DarkSider
Tree Surgeon
- Joined
- Dec 14, 2007
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Well i'm bored and this discution started in a small channel so i'm wondering what ppl like at the game, what they hate, in which direction they'd want the game to go to improve their time invested in here.
Most likely too late for the suggestions/opinions to be considered for a near future round but it'd be nice to see at least players 2 cents on the matter.
I'll give it first go and try to cover only one aspect for each topic so others have subjects to talk about
What i like:
Small community which means players are known (at least the good ones) and there is more drama when the wars start. The more personal you know the players you play against, the more fun it is. The bigger the comunity is, it starts to look more like a game vs cpu where you don't get the satisfaction to laugh in his face, show off your awesomeness and yell the traditional PWNED Even tho i'd want some more players so we don't have just ~3 good alliances and 'the rest' but still keep the current small comunity feeling.
What i dislike:
The game is fairly easy to understand and learn (even if you need to keep manual page on unit stats for the rest of the round) and activity is the main quality when looking for a good player. Knowledge has a small importance, you beeing more experienced, knowing the game better than a first rounder, won't make your units perform better, you can't customize the troop formation or other tactics so your ability to adapt and the knowledge you gained over rounds won't matter at all, it's all about unit size.
In which direction i'd want to see the game go:
A combo between current bush and travian. What i mean by that is take from travian the more relaxed alliances where you are tagged as part of a group, but you are more independent, you grow and die depending on your skill most of the time, other alliance members getting killed won't have as much direct influence over your own growth but you can still have the "group fun"
I like team play i just dislike the alliance play in bush. Don't take this like a flame against DW but from what i hacked and spyed them they are hardly enjoy playing the game. Most members are zeroed and with lots of savings afraid to buy any troops since they'd get killed not long after, loosing land left and right, sleepmode as much as possible etc. I respect their name and the many rounds they played together but my personal opinion and they can tell me wrong is that bush is more of an excuse to be together with some players in a mirc room, have a chat and a laugh and what happens with the game it's more like another subject to talk about than a game they *play*.
Or i look at some high ranked players not in RRR. Their only thing with bush atm is to be online so they don't get killed or other members of their alliance get killed. How can that be fun ? You login into bush so you prevent something bad to happen or it should be login to bush to have a great time the few hours you want to play every day ?
I don't know about others but i hate with a passion the defensive playstyle. Keep troops home because we might get attacked and we need to defend, keep troops home as we might need to retal, just stay online and refresh as who knows what might happen and we need to prevent bad stuff to happen.
I reeeeally want something to change here so every minute you play the game to think expansionist, kill them more than they kill you, get all the land you can, all the troops you can, every day produce some action instead the current way of beeing online to prevent action.
Most likely too late for the suggestions/opinions to be considered for a near future round but it'd be nice to see at least players 2 cents on the matter.
I'll give it first go and try to cover only one aspect for each topic so others have subjects to talk about
What i like:
Small community which means players are known (at least the good ones) and there is more drama when the wars start. The more personal you know the players you play against, the more fun it is. The bigger the comunity is, it starts to look more like a game vs cpu where you don't get the satisfaction to laugh in his face, show off your awesomeness and yell the traditional PWNED Even tho i'd want some more players so we don't have just ~3 good alliances and 'the rest' but still keep the current small comunity feeling.
What i dislike:
The game is fairly easy to understand and learn (even if you need to keep manual page on unit stats for the rest of the round) and activity is the main quality when looking for a good player. Knowledge has a small importance, you beeing more experienced, knowing the game better than a first rounder, won't make your units perform better, you can't customize the troop formation or other tactics so your ability to adapt and the knowledge you gained over rounds won't matter at all, it's all about unit size.
In which direction i'd want to see the game go:
A combo between current bush and travian. What i mean by that is take from travian the more relaxed alliances where you are tagged as part of a group, but you are more independent, you grow and die depending on your skill most of the time, other alliance members getting killed won't have as much direct influence over your own growth but you can still have the "group fun"
I like team play i just dislike the alliance play in bush. Don't take this like a flame against DW but from what i hacked and spyed them they are hardly enjoy playing the game. Most members are zeroed and with lots of savings afraid to buy any troops since they'd get killed not long after, loosing land left and right, sleepmode as much as possible etc. I respect their name and the many rounds they played together but my personal opinion and they can tell me wrong is that bush is more of an excuse to be together with some players in a mirc room, have a chat and a laugh and what happens with the game it's more like another subject to talk about than a game they *play*.
Or i look at some high ranked players not in RRR. Their only thing with bush atm is to be online so they don't get killed or other members of their alliance get killed. How can that be fun ? You login into bush so you prevent something bad to happen or it should be login to bush to have a great time the few hours you want to play every day ?
I don't know about others but i hate with a passion the defensive playstyle. Keep troops home because we might get attacked and we need to defend, keep troops home as we might need to retal, just stay online and refresh as who knows what might happen and we need to prevent bad stuff to happen.
I reeeeally want something to change here so every minute you play the game to think expansionist, kill them more than they kill you, get all the land you can, all the troops you can, every day produce some action instead the current way of beeing online to prevent action.