Ministers

I can definitely see your point about the minister to automate harvesting, versus a reward for doing the harvesting yourself. And in this respect the harvesting minister is probably not a good one to have. But please realize that my suggestion was to add ministers, not to add a particular set of ministers. The possible ministers that I listed was just that, a possible set. Something to give people an understanding of what I was talking about when I talked about adding ministers, and that was all. Any of those particular ministers may be desired or not by certain people, and certainly almost nobody would like them all. But I think the idea of adding ministers of some kind is a very good idea. What kind of ministers are added would have to be decided by the developers.

I personally would prefer more time to deal with people, and less time taken up doing the mundane repetitive junk. But I can achieve that as far as the resource harvesting by simply not bothering to do it, and buying my resources, which I have already switched to for the most part, as have many others. But this removes us from that part of the game, instead of making that part of the game more tolerable. But as I said, that is only 1 example of a possible minister, not really part of the suggestion to add ministers.

Also, please realize that I in no way feel that someone should be able to play for 10 minutes a day, nor an hour a day. On an average day I am online for about 8 hours, spent between 4 accounts in this game (main, alt, and 2 sat accounts) and 1 in a different game. That in itself should answer that. I also stated that ministers should blindly do what they are told, not be intelligent, and never give an advantage. They are convenience, not substitute players. Their intention is to allow people to be freed from the mundane repetitive junk to be able to be more involved with the meaningful stuff. Anyone spending less than 10 minutes a day will be extremely easy pickings during any type of war, and are generally referred to as cannon fodder. But at the same time, if somebody wishes to support the game for everyone else by being their cannon fodders, then great, man the cannons. To each their own, and each plays an important part in the game as a whole.

I am not finding fault in what you are saying. I agree with it. In fact I find most people are in the same boat, they don’t want to risk a sitter reading older posts in their inbox. This is probably the biggest problem with the sitter feature today. My only point was that this removes “get a sitter” as a solve-all solution, and brings us back to “let’s add the ability for things to be more convenient”.

You seem to miss the whole point here. The whole purpose of the war minister, or any other minister is to “allow a person to do the same thing that they can already do, but more conveniently”. They are not intended to do anything that can’t already be done. But thank you for checking to make sure that they meet their goal of not adding any advantages.

Angrim:

Right on! Well said!