Ok, so we ran a 2 man Galaxy, 10x starting resources, 6 days, 25x25 map, 3 planets per system, approx 300 planets, current morale, even in the 1 sided battle pmode wasn’t an issue for us, and by the time morale becomes an issue the bout is basically over anyway.
The idea was to be full explored (not factoring in early fighting delaying expo) but the starting resources we’re too low, we didn’t even fleet up til day 3.
With current signups we are hoping for 16 people for an easy player draw with a double knockout structure, allowing losers from the first round a second chance, this would run is 5 to 6 weeks, because of the length of the tournament I am more inclined to try for 3 day rounds, 100x starting resources, 20x20 map and maybe 200 planets.
The final thing we really need to figure out is how to determine the winner of each bout, do we go pcount? What if the round is quite an even battle? We may have to determine a formula that includes pcount, nw, score, planets taken.
I would love to hear others ideas on what would be the best way to determine this.