a realization

Peace Alliance · February 23, 2005, 10:40:30 PM

Reg wouldn't seem so slow if we had more people playing. with so few, that means fewer are taking turns each day, meaning less happens...

The Lady Shael · February 23, 2005, 10:58:57 PM

Reg wouldn't seem so slow if you guys weren't addicted to the game. ^_^ Seriously, because certain people are incredibly more active than others on the game, they have more of an advantage, and the members who don't log on as much tend to...get killed...and usually don't play again.

I'm not so sure speeding up Reg would help 'balance' the game...not everyone can log on every 30 minutes of the day.

Peace Alliance · February 23, 2005, 11:20:56 PM

the whole point of reg is that you can log on every 3 or 4 days and still be an active player

Blood Wake · February 24, 2005, 09:06:51 AM

I think what scares new people away is protection at the beginning, a newb will find the game, play it until out of turns and say "what? I didn't even attack anyone or anything." and then they go to a different site never to return, if people joined the game haveing like 450 turns then newbs would get to attack and feel really cool and big that they beat some other newb on the first day and then they have much higher chances of comeing back the next day.

I have already gotten 2 people to join off of myspace.com

RazorClaw · February 24, 2005, 09:51:25 AM

My friend's been killed three different times right out of protection w/ 1000 acres.

Ashaman · February 24, 2005, 10:15:55 AM

Quote from: Blood WakeI think what scares new people away is protection at the beginning, a newb will find the game, play it until out of turns and say "what? I didn't even attack anyone or anything." and then they go to a different site never to return, if people joined the game haveing like 450 turns then newbs would get to attack and feel really cool and big that they beat some other newb on the first day and then they have much higher chances of comeing back the next day.

I have already gotten 2 people to join off of myspace.com

That is a bad suggestion. Giving people way too much turns to start means they can produce a lot of units with those turns. FA them to their friends, delete empire, and do it over again. Or if people are doing kill runs and got no turns left, they can just make another empire and have infinite turns? Not a good idea at all :)

Veranor · February 24, 2005, 10:33:59 AM

There's still a time limit to delete. I'm pretty sure you have to be a week old to delete. Plus who would sacrifice their regular account just to get a kill in?

Arguia Zsah · February 24, 2005, 11:06:15 AM

I don't play reg. THis is because whenever I sign up I get automatically disabled. The same happens to Ashy on turbo. Maybe this stops newbies playing? They can't and they don't know what to do to get undisabled? :unsure: Maybe... needs sorting methinks!

Peace Alliance · February 24, 2005, 12:10:37 PM

there is a very easy-to-use messaging system that sends an e mail to the admins if you're having login porblems.

trouble is, retto rarely checks it, and even when he doesn't he doesn't always do anything about it. i know i can't log on to either server with the other computers on my network, he says i just have to refresh... but thats not it. and i'm using mozilla with all the plugins, AND even IE with and without pklugins...

The Lady Shael · February 24, 2005, 03:43:21 PM

*waves hand tentatively* Everyone's forgotten about #2, Daughters of Delor?

andrew · February 24, 2005, 04:24:35 PM

peace and shael 2 turns every 15 minutes only adds an extra 50 turns a day

people don't have to log on every 30 minutes and it would only change the 3-4 days to 2-3 days to stay active if even

The Lady Shael · February 24, 2005, 07:41:22 PM

It would be nice, but it won't solve the problem. The people leaving are those who can log in only every 2-4 days, or slightly less...true, you can probably stay alive within that time period, but not with people who log in every hour. Even though the amount of turns for both are still the same, those who log in every hour still hold an advantage over those who can only log in every 2-4 days. Those people usually end up being slaughtered by the active players, and leave the game.

*shrugs* I don't know, that's the way I look at it, I could be wrong, this is only based off from what I remember playing a year ago.

Peace Alliance · February 24, 2005, 09:33:49 PM

Yes, but like i said, the reason the game seems to have a slow pace at the moment is because its got too few people playing.

Arguia Zsah · February 25, 2005, 10:02:16 AM

I would play if i could be bothered to ask to get disabled.

RazorClaw · February 25, 2005, 10:07:43 AM

Well, it depends, Peace. If the game has the top 7 or so filled with excellent players, and then another forty or so measuring from mediocre to good players, then IMO it would be fun. However, it would be more fun and harder if there were just 20 excellent players. However, in the first two eras, we had both a large amount of players and a fair amount of really good players... And, though we won't get all of them back by having an older-style game, it'd help.