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    Hi All,

    After playing this game for 30 minutes, and browsing around here, it's become clear to me that, just like Travian, etc. this is another populous game that goes to great lengths not to mention the term 'war game' in any banner adverts or the like.

    The reason for this is obvious - you can pull people in thinking they can play a mini-populous game with a bit of fighting, but if you tell the truth and let them know that the game is, at the end of the day, another mass-war-game which will exclude family, girlfriends and the like, then they generally won't be interested (this isn't a dig at mass-war gamers - it's just not my bag).

    So I guess my question is - and please don't flame - is there a populous-type game online that *doesn't* involve mass-war efforts? (Because that's the game that I'll actually pay money to play).

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    simple answer for you... No.... Everywhere on the Internet want to get big, I mean why not??? the gaming industry is a massive portion of what happens on the Internet today. If you had the chance would you make a small time poke around game or would you make a massive war game so that people actually have a challenge as they level up???

    I know what I would choose.

    sorry, but I highly doubt there to be a non mass-war type of game unless it is a flash game.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Angus_Thermopyle View Post
    Hi All,

    After playing this game for 30 minutes, and browsing around here, it's become clear to me that, just like Travian, etc. this is another populous game that goes to great lengths not to mention the term 'war game' in any banner adverts or the like.

    The reason for this is obvious - you can pull people in thinking they can play a mini-populous game with a bit of fighting, but if you tell the truth and let them know that the game is, at the end of the day, another mass-war-game which will exclude family, girlfriends and the like, then they generally won't be interested (this isn't a dig at mass-war gamers - it's just not my bag).

    So I guess my question is - and please don't flame - is there a populous-type game online that *doesn't* involve mass-war efforts? (Because that's the game that I'll actually pay money to play).

    After 3 seconds of reading you first line i came to the following conclusion :
    Go away .....you dont like it..dont be here

    This is the 4th MMOG i have tried...been playing for about a week and i enjoy it.....it is like other games ...ITS A MMOG!!!


    Now go away and leave us to do what we like

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    Oh I know they're all chasing the big bucks - but we're on the old road of 'let's just do what everyone else is doing'.

    I can't believe there is only one option for mass-player games - I mean, a game could feature quests that contain the odd fight against other (well-matched) players, but simply leaving it all open to mass-warfare stinks of laziness/ greediness. A gap in the market, methinks?

    There are so many at-work players who DON'T want their online cities to become just fodder for the 14-hours-a-day-fifteen-year-olds, that I suspect the 'big bucks' sites are only getting around 10% of their potential users...

    Shoko - please spend another 10 seconds reading the rest and you'll see the astonishing line '(this isn't a dig at mass-war gamers - it's just not my bag).'.

    If you can only spend three seconds at a time, maybe you should be playing Unreal Tourney. Or do less coke.

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    If you don't want to become the possible target of an attack by another player, choose a game that isn't multiplayer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Angus_Thermopyle View Post
    Oh I know they're all chasing the big bucks - but we're on the old road of 'let's just do what everyone else is doing'.

    I can't believe there is only one option for mass-player games - I mean, a game could feature quests that contain the odd fight against other (well-matched) players, but simply leaving it all open to mass-warfare stinks of laziness/ greediness. A gap in the market, methinks?

    There are so many at-work players who DON'T want their online cities to become just fodder for the 14-hours-a-day-fifteen-year-olds, that I suspect the 'big bucks' sites are only getting around 10% of their potential users...
    I am online 14 hours a day ...10 of them i do at work

    I played for a week now....i read the forum help and newbie when i started ....i dont fear my cities will go poof just yet

    You dont need to pay $ to be good at a MMOG ....and you can pay lots of $ and be bad it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sarasca View Post
    If you don't want to become the possible target of an attack by another player, choose a game that isn't multiplayer.
    Because after all, a game involving other players which wasn't simply mass-warfare between teams of players on each side...that would be impossible, wouldn't it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shoko-koko View Post
    I am online 14 hours a day ...10 of them i do at work

    I played for a week now....i read the forum help and newbie when i started ....i dont fear my cities will go poof just yet

    You dont need to pay $ to be good at a MMOG ....and you can pay lots of $ and be bad it
    And there you have it. Most ads for games like this give the impression that you can take or leave the game, and play at your own speed. They certainly won't mention the amount of time you'll need to put in once you're in a clan, etc. - please understand, I'm not posting all of this to simply say 'this game is rubbish' - I'm just starting to question why there is only one sort of god-game (this, travian, etc.), and that's it.

    I played travian for months, with no fighting, and then suddenly got slaughtered fifteen times a day, with no recourse but to start again or give up. I'm not going to risk doing the same with this game - you may have done well so far, but you don't have to go to deeply into these boards to find a lot of people that have ended up with a similar experience to the one I had playing travain.

    But you're half-right, you don't need $$$ to play well at these games - but if you're not going to spend, you certainly need a longer lifespan :-)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Angus_Thermopyle View Post
    And there you have it. Most ads for games like this give the impression that you can take or leave the game, and play at your own speed. They certainly won't mention the amount of time you'll need to put in once you're in a clan, etc. - please understand, I'm not posting all of this to simply say 'this game is rubbish' - I'm just starting to question why there is only one sort of god-game (this, travian, etc.), and that's it.

    I played travian for months, with no fighting, and then suddenly got slaughtered fifteen times a day, with no recourse but to start again or give up. I'm not going to risk doing the same with this game - you may have done well so far, but you don't have to go to deeply into these boards to find a lot of people that have ended up with a similar experience to the one I had playing travain.

    But you're half-right, you don't need $$$ to play well at these games - but if you're not going to spend, you certainly need a longer lifespan :-)

    Some MMOGs are more PvP oriented ....from those i played...this one is the one with the most PvP and the most to lose if you get hit

    BUT.....even if you get hit...you always have an option ...either go to a bigger alliance that can help you .......transport out of there ( which in most MMOGs you cant ) or stay and fight for your city

    In most MMOGs you will find that players dislike those who never attack and just build massive amount of troops resources ...those are usually the ones who quit the game after the first hit and loss they suffer

    So again ...you can choose to fight for your acount..or you can leave...its still your choice

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shoko-koko View Post
    Some MMOGs are more PvP oriented ....from those i played...this one is the one with the most PvP and the most to lose if you get hit

    BUT.....even if you get hit...you always have an option ...either go to a bigger alliance that can help you .......transport out of there ( which in most MMOGs you cant ) or stay and fight for your city

    In most MMOGs you will find that players dislike those who never attack and just build massive amount of troops resources ...those are usually the ones who quit the game after the first hit and loss they suffer

    So again ...you can choose to fight for your acount..or you can leave...its still your choice
    That's all cool if I have some sort of recourse when I start on a downslide - I don't mind losing, but I don't want to waste time being cannon fodder either.

    I'm fully prepared to give Evony a go, I am going through the noob tutorials and so on - I've just been made a bit wary by lots of folks building massive armies that then starve to death, and the like.

    When you say 'transport out', does that mean relocate to another area but with your technology/ army/ resources intact? I like the sound of that!

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