Is this the only game on the internet that sits on it's hands and makes no changes despite tens of excellent ideas from it's community - then when it finally makes a change it does not consult the players and goes so far off the deep end it changes the dynamics completely.

300 attack kills on non stonewallers is profoundly stupid.
No kill should take more than 225-250 hits with successful breaks. You dont have to fluff the game up and make kill runs longer to increase the chance of a stonewaller.

Here are some suggestions for the administrators (if there currently are any):

1. Restrict the amount of hits a country can do in 1 second. Make it 1, or maybe even 1 hit in 2 seconds. No brain or heavy coding required. You can even keep the ajax spam button!

2. Give restarts turbo charged bonuses based on how well they built their recently dead country. Make it 15% of all cash, bushels, oil, CS, land. Do away with the turn based generic crap. Why should rewards be even regardless of how fluff your first country was? This will reward blindsided countries/alliances who were unsuspecting and had decent stocks.

3. Why should special attacks be allowed in the first 2 weeks? Ohh you think guerilla style OOP wars are good for the game!! Bzzt. Think again pea brain. Get some skill and fight a war after a reasonable amount of time. Allow special attacks in this time frame if country-to-country war is declared.

There you go.. Ideas that have been around for probably 2 years but have never been implemented because the admins didnt think of them first. There was a failed attempt to fix the AJAX button then after it was reverted it was forgotten about. Now the power of the AJAX button has brought about a new weakened civ ratio based on military to try to bring back stonewalling. It's just ludicrous.

So not only are you too cowardly to post under your normal name, but you are too dumb to find the bugs and suggestions board?

wait... don't increase the chance of stonewallers, immediately followed by "slow down attacks"??? Make up your mind!

Post under your real account or no one will ever read your whining threads and actually give a fluff. Even Dagga would get more attention and you kind of sound like him.

While I probably shouldn't grace this with a response (see above quotes of quotes of quotes &etc)...


http://wiki.earthempires.com/index.php/Gameplay_changes A significantly out of date changelog; I'm also finishing up a years worth of changes to the routing system and code in general, making the game more OOP & friendly to code.


Players were consulted. Specifically, I approached the war leaders of leading alliances (Makinso / Ivan / Aponic / martian (obviously) / somebody from LaF & Imag & PDM and I don't know who else...) and asked for ideas, comments, and showed simulations (in excel). Most of the responses were positive; obviously it's hard to see how things will work from a simulation ;)



It really doesn't in 90% of cases. The speed is still the biggest difference.



You'll note that there were many alliances up near the 290 HPK even without stonewallers *before* the changes...




Yet you want to slow down attacks per second?



Do you think we haven't thought of this? Hell it was implemented shortly. The reaction from players was overwhelmingly negative. The community has effectively said this isn't an option.

We have significantly more elegant ideas for slowing attacks down, but as *anybody who's been paying attention* could tell you, we've been holding off on major changes until all my back-end changes are done, so we don't *further* fork the code-base.



This has been discussed back and forth at length. There are both positives and negatives to this.
-> cash -> encourages people to *NOT* stonewall, and to liquidate their military if they're going to die; also, suiciders
-> CS -> if you get BR'd you get none
-> land -> suiciders

The *one* think i'd be inclined to give a percentage of would be tech, as that's very hard to move or liquidate in any way.



This was also discussed. Again, you are not the first to think of it. The biggest issue is that larger clans can then farm with impunity for the first two weeks of the reset. There becomes no recourse for farming &etc; plus then we would likely see people building up just to FS right at the two week mark. This is a very ugly and ham-fisted solution to a complex problem.



Actually we thought of a good chunk of them first. Most were rejected as inelegant, or (in the first case) rejected by the community. There are better ways. Also:

1) we have limited time, and changes require testing.
2) we endeavour to *not change too many things at once*
3) we've had some sort of change every set or two, despite the fact that the code has been "frozen" since Dec 2011 for my reworking of the entire codebase




Trust me it was not forgotten about.



I actually believe I coded the new attack style before the AJAX stuff ever came about. Despite my calls for testing, nobody tested it, so a decision was made to test it live. We're still evaluating the resultant HPK numbers &etc, and *AS IT SAYS IN THE ORIGINAL POST* are open to considerable tweaking. It is still somewhat experimental.



And so is posting a list of "suggestions" anonymously!

I like the changes

You WOULD Pride.

You are like so...er..this morning, Mr.B&E

nice response qzjul :)

well said QZ! (:

I also prefer locket naked ;)

Most people do! :P

not me

good response qzjul...this guys is pissing me off because he is making hungry and my food intake is limited due to having the bubonic plague. First he wants to be lettuce and egg and now bacon and eggs.

What???? Bubonic plague in 2013??? O.o

has to be!! It is all I can sum up in one ...from having the asian bird flu, Superflu, swineflu and SARS all at once! (how I feel)

there was a case or 2 in oregon last year. yet another reason you shouldn't fluff with the circle of life

http://seattletimes.com/.../2018446561_plague16.html

Damn :-(

The last reported case of plague in Washington state occurred in 1984 when an animal trapper in Yakima became infected while skinning a bobcat. In 2010, a Washington laboratory technician was treated to prevent plague infection after working with a specimen from one of the two reported cases in Oregon at the time.

The plague bacteria cycles through rodent populations without killing them off; in urban areas, it's transmitted back and forth from rats to fleas. There's even a name for it, the "enzootic cycle."

The bacteria thrive in forests, semiarid areas and grasslands, which plague-carrying rodents from wood rats to rock squirrels call home.

To quote the counterstrike days.....pwned!

you can make a kill take about 10x longer with perfect walling, i did it on test

i wonder if anyone's really messed up (or gloriously won depending on pov) one of the smaller wars with walling

its more likely people ignore a country with has already taken a kills worth of turns and is expected to take 2+ more in favour of trying a new target id assume

OOP wars should not be restricted at all. It gives an offended party the ability to damage what the types of alliances that do most of the offending value most. Their networth, by hammering them early, you put their favorite game style to waste. They are at a disadvantage if they actually have to have real military to defend themselves instead of just netting with the absolute minimum costs involved.

the obvious response to banning oop wars is open farm until warring is allowed

The Oregon desert will fluffing kill you with plague. It's not all rain and hipsters, ya know!

I'm against any variation of speeding up killing. It's too fast already. I laughed as my country was killed around New Year's. I got a text (within 30 seconds of hits starting), logged into the country by iphone and went to market page starting to execute a buy...boom, dead. And when I drop 25 hits in 4 seconds, also not cool to the guy on the other side of the equation. Was much better when we all had crappy dialup or beginnings of dsl in the olden days.

BknArrow does that every set on team, or at least would if the other side stayed alive long enough. As someone said in IRC "there aren't enough countries in team for that" in regard to a tag kill, and coming from the source I tend to agree. The closest anyone has come is 3/5 and that was OOP with 20ish countries.

Pontius: note that I said BknArrow and not TSO :p

2 above are idiots.

1 above is a jelly wanker



ya u jelly

it helps prevent chafing ;)

OOP Wars Rule


that is all i need to say

HELLTARD SIGHTING