Very bad improvement.....

Colonys was good, now Emporia is bad in many reasons......

And according to the write up on Emporia, we can no longer participate in joint defense of emporia.  One of the things many of us enjoyed is rallying multiple players defenses and putting them in a colony to collect PVP from attackers.  This seems to be no longer possible with the exception of on an individual basis only.

I thing that is not good, I like the joint defense idea, in other places.  In fact, I'd like for the game to allow joint defenses on archon's city sieges in a similar fashion, so if my coalition member sieges an archon's city, I can send reinforcements that will help him defend that siege instead of the way it works now, the reinforcements will attempt to liberate the archon's city.  Liberate should also be an option, but reinforcements should always mean sending defense troops.

Concerned active player

Wao, i just test this new Em-boring Colony, it need your army to carry the load back from the Em-boring colony, the amount of capacity of the harvest to be carry is count on your army capability load.....well hopefully im nt gonna waste my time on those thing cos if you need the resource you have to put an Army there to harvest and carry back to your long trip to home.

How do i get moderator status so i can leave positive feedback or smiley face?

Victory said:

How do i get moderator status so i can leave positive feedback or smiley face?

Archon is not necessary, you can find the faces in this section, when you are publishing or write something

Need to have colonies and emporias at the same time. That would make everyone happy. Many players have been accustomed to using the colonies to gather most of their PVP. I know that some units will clash at the emporias, but the interaction will not be the same that many are use to seeing at the colonies. Also the emporias do not seem to be worth the trouble for resource gathering in my opinion. 

Now what's the use of THOLOS Building,

And for a level 58 player myself and a non cash spender, I find Emporia's a vast improvement over colonies because there always will be unclaimed emporia's to find which saves the trouble of killing vast armies of other players, Unless some keep on sending defences to collect and collect. The great thing is that the units come back to Acropolis, which saves the trouble from constantly monitoring this activity

And Please can you Create more Coalition missions, Its great to have teamwork and doing missions with a team.

The use of the Tholos is still to allow holding a given number of emporia at the same time.

Now classical colonies and emporia (settlement and hamlets, respectively) do coexist on Stormfall, so why wouldn't it be the case here ?

Now classical colonies and emporia (settlement and hamlets, respectively) do coexist on Stormfall, so why wouldn't it be the case here ?

Ok ... i got tht you want to implement some new feature .. but why in th world you remove the colonies ?? colony feature was way better then this emporia ... and i m quiet sure most of active player will agree with me on this .... really wrist idea ... then again wht we can expect from u ??? 

[There's no need to quote the entire post. We know what you're replying to.

OK, so now we have to learn how to use these.

First of all, low level and high end players no longer share the same list : that was one of the the frequent requests that were made by players too weak to defend against scavengers.

Note that colonies could very well be re-introduced using the same rule. Maybe an idea to remember...

Then why the hell are there so many freaks arounf thinking colonies were PvP supermarkets ??? How many people hit mine and  told me "it was for PvP" ? Well, Pvp, they got some, maybe not the way they intended.

And of course, this unpleasant behavior is still occurring with emporia, except you can't get help from friends for joint defense, and you're somewhat force to expose your troops just to be able to carry resources back...

The only point about PvP I agree with, is when one of those rude people attacked my colonies and got a retaliation raid. Well, I'm just going on doing the same with emporia, as they still didn't learn politeness !

So apart from the fact you're alone and you an't just put 1 jav and retaliate, they work prety much the same way, but your losses are now huge, and almost certain.

I really think both kinds should be aviilable together, in sufficient quantities, to allow players to select according to their tastes.

Maybe one interesting feature is, if you don't send enough defense to stay to the end, the emporia are self liberating, so different players can alternate ownership.

It offers other players trying to race for them an opportunity to just share them instead of fighting. Provided you're not interfering with one of the rude people quoted above, maybe it's still the best way to use them (actually, I did it a lot already with colonies).

Too many people seem to forget players interaction isn't limited to aggression and hate messages... :p I still think the most interesting aspect of the game is talking to each other, befriending and cooperate on these kinds of targets, rather than fighting.

Well, it's just my point of view of course, but anyway, when you'll find yourself competing with other players for one of this extra-rare drachmas emporia, maybe you should still think about this. ;)

While I'm all for fixing the host of problems in this game and improving and adding to various aspects of the game to increase the choice of options, tactics and strategy, I'm getting real tired of there being no simple fixes for the age old problems and with the only "improvements" being such complete and utter nonsense as this under the guise of supposedly making things more fair.

It's suppose to be a war game and one which use to require a long term outlook and plan as well as some common sense to survive and succeed. As at one point we were ALL low level players. And at one point, one did not even consider playing the colony game until one was at least a level 60-65 player.

For which those of us who have paid our dues to reach a degree of success are now being told that all of our time and efforts have lead to our having some kind of an unfair advantage for which we must be limited and punished.

As since this, and yet once again unannounced, unexplained and non-clarified nonsense began, there has been only 1 drachma emporium ever available to myself given my level, while others within the same area of the map as myself have as many as 8 available to them. For which the ability to collect more from a drachma emporium as a higher level player is made entirely irrelevant when there is only 1 such emporium in existence. 

If it ain't broke don't fix it. If it needs mending then mend it, rather than completely altering it beyond all recognition, reality and relevancy.

mgiletly said:

While I'm all for fixing the host of problems in this game and improving and adding to various aspects of the game to increase the choice of options, tactics and strategy, I'm getting real tired of there being no simple fixes for the age old problems and with the only "improvements" being such complete and utter nonsense as this under the guise of supposedly making things more fair.

It's suppose to be a war game and one which use to require a long term outlook and plan as well as some common sense to survive and succeed. As at one point we were ALL low level players. And at one point, one did not even consider playing the colony game until one was at least a level 60-65 player.

For which those of us who have paid our dues to reach a degree of success are now being told that all of our time and efforts have lead to our having some kind of an unfair advantage for which we must be limited and punished.

As since this, and yet once again unannounced, unexplained and non-clarified nonsense began, there has been only 1 drachma emporium ever available to myself given my level, while others within the same area of the map as myself have as many as 8 available to them. For which the ability to collect more from a drachma emporium as a higher level player is made entirely irrelevant when there is only 1 such emporium in existence. 

If it ain't broke don't fix it. If it needs mending then mend it, rather than completely altering it beyond all recognition, reality and relevancy.

Archon, thank you for your feedback. 

First of all, please, specify the bugs you have mentioned, so I can clarify some moments for you. 

As for the Emporia, all the changes that we provide are aimed to the game improvement and prosperity, we introduce the features and updates that keep the game interesting, engaging and challenging. I guess that is what you and other players love about the games.