BiohazarD said:

Gadheras said:

BiohazarD said:

Oracle said:

The question should be rephrased to, what can we do to make sure that our fellow rich players do'nt enticed to buy game destroying armies. But that question will break forum rules. 

The problem with the game is the black market and the imbalance it causes compared to normal game play. 

The are three solutions 

1. Remove the black market

Or 

2. Reverse the black market back to its original form

Or

3. Let the game die

Force limits are not going to solve the problem. They will just make it easier for bullies to abuse small leagues without getting touched

How would force limits protect bullies from small leagues?  Force limit only affects you if you have enough troops to exceed the limit, that's kind of the point. 

Although I agree some changes to the black market would be good for the game as well (such as removing the ability to directly purchase or heal troops for sapphires). 

Remove all ability to buy troops and legendaries from the market direct. Make them ALL trainable, but include a sapphire cost in the train price in addition to resources. Have the black market sell bigger packs of resources, and increase the barns by a lot...

If someone buys millions of resources to make a lot of troops, I don't really give a rats ass, because his/her troops would snail out the same as everyone else does. Unless they spend a ton on boosters to speed it up. 

I'd rather they go the opposite way, make troop build times fast (like 10x the current rate) and have the limiting factor be resources.  This rewards gameplay activities like raiding for resources, hamlets, trading etc. 

Agreed, 

Rebuttal will be that everyone can build faster but I think the consensus is that nobody cares about that, since having troops in the first place is what the game is about. Not every does pvp as their main enjoyment but Battle Grounds as well. It is painfully obvious that none of the devs or staff play on the same servers or under the same terms the rest of do. 

IronApex Turok said:

Alina posted a picutre of the dev team "hard at work" in the news and announcements section.....

This is the dev team trying to figure out how to fix the game. 

no notebooks, no one even has the game pulled up. half arent even paying attention. 

my favorite is the guy fidgeting with the feather duster, everyone else is just standing around with their hands in their pockets. 

look at everyones faces.  they have no clue how to fix the game. 

I'll have you know that feather duster is critical to the long-term success of the game! 

*sigh* Some people just don't understand true quality. 

Hello All,

I really appreciate your thoughts on this matter and for me it really good to see you all in the forums.

Perhaps I could speak to Rizzo and ETsphere on this matter.

Perhaps Emps, Dominus and other leagues can make this happen.

The word TRUST is the key here....if a NAP would work

Like I say the mechanics of the GAME is not going to change so WE must change it.

I appreciate the feedback from you ALL

Happy Gaming

DoomieUK

IronApex Turok said:

Alina posted a picutre of the dev team "hard at work" in the news and announcements section.....

This is the dev team trying to figure out how to fix the game. 

no notebooks, no one even has the game pulled up. half arent even paying attention. 

my favorite is the guy fidgeting with the feather duster, everyone else is just standing around with their hands in their pockets. 

look at everyones faces.  they have no clue how to fix the game. 

There is always someone recording a summary of the meeting, which is then provided to everyone who attended - as well as those who did not, but still need the information that was being discussed. There is no need to have the game opened if the matter being discussed does not require a visual demonstration. I understand that you prefer to see what you want to see in anything presented, but hey, at least they are not playing Overwatch as you were worried in the past.

@Biohazard

IronApex Turok said:

Alina posted a picutre of the dev team "hard at work" in the news and announcements section.....

This is the dev team trying to figure out how to fix the game. 

no notebooks, no one even has the game pulled up. half arent even paying attention. 

my favorite is the guy fidgeting with the feather duster, everyone else is just standing around with their hands in their pockets. 

look at everyones faces.  they have no clue how to fix the game. 

There is always someone recording a summary of the meeting, which is then provided to everyone who attended - as well as those who did not, but still need the information that was being discussed. There is no need to have the game opened if the matter being discussed does not require a visual demonstration. I understand that you prefer to see what you want to see in anything presented, but hey, at least they are not playing Overwatch as you were worried in the past.

@Biohazard

The duster is indeed very important. It is an artefact of great power that puts the likes of the Spear of Destiny and Excalibur to shame.

@Dimitri

Welcome back, not that you were away. Iron likes you. 

I prefer Alina and Paul. But Iron likes you,  so you are covered. I like your interaction with us. 

I do not see any of the things that you insist this image represents and, having attended some of these meetings, I know the Dev team takes them very seriously. But if one wants to find negatives in something it does not take too much effort to do so.

Dimitri Molchanov said:

roadstar Pitbull said:

Well that sure is a different meeting than i'm used to. Who is lead,, where is the direction?

They are all appearing to be doing their own thing, looking in various different directions.

No focus it what I see in this meeting. A feather duster, what looks like a console controller, and what about the ones looking on the ground, who dropped what???

It does help explain the current states of Plarium games...

