What about something like this Top fam plays the Spartans in Battle of Thermopylae the rest of us start off perm napped against them never been done before might make things more fun since top fam always cheats .(like making me a rogue this round)
Or like a Christmas tree theme four teams napped on bottom of tree vs top team starting at top of tree .Put all the cheaters on one team
Cells Hala swagga for sure and whoever else is suspected of frequently cheating they can be the Spartans
lol no one has accused me of cheating. Plus I’ve never been banned for anything concerning game play since IC was created.
Only a few loud clown people who have a problem with me, and that’s because I frustrate them.
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The Andromeda 52 Plan is finished, which gives us the following:
- Custom Map
- Families of 5
We’re going to aim for 9 families for 45 starting spots. If we try for any more up front, we risk a more imbalanced start. We can/will open up additional spots if the galaxy fills.
@Water, I really like how fair the “WINTER FLIGHT” map feels:
We would need the following adjustments though:
- 9 families
- 600 systems (we’ll do 5 per system for 3000 total)
Ideally we could also keep that center system open.
Can you provide the map file (the 0s, 1s, and 2s) for that one with said adjustments?
Thanks, and everybody thanks for your patience. Doing the custom maps this way means the new round is going to be delayed slightly while we sort out the details.
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I can provide the map file if needed yes.
Sent on Discord.
Will need to check map settings to make sure they are okay.
I’m in.
Been a hot minute, but I’d like to relive old IC play an active round. Haha 
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Welcome back 
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What are those first explo travel times for 100% speed 
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Not sure this map will work as it would need re-design anyway.
Pie asked for 600 systems with 5 planets in each systems.
Where this map was made with 750 systems and 4 planets per system.
So I’d need to lose 150 systems which basically is just a new map by that point.
I can however try making a 600 system map that is similar.
Either that or its another random map? Or someone else make a custom map?
I will have a go today as well, but as stated 750 to 600 systems is a big drop so map won’t be as full.
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Only problem with this one is that you’re at an immediate disadvantage as the middle family.
Just conscious of the travel time for that gap between home system and the rest of the map.
2pm start time, 6 ticks until you can send explos = 8pm, if that gap is 4 ticks, that’s a midnight 1st wave landing/build for me in the UK, later for other Europeans.
Just cautious not to negate the earlier start time by introducing a time gap anyway that will advantage US/AUS etc.
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Yeah ideally that middle spot remains open. If we need to we can just drop it to 8 fams instead.
We’re having issues w the map file anyway though. We need to keep moving so if we can’t resolve that by today or tomorrow we’ll probably go with a random map.
In the future we’ll set the planning deadline earlier to give more time for this part of the process.
We’re all sorted here. Thanks again @Water and everybody for the brainstorming here!
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