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    Quote Originally Posted by japanpimp View Post
    Say your rich Uncle in France invites you to stay in his mansion for a month but he only has old school dial-up 56k modem. Or you go on a 2 week vacation. Or you travel to Spain for a 3 month student intership. Or your wife has a baby and you won't be online for a few weeks. Or you move from Chicago to Los Angeles and they screwup your internet in the new apartment so you need to wait 4 weeks for new DSL service to get installed. Bro, people have lives. Life happens.
    And in Age II guess what? No problem. Let your alliance know you will be offline or have very limited access for the next month. Close your gates and relax. When you can get back online a month later you find that all of your cities are colonized and that 70% of your overall troops have been slowly drafted over that period of time. No problem. You ask your alliance to help you uprise and overthrow the Suzerain or you can build back up yourself and do it on your own. It may take you a few weeks to build up enough troops to uprise. Or if you have a strong alliance you can get reinforced and uprise in a day or two. Now that the monkey is off your back, you are back in business and ready to open multiple cans of whoop a$$...
    This is one of the very very nice things about Age II. It accomodates people with real lives and real schedules.

    Age II, "Accomodating real life people since 2010."
    All you need is a sitter, in any of these cases all you need is a sitter, and a sitter is somethin you can have in age1, and 2. Allowing yourself to be conquered b/c your offline for a few weeks, or month is pretty counter productive.

    Also impying that age1 players are not real life people is pretty ignorant, I played age1 along time before I came to age2, and I had no problem working fulltime, or going on vacation, like I said, just need a sitter.
    Last edited by Swesal; 07-09-2010 at 02:07 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swesal View Post
    All you need is a sitter, in any of these cases all you need is a sitter, and a sitter is somethin you can have in age1, and 2. Allowing yourself to be conquered b/c your offline for a few weeks, or month is pretty counter productive.

    Also impying that age1 players are not real life people is pretty ignorant, I played age1 along time before I came to age2, and I had no problem working fulltime, or going on vacation, like I said, just need a sitter.
    Well, I think sitters are nowhere near good enough of a solution. First off, I would never, ever ever trust somone to watch my account, give them my login details, etc... if I do not know them personally. This is a internet game. And 99.99% of the time I have never met anyone personally in my alliance. Which leaves me with asking real life friends to babysit my game while I am away in france for 1 month. "Um, excuse me John. I know you are a busy guy with 3 kids and a wife. I am going away for a month. Can you please water my plants once a week? Oh, and login to my video game everyday to make sure my cities are ok. You know Evony, right?"
    C'mon man. Asking people you know to babysite a GAME is not what normal adults do. If I asked one of my friends to do that they would think I was a freak or crazy.

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    Well, if you have trust issue then I guess thats your problem, I'v played many MMORTS which is what evony is, and I'v had sitters in everyone of them, and i'v done it for others many times, it's really common in games like this, and I think it's much better advice then the idea of letting your city be conquered.
    Last edited by Swesal; 07-09-2010 at 06:30 PM.

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    Having your city colonized is certainly not a good thing.

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    How many times do you need to keep making the same thread over and over? Your theories are so off base. Also, to say Age 1 players have no lives is such an ignorant statement. It just goes to show you have no idea what you are talking about.

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    No satan, the OP, and even the title of the topic implys that real life people that have jobs, or family, or go on vacation can't play age1, when this is just misinformation.

    The OP spreads alot of misinformation, not on perpose(I don't think), just very inexperienced, and doesn't know any better. And may not know it, but offen comes off very arrogant despite his inexperience.
    Last edited by Swesal; 07-09-2010 at 05:47 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by reddbaron View Post
    What about me? I live a surreal life with no schedule at all. Can I please please play your game?

    Give me a break. Evony allows sitters. And I sincerely doubt any players are here with FAKE lives!oops barring the occaisional bot

    What you are saying about Age II is for me the least thing I like about it.

    Age II's advantages are many and the "real lives" advantage is there...but way down on the list.

    The "real" advantage to Age II is the huge advance in strategy. There are a MULTITUDE of possible strategies. Age II is far more flexible! It is a thinking mans game.
    Please explain this. The battle mechanics haven't changed so I don't understand where all the new strategies have come from. If you are talking about suppression/uprising all that is who has the most troops. Where is the strategy in that?

