wow..thats hilarious!
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Please test it on ss58 with less bots there will be less lag, everyone even the botters are tired of the lag issues.....and of the server not being as fun not being able to capture a city due to auto heal........i hit a city for 5 hrs the other day with no one on and couldnt take the city. But when 200 accts or more log in at same time of course it will lag everyone out, i would say after maint there is 2000 or more logging in at same time so you know it will lag everyone out thats alot of ram used on the server is it not...i may be wrong on this but just seems to make sence.
I've merged quite a few threads on captcha frequency and stickied so you all can continue giving feedback.
The only real irritation I have with the captcha is that it logs me out if I don't answer it in time. I really do want to catch up with chat and that makes it impossible. One other thing. The resource packages don't actually give you any resources. I know it's a miniscule amount, but I still want it.
Ok so how long has captcha been rolled out now? How is it fair game play to have captcha on only two servers after sufficient time has passed for a "trial run". Either it works or it doesnt, but I will say this if its still on those two servers then it should be on all servers. (Cant wait to get all the fan mail from this post)
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One last thought, the captcha was a great attempt to address a issue or two. But what it does do that the evony mail didnt mention would happen is when your in the middle of a war (defending or attacking) and timing is everything, and a freaking captcha window pops up. Welllllll, lets just say people are quiting, because now your interfearing in the game play.
Obviously 2mo is not enough time or the people testing it would have implemented it on other servers already. Programing changes in the game such as this costs Evony money so they want to make sure thing are working correctly before further implemtation. Also I doubt captcha will be impleminted on all servers, it only seems worth doing it on newer servers / highly botted servers / or older ones that still have a high player rate. If your server doesn't fall into these catagories then I wouldn't expect it. In my opinion the main reason for implimenting it is to make evony more money. People that bot get tons of free holy waters / hero hunting / mike scripts / hammers / amulets or what ever freebies are given out by farming. This is all stuff these people no longer have to buy. Not including the huge amounts of food they have so less of a need of VB's. The more fair game play is just kind of smoke and clouds. There will still be players who farm a lot and coin enough to have VB's to feed their armies. Overall it will reduce the size of armies some what and make it more fair in that aspect. But like I said IMO the main reason for captcha is to reduce losses in revenue in the shop and increase coining.
Craptcha isn't working to stop the bots, people are still botting. They're also spending less money on evony because they now have to pay for the bots. Craptcha has done nothing to stop the latency issues, all it did was make copious amounts of people holiday, THAT fixed the latency issues.
Evony are still not addressing the reason people bot. Which would stop them botting in the first place. Food consumption is too costly. Too many servers squished together. New accounts being made. Not deleting inactive accounts.
From what I have observed craptcha is activated by the amount of troops sent out, so if you farm alot, you get alot of craptcha popups. If you farm little, you barely get any.
There is also yet to be an audio version implimented, which had been 'something evony would look into'.
There is no seperate 'refresh' button on the craptcha boxes. You don't always recieve the resources from the 'gift boxes'.
To be honest had this been implimented when I first started on this server, I'd have given up the game over 2 years ago.
Evony says that bots use too much bandwidth, then why don't they bring out their own farming tool? They could then restrict the amount of bandwidth used.
People HATE farming!! Thats why they bot. At some point they want to be able to leave the computer to spend time with friends and family instead of having to send out attacks to keep a pixelated army alive. You solved the farming issue in Age2 why can't you help players who prefer Age1?
i hate the idea of captcha and wen 95% ppl dont like it either makes me think im right wel evony was nice while it lasted but everything has to end ;(