't because I was in a bad family either - I'd chanced in with a great group of players who, if the round does get reset, I'd like to play with again next round.

That said, I really appreciate all the work Pie puts into the game and don't begrudge him at all. You can't pull a game out of the dark ages without teething problems. It is just my personal opinion that it has spoiled the round, so I don't want to invest any more effort in to it and I am happy to wait for the next one/SN start and spend a bit of time in the real world until a new round starts.

Just my opinion.

No need to call me lazy buddy I'm just expressing my opinion. I also did not indicate I had voted for a reset, I simply said I'm happy to wait until the next round, whether that be a reset or the round's natural conclusion.

I've decided that we will not be resetting Andro, or any of the galaxies.  The reason for that is that despite the majority vote, the arguments presented here have not convinced me that it is worth throwing away everybody's existing effort.  The forum posts are a factor too, after all.

These are the 2 main points I agree with:

* 27 hours lost is not comparable to losing a larger part of the round, even for Andro that has not been running for as long as the others.

* Although certain players and families had their short-term plans compromised, that does not prevent anybody from changing their long term plans.

As for why this took so long, it's simple: I've had a busy work week and haven't had much time for IC.  I wasn't supposed to be free until tomorrow, but that changed as of earlier today so we can decide now.

So that's the call.  I understand that it is not what the majority of voters here want, but again in this situation the players' reasoning is weighing heavier than the raw numbers.

A lot went wrong during this whole situation, and our damage control needs improving as well.  Your patience and understanding is appreciated.

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The only sham about the vote is the idea that people want to end Andro because of the bug. The bug is nothing more than an excuse for people that are frustrated one family is so dominant to hide behind. This particular expo bug wasn't introduced until recently, and the reset took care of that.

It's pretty obvious you either didn't read Pie's explanation of the bug, or are willfully ignoring the timeline.