21JUL11 - Mobiles, other

I agree with what you're saying Kumo.

But I still think there is a problem with people who spent a long time building up cities on 5 food plots suddenly becoming limited to a greater extent than people who built on 7 food plots - simply because they were unaware that 7 food would become to essential later on.

Hence the current change is going to force some veterans to chose between rebuilding their almost their entire account, or settling with a significant disadvantage to those who built their cities on 7 food tiles.

Not only that but these changes are going to make "demolishing your first city to build on a 7 food tile" standard advice to new players - which just smells of poorly designed game mechanics.

Folks-- We are being forced to choose strategies. One thing that has seemed clear to me from what the GMs have been saying is that they are going to continue to force people to specialize their cities and gameplay. You won't be able to do everything in every city. Allowing people to partially staff a building falls into the lets have our cake and eat it too category. If you want to drop the food requirement, demo the building. You have a mechanism for it today, so use it.

I think this and some of the other upcoming functionality that GM TC and GM SC have told us is coming will force tough decisions on us as to what a particular city is going to specialize in, but, in the long run, that's a good thing! We don't want homogeneity in all our cities like we've had. I think it's much more interesting to have one city be an uber mage city, one a military, another focused on diplos and maybe another as a naval powerhouse. If every city could do everything (as has been the case to date), it would be a much more boring world, imo...

Gods that is a totally moronic suggestion, firstly what torn sky said; how do you judge it, secondly even if the devs thought it was a good idea it's not as simple as saying lets do it, they'd actually have spent a lot of time changing that stats of each individual player, whether their whole stratergy revolves around this tactic or you've used it for a couple of months in one or two towns (me) which even if its only about 20 players i'd imagin would take up most of the day given the number of variables.

Most importantly this change makes absolutely no difference to commander experience; no. of troops lost has nothing to do with the size of the army, therefore a player utilising the exploit, or a player not using it, who attacks a legion will both take the same number of casualties and therefore the same amount of time to recover.

If there's a new way to get more food to our cities so we can actually have a functioning city at 20k pop(army & diplos, enough for def & off) then that is something we need to have made asap, otherwise i believe that a few if not more people will leave the game because of this drastic change in the mechanic of the game. making a better food sov place/bonus would work somewhat but meh, what do i know.

Also, i am wondering what is planned for commander upgrading now, as there will be less troops and therefore commanders will upgrade slower for newer players. And the NPC sizes? No one wants to kill a legion when it may mean destroying their whole army! this will also effect tournaments and i believe seems to be taking a lot of the old war element out of the game. 

I  actually think that the one way to fix the problems that will be created by fixing the tax, is to reset everything gained by anyone who used it, and i mean anyone who had there taxes too high and had food at 0. from the ones who won tournaments becaue they had more troops to the people who forgot to change their taxes. Make all their gold & resources & statistics & commander levels be what it would be without having used the max taxes method. If this is not done, it creates a highly unfair advantage to those who have used it to get their commander XP, advanced resources from the market, etc. and if new players cannot do this, then why should we still have what we have gained from it?

Seems logical to me.
So Think about it.


Edited by G0DsDestroyer - 28 Jul 2011 at 07:04