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    Quote Originally Posted by *zhay View Post
    it is sad to see the state of forum ... but it is properly a picture of game too

    it is dying and have been for years - no new players and no merge to try get remaining players to find new friends or foes

    most of the new things u learn inthis game u have learned by merging - as u see new ways of playing both as defender and attacker.

    it is actually sad as this could be a great game - but it seem there is no real plan for the future besides maybe a few new items noone really need and new servers which die out in months

    so evony for those few remaining players can u tell us what u plans are for this game ......

    everyone was looking forward to something new when u talked about aether1 but as it turned out it was just alot of hot air nothing more

    so maybe for once try listen to u coreplayers - we want new ppl to play with - if u cant give us merge - then make a server port or something (should not really be that hard to make - and u should be able to earn money from it)

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    We get thousands of new players each month (not bots, measured from landing pages) so its tough to make the case we haven't had new players in years. It is very nice that we have such a loyal group of players from back in the day. That just goes to show the staying power we have.
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    i never said u dont get new players - i said u really dont try to make u old players happy - and new players dont stay that long as there is game just like evony out there who have been evolving when evony stopped

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    Nathan, why aren't servers being merged much anymore? Why aren't we seeing Age 1 evolve and progress. It never changes. Battle mechanics are still the same. There's been nothing much new, other than a few trinkets from age 2, being introduced.
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    Maybe 1 day evony will start to listen to us players and give us Mergers and what not .

    Got to make us happy


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    What was once a great game, is now too heavily influenced by exploits, glitches etc
    It can be discouraging for a player putting in x amoint of hours a day, only to find red cities with tens of trillions of resources....
    And yes, i agree with the server port concept. It certainly would liven things up if anyone could visit your neighbourhood!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by *zhay View Post
    i never said u dont get new players - i said u really dont try to make u old players happy - and new players dont stay that long as there is game just like evony out there who have been evolving when evony stopped

    zhay
    it is dying and have been for years - no new players and no merge to try get remaining players to find new friends or foes


    I don't think it's dying at all, I just think the forum crowd has dwindled in recent times. With records being broken, battle mechanics no longer a mystery and more experienced players than ever, the forums are needed less than they used to be. I think there will be a resurgence eventually, as the mature, experienced players fade away or give up. Maybe an AgeII merge would liven things up a bit

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    Quote Originally Posted by Deucalion View Post
    I don't think it's dying at all I think there will be a resurgence eventually, as the mature, experienced players fade away or give up. Maybe an AgeII merge would liven things up a bit
    Resurgence from where?

    all links go straight ages 2, and as bad as age 1 players find it, if yoiu start on age 2, that will most likely be your preference.

    i suspect the majority of "new players" are nothing more than existing players registering new fake emails for their swarms of fillers. [would be interesting to see if new players drop off a bit since war port has made fillers less needed]

    Its not complicated, NEW players need to FIND the game. Currently, this iss near impossible with all ads and links going direct to age 2. its been like that for a long time now.


    1: Someone wants to try a new game
    2: sees and clicks add for evony
    3: clicks big button on evony.com to try it

    ......and STRAIGHT INTO AGE 2.

    Really, who here genuinely believes a new player will think " oh, wait a minute, i dont want to try this one, i'll log out and look for small link to the older game"

    Not very realistic thinking is it?
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    yea age 1 is screwed lol, but so is age 2 so dont feel too victimised :P
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    Quote Originally Posted by irchie View Post
    Resurgence from where?

    all links go straight ages 2, and as bad as age 1 players find it, if yoiu start on age 2, that will most likely be your preference.

    i suspect the majority of "new players" are nothing more than existing players registering new fake emails for their swarms of fillers. [would be interesting to see if new players drop off a bit since war port has made fillers less needed]

    Its not complicated, NEW players need to FIND the game. Currently, this iss near impossible with all ads and links going direct to age 2. its been like that for a long time now.


    1: Someone wants to try a new game
    2: sees and clicks add for evony
    3: clicks big button on evony.com to try it

    ......and STRAIGHT INTO AGE 2.

    Really, who here genuinely believes a new player will think " oh, wait a minute, i dont want to try this one, i'll log out and look for small link to the older game"

    Not very realistic thinking is it?

    I was referring to AgeII, sorry. Some server are very "dead" while others are very much alive and well.
    I agree AgeI has some activity issues.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ssfgrgawer View Post
    the game is still quite alive on some servers, others not so much, Forums are pretty much Devoid of active posters, theres about 20-30 that regularly post now.

