EntropiaPlanets presents: Forum-game: Conquest - BETA!

Nah, i've checked it before, you were for sure not among the totally poor on the list.




And oi guys, you ol' spammers make my mini-contest vanish between all your posts :P And we really need them!

*BUMP*

 

i was going to drop everything i'm doing and grab those pics for wizz then when i read the bumped version noticed it's EPD not 5k PEDs rofl


Anyway free bump for mini comp, i may give it a go later :P

 

*BUMP* for the mini competition, immortal fame, who'd think twice!!!11one ;)

And as the game should be now beyond the point where it was still fun (one Nation has >20* more troops than both of it's opponents together) we could really really need the mutant pics, i'll accept any set of 3 or more and you can complete the set later.




Furthermore, in a mini-update, the new automated cycle system has been streamlined for optimal performance.


We do not expect any problems, but nonetheless:
Should you experience any irregularities, please do not hesitate to file a bug report (or simply send me a PM)!

 

fluffyfurrymetalplatedstabyingmusketshooters.
thats been on tip of tongue so there it is.


edit:
and u know what, i found a bug.
There suposed to be no space at the end of that before the rs lemme try again.

fluffyfurrymetalplatedstabyingmusketshooters.

 

That is no bug, vBulletin inserts space characters into long words to prevent them from breaking the forum layout (otherwise the post would stretch the window beyond the granted space) - the settings appear a bit too strict, but if you post something like this:

you will know why ;)

 

ah yeah, well atleast it works then :D

 

when is it gettin revised couse its rather pointless to click on it now, trade system makes it too easy to shift troops and coin.
i got everything maxed and rolled steel for all fellas yet its totaly pointless doing anything as its always a loss, waited till this point.

 

Does that valuation arise from observation or experience?


Troop/Gold transfers are heavily taxed, depending on on the sizee of the receiver in relation to the size of the sender.

Judging from "Nations Total" point of view, every transfer is a severe loss of Gold/Troops, and above all, cycles spend to produce them/cycles spent on the transfer.

Imo, it adds a nice little "twist" to an otherwise very predictable system - if you still think it is too easy, what about raising the transfer costs?

 

Think you will find a lot of peeps have given up Pointless

 

one example was narfi, we managed to keep down for a while making somewhat of a pittyfull resistance then all of the sudden a whole bunch of troops got to narfi and that way was able to get coin to upgrade and buy armor/weapons, after that just reduce troop size again and stay aprox 30 ish % obove highest competitor driving them back.

eventhough cost was high 1 dedicated troop hoarder was enough and preventing any other nation to getting a troop hoarder to do the same.

thing is aslong as 1 attacker with max items stays over troop amounts of other then u cant loose even if other has max items too, so recon the number difrences of defense vs attacker should be in favor to defender making it nessesary for multiple attackers much like u expect from a castle having defender in favor.

this propably is quite hard to try and balance in a way that it stays intresting, i never type this much.


edit/ more input and findings of others are welcome ofc as this is suposed to be testing and balancing into making it a intresting thingy to do while waiting on MA to put in a new vu or when broke again :D

 

Sorry, to spoil your rant... ;)
but Mkdesign is using his cycles all on growth - iirc, he sent ONCE some gold to narfi (and transfers are heavily limited, so he can't send more than ~twice the receivers troop count) - the troop transfers to bring him out of the danger zone were from me and George, and he received only ~25% of the troops we sent him, ~75% of them were lost due to taxes - i wouldn't call that "too easy" when it comes with such a price tag.

The "prevent others from growing" blockade initially done by me and now by George and others were so successfull because i had a lot of troops before and were able to produce a lot of gold, which in turn bought me all the nice Offense Training Levels and a nice bunch of high-end weapons... but, all of these troops/gold were produced by me alone, iirc noone ever sent me anything, so this is not a result of the transfer feature either im afraid.


The "actors" will very likely be mixed in the next run, and the groups sucessfully working together will now be spread over different nations then - i reckon this "distributed experience" will help a bit keeping the game interesting for a while - nonetheless we plan to extend the game a lot once the man-power is available again (read: wizz has some time to spare :D )...

 

ok if its not the trade system then some other inbalance plagues the game, i would go with the randomness not being random enough making it all to predictable.

hmm maybe some sort of random disaster can ocure to any vilage from time to time, just brainstorming on how to make it like ma says more dynamic :P
then again randomness can work up frustration just the same, oo the horrors good im a player not designer of games :D

on side note, whats feudals btw for the game did anyone notice this from attacking?

 

An idea is that you can build a wall, which will give you a defense bonus when attacked.

 

Another idea:

When someone is x% stronger then someone, he attacks with x% less power

 

ofcourse agree with that 2 narfi, else it wouldnt be much of a game neither.
we are experiencing what MA is looking at in miniature, how to please most

 

I'm bored so the first person to attack me gets all my gold (which is quite substanstial).

The attacker doesn't have to win the fight just attack :)