1 Man Family?

[Water]

Hey folks, I hope you are all well.

I am aware that virtually every idea for IC has either already been suggested or done before!

However, I’m wondering if IC has ever ran rounds where 1 or even 2 players get to control an entire family, so for example…

Player One - Gets to control 5 races.

Player Two - Gets to control 5 races.

Then suddenly its a 10 man family but with only 2 players.

I don’t mean creating 5 accounts and all landing in the same family.

I mean some kind of “Toggle Switch” that would allow 1 player to switch between 5 races he is running in that family.

Guess it would take to much work / coding, but I think it would be fun and a good idea. It would allow for bigger battles / bigger maps / longer rounds.

Plus each player would get to play attack / banker / resources every round.

Maybe this could be done on a more limited level, such as each player gets to control 2 races.

Maybe its already been done and I just missed it?

[I_like_pie]

Too much work isn’t an excuse to not try things.

There was a discussion about this some time ago, about “sub-empires”.

I do think it’s worth considering as an experiment. See the other thread below:

Modifying the game in a unique way

So Pie and I recently had a conversation and this came to my mind and it was even something that he said he had thought about in the past. One of the major concerns when joining a fam is that you are going to get stuck with inactive or bad/non team oriented players. The usual suggestion is to throw everyone in as an SS and then let you work with whoever you wanted as an Ally. The problem with this idea, is that there are a lot of people that simply do not like the SS playstyle and lack of speci…

[Water]

Yeah, I think it would be an awesome idea!

I think it would make the game extremely versatile!

That each round 1 player could control 2 empires / 3 empires / 4 empires or however many.

3 Empires sounds really good because then each player would get to play attack / banker / resources all in the same round, without having to worry about inactive players.

However, I also like the idea of 2 man teams.

So 2 players controlling 3 races each.

I do think it would allow people to play bigger games / bigger maps / longer rounds, ECT.

But I also think it would look good from an outside point of view. That maybe some old players check back in to IC simply because they see a lot of races playing, or because they want a shot a controlling 2 or 3 races at once.

I think it could be good for team players and SS players alike!

I certainly think 1 player and 3 races sounds fun!