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    Default Colony drafts are just not working poperly

    Ok, finally, Ive had enough of this.
    I am sick of finding inactives with 1m+ troops in them, colonizing them, and drafting 38 archers. Today was a classic example.
    Troop count
    8623 workers, 150441 warriors, 62240 scouts, 110168 pike, 110700 swords, 298946 archers, 4005 transports, 3967 ballista

    Draft amount?
    58 archers.

    Yet, the other city I found, that only had 60k archers in it, that I suzed from the same city, at the same time, gave me a draft of 6k archers, the correct amount.

    The accounts are out of alliance, so with the latest update that recalls all troops when leaving an alliance, its not someone who has troops hidden there.
    I have tried beseige, in case they had troops in a valley somewhere, but no troops elsewhere

    There is no rhyme or reason that I can find for why some colonies will allow normal drafts, while others will only give up vastly reduced numbers. I have a colony with 3m troops in it that I get normal drafts from, but another that has 500k troops, but it tells me no troops are found. Then, I have the 500k troop colonies that give proper drafts, yet 2m troop colonies that dont.

    I have tried with suppression at different levels, and that has no affect.

    The only thing I am left with is that drafts are dependant on when the account was last active. After all, there's all these players who have their alts suzed who can draft several hundred thousand troops a day with no problem, and I havent seen or heard any complaints that those drafts are acting up. But suze an account that has been inactive for a month and it seems to give up nothing at all

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    there is a reason for this........... if you have a colony your drafts will get less and less from that colony the longer the player does not log into his account, the draft amounts will drop to the point where the system says that there are no troops in the city to draft, even if there are millions of em in there.. I'm not sure on the percentage drops and after how many days/weeks these drops occur but i assure you this is how it works. If the player logs into his/her account then the system resets and you can get full drafts again. this mechanism only comes into play if you are drafting a colony, if you have a HC in drafting range of said city you can draft the full amount of troops.

    YNWA

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    Thanks Gamble, it was doin my head in and that was the last possibility I could think of. Needed someone to verify it for me, now I can stamp around in my mums basement raging against evony for creating a stupid system like that

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    "This is how the system works" is a BS answer. Drafting from HC's works just fine, even when the colony drafts have dried up.

    Just one more excuse for a broken mechanic.

    No flame intended, Gamble; I just think that this is not working as intended and have never seen anyone with an argument to convince me otherwise from anyone in the know.
    Failure is always an option...and this makes success all the more sweet.

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    i have indeed had this conversation with an evony dev, can't remember who it was. they indeed told me that this is an intended mechanic, they told me by what percentage the draft drops and how often it happens, although i don't remember those details i do indeed remember the conversation. i thought just as you did.

    THE MAIN PROBLEM HERE WITH THIS GAME IS THAT THERE IS NO EVONY HANDBOOK DESCRIBING ACTUAL GAME MECHANICS, IT IS LEFT TO THE PLAYERS TO DETERMINE WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG IN MOST CASES. IF EVONY HAD ITS OWN GUIDE ABOUT THEIR OWN GAME CONFUSION WOULD BE SAVED.

    A FOR INSTANCE WOULD BE THE ROYAL THING IN AGE2....IF IT WAS WRITTEN IN AN OFFICIAL EVONY GUIDE BOOK THEN THERE WOULD OF BEEN ZERO CONFUSION ABOUT THE ISSUE.

    Evony fails in every respect when it comes to its customers, the servers go down daily, sometimes 2 or 3 times a day. And they can't even have the good sense to say actually what is happening, they just blame it on some power loss or something......lol

    YNWA

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    A handbook would be nice. Thank you for sharing about the inactivity thing... it's something that's aggravated the hell out of me over the years. I assumed it was to do with the troop amounts, that below a threshold was mistakenly labeled as nothing.

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