Page 4 of 17 FirstFirst ... 2345614 ... LastLast
Results 31 to 40 of 164

Thread: Hate to beat a dead horse but wtf devs? Why even allow us to attack other players?

  1. #31
    Join Date
    May 2009
    Location
    Columbia, SC
    Posts
    1,010

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by multilis View Post
    It *is* realistic that archers on walls would eat for dinner a similar number of archers in the field. In real life castles were defeated by siege weapons like battering rams, and even then it was very tough.
    That "realistic" agrument has been beaten down countless times. This game is in no way realistic. Do catapults eat food in real life? No. So a "realistic" game wouldn't have a mechanical unit eating 125x the amount of food as a worker. I've got a million others if you want to go the "realistic" route.

  2. #32

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by multilis View Post
    It *is* realistic that archers on walls would eat for dinner a similar number of archers in the field. In real life castles were defeated by siege weapons like battering rams, and even then it was very tough.
    Actually most castles were either beaten by the ladder or the shovel.

    But all that aside, I would be more then happy to let the defender play the realism game if the attacker gets to as well. It would only take a couple of changes. The first would be putting a hard cap on defending units, as only so many units can fit in a castle, and removing the cap on attacking units.

  3. #33
    Join Date
    Jun 2009
    Location
    Carinthia
    Posts
    73

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by kassikas View Post
    The first would be putting a hard cap on defending units, as only so many units can fit in a castle, and removing the cap on attacking units.
    There's a small problem with this...
    If you put a limit on the number of troops in a town and remove the attacking limit how would you assemble the troops to attack?

    other then that +1 to this idea
    ~SiN~

  4. #34

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by NegativeZero View Post
    There's a small problem with this...
    If you put a limit on the number of troops in a town and remove the attacking limit how would you assemble the troops to attack?

    other then that +1 to this idea
    I am not sure I understand the question, but to cut to the quick, it was mostly just a joke to illustrate the ridiculousness of the 'but it's realistic' argument.

  5. #35
    Join Date
    May 2009
    Location
    In a bunker, South Carolina
    Posts
    270

    Default

    Xanadu has been crushing WMD towns in Swabia all week.. It's not the mechanics or code for defense.. This is the result of poor strategy.

    I have an alliance partner or two who game around the same hours I do.. and collectively, 2 or 3 of us can obliterate any town we work at within decent coordination range. I've lost count at how many towns we have sacked and burned.

  6. #36

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by ByronXAN View Post
    Xanadu has been crushing WMD towns in Swabia all week.. It's not the mechanics or code for defense.. This is the result of poor strategy.

    I have an alliance partner or two who game around the same hours I do.. and collectively, 2 or 3 of us can obliterate any town we work at within decent coordination range. I've lost count at how many towns we have sacked and burned.
    I will give you the same challenge all of the 'Be creative' or 'use strategy' or 'use team work' defenders of the wall buff get, and none ever accept.

    Put up some battle reports of you knocking down a low level NPC farmer. Level 10 walls. 200K archers. 50K ballista. At least... 12k ATs seems like a good compromise.

    Thats actually a pretty pathetic defense force for anyone online and in a modestly cooperative alliance, but if you can knock it down I will be quite impressed, and believe that the 'use strategy' stuff actually work at lower levels.

    But in my experience, all the people who make such claims are either posturing, or ganging up on the kind of weak and inexperienced carebears who still think 10k traps is a good addition to their fortifications.

  7. #37

    Default

    I remember some guy got mad at me because I said I took down a lvl 10 NPC with 10 pikemen. I can see why people would put forward unsubstantiated claims, because there are plenty of people who are willing to believe it.

  8. #38

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by pokey View Post
    I remember some guy got mad at me because I said I took down a lvl 10 NPC with 10 pikemen. I can see why people would put forward unsubstantiated claims, because there are plenty of people who are willing to believe it.
    I call BS on that one because your avatar is a horse, and everyone knows horses don't like pikes.


    EVNoob

  9. #39
    Join Date
    Jun 2009
    Location
    Carinthia
    Posts
    73

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by ByronXAN View Post
    Xanadu has been crushing WMD towns in Swabia all week.. It's not the mechanics or code for defense.. This is the result of poor strategy.

    I have an alliance partner or two who game around the same hours I do.. and collectively, 2 or 3 of us can obliterate any town we work at within decent coordination range. I've lost count at how many towns we have sacked and burned.
    Show us the proof show us a battle report of you killing a well defended town with lvl 10 walls, archer towers, and defenders.

    If you don't want to show how you did it that's perfectly fine. Use MS paint and put a nice pretty black box covering up your troop counts.

    Seeing the defenders side with the archer towers and defenders dying. That's all that you need to show to prove us wrong. Until you do i give 0 credit to anything you say.
    Last edited by NegativeZero; 06-22-2009 at 02:16 AM.
    ~SiN~

  10. #40
    Join Date
    Jun 2009
    Location
    Carinthia
    Posts
    73

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by ByronXAN View Post
    This is all theory, of course...
    WOW, that's all I have to say.

    Quote Originally Posted by NegativeZero View Post
    Show us the proof show us a battle report of you killing a well defended town with lvl 10 walls, archer towers, and defenders.

    If you don't want to show how you did it that's perfectly fine. Use MS paint and put a nice pretty black box covering up your troop counts.

    Seeing the defenders side with the archer towers and defenders dying. That's all that you need to show to prove us wrong. Until you do i give 0 credit to anything you say.
    Last edited by NegativeZero; 06-22-2009 at 02:43 AM.
    ~SiN~

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •