Quote Originally Posted by Advan View Post
6-8 hour re-gen gets my vote.

Isn't it funny that UMGE caved in to new player whines, when we all know 90% leave after a few weeks at most...and hurt those of us who have stayed and bought stuff from them to the point where we get driven away?

Bad UMGE! BAD! Now go sit in the corner with this DUNCE hat on till you learn your lesson.
I think the reason that a lot of new players leave is that they spend 7 days building up a small "empire", they are a threat to no one, then on day 8 some punk alliance attacks all their cities and steals all of them but 1 and then starts farming the one remaining city. The new player will typically have an army of a few thousand troops. The punk alliance will have 5-10 members attacking with 30K archers and 30K warriors. Nothing the new player can do will get the punks to stop this behavior. I saw this behavior on every server and I asked the alliances in question why they were doing this. They had no real answer other than they are punks.

If you don't join the right alliance, I mean an alliance that has members near you who are on 24/7 who have large armies which they can garrison in your cities then there is nothing you can do to protect yourself against this.

I started up an account on a new server and used every trick I now to build as strong a defense as possible within 7 days. There is just no way to become strong enough within 7 days to defeat the typical punk alliance onslaught the moment you come out of protection.

So, now someone will say to use politics to protect yourself. Okay that only works if there are alliances near you who have strong members who are willing to defend new players. The best alliances wont' take a player just out of beginner protection because that player won't have enough honor and prestige.

I don't know what the answer to this problem is. But I know many players who quit Evony over this issue.

Ringlord