If I had the *time*, I'd be playing Age1 again, but I just don't have it in me.
Then again, I don't think I'd be playing anything after all of this.
Woldere, let us not forget it is "not a bug and therefore cannot be fixed".
Simply amazing.
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If I had the *time*, I'd be playing Age1 again, but I just don't have it in me.
Then again, I don't think I'd be playing anything after all of this.
Woldere, let us not forget it is "not a bug and therefore cannot be fixed".
Simply amazing.
Perhaps the stakeholders will respond by concluding that salary and benefits for those making these decisions were set too high initially and cut them by half, 83% or 93% depending on their respective positions in the company. But no company would actually do that, would they?
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is it worth me going after a 12 for the yay i have a GIMP city???
:p id prefer being able to rename a historic city. hell ill take it, send out massive waves, colonise enemy players if they are being pains, draft them using suze draft, and use the 4 policies to draft food, and hoard it :p
or take population from all suzed cities as well as pop redeploy in my sector :p
With the complaints of large armies, small players being crush, exploits which granted players armies larger then anything possible, it lead to the biggest mistake in the historic of Evony AGEII, without but any prior notice they removed the ability for Historic Cities to Draft, this resulted in a Riot on the Evony forums, but even bigger in game, what happens on the forums had little to do with the change being reverted so quickly, It was more the loss of money, players in game rioted even harder, everyone stopped spending hard earned money on evony, Top Alliances called spending freezes, for but a day, evony saw the power that lack of communication and foolish changes make.
However, they fixed the change reverting it, once again giving the love of the game back to the players, but of course as any master, they could simply not let there slaves win, us players of the game slaves to any change that could simply be made, no we were given 3 options, 3 options which all great players knew were nothing but another joke, just us getting spat at in the face one again.
These were but the 3 options... Let us look at them close and see the flaws in each.
Option A. .. only but 22 votes on these forums, which means nothing.
Pointless and a spit in the face of every proud player that but blood, sweat into this game, players that put there heart and effort, long hours into taking down, the Great Lv14 Historic Cities, or the Great Lv16s, Millions of troops put to death for a benefit of... basically nothing, 2 more drafts, for 80k more warriors, ... nothing, a larger rally point to which is grounded out of reach of your enemies, This option would mean nothing gain, what do you get NOTHING, the resource fields of no use, even if they could be supported, which due to the high population cost and lack of Cottage above Lv10 they could not, All troops wasted for nothing.
This Option was the biggest joke ever, almost just as bad as taking away drafting all together, evony spit in the face of those players that put money and time and love into this game, this Option was a joke.
Option B... 30 Votes, the Most, yet nothing to the numbers.
This option, ah it has but so many flaws... however, this is the only option that had any meaning, but still a joke.
Of Course Tax Imposition and Food Levy to 30%, This again players something needed, 10% was simply a ability that would never be used, but to see this as a option to not draft a HC.. a joke.
Disarmament.. 10%, and.. 30% of the resources from the troops dismissed.. SERIOUSLY.... 30%.. resources, i can take a leak on that is how much of a joke it is, this is nothing, not to mention the fact the this option DOES NOT EVEN WORK ON NPCS... If it actually worked on NPC/ Historic Cities , reducing troops before you attacked , ahh it could be so great, but no they spit as us joking.
Population Redeployment: Unchanged.. HAHAHA The Most Useless of them all 10%.. nothing, and of idle pop.. hahaha, what a useless ability.
Draft.. 5%.. The only reasonable thing said, that is if it only applied to Historic Cities, But no... it applied to all cities... haha 80k warriors for LV12s.. what a joke, even worse is it made them even more useless against players..
This Option, just another Failure and a cheap one to try and get our love back after they burned us.
Option C.. 9 votes.. hahaha
They biggest joke of all they only give us a Cryptic Option, with no detail to what it would actually mean, this is the lack of communication at its best.
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SO THIS IS WHAT WE GET 3 OPTIONS, ALL WHICH FAIL.. AND WHAT DO THEY GIVE US.. EVEN WORSE THEY TAKE THIS OPTIONS AND LAUGH AT US EVEN MORE, MAKING 2 INTO ONE EVEN WORSE..
- Tax Imposition: Increased to 30%
- Draft: Decreased to 5% (Unable to Draft Historic Cities)
- Disarmament: Dismiss 10% army and receive 30% resources
- Population Redeployment: 50% of Idle Population
- Food Levy: Increased to 30%
:duh:
Oh course the Change to Food Levy and Tax Imposition is welcomed for its use against other players, one thing they actually got right, these abilities however, ARE USELESS AGAINST NPCS...
Why would one simply waste a policy on a NPC or HC when they could simply farm it, these options, are a joke when used on a HC, if this was seriously to be candy to draw us away from drafting they have failed.
