29SEPT11 Moving Cities

I assume that comment was aimed at MrD's post above Lly? In which case I agree totally. We want fun in Illy - we don't want 'real life' - ppls can go play sims if they want 'real-lifes-on-tha-interwebs'.

But I think this is a side-track somewhat... I still want one of the devs to address (or even just acknowledge) my question above.

EDIT: Although I admit it probably comes across as self-important for me to demand the devs individual attention. But the whole point of posting my question here was to see if others wanted to know the same thing/ask the same question... if a significant portion of the community wants to know then I guess it is deserving of dev-attention?

So here it is again anyways: Will the negative-food/zero-balance glitch be fixed please? I understand that food decoupling was put on hold and/or cancelled (as has already been discussed on the previous page) but this does not mean there are not other ways to close this exploit (simpler ways, infact).


Edited by Createure - 08 Nov 2011 at 19:07

I'm constantly bemused at the 'rationale' whereby gameplay in Illyriad is called into question based upon its real-world appropriateness.

The point of a fantasy game is precisely the ability to do the opposite. So when you next feel like penning a sentence containing the phrase 'In real life' please stop and consider in a game filled with Orcs, Elves and Magic what is the best gameplay option, not what would happen if you were mayor of yourlocaltown-ville.

Indeed they did say that MrD, please read what I wrote above:

Createure wrote: It's quite simple really: Just implement the original 'non-decoupling' solution...

I like intor's idea.

But to be honest - a change along those lines would require an entire rethink of the basic fundamental game mechanics - not only do I think it is perhaps a little late for that but I also think it would require an enormous amount of coding that would take alot of time - a commodity that does not appear to be in great supply.

You know that the solution I propose above is the most obvious, the most simple, the easiest to implement and the lowest impact (to those that AREN'T currently abusing the glitch) solution.

What would happen in reality if you ran out of food, people starve and die including your troops, same should apply here so if you don't constantly by it in or create a positive production rate then bad luck reality kicks in, your people are tired so they can't work or fight so all production begins to slide until you correct it. Don't know how hard that is to put into code but that's my thoughts.