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Thread: I lose, because of medals

  1. #11
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    It does seem that there will be inevitably a "seven day" burnout to the game, due to the mechanics of it.

    New players get seven days of protection from attack in which they can build, upgrade, research, and improve. But once you reach a certain point in that seven day period, if you spend any amount of time with the game at all, you've reached the point where it takes hours to upgrade/research/build.

    Waiting for something to happen creates a very immediate and usually permanent lack of interest. This creates a substantial number of "abandoned" player cities, where the player reached the point where waiting was overriding their interest in the game, so they simply quit and left their fledgling city sitting where it was, resources intact.

    For example...I am still in the seven day protection period, at my third day, but I already feel the need to upgrade my town hall to level 5, which will immediately revoke the protected status, making me vulnerable to attack. I don't have a military force to speak of because I've been working on increasing my population and resource levels. I am not in an alliance because I am rather "organized-entity-phobic" (meaning I don't play well with others, I guess). I would easily be trounced by any attacker with a force of moderate worth. Once this happens, I will likely not have an interest in attempting to reacquire my former town's "value" because of the excessive amount of time involved in waiting for it to happen. At that point, I've played the game less than seven days and am no longer interested in it and will move on to something else that will occupy my time, hopefully with less of a time-sink and "waiting downtime."

    It appears this game is designed for "uber" players...those with absolutely nothing to do but sit in front of their computer and build/upgrade/improve. Yes, there is an immediate draw to new players, but that fades quickly and irrevocably once the protected status is withdrawn, if the player is not among the "elite" alliances or very well fortified against attack.

    Eventually, and it won't be a very long "eventually" from they way it seems to be going, all that will be left are the highest ranking alliances, and they will be left with nothing to conquer. Thus their own boredom with the game will arise and they, too, will depart for other entertainment.

    It's unfortunate, because it is an interesting game and has a lot of potential.

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    Cant take flats around your city if your not allowed to progress and there level 9 flats smart guy, or lady. I agree most people feel the same way, looks like your outnumbered in argument you butt kissers. The devs of the game probably forget you as soon as they see your complament, you cant progress without constructive critics
    Can I get an AMEN, from all those who are upset and can't take the frustration no more!

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    The medal system sucks
    Can I get an AMEN, from all those who are upset and can't take the frustration no more!

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    yup thats what im afraid of i support kamikaze we just cant defend or fight this enemies just because we cant expand but hey we didnt buy any coins wich means we are just their meat waiting to get pwnd but this great alliances that even have greater alliance with other alliance and another alliance has alliance with another big alliance they ALL top 10 they never attack each others cause they dont have b a l l z.
    and dont ask why you losing honor its because you dont have any honor by attacking small undeveloped players .

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    the best way is to restart all servers start from the begining . too much of damage has be done .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blitzkrieg View Post
    the best way is to restart all servers start from the begining . too much of damage has be done .
    I have to agree. Just the medal thing alone is enough to warrant a re-set of the games. It's given some players HUNDREDS of each medal type.

    Compare that to the new drop rate (of *MAYBE* two a day - if they ever implement the patch) - and you have given older players a 50-day advantage.

    And to those players who collected 500 medals - they now have a 1-YEAR advantage. How do you reconcile this sort of thing?????

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    Why restart all servers? 4,5, and 6 were made AFTER they removed the insane medal glitch.

    Also, to the OP.. your a VISCOUNT. Lucky. I don't care if people are better then you, your a freaking Viscount. Some of us are STILL stuck at knight you know...

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    Default the medal glitch?

    there was no medal glitch, it was a part of game play, getting medals from vallys makes sense. There wasnt a glitch someone threw a wrench in the whole thing because they saw a way to make more money.... The glitch was the change, older players are going to have more stuff ....... But allow the younger players with stanima to catch up, the older players might not be logged on as much as they use to be, longevity in the game is based on the will of the player but you take away gaining medals to luck or buying them you destroy the reason to the game, might as well log onto a gambling web sit and play black jack if thats the case... At least you stand better odds.
    Can I get an AMEN, from all those who are upset and can't take the frustration no more!

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    Quote Originally Posted by chinothepony View Post
    what you should've done was take over the flats near your city. I have a lot of flats held all around me. Then in the future when you do get your medals you got the land to build your cities.

    But, I feel your pain. This game is a very dog eat dog game. And then a kick 'em while the dog is down. Truce is the only method I see as to try to hold on and build things back up. Even then its 12 hours on and 12 hours off. That'll be good for building one queue of army.
    He was "lucky". When I got online (not even a week and a half after day1), there were no flat whatsoever to conquer. I'm stuck as a Lieut./Knight, and cannot progress any further.

    I started a new game on server 5 and there are loads of valleys to conquer and I just may become king of my realm someday.
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    great point love the name, it reminds me a little bit of myself, or a young john wayne, the man is rite, taking over land plots wont be an option for some players early on then they hit the peek of progression.
    Can I get an AMEN, from all those who are upset and can't take the frustration no more!

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