Questions about Age of Ascent

Are there even enough active players left in the game for alliance size to be an issue?

On the alliance front, 100 players is a good limit. If we have alliances with 600 people, it will lead to even big numbers of permasats.

First I want to say I am interested in a space based game with the same sort of play style as Illy, absolutely. I'm in.

Next, I want to address the complaints about new Illy content vs. bug fixes. Bugs are, at best annoying and when they crop up have often hindered enjoyable game play. There have been many instances in which a bug has made the difference in a battle and I believe have turned a war more than once. New content will inevitably bring new bugs. This game (Illy) is great right now and will sustain itself for a long time to come without the benefit of new content.

As for tournaments, they are all fine and dandy but seriously, only large alliances (in alliance tournies) or large players (in player tournies) have any shot at showing, much less placing or winning. I believe most players don't partisipate at all. Many of those that do only do so because their alliance leaders urge them too. Tournaments are only missed by a vocal minority of long term players who dislike war. I get that but I don't think it should be a major concern nor a priority.

The promise of TBL was a mistake, and given the continuous Dev stance of "Soon", it seems like it should have been a no-brainer... "sometime in 2013" probably looked like it was doable but... well, as they say about 20/20 and so forth.

Personally, I am happy with Illy as it stands but I am glad to hear that AoA development will speed up development in Illy. I have been anticipating Pathfinding and Battle Magik among other promised content. I do hope AoA will help with that.

Finally, alliance limits should not be messed with. In my opinion, Rill pointed out the major issue, that being a communication system. Robust chat and mail are a must right now. It is just nearly impossible, time wise to juggle an alliance's membership with the system as it stands. My alliance peaked at around 50. I can't imagine the difficulty I would have keeping communication going with 100 members. 600? Just, no. If an alliance cares to grow beyond the limits, there are external tools that can be (and are) used to do that. In game, I just don't see the point. Confederations do that already.

Edited by abstractdream - 09 Mar 2014 at 03:50

Sorry GMStormcrow but  war or no war the last tourney was nearly a year ago. And the fact that there's a war going on should be irrelevant in a sandbox. Current events shouldn't be an excuse to not deliver anything? a year is far too long..... As for anything new believe me we're expectant.....

GM Stormcrow wrote: Daefis wrote: Thanks for the response but I think you're alienating a huge number of current and by default future AoA players by not addressing the current problems in Illy. Simple question... When is broken lands happening? or many of the previously just around the corner upgrades. Hi Daefis, Think it would be helpful (possibly to you more than me) if you could mentally separate and practically catalog the "....current problems in Illy" from new things as-yet-unreleased such as the Broken Lands and upgrades. These are very different things with very different priorities. Best, SC Says a lot sadly....Is anything new happening in Illy?