
Originally Posted by
reddbaron
A given in any wargame system
Who said I am worried? I love battles and I am online all the time. I was refering to the game system, not me personally.
Just to quote what you said:
1) Solving the online 24/7 problem.
Your words state it is a problem, I gave a solution to said problem that currently exists in the game. Further I didn't say you were worried, I said "If" because I wasn't making a definite statement, but one with unknowns, one being you might not be worried, but on the off-chance you are. Since you are online 24/7 one could infer that's possibly because you are worried about what might happen if you are not online 24/7.
Not if the idea is to gain honor and prestige! If that is how you or your alliance wins, then you would want to keep as much hard fought prestige as you can! Obviously anything in the game that gives you benefit for loosing is wrong and totally out of balance! Give prestige a meaning!
Sure hard work and money with a goal to WIN! But you cant win if it goes forever. I once was thinking the same way as you on this. Until I tried a game out there with an end. I still spend money on my account. I also start over when the server resets a year later. (and my unspent money gets forwarded to the restart) I actually do enjoy it better having tried both ways now for several years. I do however think Evony, being more complicated, needs more than a year.
However if they decide to still go on forever, then the game needs a ton more balancing! There will probably also need to be mini goals similar to quests. Like the largest % prestige, pop, honor etc... gain for the month...or top totals for the month or some such like that. Then award these "Mini" victories.
I don't believe you understand. Players do not want to have to constantly rebuild everything from scratch simply because the server reset itself. If you've ever started on a fresh server you would understand what I am talking about: it's not fun. Add to that many players actually spend money to get mich scripts to build level 10 buildings, On Wars to level their heroes faster, and many other items to help them wage war. How many of those players would stop spending money if they knew their cities and heroes would go away not because someone attacked them, and took the city, but because the server simply hit a preset condition and reset itself?
Evony makes new servers so players can start fresh with new wars so those who don't want to start over from scratch don't have to. This also allows those who do chose to start fresh on a new server don't lose what they built on the other servers.
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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