JEZEBEL said:

These are the types of messages we are seeing more and more in the game lately, its sad because these are good and steady players who have been around for a long time - I try to encourage my members NOT to spend on the game but this is the reality of it

[09:53] NAME REMOVED: JEZ hello :) I have decided to stop playing stormfall. Please don`t mind i just don`t feel like i can do much or even some.Game for me has become very dificult to play becouse if you don`t spend money you can`t play you can just be here watching others play.Thank you for everything , i have enjoed my time here.I wish you and everybody good luck in both game and real life. 

Please stop the insanity and make this game what it should be for EVERYONE

I could said so much about my thoughts about this, but I'm afraid it would put me in the box again for a long while. This is a Plarium issue, its not a player issue. Plarium got a strict its their way or the highway, and sit still in the boat and make no waves. What you see is players that vote with their wallets, and that is what players do.

When I first started play this game, I started to try reach out and connect to a lot of players I came across. Like I do with most mmo's I play. Because, end of the day, mmo's is about social gaming. Hardly anyone of those back then is still playing today. Its just the nature of a game such as this I'm afraid.

Hi all!

Thank you for your feedbacks, I know some of players are leaving but some are still playing and some are enjoying it. It's just a game and is a personal decision for everyone if he\she playing it or not. 

Also, we can't argue with Plarium, is a game is a business and they are leading it, there are many departaments inside like any other company which analyze the indicators the feedbacks from us and all kinds of factors....

So, in the end all we can do it's just to give them real feedbacks, suggestions about the game and this is it....

ps.: one way to gain more Stoneheart units is playing Stoneheart BG Tournament which just been launched....enjoy it...

Best regards and thank you again!

ISPA said:

Hi all!

Thank you for your feedbacks, I know some of players are leaving but some are still playing and some are enjoying it. It's just a game and is a personal decision for everyone if he\she playing it or not. 

Also, we can't argue with Plarium, is a game is a business and they are leading it, there are many departaments inside like any other company which analyze the indicators the feedbacks from us and all kinds of factors....

So, in the end all we can do it's just to give them real feedbacks, suggestions about the game and this is it....

I don't know what country you are from, but its not just a game, its also a product and players is also paying consumers. Maybe we can't directly argue with Plarium, but we can show our discontent. As with products else, you can find a lot of negative reviews on both products and companies online. Plarium seldom listen to or react to our critics and feedback. No one know their games better than the ones actually playing them, and these are games where social interaction is one of the most important factors to have a game that thrive. 

And you are right it sa personal choice whether someone play it or not, and that is why we seen over time how the game bleed players. Any mmo can only bleed players for so long before it reach a critical mass. Imho, with Stormfall we already passed critical mass with no real hope of turn things around they way things carry on. 

Let's not forget about bugs. This is constructive feedback, though I believe Plarium dosen't see it as constructive. We know that bugs that dosen't benefit Plarium is solved within hours. Bugs that dosen't benefit players takes months to fix, if they fix it at all. This game get's more bugs by every update and no fixes are made.

As statements in this thread, but you also have happy players with less (immersion-breaking) bugs. After Champions and Stoneheart, I have to refresh my game 7-8 times a day. Before that, 2-3 times per day.

And you can forget about reporting them. If you do, be prepared to capture your game session by support to prove a bug. So now I have to download a tool to be able to capture my desktop and a tool to edit my video? (if no edit, the raw footage would be massive). I want to play the game for a few hours, not capture a video and edit it to prove a bug. We are not hired by Plarium to take care of their mess. We are not play testers for Plarium, this is a full game released without Alpha/Beta stamp (though it feels like Beta). Where is QA department?

I could continue, but I fear as I said that this wouldn't be taken as constructive feedback.

Hi there Ironapex, its not that Plarium cant find a respected Mod, its a matter of most players in the game cannot restrain themselves from being negative on the forums sometimes and turn down the Moderator jobs that get offered to them, 

when Plarium needs a Moderator they ask around, the last Moderator job some on this forum were asked but they turned it down, it was also asked on the facebook forum so I applied, answered the questionaire correct and got the job, now you may ask yourself, why would anyone become a moderator, well I can tell you why I did

1, Enganging in general conversation where it is constructive is good and can be helpfull most times too, I enjoy that

2, I like to help players out who ask for the help with any game queries

3, being a part of the Mod team gives you 1st hand communication with Plarium employees and I try my hardest to get most bugs to reproduce every time before I pass it onto the team so they can get developers to look into it to get the very annoying bugs fixed as fast as possible

I am a very experienced player of Stormfall, been playing since late 2013, now your Plarium servers and the Facebook server have 3 different things with our games but the rest of it all works the same, 1 thing i do hope gets changed for your Plarium servers is they put in force limits

Christine Hare said:

When we all started to play this game yes it was different but everyone who complained about something in the game was to controlled by the coiners like settlements for example, you have no idea how many complaints were put on the forum about settlements how 1 player was allowed to hold them for the whole duration they were in the game for their time with just 1 archer, and if you took that settlement away, their whole alliance would attack you so you all got hamlets because of this, a 1v1 style player format where 1 person cannot hold a hamlet continuously for the duration of its cycle before it refills again. 

