
Originally Posted by
einzelgaengerXX9
There is a great amount of risk to an Owner who cannot effectively manage it's actual gameplay experience. WHen players become disenfranchised and leave ... they may also do a chargeback in the process. They also spread warning to others to stay away. It is not just word of mouth that keeps games like Evony alive, and advertising, it is retaining paying members. Why keep paying if Evony refuses to punish people who have used glitches to gain massively unfair advantages? While Evony seems to be trying to be active about punishing botters, multi-accounters, etc ... they have done absolutely nothing to address people who used the various resources exploits to gain an advantage, to my knowledge. .
There are many things concerning about the future of Evony - and the exploitation of bots, glitches, etc are only facets. Farming tedium, is, of course, one of the hot issues. But, I have been around a long time, and I have never seen something disenfranchise honest, paying members to the extent the transport-res glitch has. In my mind it is much, much more damaging a cheat than botting, multi-accounting, or anything else. It completely destroys the game when people have the advantage of unlimited iron/wood.
They have addressed issues in the past where players used certain glitches to gain resources illegitimately. What do you want them to do this time? Roll the servers back? I'm sure they can do that at the expense of the players who did nothing wrong as they lose all that time and effort. Do you want them to take all the resources and troops built with the resources from everyone including those who bought the resources from the market and built cities up and troops or plundered those abusing the glitch or were given them by the other members of their alliance? Do you have any idea how long it would take to investigate and remove most of the resources and the troops created with the resources from the game? Who do they punish? Those who abused it the most? Everyone, including those who were simply reinforcing someone under attack at the time?
Most people do not have any concept of how much time it takes to investigate problems like this. They simply want it done "right now".
But....the eternal ray of sunshine REALLY wanted to see you, so I helped brighten your day by removing the city from around you! ^.^
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