[atul]

Yeah guess the nation selection was all about the Department of Redundancy Department striking again.

Good guesses Rdonj, but your list is quite low on astral for the off-chance that noobs put Pyth first. And I'd be so bold as to assume denying us them was major reason for them being highest?

And absolute NO for any kind of antisymmetric NAP. And would rather not have any artificial restrictions either. But if you're so scared about 3rd turn capital sieges, the I'd guess NAP for first 5 turns would enable people to expand enough it wouldn't be that big a thing. Last game showed how bad it was with a longer sleeping period.