What changed in that regard?, now you got coiners that completely control the beacon game. Hence, there is no active beacon game any longer.  The state of the game is not a player problem its a Plarium problem, how would you challenge Plarium in that regard? We being knocked back one bastion at the time until nothing is left. Any game need a strong core game to build on. See any strong core game left in Stormfall?

Christine Hare said:

Sir Dan Saul Knight, its nothing to do with being a brown noser as you say but everything to do with helping out players when they ask for help, being able to get bugs looked into promptly provided I can reproduce them sucessfully as well. 

When we all started to play this game yes it was different but everyone who complained about something in the game was to controlled by the coiners like settlements for example, you have no idea how many complaints were put on the forum about settlements how 1 player was allowed to hold them for the whole duration they were in the game for their time with just 1 archer, and if you took that settlement away, their whole alliance would attack you so you all got hamlets because of this, a 1v1 style player format where 1 person cannot hold a hamlet continuously for the duration of its cycle before it refills again. 

I have helped many players over the years to get ahead in this game with all of the changes, I adapt and learn fast, I also take in other players advice and try it out if I have never done that ingame before, its just a way to get things done faster

Take the stoneheart units for example, while most are rushing to try to get their gargoyles unlocked to build and their abilities upgraded I am still doing pergator upgrades, reason why is because the pergator defensive special abilities are the only thing that will counteract the gargoyle special offense abilities so my defense will be ready if the gargoyle players come for me, being a Mod is not a bad thing, I find it challenging but enjoyable

there used to be "unwritten" rules to settlements if you got there first you got the settlement no need to defend it if someone took it you took it back and if needed with a show of force - settlements could be league defended and gave a different aspect to the PVP game - i cannot be bothered with relic settlements even though i still need some relics - its just a waste of time as are holding fiefs with archers - farms will always be raided so holding a bunch of fiefs only creates a waste of time to reclaim your fiefs

Hi there Sir Dan Saul Knight, this forum is easy compared to the facebook forum, and as far as helping other players go, I see players here even you giving  good gaming advice to others who ask questions in a positive way most of the time so that destroys your theory of no one here ever  posts any help to other players

Why did they choose me? well that I dont know, but it possibly could be based on my behavior on the facebook forum as I do help there too without getting angry

Yes agree with you I don't have an ego, egos in this game will get your troops killed very fast for your 5 minutes of fame, I don't plan to exit this game, I will still be enjoying working out new stratedgys to kill some killers with my offense and to watch other killers die on our mobile defense walls, I have a responsibility to my league to guide them to many victories not losses, only place most of us post the kills is on our league page now

the 3rd part was not really out of context, making complaints on a forum many times in a bad way is being negative, I used the settlements scenario as 1 example from many of real facts

Christine Hare said:

I see players here even you giving  good gaming advice to others who ask questions in a positive way most of the time so that destroys your theory of no one here ever  posts any help to other players

OMG you can't miss the point more.....

Quick summary and recap:

- I say that brown nosing / posting positive Plarium supporting posts is what gets you appointed mod

- You say, no it's about helping people

- I say, you must be wrong because there are plenty of people helping here but they apparently have to go to FB to find you. So it's clearly not about helping people

- You agree with me that people help a lot here

this forum is like Icecream, mostly sweet smooth and easy

That is the whole flipping point.

The players are very well behaved to each other with the tiny exception of one or two of the propaganda / league vs league threads. There are loads of people here with the balance and calm heads to moderate.

So it amazes me/us that Plarium find it IMPOSSIBLE to EVER appoint a long term member of this forum to be a moderator. Hasn't happened for a good two years (apart from one time but best not to talk about that).

I thought about applying few months back. But, Plarium is ONLY looking in the native English community. As I am not English, there wouldn't even be a point for me to apply.

I thought about applying few months back. But, Plarium is ONLY looking in the native English community. As I am not English, there wouldn't even be a point for me to apply.

SyntaxError IR said:

I thought about applying few months back. But, Plarium is ONLY looking in the native English community. As I am not English, there wouldn't even be a point for me to apply.

I think Gadheras is right you communicate well with your English and would be helpful to others who may not be able to interpret it as well as you do ...

Bio you know we like you!!

 this forum is easy compared to the facebook forum, 

Ironapex, that's not my call, the one who banned him is the only  1 who can lift the ban, it might help a long way if he talked to the one who private messaged him about being banned.