    The second advantage to Age II is it keeps people playing far longer than Age one. No more will a Top Player find himself surrounded pounded and conquered from a top player to 1 empty village in 15 minutes while he sits on the Johnny...forcing him to quit or start a new server. No more will a noob be instantly and forever smacked down the instant he leaves BP. He has a chance to learn the game.
    I totally disagree. The same reason people left Age 1 will be the same they leave Age 2. In fact Age 2 is a slower more boring game. BP in Age 1 & 2 is flawed and that is Evony's fault for the way the handle it. If you get wiped out why start on a new server? You just wasted all the time spent researching. If anything learn from your mistakes and try again. It is much easier to rebuild than start over. It is such a farce that people think if they lose they should start over to succeed. The ones that start usually don't learn from their mistakes and repeat the same things.

    The third advantage to Age II is a player is not bored to death simply making and farming NPC's 2000 times a day just to feed his army and have a chance. Wrong again! Just because they limited upkeep doesn't mean you don't have to farm. It is all relative. In fact because of the way they handle npc's farming will be more of an issue than in Age 1. Since you don't like the end game you have no idea what you are talking about here.

    The fourth advantage to Age II is not having to wait wait wait for a new server to open giving players who failed another chance to play the only fun part of age I...beginning to mid game.
    This is just your opinion. In fact I would guess that most people would disagree with you on that. There have been people playing these servers for over a year now and they have competed the quests many months ago. The fact is what keeps people around is the end game. WAR!!! If your opinion was the popular choice then the oldest servers would be dead. Also, the reason more Age 2 servers are opening than Age 1 is that Evony is trying to kill them. New players are directed to Age 2 not Age 1.

    The fifth advantage to Age II is armor! awesome!
    It might be awesome to you if you have a lot of money. If not it totally unbalances the game. In Age 1 at least the non players could spend long hours to try and keep up with the coiners. This can not be done in Age 2.

    The sixth advantage to age II is the Historical heroes and Historical cities.
    Historical cities are an interesting addition. Historical heroes are not.

    The seventh advantage to Age II is drafting. No loss pre built troops!
    Colonization is interesting but has many flaws. Most people prefer to attack.

    The eighth advantage to AgeII is FaceBook! WOW instant return on advertising for the game you play! What an incentive! Brilliant!
    Yeah great idea. Reward all the people who go join some social site not related to the game and give them gifts instead of rewarding the people who ACTUALLY play the game. Brilliant!!!!!!

    The ninth advantage to Age II is Graphics.
    So they changed the graphics. Not a huge advantage imo.
    see??? I could go on and on before I get way down to the bottom of the list and say it is for "real" people with "real" lives. We are all "real" people JP. Sooner you realize that, the better your posts will be.
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    agree with some of the bold.....

    Yeah the armor is awful, this is just a money grab for evony b/c coiners won't be buying the "On War" items as much as they used to, and now the ppl that don't buy cents are just plain screwed, it's great for coiners b/c they spend money, and will always have that advantage over the non-coin buyers.

    Histoical hero's is flawed in very much the same way, good for coiners, no good for everyone else.

    Facebook was great marketing for evony, brings more ppl to the game, and I really think it's not that bad, but to be honest, I really don't think the free items are what makes it good, its the ppl it brings. The free items are just needed to make it relevant, nobody would bother posting stuff, or visiting the site if they were not getting free items.
    Last edited by Swesal; 07-09-2010 at 06:26 PM.

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    Biggest issue in Age2 right now is bug that makes hero loosing an attack be automatically captured...

    This makes is very risky for any player to attack with historical heroes and gives a huge edge to the defender.

    Not gonna complain though thanks to this I had one of the top 20 highest HH on the server join my side this morning :P ( attaquer thought I was offline, I wasn't...)

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    Quote Originally Posted by TCWNME View Post
    I know how you feel. I watched 2-3 mil troops splatter across my walls and only lost 70k pikes! I love this game.
    Though I think I would find an account sitter while I am away, rather than just leave and hope for the best.

    Would that however not infringe on any Rules? or worse comprimise Accout security? Just looking out for ya'll
    Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.

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