So many of us are sitting on super servers watching old friends leave and things go stagnate. What's next? Besides a merge, will there ever be another stage of Age I?
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So many of us are sitting on super servers watching old friends leave and things go stagnate. What's next? Besides a merge, will there ever be another stage of Age I?
Another stage of Age1? Isn't that what they named Age2? :p
Hey man, I'm only Age II, I have to say, that Age I is mostly outdated, Age II is where it's at for the programmers. That's why it is so important when the new Age II servers come out. I would not expect an Age I server to come out, just saying.
AgeII may be newer, and the coding behind it may be more complex, but who says thats a good thing? AgeII's blue color scheme gives me a headache and the hero lvl cap is just ridiculous
to the OP, yah i agree, anything would help as long as it would cause a burst of activity. a merge would be ideal, but id take anything to make sure AgeI keeps going strong :cheer:
i hate restarting, and wtf is that guy talking about? i honestly think the super coiners are all age1 players, dont get me wrong, seen a bunch of people drop seriois cash but where there is only a handfull of super coiners on age2 , age1 has at least 10 people per server to drop 1k plus cash like its nothing
There are some obivious benchmarks for a merge.
The number of players per state cities and activity level.
Price of stone is a good benchmark as well, once it falls then there is not much happening, like replace ATs and DTs.
Attacks per day for the server is another.
Number of new servers coming online, might be another.
What is the level of action or lack before a merge is known only to a few.
Some of the more advanced mech waves, and defense comes from these ss that have nothing else to do but experiment with different waves to break a city well into the several hundred million negative. At least I have learned a few good ones from these people, as they don't really care about throwing away a million ballista to find something cool.
Some servers are so heavily botted with alts and feeders etc etc that it looks like an active server to evony so they don't merge it. Might no be the case here, but just saying.
I might have a bot watching my city on one of the older super servers, the city which is kind of in standby mode or would be but everything I try to replace the wall defences and have a minimum amount of troops, there are two cities which monitor my prestige change, then there is a hit. The troops are a grab bag of everything by the look of them.
i'm assuming you don't bot, have alts or anything else untoward
so i'll take a wild guess
you have at least one instant treb hero and at least one instant phract hero
you have 10 cities most of the time and a total of about 100 million mech
one of your cities has all treb walls for dropping honor
you play almost as much now as when you first started but now you spend about 80% of the time farming or plundering to feed troops
you have enough food in each of your cities to feed your troops for a week but you hardly ever go more than 3 waking hours without being on line
alliance chat is almost as dead as WC because nobody ever gets attacked and you all basically just lurk
your list of blues is off the page and include all the alliances that are anywhere near your alliance in fire power
your list of reds is about eight and the biggest one has quite a few knights in the alliance
you cant remember the last time you thought a level 200 hero wasn't lame and you send them on loyalty waves
and you're bored.... hmmmm
annul all your blues that are in the top ten, that might work
EDIT: and stop coining, when your hero buffs run out you'll get more active as well
Ive been playing age1 for 2.5years. I wish i read more in the begining to learn quicker about the game. but when you actualy get serious of being a player and look up stuff, there are places posted of the different stages of Age1 and what happens at different stages of a server. ive my memory recalls the last stage is called Cold Wars. other then mergers to get new meat and players you dont know. pretty much all SS servers are ColdWar stages. Those that cant hack that always jump to newer servers till they cant hack it there then jump again. Those that dont mind playing cold wars.. well......we still here arnt we :) All it is is different and smarter stradigy and of course different cunning and smaller things that keep us ammused to keep playing on SS servers. and of course the time, money spent to build the heros we so crave for.
So why not rename the states into Western Power states and countries of the Warsaw Pact?
I hope theres another stage of age 1
Ya, thats a good idea lucas, i doubt evony will use it though
If evony wants to make a server truly interesting, let me offer the suggestion of a "Pro Warrior" version of servers for admission by volunteers only. Would be the same as other Age 1 servers with the following notable exceptions...