A photo can be taken at any point during a meeting, before or after the matters of importance have been discussed. It would be impossible to determine the tone and direction of the meeting by a random photo. But people often see what they want to see 

I asked a lot in the past about more dev interaction, dev blogs, or dev responds to our questions on your youtube channel etc. If you take a game such as Star citizen, and check youtube and see all the dev interaction their fans and customers had with them during the process of make the game. You can get a very great lesson from such "Hey, we work for you, the customers, and we are doing stuff"....

Hi, guys!

I totally understand your point here. But the game designers/game developers are often VERY creative people, who generate a lot of ideas! Their meetings don't usually look like the guys in the shirts and jackets, who are sitting at the desks with pens and pencils.

The picture that we have shared with you guys displays the warm and positive atmoshpere, where the ideas are born :)

Hi, guys!

I totally understand your point here. But the game designers/game developers are often VERY creative people, who generate a lot of ideas! Their meetings don't usually look like the guys in the shirts and jackets, who are sitting at the desks with pens and pencils.

The picture that we have shared with you guys displays the warm and positive atmoshpere, where the ideas are born :)

Paul Gladkiy said:

Hi, guys!

I totally understand your point here. But the game designers/game developers are often VERY creative people, who generate a lot of ideas! Their meetings don't usually look like the guys in the shirts and jackets, who are sitting at the desks with pens and pencils.

The picture that we have shared with you guys displays the warm and positive atmoshpere, where the ideas are born :)

How about utilizing some ideas from the forum????

What a grand concept,,, instead of things we do not wish to see (ie: hot topic discussions here).

True, cat troops do not, but it is still limiting.   However, that loophole would need to be removed as well.  No troop, no matter its location, should be immune to leaving.   There should be priorities, however.   I would think troops in the catacombs should be last to leave.

I would also end another loophole I had forgot about.   Regardless of how much food a player has in their barns...even if its 1.5 million units of food, that player can NOT train or buy a single troop if their food production is not positive.   If there are no more bonuses left to create positive food production, then a player will be forced to destroy their current troops prior to training, reviving, or buying more troops.

Granted, I'd love to see sketches removed and Farm levels restored to 20 max as well (either that or sketches became as easy to obtain for non-coiners as eldritch units).

The only fix is to eliminate unlimited troop count and to minimize the difference between max coiner troops and max non coiner troops.  I'd remove that 50% offense/defense bonus as well.

The game is over until this problem is fixed, no matter what else they may try.  It may already be too late, but at least it would be worth the attempt over doing nothing.  I'm simply giving an easy solution to the problem.

BiohazarD said:

Oracle said:

The question should be rephrased to, what can we do to make sure that our fellow rich players do'nt enticed to buy game destroying armies. But that question will break forum rules. 

The problem with the game is the black market and the imbalance it causes compared to normal game play. 

The are three solutions 

1. Remove the black market

Or 

2. Reverse the black market back to its original form

Or

3. Let the game die

Force limits are not going to solve the problem. They will just make it easier for bullies to abuse small leagues without getting touched

How would force limits protect bullies from small leagues?  Force limit only affects you if you have enough troops to exceed the limit, that's kind of the point. 

Although I agree some changes to the black market would be good for the game as well (such as removing the ability to directly purchase or heal troops for sapphires). 

Remove all ability to buy troops and legendaries from the market direct. Make them ALL trainable, but include a sapphire cost in the train price in addition to resources. Have the black market sell bigger packs of resources, and increase the barns by a lot...

If someone buys millions of resources to make a lot of troops, I don't really give a rats ass, because his/her troops would snail out the same as everyone else does. Unless they spend a ton on boosters to speed it up. 

OCTAVIAN said:

Paul Gladkiy said:

Hi, guys!

I totally understand your point here. But the game designers/game developers are often VERY creative people, who generate a lot of ideas! Their meetings don't usually look like the guys in the shirts and jackets, who are sitting at the desks with pens and pencils.

The picture that we have shared with you guys displays the warm and positive atmoshpere, where the ideas are born :)

I cant believe i say this, but i kinda regret Oracle when was a Moderator: you guys are OFF TOPIC !  This useless discution about how devs looks in that picture is wierd! If you realy want to analyse that picture, open a new thread for it, and clear this one!

@Dimitri

Welcome back, not that you were away. Iron likes you. 

I prefer Alina and Paul. But Iron likes you,  so you are covered. I like your interaction with us. 

Well that sure is a different meeting than i'm used to. Who is lead,, where is the direction?

They are all appearing to be doing their own thing, looking in various different directions.

No focus it what I see in this meeting. A feather duster, what looks like a console controller, and what about the ones looking on the ground, who dropped what???

It does help explain the current states of Plarium games...

Dimitri Molchanov said:

TRolling

TRolling

I think a toilet plunger would been more suitable, consider the state of the game. Cute to see a bronie is represented at the meeting as well :p