Posts by Gothic Eye

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My idea to prevent people from spending disproportionately and having many legal ( or not legal ) accounts to support donations (and eliminate multiple accounts...) is this

The game must become individualistic.

Mines must produce for each player according to what he only has donated.

Even the temple and miracles must only have an effect on those who have donated and in proportionality to how much they have donated.

There are many other things, but for me, the most important place to start is this.

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That's not a bad idea. Online games are not as exciting as they used to be in the past. There are a lot of people who whine for silly things (when you attack your neighbor or someone else for their resources), there are the retards who think they rule the game (the bullies) and those who love to cheat with codes and tricks.

The old Ikariam was good, one player per server, and the mess this game has become cannot be undone. If the game becomes individualistic, we won't have to deal with these people and spend 24 hours in front of the screen. Ares servers can be online for those who like to fight non stop. This is not the only game that sucks, many games out there are impossible to play for the same motives.

If you want to pillage, attack the barbarians. If you don't, no problem, but at least you are not going to get attacked by a whale. I would come back playing if this game had these features.

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I am not paying. I am leaving.

Off you go then. Or you could stay and help Gameforge get it right.

They actually don't care about our opinions. I agree with the turkey guy..... they know how to be very rude with those who want to play the game. Players have already complained about it on discord and nothing happened. A lot of players are complaining here and nothing happened.

We used to suggest good ideas to fix the game and they were like: "no, we're not gonna do this. period.". Then, after the update, the game got even worse. Some people say the game is dying, I think it is already dead.

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If you don't want to invest in your troops then, I don't know what to say other than wait around for Ikariam Classic.

They should at least give us the option to choose. I think a lot of people would like to play the old and good ikariam again.

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I got to say new upgrade suck big time. Before you had the satisfaction that you reached maximum level, and kinda planned the way your game is gonna get. Now, they pushed the final level so far away for all buildings, that I guess it is impossible to reach any maximum level, or at least it ll take years. Maybe they think the game became infinitive, but unfortunately our live isn't. Shame... They ruined what s left in this game. It s like they think we are natives, and they wiggling colored glasses infront of pur eyes "Oh, look what we have, if you get trillions and trillions of resources, and in 7 years, anything you order, will be built in ONE SECOND. Oh, what a future would that be!"

Ridiculous. I guess some stupid idiot thought that GF is gonna last 1000 years.

Despite what badidol might claim the game is dying, everyone can see it in game.

it's not unusual though as games like this generally peak and then decline over time.

The grindy work is to try and keep people interested in the game but they're going about it the wrong way.

I think they're targeting the whales which are the big spenders that keep the game going.. the type of people that will drop 100's or 1000s of dollars in the game a month and will do so for ego alone.

I don't really see where they're going with the game, I'd just quit but with so many years wrapped up into it and it doesn't take much time day to day is the only reason Im still around at all.

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I quit and I don't regret, but you can go on v-mode for a while. My mates did that....... Some of them returned, others didn't.

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Honestly are there stupid players who paid for things that does not give direct effectiveness and advantage?

Why should i paid for something that does not give me some kind of advantage?

In ikariam there is only one units that is a paid units among all land and sea units. There are no other units, skills or wonders that are p2w.

Moreover before infinte horizon a big economy did not granted a direct advantage against your opponent since your army could grow only in number and no in strength.

If attacker and defender are online the defender was always in advantage ( attacker's missions visibility, control of the garrison, walls, instant munition reloading in own polis).

Moreover with multies, friends and general banks, that are al free features, you can block spots on islands and prevent other people to attack you without spend any money.

So you are complaining about what?

Here the real p2w feature are the new ups. Since ups are infinite and now are +5 /+10 whales can spend tons of money to buy or produce faster tons of crystals and have armies that can completely overcome other players armies, including spartans.

The worst thing?

Ups does not count for total score, so you can grow in a server for years, making ups and then move to an other server and have a big gap in ups with normal players of that server.

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you would be surprised how many buy "useless things"...

it's not all about "being better" in online environments like this...but quite often about simply "standing out", "being unique" in a way

actually...it's quite shamefull to just be better simply because you pay....it just means that not you are better...but your money makes you...

and in any remotely competitive medium...this is just obsolete

what are we competing here about..? who can pay more?...

but indeed, if there are advantageous options...would be silly to pay for the other ones and not these...

but all of it is a design problem, nothing else

the wrong dev choices what simply ruins the game slowly...

so at least...don't bring more of this!

one paid unit is more than enough...you know, "everything has a start.."

and i don't want to see the next step on this. It's bad enough that it alrady exists, just stop it here.

the economy part is indeed trash now...but this also apply to army

all of it just sky-rocketed since the p2w is "unlimited" in all this...

so...still..the same question remains...why would we ever on earth need MORE p2w than we already have??

simple answer...we don't!

all your mentioned options are just some workarounds...none of them can really compete with the current p2w ones (if your wallet is generous enough, ofc..)

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Why are you nervous about something small like this? I'm not playing it anymore, but still I've never seen spartans on the battlefield. Never! People don't spend much money on stupid things - not here at least - some p2w features must be implemented. With the black market, you can have anything you want. Train and buy the double amount of hops and troops to beat them.

I just took the time to read the thread.... pretty cool your idea. The problem is: after this update, things will never be the same anymore. This last update was the worst I've ever seen. Thank God I quit the game a long time ago. It seems I made a good decision.

If you're still on v-mode, you probably won't read this but, games like this has no solution but to die or be full of psychos who think they rule the game, which I think it's the current situation. This is not the only game which lacks cooperation. A bunch of other games are not fun playing online anymore. Games like Counter Strike and Point Blank are also dying because they are full of spoiled players who can't stand someone using knife. They will kick you out of the room if you do.

Instead of enforcing their rules and keep things fair, they keep launching new costumes and silly stuff just to make profit. Reporting players one of by one is unfeasible, there are lots of them. The go's also pretend nothing wrong is going on. This game, on the other hand, is full of players who aren't willing to wait days to train troops. They end a battle and start another one right away, and if you decide to go back to real life for a moment, they will block your ports until you get ghosted. It's an endless headache. This is one of the reasons why I quit the game.

In the end, using alts is the only way to make gold and troops faster, and also making the go's pay for having the most stupid idea ever. If that's the case, I totally agree to use alts.

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So why don't you set 2 links: one to the forum, one to discord. And everyone gets the chance to choose.

Because it's already crowded up there and the choice was either keeping the link to the already hardly used platform forum or put the link to the already much more used platform Discord. So I chose Discord. It's as simple as that.

Forum hardly used??? Let's see:

Discord:

Keeping in mind Discord is just a chat platform for me it looks pretty balanced.

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The forum "x pro Tag" is a simple median calculation over all posts ever made divided by days since forum went live.

That has little to no valuable information about the actual activity.

The decision stands.

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But over 800 active users does not sound for me like "hardly used".

Of course, the decision stands. It's just the forum. Suggestions for improvement have to made at Discord to be heard.

I'm just saying, in my opinion it was a bad dicision and it helps draining the forum ... you will see.

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It will. I was using Discord only and some people mentioned certain threads about alts. I decided to create an account to see how it's like. I didn't even know there was a forum lol