    As for the log in troubles That might be the famed "post maint lag" where some servers have difficulty loggin in after maint, and at different times through the day when many many many users log in at once.
    my server ss38 had fairly severe log in troubles exp after maint a while back, Now its somewhat eased.

    ***WARNING POSSIBLE TL;DR AHEAD***

    It is sad to see the forums have fallen so far, Exp when ive made quite a few good mates on the forums, and more in game. But the forums are slowly dieing cause there is nothing "new" anymore, Battle mechanics has been pushed to there limits by many players (2 mill+ phract smacks and mech hits) and there is simply nowhere further to go, People used to come to the forums for info, to chat, with questions, show off reports, ETC, But now days there are so many "Experienced" players moving from server to server, they teach those they meet, and those learn the game fast, without having to visit the forums, so they dont join the forums.

    True enough most of these guys never learn the game as well as there mentors, But they have enough info to get them by, so joining the forums is "unnecessary" now. When i first joined the forums i did it cause it looked like fun, The players from my server would hang out here to chat, smack talk, waste time through maint, Waste time while farming runs were out, Have a laugh, mabey even cause a little trouble for the mods by posting questionable content - The wonderful Alusair knows this better then most.

    Those days are over, They had ended by the time server 107 came out. that server had mabey 2 people who had accounts and posted on the forums. (This was before the first forum change, long before i was a mod) My 107 history thread had 2 pages of posts, and 2 people from 107 posted in that thread, one of them was me. I did the same thread for my server 6 comrades and it ended up being the greatest collections of a servers history in the entire forums. I had players from everywhere post historys MOST of whom no longer play for whatever reason, But the fact remains they dont have reasons to post like they used to. People stopped wanting to learn when they thought they knew it all, People stopped wanting to mess with the mods when forum rules were enforced more often and many "popular" people of the forums were banned, I shant go into names, you all know who im talking about. (tho many of them did deserve it going TOO far) This is not to say the forums hasnt gained useful posters in the last 3-4 years, But the number per server has severly dropped. what happened to the guys who would post -10 mill burn war citys?, arch waves and hammers?, their First mech hit (10k + mech)

    people leaving the game has also taken its tole on the forums, many of the best posters from my server, no longer play the game, and the day that happened, they never looked at the forums again, I respect people like Eric0095, Acer5200, Alusair, AbstractAngel and many more mods who not olny quit the game many many moons ago, but stayed on the forums, and even helped moderate them many till very recently. They all embody what im talking about, They wernt just here because it would help there game out, It was for fun too.

    in the alliance i am in on server 173, Im willing to bet everyone has looked at the forum every now and then, But posted, I bet most cant say they have more then 10 posts to there name.

    In your first post you asked IS evony dead. For some its been dead for years, For others days, mabey even hours. but more will come, Its just a shame the forums never gained many of the new crowds to replace those great posters that leave.

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    sorry for the TL;DR

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    I honestly feel bots have killed these forums. U made a point that I will agree with. People used to hang out here during farm teams being out, maint or any other downtime they had. Now with bots no one needs to sit around farming all day, so they just leave the comp and go do something else. Hence they arent using the forums anymore.

    On another note it doesnt help that Evony has put little effort into the forums, and its sad because there have been some brilliant ideas for the game posted on these forums that havve been completely ignored, or trolled to the point where people dont want to post on here anymore. Trolls scared off the valuable posters.

    And the final reason I feel the forums are dead is because whether Evony will admit it the game is dying. Its not on its last leg but its a mere fraction of the game and player base it used to be. Although due to the rise of alts and bots, it may appear to have a more reasonable player retention rate, we all know that if a server over 4 months old has 1k active spending 8+ city accounts, u may have 200-400 actual players palying.

    Quote Originally Posted by Dawnseeker View Post
    We get thousands of new players each month (not bots, measured from landing pages) so its tough to make the case we haven't had new players in years. It is very nice that we have such a loyal group of players from back in the day. That just goes to show the staying power we have.
    Dawnseeker we have never really had an issue in the time I have been on the forums. But I have to say this. You are either in some sort of insane denial or completely full of sh1t. You may get thousands of clicks on your advertisements a month but we both know the retention rate of those thousands of clicks is extremely low.
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