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    I would have answered this for you. I am doubtful anyone else will. If you can accept the fact that I am no longer an employee of Evony and have no right to speak on their behalf, I\'ll answer anyways.

    Where does the Evony staff team see themselves in 1,3,6 months from now?
    Ignoring the irony of this question in my particular situation, I think you will find that 1 month from now, the focus would be on game stability. Reducing lag, fixing bugs, closing exploits. 3 months would be aimed at adding a new feature or two that the community have asked for and cleaning up existing features. Perhaps some minor balancing. 6 months would involve bigger things, I would say.

    Can the evony community expect to see any major sweeping changes over this time. Such as new units? New buildings? New Techs?
    To AgeI? No. I don\'t think so. The players made themselves very clear when they said they liked Age I the way it was. AgeII is open to a lot of different changes. It\'s very much a matter of the devs and designers being open and responsive to player feedback at the moment. I wouldn\'t say that much of anything was impossible in Age II.

    If someone where to over hear you talking bout evony at a coffee shop. Not enough to hear that you are a Dev. But enough to hear the Evony name. They came up to you and asked. \"Why do you play Evony over any of the other games that are virtually the same that are on places like Facebook or just other browser based war games?\"
    But they aren\'t the same, are they? They lack the community this one has, and no matter how similar they try to be, there is not quite the same feel to the other games. I know a lot of people like to throw a lot of negativity around and complain about the game, but the reality is that you don\'t get this many players (long-term players, at that) unless you are doing something right. Evony picked up a nice mix of building-sim with bloodthirst, and it mixed social/diplomacy in with storming the castle. It\'s a simple game, but if you really want to succeed you need to do the math and learn the tactics, and you will find the underpinning can be terribly complex. I like the complexity. I get bored planting super berries every 2 hours, ya know?

    what is your favorite ice cream?
    Death by Chocolate, from Turkey Hill. Need I say more?

    How old are you?
    Old enough to know better!

    What do you dream a bout when you go off into your own fantasy land in your mind?
    There\'s a list: Watching my kids grow up, winning the lottery, buying my house and remodeling it, getting a great new job, Ewan McGregor, gardening, cooking, and how to get my lvl 57 character to lvl 60 when I\'ve run out of quests.

    How many licks does it take to get to the center of a loli pop?
    312

    Customer service and communication is rated very high amongst gamers to know what is going on in the games they play. Does the Evony staff feel they update their community effectively? Is there anything that the Devs feel they can do better in this area?
    I\'m going to decline to answer this one.

    Is there anything you wish to add or say to the members of the Evony Community?
    I want to thank you all for your support and for just being you. You are the most entertaining group of gamers I\'ve encountered in a long time and there are some people I\'ve met here that will be lifelong friends. I know that sometimes things are discouraging or you get frustrated, and I understand that. But there is a community here and it is amazing. I don\'t just mean the players...I refer to the people behind the scenes here at Evony as well. If you knew the level of dedication and enthusiasm that quite a few of them have, and how determined they are to make a really good game, then you\'d be a lot more forgiving of the mistakes. There is a genuinely serious effort being put forth by some really talented people.


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    Omg chocolate? Someone said chocolate
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    Quote Originally Posted by SweetP View Post

    The reason I rep'ed Poweer was because he recognized the futility in trying to get Evony to answer even a single one of them questions... it is doubtful any of the true powers will even read this post. It wasn't a dig against you, it is just the reality that many here have come to accept.

    In addition to that, I find Keldon to be an lying arrogant jerk so when he suggested that he would give Poweer red rep I took pleasure in giving him a whole bunch of green
    omg who +reps people just for realizing something is futile..............plus he never said this was futile he just trashed the original post and said nothing about how this is a good idea but is pointless to try to get answers.............and even if Keldon is a lying jerk he is still correct in suggesting -rep for what was said.........if i could rep rep, i would do you both in
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    Quote Originally Posted by SkylineR34VSpec View Post
    omg who +reps people just for realizing something is futile..............plus he never said this was futile he just trashed the original post and said nothing about how this is a good idea but is pointless to try to get answers.............and even if Keldon is a lying jerk he is still correct in suggesting -rep for what was said.........if i could rep rep, i would do you both in
    Well, SweetP obviously does.

    I love when people get bashed for an opinion, make them feel like they're wrong.

    Tis amusing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FoxyBunneh View Post
    Ignoring the irony of this question in my particular situation, I think you will find that 1 month from now, the focus would be on game stability. Reducing lag, fixing bugs, closing exploits. 3 months would be aimed at adding a new feature or two that the community have asked for and cleaning up existing features. Perhaps some minor balancing. 6 months would involve bigger things, I would say.
    See this is what I never understood with the way the game runs. You say that after 3 months new features would be added. Right now of all the suggestions I have seen in the on topic forum not one has been implemented. From my point of view that section is nothing more than a place for people to vent and feel like they are contributing while the designers never have any intentions of actually doing any of it.

    Quote Originally Posted by FoxyBunneh View Post
    To AgeI? No. I don\'t think so. The players made themselves very clear when they said they liked Age I the way it was. AgeII is open to a lot of different changes. It\'s very much a matter of the devs and designers being open and responsive to player feedback at the moment. I wouldn\'t say that much of anything was impossible in Age II.
    I think the players of Age 1 didn't want you to change it into Age 2. There have been many reason why and most of them are because of the designs implemented in Age 2. Age 1 was your community and Age 2 ignored a lot of what the Age 1 players liked and stayed around for. Once again, there are many suggestions in the on topic thread that would be good solutions without changing the way the game plays. It just seems like Evony has no interest in catering to that crowd anymore.

    Care to comment on these statements?

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    Changes to the game is only implemented if its seen as profitable. Admins, mods, guides have nothing to do with the development of the game, they are there to keep the forum running the way evony wants, which is to keep players under supervision and deal with any problems inhouse. The Devs keep themselves as anonomyous as possible.

    If you don't agree with them or their actions then don't play the game. I respect the mods that left due to taking a stand. If we had more representatives in real life that took such stands our society would be a better place.
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    The reason I posted this is cause SOMEONE has to! Foxy, you rock.

    As for the QnA. Is Evony not a "Team"? Do ALL of the designers pick ONE item and work on it? Sure exploits and stability are good. But what about all the strat gems that do not do squat? What about new content? What bout the atk button coming to Age 2 older servers? New graphics? How bout ending the unlimited troops of Age 2? Or how bout changing the FB gifting so you do not to go through THREE screen loads to get EACH gift? Or the colonization process so it is NOT a burden to the Suz?

    As for the others that say this is futile. So what? I did not FORCE you to read it. also, these forums are part of the public relations of the Evony Company. Potential Customers and investors can all come here. So when the Community stands together asking for accountability. Politely. Then if the community gets ignored. It shows. I also think due to the latest fire storms of core game changes and the "Mod" situation. The Evony team are in the middle of a firestorm of public relations.
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