Evony Struck Gold with AgeII..... But I think there is 2 major problems that are causing many to quit or just stop spending or both
NPC's don't stick so you can't level your hero's, Can't obtain food and that means you have nothing to do Because
AgeII Troop train times are MUCH longer than AgeI...... Which means weeks or months of building up troops just to Attack a well defended target. That means no wars because it takes so long to build troops for HC's and player cities
yes food consumption is cut in half on AgeII...... BUT Without NPC's All anyone can really afford to do is defend as the mechs and large horse Armies needed to hit well defended cities are hard to build up and even harder to maintain due to lack of NPC's...... To keep an offensive and defensive PvP Army gets increasingly more difficult as players troop counts go up......
Many have quit because they just could not be stuffed anymore or they reached the largest army size they could with the lack of NPC's and had a 0 food income.... So now their are many hundreds of cities with in some cases millions or Archers and FAT Layers..... No reward for Attacking them as you can't obtain any resources from Plunders..
So without Plunders ( Older Age II Servers ) Lengthy train times, Lack of NPC's the servers are All but Dead.....
What I'd like to see happen is
Train times brought back to AgeI Times
This way there will be more wars as people can make an army one day kill it the next then remake it
That will mean more money is spent on hero gears and stars as evony kinda screwed themselves over with hero caps as ALOT of cash on AgeI was spent on On Wars.....
Reduce the required food needed for Marches.... Just to move 25k Pults 13 miles between your own cities cost 20 mil food..... So Attacking with them is Almost impossible as without a food income the mech bombs would cost upwards of 50 mil just to send and All ya can really do is either Put some city in suppression ( which no one bothers with anymore as Colonies Blow chunks ) or Try for a HC..... And with Governors Abilities if the Governor is in the Alliance whose HC your trying to take your never going to get it :(
Leaving NPC's in even for 2 weeks would enable people to build up a food base for Attacking..... Without food we can not march evony, without marching we can not Attack, without Attacking all you have is a boring troop making game :(
Something has to be done.... Hell even an insta refill on a NPC once it is hit would solve the problems.... That would mean no one would need more than 3 or 4 NPC's... even 1 NPC would do as they could hit it over and over which would Allow them to build up reserves to Attack with
When defending a Colony Make it so YOUR Techs are used. That way a colony can't demo it's Acadamy. As it Stands Colonizing a Red flag is Pointless cause You win Suppression you have to set Sup setting's to 0 otherwise they Just demo Academy And Your troops get wiped.
The attackers don't even need a scout report cause All they have to do is send 1 scout on an attack at the colony and the colony itself gets a Report on your troops.....
BUT if it was your techs that Mattered Then colonizing would have something worth while as no matter what it would be the same as someone trying to Attack you. Granted the Colony can still remove Wall defenses and leave ya open for Horse hits But you'd still be using your own techs
Something has to be done on Older AgeII Servers...... They Are Almost as Dead as Sega Master systems ( Very old Game Consoles..... Go Alex the Kid :D )
What do others think?
Please No Flamming or trolls.

