I agree with Pillz.
Also, is there Bart in this episode?
I agree with Pillz.
Also, is there Bart in this episode?
Age 65 - FreeakStyle - FeyrPlay Alliance Win - Dwarves Stole My Bike
Age 66 - FreeakStyle - #1 Honor & Warring Kingdom - Making FS Great Again
Age 67 - BeastBlood - #1 Honor Human(Prince) - Steve from Walmart
Age 68 - BeastBlood ft OldSchool - #1 Honor Kingdom & Avian - We Are All Feyr
Age 69 - Ancient Spartans - #1 Kingdom in The History of Utopia - Clever Use of Words
Age 70 - Ancient Spartans - #1 Land(25325 acres) & NW Faery - Spartan of Redeeming Qualities
In the suggestions section I suggested taxing acres donated between provinces at 500 gc/acre donated. Thus making cows is still very hard early game because provinces can't manage the tax burden, but late age wars are still manageable once everyone has put on NW and there is separation from the pack so that #1 and #2 can fight on more even terms.
"having fun warring when you have whoring and number 1 as a goal is totally pointless..." - Korp
"while I heart shiester when we both play serious and are in the same kingdom, I hate shiester on the forums and pretty much disagree with everything he says. Even he knows this." - Flogger asking me out on a date
The devs have made a decision to kill competitive utopia and have thereby killed my interest with it.
I don't think the problem was worse under the old system at all. There were more options for team work and more options to place acres strategically.
"BB did not even try to grow...."
With the gains formula the way it is Zauper, how would you suggest doing that when there are no targets to gain off when you are 4-5K acres and none of the rest of the server will grow? Not to mention, the assinine relations system makes it easy for kingdoms to "refuse to war". The fix has jacked the game.
OK, we could have been complete assholes and mercilessly raked every war KD in the game that comes even close to 70% NW. Is that what will make your game work better? I doubt it. Some nub stole 1M gc off a province in BB just other day and got a 100 acre raze in return and then had to whine about how the BB province was being a bully. Developers have taken such pains to coddle the war KD's that they have wrecked what made playing competitively fun.
"having fun warring when you have whoring and number 1 as a goal is totally pointless..." - Korp
"while I heart shiester when we both play serious and are in the same kingdom, I hate shiester on the forums and pretty much disagree with everything he says. Even he knows this." - Flogger asking me out on a date
The devs have made a decision to kill competitive utopia and have thereby killed my interest with it.
So you're not wrecking war kds not because of the game changes, but because they whine so you're avoiding them...and it is suddenly the administration fault because BB can't keep up with its competition, none of whom have expressed the same issues as you do repeatedly regarding growth?
"having fun warring when you have whoring and number 1 as a goal is totally pointless..." - Korp
"while I heart shiester when we both play serious and are in the same kingdom, I hate shiester on the forums and pretty much disagree with everything he says. Even he knows this." - Flogger asking me out on a date
The devs have made a decision to kill competitive utopia and have thereby killed my interest with it.
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Will Bart's ban in the forums be prematurely lifted due to the apparent revenue drop?
Do any of the discussion topics hint at trying to decipher the enigma that is Bart, as a person and as a commanding influence to the game ever since he set foot on Utopian soil?
There, that's my small contribution.
Age 65 - FreeakStyle - FeyrPlay Alliance Win - Dwarves Stole My Bike
Age 66 - FreeakStyle - #1 Honor & Warring Kingdom - Making FS Great Again
Age 67 - BeastBlood - #1 Honor Human(Prince) - Steve from Walmart
Age 68 - BeastBlood ft OldSchool - #1 Honor Kingdom & Avian - We Are All Feyr
Age 69 - Ancient Spartans - #1 Kingdom in The History of Utopia - Clever Use of Words
Age 70 - Ancient Spartans - #1 Land(25325 acres) & NW Faery - Spartan of Redeeming Qualities
Are you working on better communication tools in game? If so, what are the things you are looking at. If not, please do.
1) We've implemented Munk as a kingdom recently in place of Upoopu and it's magnificent (I especially love the "attack calculator" that auto-sets your offense to just enough to break the target), but it seems very disruptive to those who, like me, who are more used to the "vanilla" visuals of Utopia. The changes to the display of most webpages is something I'm still not entirely used to, so is there a plan in the works to make the display more granular/customisable? For example, to continue to have Munk's integration with Utopia and the auto-sending of intel, attacks and ops, while not having the rest of the graphical changes? (Or having an option to have it like so).
Also, thanks to Munk for what must have been a colossal amount of work.
2) The forums seem largely populated with players from the top kingdoms, with fewer from the midtier and very few from the ghetto's. Is this a correct reading of the situation? If so, is this a problem? If so, are there any ideas to try to resolve it? If so, what are they?
