Originally Posted by
The9
same thing on ss60
heres the problem for me:
take a square that's 10x10 (100 total)spaces in which my city sits.
any farther in any direction is the domain of someone else in my alliance who also have a 10x10 square in which they sit and have agreed not to farm outside of
30 squares are resource field (lake,hill,forrest etc. etc.)
30 are inactive cities or "flat fillers" people made to fill state
15 are lvl 1-3 npcs some one made just to fill the state
10 are other active players all of whom are red
that leaves 25 total farmable npcs that are also being hit by the 10 reds within that 10x10 block and others outside of my 10x10 block.
of the 10 inside the block i'd say, without proof but with some observational evidence, 8 are botting
why not move somewhere else outside of my box, you ask? the answer is that because of rampant npc building inactives and flat fillers, the whole map is full and has been since about 3 days into the server. any night where npcs are deleted. they are rebuilt within hours. meaning theres really no place to go
i have 0 farms in my city and a upkeep of a measly -3mil and i am constantly on the verge of refuging because all the botters keep the npc's empty. if attack 1 time, unless the person is fairly undefended, my troops are all gone and i have no way to build more because i cant get any more resources to build with, and i have to sell all the resources i make in my city to buy food.
i know that this is a war game and that we're intended to fight instead of farm, but even that isn't really possible
i'm not saying all of this is evonys fault, and with all the people, both active and not, that come with putting 16 different servers together, farming was bound to be a problem no matter what, but with all the botters it's getting to be downright unpossible. not sure how long i can keep banging my head on the wall fighting this losing battle to have any food or resources so i can play the game the way it was intended: fighting other players.
maybe if i wish really hard something will be done...