id like it if no one new th' end date untill it actually happened

i wouldnt mind a reshuffle after this round, just depends on how active ye can be yourself an' how active th' family is.

next round i wont have much time meself an' th' family isnt uber active as at start, so fer me a reshuffle would be nice

1       Birth o' Capricorn (1055)       2410      29069078      169363
2     τρεις (1086)     1832     27414157     142920
3     Relaxation (1098)     1815     22866608     123938

no1 is dominatin, feed the fishes hell th' 2nd fam has a 5mil nw lead o'er th' 3rd fam:P
its even planet wise because thar is virtually an infinite # o' planets, with only 3 weeks left in th' round we just had a lubber send out 90 sumthin expos an' he had no trouble findin' safe systems:P

fer th' round t' be fun, th' map has t' be smaller.

fer th' map t' be smaller, thar has t' be a reshuffle

case an' point

an'/or decide what galaxy t' go t' next round

PP_

it were bein' a trial t' see if th' player wanted it..  that is why its called a trial..  if they want t' go back t' th' smaller galaxies its open..  Fire the cannons!  it were bein' not a trial t' see if th' mods like it or not..  it were bein' done t' see if th' players liked it..  it had nothin' t' do with experimentin' with th' size., I'll warrant ye.  they wanted big so they got big.

More expos a day would be crap.  Limitin' scallywags t' 6 expos a day means scallywags have t' attack hard t' get above other scallywags.  With 24 expos a day, whoever has th' better infra at SoR will jump away from th' rest.

Small sized gals be more fun when thar's less activity IMO - fer just general attackin'.  But big sized gals generally mean big wars be a lot more fun in me opinion.
Ye'll be sleepin' with the fishes! 

PP, I completely disagree with ye thar.  Aarrr!  In small gals, I've found that th' small fams be *considerably* smaller than teh big fams.  Like, ye'll have th' top 2 fams, then thar'll be a huge drop in planets t' th' next 5-6 fams, then a massive drop t' th' rest, Get out of me rum!  Small fams can't even play in a small galaxy because 'tis impossible t' protect yourselves because ye dern't even have space t' define core systems.

But in current round Capri...just look at th' rankin's.  There *is* no big drop in planet size.  Load the cannons!  It's steady, linear drop in planets from Rank 1 t' rank 50.  And Undeath, bullshit 55 be dominatin'...try rankin' it by size rather than score an' their planet size isn't much bigger than anyone elses...

Also PP, while tihs map is pretty big, thar be also 50 fams.  You couldn't do an 80x80 map with 50 fams.

But aye, bringin' back Tri's would help a lot too.  Big maps = big wars, me Jolly Roger Big tris = even more bigger wars. 

~Jarik

jarik is right though, big gals like cap atm give smaller fams a much more interestin' round.  i just randomed into a medium sized fam t' bank this round, an' we've had a perfectly interestin' round which we couldnt have had if th' gal had been small like ye want.

what dictates how fun th' round is fer th' top 10 fams, an' how much warrin'/infrawh0rin' thar is, isnt th' size o' th' gal, its th' calibre o' th' players.  just a few rounds ago in andro we had a ridiculously large gal as well, but thar were bein' plenty o' warrin' betwixt th' top 10 fams, an' th' large gal just facilitated a different kind o' warrin', which were bein' interestin'.  th' fact that we didnt  have that this round isnt becos o' th' gal size, its becos o' th' players in th' top 10

*It's Friday, no more pirate jargon please X( *

ye mean t' say u think i were bein' tryin' me hardest t' win when i randomed as a banker this round?  yup, sounds about right

[w00f!] pirate day, avast.  I can't understan' anythin'!

Anyways, PP, you make some good points. It *is* hard t' compare because th' amount o' infra an' attackin' that's happenin' is also very dependant on th' fam ye're in, an' other fams.  Like, obviously comparin' Capri Round 1 t' Andro round 31 is stupid because Andro 31 were bein' inactive an' crap.
And hoist the mainsail, by Davy Jones' locker! 

If I recall, Andro originally became 80x80 *because* o' inactivity.  Fams were reduced in size from 20, t' 15, t' like...8.  Shiver me timbers!  And fams started at 50, then dropped down.  And hoist the mainsail, Hornswaggle Those gals were great fer attackers.  In fact, I remember one o' th' first 80x80 games were bein' really fun fer me, on a dead man's chest!  I were bein' in Playboys then, an' we had lots o' skirmishes with m00lar.  I remember havin' spread all o'er th' gal, an' fightin' heaps o' scallywags - especially Kagar, Dance the Hempen Jig

That bein' said, fer small fams it were bein' shit.  Because really, who had cores back then?  All ye had were bein' a very small group o' systems as cores.  Then yer attackers expoed th' gal fer spread an' started rapin' whoever were bein' close, feed the fishes And th' fact were bein', because it were bein' such a small map, big fams with uber spread were bound t' come up really close t' small fams, Ya lily livered swabbie!  And they raped them.  I remember huge imbalances where small fams were well...worthless - they could barely play th' game.  They were only thar t' have planets taken off them an' by EoR, they'd have a max o' 100-200 planets, Ya lily livered swabbie, to be sure! 

But Capri so far has proved that small fams can still actually play th' game.  I see th' bottom rank fam with a banker with 150+ planets.  I see small fams havin' scallywags who be actually on the plank.  I see them bein' a bit more than farms.  Aarrr!  Shiver me timbers! I also see bigger fams agreein' t' PNAPs more readily - our fam fer instance, is PNAPed t' 5 small fams t' avoid us from farmin' them.  The reason is because planets be worth less.  Where in 80x80 maps, a banker with 200 planets were bein' a big banker, in this map, planets have a lower value, so scallywags be less desperate t' farm.
Oho, and dinna spare the whip!

What I *do* think with is that th' round time should be put back t' 3 months.  2 months is too short.  It's nearly o'er an' thar's still heaps an' heaps o' unexplored planets aroun'.  What needs t' happen is fer expo t' finish, an' then scallywags t' start fightin' more fer planets.  Fire the cannons!  Not havin' wars while expo is still goin' on.  Granted, that might become tedi'us.  But I have high hopes fer Capri - 'tis bringin' back th' activity an' competition auld IC had.  And hoist the mainsail, ye scurvey dog!  Increase fam size t' 15 again maybe, an' increase drafts t' 6 again fer increased competition.  Capri completely filled up.  Prepare to be boarded!  Close Triangulum again, an' have 15 per fam, an' 50 fams.

Remember, this were bein' a first trial round.  A lot o' scallywags weren't even plannin' on playin' this seriously.  I think in Capri Round 2 we'll see a lot more organisation from a lot o' fams who were takin' this easy.  A lot more attackin' too.
Fire the cannons!  Fire the cannons!

That bein' said PP, ye may be right too.  I'd say go t' a minimum o' 100x100 map size though, I'll warrant ye.  Any smaller an' small fams will become farms again.

~Jarik

You've got a point on th' infra whorin'.  Which is why I say longer round, we'll keel-haul ye!  You can infra whore durin' expo, feed the fishes But if teh round were bein' long enough fer expo t' actually *finish*, then those infra whorin' fams *will* get raided eventually.  But aye, thinkign about it, 160x160 is too big, on a dead man's chest!  Maybe 120x120 would be better?

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