[Age2] Life as a colony, the ups and downs and REVOLUTION

[yoron]

Okay, just started to play E2.
Don't like colonization.. Looks around, sees a lot of inactives, people that came for the social experience but found it to crave something more than talking. (Read Face Book:). So they left..

And I can't do anything useful with their city's at all. I've tried there are some tricks that worked in E1 to make them into NPCs or flats in a week. But not here..

What I can do is to colonize those poor *******s that actually try to learn the game. Which more often than not will give them another negative incentive to quit..

So I'm looking at farming NPCs instead now, and I found this colonization scheme to be as much 'bullying' as in E1. In some ways E1 is a cleaner game, as long as people treat new players with some decency. Here you just colonize :)

Don't know what to do about that. But I think we should have some possibility to change the inactives f.ex. Also we should have a possibility of reinforce those we colonize for both's benefit. That's how it would have been done historically, with a new town. It wasn't only tributes, it was also help to grow..

So I'm not that impressed so far..

[practicalfool]

actually, you are meant to protect your colonies. setting a suppression force % means your troops go out and defend the colony if it gets attacked by someone else.

its a rather twisted mechanism, twisted cuz there are workarounds.

[practicalfool]

Bump bumpitty bump!

[practicalfool]

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[practicalfool]

up for revision, watching for the latest colonization changes to show effects. Would appreciate feedback/ideas, anything else you want to see in this guide?

[thanakar]

My biggest problem with colonization is there is no real reward to the attacker anymore. In Age 1 you could pick a target and jump on it, get a good haul of resources and move on. In Age 2 with the simple click of a button you are rewarded zilch for your time and effort. All a colony has to do is zero out production and you get nada. More and more players that are being colonized are choosing to lose 90% then give up 10% the the suzerain. There needs to be some better reward system for those that choose to play the role of the attacker and not just sit back and farm, farm, farm, all day long.

[practicalfool]

Yea, they did take the mindless smash n grab out.

Here u gotta help ur colonies n look for alliance fights etc. One on one is just that - once in a while. If u colonize, u get to watch them. Pssttt.... Colonies i talk to don't turn production down. There are ones u gotta have for tributes n ones u have just for revenge. U can't be a * to both.

[yoron]

Mindless grab and smash

And what is this poorly thought out colonization scheme then.
A Mob squeeze?

[practicalfool]

lol, somebody has actually reported that a colony is eating his food!

yea, thats right, cuz the colony is out of food, it is draining the suzerain's food!!! only 1 person reported this, but if true, this is hilarious.

[washnwmn]

yes..teleport won't free you.