I believe that option 3 or 4 are the best options.   Current issue with the game is lack of competition, You can get away with having your 1 random and 4 drafts being good enough to dominate other families without your randoms even way too easily.   I definately think that full randoming or even just dropping it to 2 randoms will help with that aspect.  No drafts probably my preference

If this caused an issue with a few people wanting to play with a few friends, couldn't draco be adapted and reinstated as a side galaxy for that with fam sizes of like 6 or so as a second option?

2)  18 Member Fams (4 Drafts) - With the addition of more members, fams could potentially be more fun and drafts may have 'less' of an effect.  Keep in mind this will reduce the number of familes in the galaxy.

I think this would be interesting and would keep most of the fams active.. people who land in low fams tend not to play

I like it the way it is, you can only dominate 1 family with 4-5 players if that family is 13 members of noobship.

1/2 in my opinion

The dominating with 4-5 members was about dominating the galaxy =P not just a fam.
My fam won size two rounds ago with basically 3 1/2 players.  14 this round only has like 4 =P   You just wouldn't know much about dominating when you are so bad, roar =P  Didn't you just get raided?

You can't limit naps =P  They will happen no matter what if families want them to =p  And bigger fams and less fam will not mean bigger spread, it will only mean bigger cores

I can already tell this will be a fail discussion =p

Option 2 is best imo.
MW and Andro merged for a reason, i dont want capri to turn into Pinwheel i think no drafts will make people more inactive than they already are.
Some people like myself like to play with the people they know or call friends, ive been always playing with my friends, there are a few rounds where i played with other people and i didnt like it much.
But im usually not such a likeable person  and i dont like new people too much, they are always so untrustfull.
I think you guys should consider different aspects aswell, maybe make capri with no allies, that'd be fun, and make it 15 people not 18.

2 or 3 i know different type o votes but i think capri woudl be more fun with bigger fams or with no drafts i think both could be fun for a change of pace

Personally, I'm liking the 13 man 2 Draft option.

Why?  Cos I think the galaxy has no competition 'fam-wise' these days.  There are what, 2-3 top fams?  5 at best?  With 2 drafts, it 'spreads the talent' per se. 

I suppose you could even 3 man it with 2 drafts.  But yea, spreading the talent would give more competitive fams possibly.  Where good competent people are forced to make their fams of their own or if they cant be bothered, random into another fam therfore helping other fams out.

2 drafts spread the talent and increase competition, while still giving the option to play with a couple of friends.  Plus a lot of friends I've made have been randoms (any PWer will tell you this is true) so both have positives really.

Not sure though.  I could even try 13 man fams, with no drafts to be honest.  Just for a round or so, to see how it plays out.  A lot of the 'old hats' seem to say that IC was brilliant before the drafting and that drafting ruined it.  I only joined IC after drafting was already implemennted so don't know how it was before.  But I have played in PW since then multiple times, and I honestly feel that Capri skill wise is > PW (jokes aside - and ofcourse there are exceptions, but generally this is what I reckon).

Btw, don't let this bias you guys, I'm just posting this as my opinion as a player

NO drafts will not make more competition, there is alot of playerhate reason why no drafts wouldnt work, you are going to see people deleting each round just to random with one another, capri is not the place for no drafts.
Make it 4 drafts  still, increase family number and you can still spread the talent.
with 18 people it gives you 14 randoms and 4 drafts and the talent is spread for sure Star99/metrex

How so?

We dominated the galaxy with 4 drafts and 13 members.  Giving us 5 extra players will make us rape you even more.

That's not how it went down, Torqez.
Elrohir had some nice randoms wich stayed after last round and he just brought in 4 more powerhorse players.
pretty much how 2405 had, nice randoms last round when they won hands down, again nice randoms these round, swapped a few players, and they dominated early round much like your family.