.. Then Population Redeployment: 50% of Idle Population, Ah the Failure in this, a Ability Useless Against players, what is the problem with this in the first place, ONE WORD... IDLE..... IDLE IDLE IDLE, THIS ABILITY SHOULD EFFECT TOTAL POPULATION NOT JUST IDLE POP.. What a useless ability, against players and NPCS
If This was Changed to 100% of All Population , then yes against another player, it would have some use, as this way it would hinder there resource production for a short time, otherwise this ability useless.
Now these 3 Abilities could have use and reason on other players.. if you can find any in your area.. unlikely if they have a teliporter, However on a NPC or HC, useless...
However if they were Combined into a special ability for NPC/ HC only they might then have been a option instead of drafting, by creating a new ability only to be used on HC/NPC with took 200% of Resources as well 50% Pop Redeployment, the ability might be of some use, a "Raid Policy", It would be a option to consider..
Now Disarmament, ahh this ability, the 30% of resources gained from troops dismissed, a small and but useless bonus for most players, with proper resource production 30% of that is nothing, it should be 100%... and on this note.. 10%... this is but nothing this should have at least been 15%, if this ability was usable on Historic Cities OR Npcs, and the troops actually were dismissed and they city could be attacked useful this would be.. but alas it only says it dismisses them but they do not disappear, just as drafting.
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Now The Biggest Fault and STUPIDY OF ALL..
Draft: Decreased to 5% (Unable to Draft Historic Cities)
This the Only Policy that is worth using in any Historic City.
.. Broken...
20k Warriors... a draft.. for any level of Historic City...
80k for a 12
120k for a 14
160k for a 16
200k for Atlantis..
The Benefit.. Turns to dust, this change makes Historic Cities, but a pointless city with good looks, troops that can be made in less then 2 hour of build time gained from drafting..
The Losses of even a 12.. are not worth 80k Warriors.. But the amount of effort and planning that goes into a 14.. for no extra benefit..
The Combination of Options A and B.. Turning everything into crap.. This , which WAS NOT EVEN TOLD TO US IN ADVANCE, The Biggest problem that caused the previous Riots...
The Glory of AgeII was the Historic Cities, without a attack button on previous servers this was the main reason fuelling players, with the broken colonization system, with its many flaws including exploits of 100k attack heroes...Broken.. AgeII..Dust... a game turned to ruin..
Had the Option of at least 5% been from Historic Cities.. then 14, 16 would have still been worth it, numbers not so massive but just enough to farm, and worth the losses of troops.
Now 14s, 16s Jokes Troops slaughter for nothing. Even 12s which can be done so cheap are looked at something that is so below the risk..
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So What does this mean...
Last time there was a change with the Riots, came a Freeze in spending.. this time does not come a Freeze.. this time Comes a End..
Players have lost trust in Evony, what little trust was left, and regained is now but all lost, my Alliance, Dominance of Na13, one of the Top5 On all of Age2 also once of the highest spending alliance, our players have declared they will no longer spend money on evony.. and with that there time shall start to fade else were..
Evony is a Free Game... But it lives of players that spend money on the game, these players are no the weak, there are the strong, most of those that earn Historic Cities have put at least a small sum into evony, many more have spend thousands of dollars, that which pays for the servers.
These players will no longer spend money on evony, even if what has happen is now fixed, you have lost there wallets, they cancel subscriptions, they no longer wish to spend money on your game.
But Money is only one thing, The Elite players now lose reason to player, many will start to Quit, without proper PVP or Proper PVE with reward the game is but dull, there is no life in it, and blood, sweat, tears will not be lost on it any more.
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This Historic City Change may seem small to many, but it is massive to the lifeblood of evony as it runs threw those that run rich with the coins the fuel these servers, they have lost the will.
I would still like to see Historic Cities be drafted, I would welcome a fix, but at this point it will not gain any trust in players, it will not bring back spending.
I Fear my time playing this game will come to a end in the small time follow, a end to my alliance as many of the others, without a attack button, without the will to take Historic Cities due to no reward, the will and challenge of the game is lost, and the will to play it.
All i have left now is hope that this game will be fixed, every thing else is gone.. There is no more Trust, There is no more reward.. AgeII.. Evony.. at this point it is all but dead.. the Skilled players that make this game so special.. will be a rare breed..
I hope this game will survive..
I normally would say calm down. The draft is now 5% but the disarmament is still 10%, so it actually makes that more useful for causing pain.
Launching 125k scouts from most anywhere on the map without an ensign is a worthwhile thing. Same goes for reinforcing.
*skip all the points already made about the negative aspects* which I agree with.
Now I can test the last city being a historical city theory.
Capella
well said spawn :(
im close to taking a 12, maybe id be better off taking lv10 npcs, at least its less loss for better reward :p