Triggered: Ask Dave and Jeff questions

[Emilio]

Hey the new owners sounds awesome. Ok bye bye Bishop! Guess Mr Patel has another chair free at the beach for ya.

[Bart of Sparta]

Will you allow shared accounts? Ive had to kick tons of peeps who liked the game but couldnt keep up activity-wise. If they could share a prov (and pay for doing so) they be customers still.

[Bishop]

These are suggestions, not questions! Please use the suggestion forum, I can assure you it will be closely monitored.

[Bart of Sparta]

Fixed :D

[A-hole]

can we just stay like this? :-)

[wingding]

It is quite common to form separate LLCs for different ventures. A nursing home company I'm litigating against has separate companies for each facility and each operating lease, so that's two per nursing home for hundreds of homes.

Unless Dave is not on LinkedIn, he's not an IT/programmer from what I see

[Landro]

A long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away) there was an interview with Brian and Sean. Maybe you can reuse some of those questions:
http://forums.utopia-game.com/showth...ners-of-Utopia

[Palem]

Isn't the podcast already up? Why are people still asking questions lol

[Bishop]

Yeah it's up. Maybe Ben will do a part 2 later with more.

[StratOcastle]

Isn't the podcast already up? Why are people still asking questions lol

Because I just got on break eating a sandwich machine burrito.

I'm using an old iPad(2) and wanted to know if changes will a(e)ffect playability for old school systems?

I don't know how anything works. Thank you.

[Elitism]

Since this is out there
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Muga Gaming LLC is a Massachusetts Foreign Limited-Liability Company (Llc) filed on December 2, 2016 . The company's File Number is listed as xxxxxxx.

The Registered Agent on file for this company is David xxxxx and is located at xxxxxxxxxx. The company's principal address is xxxxxxx.

The company has 1 principal on record. The principal is David xxxxx
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I know the current(previous) owners were doing this as a side gig, but it appears that this is also going to be a hobby with the recent LLC filing for the purpose of purchasing, could you provide your comments on this? It also seems there are a number of ambitions relative to an app and other changes, how quickly should we expect these types of changes?

I wish the both of you the best in this new adventure

Recent LLC filing doesn't mean it's just a hobby. Companies have holding companies for separate assets all the time; I have no information but recent LLC opening doesn't really tell me it's just a hobby. Means they are keeping it separate from other companies/assets they have.

[Nim]

HERESY
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Begone you furry! Only the Pretty Marines are the true sons of the Emperor!

[Meep]

well i know alot of the times smaller kingdoms have been arguded away with there is not enought leaders, pffff today all the top leaders is in 5-6 kingdom rest dont have the will or engery to try and run 25 people, make the kingdoms smaller and the dynamic for how to run and manage kingdoms is alot diffrent, i can say from playing in a 11 people kingdom now (6 people) the stress is alot less and the game alot more fun and it changses alot of to how you want to manage your kingdom.

ALSO smaller kingdoms, more kingdom, more kingdom more war, fights and not the least the task of bulding a new kingdom wont seems so far off for new/returning players.

Any arguments i seen in the past how it will break the game, LOOK IT IS BROKEN, lets fix it, first order of busniss, max kingdom size X (could be 15 or even less).

Also there might be alot of crying from the current 25 player kingdoms but trust me the none 25 is crying even more as its a fight every day to get new blood and rebuild.

Changing the KD size from 25 to 20 doesn't change the number of good leaders.

[Pillz]

Also means you have more **** ghettos by default rather than less, in addition to all the good leaders still likely being concentrated in just a few kds.

[jmiedema]

Every time this "size of kingdom" suggestion comes around, I'm on the side of "leave it at 25, because it won't make more competitive kingdoms, it will make long time "bad" core players in good kingdoms just leave the game".

Mostly I just haven't actually heard a good argument yet that made me think "hey maybe less would be better".

I am currently leading things in FS, and though things are going OK, i must admit to lead a 25 province kingdom takes a lot of work, and pretty much requires a good GROUP of leaders to do it well, and to manage individuals effectively. 1 leader can do it, but it will burn them out after an age or 2.

Yes I do think if it ever went down to 20 or 15 provinces that all that would do is make the 5-10 worst players in the kingdom be asked to leave. If you think those 10 players will go and make a new kingdom, and have the leadership to do so, you are sadly mistaken. It would actually just further the gap between good kingdoms and bad kingdoms, because there would be 15 prov kingdoms of THE BEST a kd has to offer, and other kingdoms will have "the leftovers" and probably be bad, and probably have people leave half way through the age.

HOWEVER: Some leaders (like me) would actually be a lot more able to lead a 15 province kingdom over a 25 province one. You could get by with 1-2 good leaders able to lead a 15 province kingdom where it takes 3-5 to do a good job of that in a 25 province kd.

I have suggested before, IF we were to go down in kingdom size it should be 1-2 provinces less each age for several ages. That way naturally when a couple people leave every age you can just not recruit more in, without having to kick anyone out, causing them to quit the game.

My other concern about smaller kingdoms is it reduces the overall strategic options of a kingdom. Right now there is room for "interesting" picks in a kingdom. like you could run nightmares easily as a strat, while also having some mystics and rogues. If you wanted to run a nightmare based strategy in a 15 province kingdom you would have to be MUCH more dedicated to only having (with current changes) heretics. For rogues, right now you can have a large rogue core without losing your ability to have mystics, and other things. With 15 provs you would have less rogues, leaving less opportunities to run GA's on WT's while still doing good damage after with several rogues.

The less provinces you have, the less opportunities you have to creatively implement some of the more interesting aspects of this game. I do see the other side as well though, where ideally people who would generally be uncomfortable leading 24 people, may step up and lead 14 people instead. So some leaders will come out of the woodwork. Most top kingdoms will just keep all their best players/leaders in their super kd though. So there is that..