I was thinking back to the time when I first began playing, and there were profile contests, and player spotlights where we'd interview players with a series of questions. I'm thinking about perhaps bringing some of that back. 

What kind of community things would you like to bring back?

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I would like to see the seasonal king of the hill tournaments go from 4 per year to no more than 2 per year.

I think there should be regional awards and items given here so smaller alliances have incentives to win a square.

Thanks!

I would like to see trivia return.

I'd also like to see not just KoTH tournaments in the seasonal cycle, but many varieties- hunting, capture the flag (such as I ran once), trade tournaments, and others.

A tournament that rewarded actual pvp would be interesting.

Others have said that better prizes would be good, and I agree there- I would certainly like to get my hands on some of the old tourney units. They shouldn't be allowed as commanders, but they should be available in reasonable quantity. As commanders, their power would be too great.

Different totem options would be good as well- the current set leave something to be desired. Totems that interact with PvE and harvesting might be interesting- a totem to increase NPC drop rates, a totem to increase rare herb patch sizes, a totem to increase the harvest rate of rare minerals.

Player spotlights would be good to see once more. These faded out because of a lack of submissions, iirc? Perhaps a return would see more submissions.

I would also like to see more advertising.

Would it be possible to get Illy onto the epic games store and other similar venues? The steam release brought a flood of new players.

On top of that, something to up the stakes and encourage alliances to get involved in Tourneys would be nice. Maybe make the losers of each region get weaker bonuses in order of occupation time? A lot of alliances take the bonuses for granted, and since the 50% research points never changes, many players have no reason to get involved.

 I believe that making the bonuses weaker for those who don’t win would make the tournaments more competitive in general. It would also encourage more alliances to build home clusters to be sure they could benefit from the buffs.

Undead Tournament seemed nice, Elementals and Soul-forged and Tinker units as prizes too.

Keeping a regular seasonal tournament allows you to pick which ones to do, players don't have to do them all.

Research Bonus is nice, not sure if anything could top that, alternatives that have been suggested would be unfair to those that end second in a region, and would encourage hard land claims and evictions/evacuations.

I don't see how it would be unfair? As it is, because the research bonus is such a default thing, the only true bonuses are 1st 2nd and 3rd medals. If tourney units come in, those will likely only be awarded to winners of squares, at the very most.

I also don't see the problem with increased landclaims, nor do I think the devs should make decisions based on increasing or decreasing their likeliness.

Now that the space thing has been (rightly) shelved, what will happen?

How about fixing the icons for anatomies etc where it is painfully obvious that some icons don't fit the descriptions.

Asvenger wrote: Echoing Eo, the trivia game was great (and a lot of work for the devs) and I appreciate Fenring's private effort keeping it going.

Could give Fenring official backing- if he wants it- I wanna start getting medals again :P

Getting my Tournament Maker up and running is on my to do list (I think it is in volume one) so things like the hunting tourney run by Yuman should be easier for players to set up and perhaps the devs could consider prizes/medals for ones that are open to all.

I agree that trivia would be great but it is also a heck of a lot of work for whoever organises/runs it. If House Fenring is willing to carry on doing it then yes, give him official backing.