Like I said, your points are valid. But expressing them the way you did is needlessly confrontational, if not to me as I misunderstood, it’s still an aggressive statement against your fellow players who voted for it.
“The smallest fam is now an even juicier target for big fams.” would say the same thing without pointing fingers (“you just made”).
This is what I mean about keeping things productive. You have plenty of valid points; they can stand on their own just fine, there’s no need to hyperbolize anything. Even “shooting the messenger” is needlessly dramatic.
Your opinion is valid, thanks. Let’s continue to keep things civil.
Point taken. You are right. I will try to tone it down and pour less personality (dramatic) and feelings into these, in order to keep it about issue, not frustrations around it.
Obervation [and summary of what was said before by @Malin and @zerohedge]
Side-effect of this is that the top families are more likely to get attackers, and the small families receive bankers/resourcers.
Top family receives a free slot to draft whomever they like.
The problem/challenge is mostly caused by the fact we’re redistributing a families densely located planet collection between different families.
we actually dont want to be assimilated, why should we? 6150 will dominate the round if we get assimilated or not, so where is the benefit? it just kills slowely growing family structure.
the goal was to make the round more balanced, but now its also imbalanced in the top, so why do bottom 2 families have to get assimilated? u would need to assimilate more then 2 fams to balance the universe. or better not change anything and let the game continue as it is.
Guys, it’s a new thing, it’s a sort of experiment, let’s not shoot it down completely, but think of ways we can do it better next time.
I agree, the bottom fam gets a banker with all planets in a few systems, and the top fam gets an attacker with shares with all the juicy bankers. So the top fam can fund the attacker, and get all the planets in the end.
Hence, the current distribution of players when being assimilated should be thought over again.
But how to do it then? Instead move the players, and redistribute the planets system wise over families?
Or abandon the planets, leaving them open to be re-explored including infra?
I know that I will not attack my ex-fam members if I will be assimilated. Nor I will give my planets willingly to my new fam, so they could hit them. It would not be fair IMHO, after they have funded my fleet and actions until that point. Call it a personal PNAP or something.
I am not doing it to protest or anything, that is just how I am built. I hope ppl will understand that, even if they do not agree.
Not a very constructive mentality. Bottom fams are now just going inactive because they are being raided, killed and can;t do anything about it.
This initiative is a way to work around that. I respect that you don’t like it, but would like to see your suggestions to resolve the problem of the small fams that can’t do anything.
u r the man.
and as a whole fam i wouldnt be against assimilation, i dont want to get seperated. look at what happened to dodo form former 6151 now 6152, he went into pmode and later today when pmode is over he will be in next pmode in no time. he wasnt online since then, guess he went inactiv (understandable)
but everyone in my fam is free to leave if he wishes, thats np!
Dodo first wanted protection, it was min 17 ticks away. He got attacked heavily, so instead of waiting for help to arrive, he offered planets to us and opted to quit. We sent the fleets. Then he was in pmode. We had fleets waiting. Later he came back and said he was on vacation and had no time to clear defenses, but could send some aid now and then. Aid was good, but he prolly does not know how easy it is to clear defenses and give planets to fam members. Not that inactive, but not that active in right actions. Pretty sad way to go in my opinion.