1) no truces
2) players can get their last remaining city capped. account then goes into reset mode with all player items and research completed traveling with account. Heroes and resources would of course have been taken already.
3) holiday mode revised as to be limited to 2 weeks holiday per calendar year.
4) the TOS on this server would be amended to allow alliance members to access each others account (as long as logins were provided by user) to defend with.
5) server would only be open for NEW accounts for the first month of operation. After that month, no new accounts.
I think it would be kinda interesting playing like this - and would get rid of "farmers" and leave only warriors standing.
Comments?
i think thats a great idea. but evony would only do that if it ensured ppl would coin more.
There is another stage to age 1 its called Age2:rofl:
Yep... "Ill get you when your offline" becomes the mentality. someone with -2b burn cant break a -500m (or even less) city when defender is online. And two giant -2b burn players definatly cant clear each other.... so... yeah thats a SS... add in the lag and for some captchas... cold war.
Its funny to see these bigger players talk trash though. It makes one wonder if they think my analogy above is possible :p
i've been trying out age2 on cutlass and it's a lot like age one for the first few days
they give you a special newbie buff for building two things at once for 72hrs, that's a nice touch
i still don't understand if it's possible to play without coining and the hero system is a bit :dizzy:
2 days and it's basically like age1 with really annoying graphics
I am glad to see you trying out age2. It is far more like age1 than age1 players would like to admit.
The hero system is very confusing when you first switch. It can be done without spending money. A lot of people do it that way, but it does involve a lot of farming for gems to raise your star levels. Star levels are critical in Age2. Be sure to read up on life bonuses given by different star sets. Some people say don't raise your stars without your gears being maxed. I disagree with that and raise my stars up as soon as possible for the life bonus your star sets give you.
Also, be sure not to hit a lvl 10 npc without your techs completely done and your gears/stars started. I still recall seeing 90k of my archers die against a lvl 10 when I first switched to age2. It will break your heart. :)
For the graphics, I like it much better than age1, but be sure to go to your options and disable the animation. That will help keep lag away.
If you have any questions about age2 that you cannot find the answers to, feel free to PM me, and I will be happy to help.
thanks Gillivray we'll see how it goes
at the moment it's just an experiment
i still don't know if i can stand the tedium of building from scratch like i did when i first started
i'd like too elaborate on "annoying graphics"
after a few years of age1, anything that's not exactly like age1... is a bit annoying :)
once i'm out of BP i plan to start a thread to describe my experience
i figure i'll get killed pretty quick in my first attempt so i'll have some time ;)
hopefully breath a little life into the general discussion section
they wont cap how many troops in a city, would make a lot of huge players quit, super coiners that are in the negative billions in 2 war cities lol maybe more
Havent done age I in ages (literally, 1-2 years probably), but might come back to age I soon.
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Evony is a dead horse that just hasnt been put out of its misery yet. They have already began to work on another game. Weve seen them asking for testers on a few servers for a new game. I never asked to try to so Im not sure the whole details. But like all games that are no longer updated and made fresh they will get to a point where they no longer make enough money to cover the costs of having the game online and a new game will show up. Theres already a ton of evony copy-cats out there or maybe evony is the copy of other games but either way a new game with fresh ideas is almost certainly the best way for evony or whatever the new game will be called to make a ton more money and still afford to keep the doors open on this dieing game. Age 2 is a joke. I tested it during beta I played it for a few weeks and it just doesnt compare to age 1 and I dont see it ever truelly competing with age 1 to get players to cross over only a new game would do that. Best of Luck
Im retired now from evony but still like to check in now and then.
Reading through these comments I agree with pier. Honestly I don't seem much of a challange in age2 you don't take the risks that age 1 does. Evony really needs to look at merging again they stay stagnant the main reason people do stay is for their friends they have became close to on here. You end up bored when you battle the same people all the time also.
Special teleport sorta like adv port BUT it allows you to port to different servers....i can't tell you how many times some idiot comes in my WC and says their server is better.....give me a chance to prove them wrong