and another thing, when there is less size there will be less diffence in economy. So that way it's easyer for a smaller family to get on a top family. Or easyer to recover from a war. 2280 just got slaughtered, you just don't retake like 3000 planets in a week to rewin the first position :s.

reducing galaxy size(x,y) also encourages to attack. traveling 40 weeks to hit a planet just ain't a joy. If you're stuck between big families like we are there really isn't much place to go.

And yet another point. It might re introduce the power of special opperations. What's the point of trying to take someone out by sabbing portals if he has 500 planets :s.

1- Gurney Halleck
2- Zaige

I don't think you need to sign a petition for this one.  Mods usually do what feels right.  Judging by what people say and what goes on, we can get a feel for what the size needs to be.  Lets hear the feedback and see what people want.

In my opinion though, Capricorn has always been the huge galaxy (granted it may be a bit too big atm) but it's where people can have huge empires, huge pcounts and huge incomes.  I went across to PW for the first time in a long time this round, and man...the feel is totally different.  Everything is close by (like i mean, within 4 ticks is easy).  It's too close imo.  For PW thats good though.  Imo, the Capri playstyle won't suit that at all.  For eg, there'll be raids all over the place and what not.  It's just different. 

But yea, a little smaller would probably be better.  Previously Explo phase never used to last the whole round - but thats usually a trial and error thing.  Some rounds we have a lot of people playing and it gets done quickly.  Other rounds (like this one) there are fewer players + more deletes, therefore explo phase lasts longer.

Probably nice to hear what's wanted though and what might work.

Here ares some stats for your guys' info:

Capricrorn Round 1 = 3260 Systems, 50 Families (12 members per fam)
Capricrorn Round 2 = 2481 Systems, 45 Families (13 members per fam)
Capricrorn Round 3 = 1920 Systems, 37 Families (13 members per fam)
Capricrorn Round 4 = 1917 Systems, 35 Families (13 members per fam)
Capricrorn Round 5 = 1894 Systems, 35 Families (13 members per fam)
Capricrorn Round 6 = 1897 Systems, 35 Families (13 members per fam)

Btw, please note that I'm not posting anything official here.  Just posting some stats and my opinion.

low ranked fams are low for a reason - we all start at the same level.  going all socialist wont save ic

wow when you look at capri last 6 rounds together it really shows how many players are leaving. While PW is growing.

if there are that many planets unexplored in 94 territory, why doesnt 94 just explore them?

i have to agree with gurney... and have actually have had the same idea for a number of rounds. like he said, expo should last 2 weeks or so, not the whole round.

i remember WAY back in the day (6-7 years ago?) when i was in a small fam, led them with 30 planets and 300k nw and yet had plenty of competition and very much enjoyed the round. now, if i dont have 300 planets and 3 mil nw im down and out. seems a bit off to me.

how about no X(

There is less systems from previous rounds allready, all these gay people with there gay posts cus there fams are ranked low.
Less systems isnt going to help you.

Me personally in 2294, at BOR we was surrounded by many good fams and we had to fight for our space and fight we did and we won.
Decreasing the amount of systems isnt going to do shit.
It wont Save IC, and it wont make you any better at IC.
Next Time put more effort in at BOR and u wont have to whinge about the amount of systems.

instead of Mods Decreasing systems cus of lack of players, maybe we should be getting them mods to implement some Ideas that will bring People back to Capricorn and re-increase the amount of systems in the process.

This Idea of killing off more Size, Will just Decrease Competition even more, if there was any to begin with.

So No i Dont think they should drop the systems even more, as this is just going the wrong way about saving IC.

thanks

i have to agree on tymo

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leave it as it is. Thats Capri or (MW before) the reason its big is indeed people are leaving. And u should figure it out why people are leaving..... before we all point our fingers on the the fact that there are too many open space left...

Less systems to explore means top fams need to farm more to get as many planets. This idea doesn't help small fams, and benefits fams who like to farm, lol. I say no to this idea. If you want a small galaxy, PW is the place to play.

I think everyone misunderstood tymo's post lol. He is quite obviously in favour of lowering the no. of systems.

And I have to say I disagree. We(94) secured alot of systems, as did our allies. we dont actually have all that much expo space left, but we havnt filled it up yet becos we cant build expos that quickly lol. To a certain extent 80/77 also secured alot of expo space, but we took alot of that from them when we beat them. The problem this round was that all the other big fams just decided they would secure a fairly big core(very big in 82's case) and then leave it at that. 76/91/88/87 all started off the round with very little expansion, whether that was intentional or not. 76 have claimed on many occasions this round that they started off very relaxed becos they had no intention of competing, which frankly explains alot. One of the top 3 fam in nw had no intention of competing.

Normally expo doesnt last this long with this amount of systems relative to this number of players because the top 6-8 fams are all competing early on for the more free expo space. Granted the top 2-4 tend to come out with most of that free space, but the other fams still get some. This round 92/94 both went out and gained a ton of expo space. 76/91 didnt try to stop them. 80/77 also went out to secure some, but lost alot of it to 92/94 later on. 87/95 didnt try to expand really. Nor did 82/88 much (88 got distracted by war with 92). The onl other fam that made an effort to expand properly was 90, but they imploded and dropped down the ranks into inactivity.

What I'm trying to say is that this was an abnormal round. People were lazy because it was summer. Many normal top 5 fam players were taking a round off or having an inactive round. I would bet that next round when people are more active again after the summer that the expo phase would last for a much shorter amount of time given the same number of systems.

but my point was -  whatever you do - make it bigger or smaller you will still have small fams - cos better/more active fams around them will kill or take up there space WHATEVER the map size

I think the map isn't too big. There are just too many planets. managing 150+ planets is just a drag. When fams had 20 players, 20-24 planets per system was ok but now it's just too much. 13-15 planets per system would be better. when fam size was decreased the planet/player ratio went up dramaticly and my feeling is it has take the fun a bit out of the game. (I personaly can't be bothered to build anymore if I have more than 100 planets but thats just me) I don't know if fewer planets can be programmed but I think it's worth to take a look at.

If the current amount of systems is kept but the amount of planets in it decreased to 15 then the planets/player would drop to around 60 wich is more balanced I believe.