silvereye said:

 what happens to your units when your grain hits 0?

hello archon

It means that no longer, you will lose the drives when not have grain, as before, you did not have grain, and lost units, but still must take grain to improve things in your city

Takes away some of the challenge

The real problem was the challenge was mostly for beginners, who didn't have the temple of Demeter yet and who were running our of grain very quickly.

Their troops were evaporating as they came out of the training buildings overnight and they couldn't understand where they had vanished... :p

In the end, the Plarium support centre was overflowing with complaints.

Veterans players had the necessary experience and troops to raid a few cities around for maximum loads (86K then, as sketches didn't exist) before going to bed, so their freshly produced troops wouldn't risk desertion. :)

While beginners were often caught off guard, and didn't have time to have built a decent list of good farms already anyway.

For this reason, this feature was hardly a problem for veterans (I've never lost ANY unit, ever), and a big pain for beginners not being properly warned and advised.

Don't forget the phenomenon only affected units garrisonned on your own walls and out of your acropolis, and never any other garrison anywhere else.

It's called "game management", but that's a foreign concept to Plarium.   Now you have players that run 100K-200K or more in the negative with no thought of losing anything when in real life there would be mass desertions.  Or is the next "upgrade" going to limit the amount of negativity a player can accrue?   

there has to be a limit Alyona...to prevent CC players to acquire too big armies...this game lacks one big and important thing BALANCE between spenders and regular players

there has to be a limit Alyona...to prevent CC players to acquire too big armies...this game lacks one big and important thing BALANCE between spenders and regular players

limit of 600 mil off on coal att is hardly a limit :)