Ok - I've read God knows how many different threads moaning about solo's ruining the game, overpowered, cheating blah blah blah. Demanding that AR be scrapped/seriously nerfed etc...
First of all, the game, for me, has always been about alliance play - that's the draw - the chance to communicate, to develop friendships, to live or die together. I don't play in alliances anymore for a number of reasons - the people I used to play with have mostly left the game - the playerbase is far (hugely in fact) less friendly and accommodating than it used to be - unless you are ridiculously active alliance play is just providing land farms for the uber leet insanely active who tend to always play together (not a criticism, just an observation) - and I just don't have the activity that I used to (that's activity not mobility - I'm not that old
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I play solo - not seriously - more just to keep in touch with the game. I don't worry about score - just send the occasional attack, defend the constant incoming!! and communicate with the few left in the game worth communicating with. I never hit sleep mode (as opposed to the muppet who always attacks me overnight and then hits sleep mode!!) so it's nice that I can come back on and know that I haven't been completely obliterated and can still have some fun. I play for 2 hours a day, if that, and I don't expect to make top 200 let alone portal (I agree with comments on a previous thread that a 3 hour a day inactive solo should not be able to portal). Sure, do away with triggering - or at least combat it within the code, and maybe even do away with PNaps all together - so the only defence is government defence.
But please don't keep blaming the solo's for ruining the game - it's the whole playerbase that's responsible for that - and to be frank it's doing a bloody good job of it.
First of all, the game, for me, has always been about alliance play - that's the draw - the chance to communicate, to develop friendships, to live or die together. I don't play in alliances anymore for a number of reasons - the people I used to play with have mostly left the game - the playerbase is far (hugely in fact) less friendly and accommodating than it used to be - unless you are ridiculously active alliance play is just providing land farms for the uber leet insanely active who tend to always play together (not a criticism, just an observation) - and I just don't have the activity that I used to (that's activity not mobility - I'm not that old
).I play solo - not seriously - more just to keep in touch with the game. I don't worry about score - just send the occasional attack, defend the constant incoming!! and communicate with the few left in the game worth communicating with. I never hit sleep mode (as opposed to the muppet who always attacks me overnight and then hits sleep mode!!) so it's nice that I can come back on and know that I haven't been completely obliterated and can still have some fun. I play for 2 hours a day, if that, and I don't expect to make top 200 let alone portal (I agree with comments on a previous thread that a 3 hour a day inactive solo should not be able to portal). Sure, do away with triggering - or at least combat it within the code, and maybe even do away with PNaps all together - so the only defence is government defence.
But please don't keep blaming the solo's for ruining the game - it's the whole playerbase that's responsible for that - and to be frank it's doing a bloody good job of it.
