One important detail Quitch emailed me about recently:
Quitch wrote:A bug in the system editor has been identified which led to all planets being marked as starting planets (regardless of the original design). As this was a bug in the game which caused an error to be introduced during the transfer of the system by eXodus, and given the time between now and your game against them, the Voices of War home system has been re-uploaded to the Clan Wars folder. This reduces the number of starting planets to 2, as originally intended.
Also, our next game will be on November 22 at 18:00 UTC vs. Promethean. They gave us a choice between November 1, 8, and 22, but I picked the furthest date to give us more time to improve, and I say we follow the same tactic for all future matches.
I think by the time the first season ends we'll be reasonably close to everyone else's level, and then several new clans will enter the fray for season 2, so we'll get the chance to be competitive eventually if we hang in there until then. With recoil as our point of contact now, our chances of making it that far have just considerably improved.