Sir Dan Saul Knight, take a look at the comments here of the players you know well, they could have applied but didn't for their own reasons, I am pretty sure Syntaxerror and Jezebel would get the next mod job easily if they applied for it when its advertised, both communicate well, help other players a lot on here and try their hardest to stay out of the negativity on some posts, if you don't try you can never receive its a simple as that and no you don't have to go to facebook to find me, from what I can see I would strongly suggest that no one here had the confidence enough to take that step and just try for it, thats why the Mod job for here was also advertised on the facebook forum 

Very soon you will understand just how experienced a player I am on this game without having to spend lots of money to do it but I will keep that a surprise and wont show untill the results speak for themselves fully at the end of the help I am giving to a player I am currently working with from this server only because it seems to me that you think I'm not well experienced in this game as a player but correct me if I'm wrong

All of the Mods here are experienced gamers in Stormfall who took that extra step and tried out for the Mod job when it was advertised, the questionaire for it is a few pages but pretty easy to do and if you are really upset about a change in the game then why can't you just private message our Community Manager instead of getting all negative on the forum, doing it on the forum gets no one anywhere fast

Limad, gamer friends come and go no matter the server even I experienced this many times over the years I have been playing this game, when I thought a player was a friend and going to be there always, they get a better offer from a bigger league and they leave, it happens. Its a war game and I don't want to be friends with many when my league is predominately an offense league, some leave the game, some move onto other leagues thinking its going to be better there but then cannot come back because there is no room in their old league, game changes and adjusts, look at it from the perspective of Plarium, they wont go broke like I see some say here, they have the mobile phone version Rise of Balur which is extreemly popular amoungst gamers and the updates we see there end up comming to our servers in the future, then you have all of the servers here and on facebook for Stormfall with many big coiners in each of those showing no signs of quitting the game, most wont when they have the power over many others to do what they want in the game and then there are all of the other different games Plarium has on the different servers all with their own big coiners in those too

I know some big coiners even on my server who do not have friends, they don't believe in having friends and only keep gamer friends in their circle that are usefull to them, once that gamer is no long usefull no matter how long they have been friends with them the coiner ditches them for a new usefull player to them, that's the harsh world of coiner gaming for some

You think its ok to treat me the way you have now just because I am a new Mod here that you don't know well yet some players here on this forum also go the facebook forum and no one on there including me tells them to go back to the Plarium forum.

Limad also wasn't boasting as I was only answering Sir Dan Saul Knight's question politely about why Plarium cant find a long term player from here to be a Mod, well thats because the long term players here didn't try for it when it was advertised or they turned Plarium down if they were asked for 1 reason or the other and that's being blunt and I have always been polite to you, you say go back to facebook, well I am here and on facebook, just because you missunderstood my reply to Sir Dan Saul Knight doesn't mean I wont stop helping out others here who ask the questions for the help in the game

Jezebel, where my castle was in the game long before ports were ever brought in the coiners in the large leagues in my area used to control the sapphire, food and relic settlements with just 1 archer in each, if I took the settlement from them they would not only attack me, they would call in their friends in the area to attack as well while I was still growing back then, once I grow my castle strong enough over the years I used their short temper and agressiveness against them to catch them out and kill their offense on them 

Lord Gadheras, Oh dont worry I have seen some leave, but I have also seen many more of the big coiners just call bluff because their league is already sitting cosy in good rank and still hold their own well with a large beacon field, the coiners I have seen actually quit for good are the ones who have lost all of their offense in a beacon counter kill or lost their whole army into battlegrounds, those are the main reasons I have seen coiners actually quit the game for.

If your looking to blame anyone for all of the new addons to the game, blame every player in the game who complained about how boring the original game was, how many times have you seen players complain about old features in the game like can't compete in any development tourneys because they have everything upgraded, have thousands of soulstones and nothing to spend them on, beacons are unwanted and dead in the game, these are just a few that I remember players complaining about so you all get change, Stoneheart so you get upgrades to do, units that require soulstones to build so now you have somewhere to use your soulstones, now its going to be sapphire beacons, its been released on rise of balur game, any beacon on the map can be upgraded by the marshal to become a sapphire beacon, now I saw many complaints about forts being to difficult to get to level 20 because it requires top 10 rank and 5 level 5 beacons to get there, on the road map there will be superforts, I have no idea what it do to our forts though

As far as Plarium goes our voice is with the higher up the ladder employees for the company on the forums from what I have seen but correct me if I am wrong there

Lord Sir Dan Saul Knight, they never asked me which would be much to your surprise, it was advertised on the facebook forum, I applied, done the questionaire and was approved (I wasnt the only one who applied from the facebook forum) and 9 times out of 10, its lack of confidence that stops most from applying who are on the same forum because they know they will cop negativity from their friends on the forum and if the Mod has to place a bann, I have seen players attack a Mod ingame non stop and lose gamer friends because of that and that's something they dont want, me I'm very tough skinned, sure you sometimes get on my nerves a little too much like you but its nothing I cant handle, I've dealt with way worse ingame, 

I can tell your strugging to accept the fact I play on a different server to you, its not like you or Gadheras can just attack my castle if you dissagree with me but I am also used to my castle getting attacked often, not through being a Mod but because, well we are not a nice league to get on the wrong side of in the game, it just doesnt bother me but I do attack back if the player is agressive enough for me to wipe out their offense on them

Ironapex, that's not my call, the one who banned him is the only  1 who can lift the ban, it might help a long way if he talked to the one who private messaged him about being banned.