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No Upkeep vs No Refuge
I'm a little vaclemped, so I'll give you a topic...
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No upkeep vs No refuge
This "no upkeep" thing is great. On 2 of my Age 1 servers I have the no upkeep buff for the full amount of time. Almost a month of no food upkeep. I wonder if this is how Age 2 players feel all the time. They have no refuge, which is almost the same.
I know there are differences. I know Age 2 has to buy resources whenever they want to send a march, or train. I know Age 1 has heros that can insta-train troops, which is a large difference.
Anyway, I would like to hear people's thoughts on how this month of free food has made life easier on Age 1 players. How has the free food affected Age 2? How do you think the affects compare? Do you think free upkeep in Age 1 is the same as no refuge in Age 2, or are they not comparable? If you just want to add thoughts on this month of free upkeep, then please contribute to the conversation.
... talk amongst yourselves. :bunny:
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I think the no upkeep thing is great. It makes things so much easier, but it saddens me that this will not last, because it is such a great way to get people to spend, and I would imagine it to be used again in the future.
The no refuge thing is rather silly. It does not make it simple for the players, and if this is the way things are going to stay, I believe there should be a permanent change to no upkeep in Age II to make things easier for the players, and less frustrating at the same time.
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well when you are attacking someone and they dont have to worry about upkeep its a lot harder for ME :angry:
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We i went up 200mil food with the milk and cookies so that is a good thing.
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no idea about age II, but in age I I have know a lot of people who are still farming (in most cases farming even more than they normally do) so that after the buffs wear out, they can take a few days off of farming if they want to.
it also has made it easier for us to defend and/or attack. we can load up new lv10s with troops and port them in and attack with. we use to do this but had to move food in first. free food is great but after jan 4th, I have a feeling there will be a lot of attacks or disbanding lol.
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I think that the no upkeep is great!
You have the option of doing a few things.
- Taking a little bit of time off the game/spending less hours a day on.
- Farming to get miles ahead on food for when you will be needing it.
- Letting your army grow up huge (This leaves the possibility that you can go away and destroy other people taking a bit of time off the game with your far superior army and steal all the extra food they will have been able gain without losing it.
I don't think it is quite the same as the no refuge that Age II has, as it must be a bit of a pain having to buy more food each time you want to build or march. However it does take a little more stress off the "OMG, I must farm alot, NOW or all my troops are gonna die!!!" situations that you get in Age I.
No upkeep in Age II must be amazing for them, they can farm up a lot of food, and then they won't have to worry about needing more food for ages! This also allows for larger scale wars, although without the attack/plunder buttons it is difficult to gain resources through war. Which would be to the ultimate benefit of all Age II players.
If in age II, Insta-heroes were a possibility, there would be no doubt that the armies some people would have would almost be into the -billions, I think the level cap levels the playing field a bit more for us Age I'ers who are then able to produce troops a lot quicker but have to farm to keep them alive.
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food on the market is below 7
even those of us with no milk and cookies get the benefits
i can almost support the army without farming....almost
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i play on na21 attacking age2 server. every time i have had a city run out of food i find it to be a right pain, i like the food there, thus i still have to farm. even with the halfed food troops eat for age2 and the heroic companions 50% buff from fb i still find myself shedding food at an alarming rate!
so Rota to get the 0 upkeep in age2 is a blessing for me, granted, having played age1 for a long period i can understand it being like all xmas's rolled into one.
LONG LIVE MILK AND COOKIES!
oh can we get 0 upkeep easter eggs too? lol
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I love this 0 upkeep, but I know now that ill refuge after the 4th, this has gotten me lazy on farming. But it is a blessing. I've had time to leave and do the christmas shopping without worrying about not being able to long since being short on time. I just hope they do this every holiday.
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Another bonus is for the hunters. Farmers will fatten up and lose the lot. As there are pretty dark times on our server with less and less people to hunt (*resists temptation to go into merger talk :p*. I like the idea of getting a few billion resource, particularly food, which I know wouldn't be there without the free upkeep.
It also leaves me free to go out and hunt without needing to farm anywhere near as hard. The only disadvantage is my heros aren't getting the training they were, but my head is getting a breather from the demands of keeping up an army I just can't bring myself to downsize, mainly because I know that some time .... I will need my army when we get some fresh targets from another server ... one day lol.