Feb 27th 2012, 0:11:47
It's all about the numbers and a 'storyline'. I have been banging on about this for 6 months + literally to this board's earthly brick wall it seems.
BOT BOTS BOTS. You could dump $100k in an advertising budget to market this game to a targeted audience and have them come, create an account and within a week they'd leave... Why? Cause unless they tag up straight away to a larger alliance they are farmed into the ground and not let up.
Solution? Bots. This game is so scripted its not funny, I am a web designer / developer and we develop web apps using LAMP at our agency. We have 2 PHP engineers here and reakon it's not that hard to do. I would be willing to offer my time, and even pay for our developer to code out a bunch of strategies for Bots. They don't need to be marked bots, heck even put them in new created alliances... Perhaps build out the GDI as an alliance.
The whole retal thing could be the same, as a human based strategy. If there too big don't retal, create an odd script who acts like a bit of a rogue, if he's hit and the country is more than 2 x his size, send a missile. Let's stop fart assing around and actually DO IT. New players could join and still not be farmlanded to the ground and want to leave. Wars would still happen as the same alliances would still want to control blah blah and backstabbing is always going to happen with online egos.
New players would join, play along, and if they ponder why there not as big, or see other alliances they can join in game etc as we do now. It's a BIG juicy clear WIN WIN.
Second recommendation again is a STORYLINE: It sounds gay, could be gay. But at the moment the storylines are played out between alliances on their own chats, forums and the AT gets a little glimpse of it. It would be great to have the storyline in ALLIANCE server somewhat commentated professionally. To actually document the set's activities for everyone to read, and get involved in. The game is fantasy, there is no animation. So why not build on that...
Just my two cents, but you know i'm right. I think if both those things were implemented we wouldn't need to integrate with facebook.
In previous posts people talk about the sheer amount of time people invest in this game. People have grown up around this game, and the friendships have grown outside the game also.
Well why not invest in it? It's selfishly going to benefit you with all the time you invest in the game... </rant>