3) As (sort of ex-)players who bought the game because you love it, has your experience of and affection towards Utopia changed now that you've been in the driving seat for a little while? There is such thing as leadership and player burnout. Hopefully that doesn't apply to owners as well.
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Question 2 is phrased awfully; Apologies.
I won't be able to watch the stream live, but I'm looking forward to watching it after. These videos are a great idea.
Ghetto Nightmare
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Great points! Just a few cents on #2, which is great. The forums are public and anyone can post. If it seems only members of "top" kingdoms post here it is only an illusion. Anyone is free to post here and everyone's opinion is welcome. Ask your kd-mates to post in the community forums. More is better!! New peeps might dilute the sometimes negative atmosphere, though might be intimated at first by all the venom and slime and baggage. I hope the developers can encourage new peeps to post here!
dunno what you guys talked about in previous affairs, you talk too late for me to be on, BUT, I would like to know what is the answer - or what is the conclusion - on making kingdoms smaller - not 25 provs, but 15-20?
since the player base is going lower, and also, too few kds that go for top, why not make the kds smaller and make more competition?
You're a team player, a save the day super hero... I hate people like you.
Since it might be the last broadcast before EOA I would like to hear if you think the mechanics involving the shell kingdoms will be needing an overhaul or you think they are where they should be at the moment?
Also how do you think adding Paladins Inspiration to a personality rather than having Inspire Army as a base spell has worked out?
This used to be the case in the old oppressed Utopia. In the modern Spartan Utopia we have players from all of Utopia signing in to post in the forums. It is Bart the Enlightened who pioneered this idea. His heroic efforts have spoken to people's hearts and paved the path for Utopians of all classes to freely voice their opinions encompassed by his divine providence.
Age 65 - FreeakStyle - FeyrPlay Alliance Win - Dwarves Stole My Bike
Age 66 - FreeakStyle - #1 Honor & Warring Kingdom - Making FS Great Again
Age 67 - BeastBlood - #1 Honor Human(Prince) - Steve from Walmart
Age 68 - BeastBlood ft OldSchool - #1 Honor Kingdom & Avian - We Are All Feyr
Age 69 - Ancient Spartans - #1 Kingdom in The History of Utopia - Clever Use of Words
Age 70 - Ancient Spartans - #1 Land(25325 acres) & NW Faery - Spartan of Redeeming Qualities
I agree. Less toxicity and more lower-ranked kingdoms/players posting here is something I think would benefit the game and the ambience of the forums themselves.
I deliberately didn't give my own opinion because that would have made it a leading question, but personally, I don't think the forums are particularly approachable. The ease with which one can create a profile here and give ones opinion notwithstanding, it's not a particularly friendly place. That said, I've never had a bad experience here. It's more an unquantifiable "vibe" that appears when rival kingdoms go at each other, or when a player creates a thread complaining about being razed while in war. In such a case, people seem happy to talk down to one another. I don't like that.
More generally, some aspects of the negative atmosphere that seems to exist in the forums also permeates "down" into the game. Or maybe the atmosphere in the game permeates "up" into the forums. Or both. I can't tell properly. As you may have figured out, I have more questions that answers on this topic. But I think it's interesting and thought I would bring it up to see if the people who run the game have a perspective of their own. Ultimately, my opinion is meandering and irrelevant, so I'd prefer that the original question(s) were answered rather than this rambling mess.
Ghetto Nightmare
Age 96 - Chaise Longue/Lighthouse Fire | Age 95 - Telephone The Real Ham Jackson | Age 94 - Final Girl | Age 93 - Superdrug | Age 92 - No Gods No Masters | Age 91 - Hunting The Wren | Age 90 - I Useta Lover | Age 89 - The Young People | Age 88 - Suspended in Gaffa | Age 87 - Aversadze | Age 85-86 - [Making A Baby] | Age 84 - Gay Girls | Age 83 - Avant Gardener | Age 82 - Girls Talk | Age 81 - Aversadze | Age 80 - Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking | Age 79 - Stella Was A Diver And She Was Always Down | Age 78 - The Lightning Strike | Age 77 - So Like A Rose | Age 76 - Aversadze/Kemosabe | Age 75 - Not Your Kind Of People/Good Shot, Good Soldier | Age 74 - Godspell | Age 73 - Time Will Destroy Everything/Versions of Hate | Age 72 - Another New World | Age 71 - Cold Old Fire | Age 70 - Battlestations | Age 69 - Tilted | Age 68 - Spite & Malice | Age 67 - I, The Hand Grenade | Age 66 - The Mother We Share | Age 65 - Pretty Keen On Centrefolds | Age 64 - Wangernumb | Age 63 - Aversadze | Age 62 - Aversadze | Age 60 - Lynx | Age 59 - Astral | Age 58 - That's How You Get Ants | Age 57 - Aversadze
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