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The admin KD was put in place to allow players to communicate with news staff - but there are no news staff in the admin KD
What then is the purpose of this kingdom?
Why do you have zero news staff?
Why does your banner advertise another game?
Seems to me that the admin KD has been repurposed as an advertisement and serves no Utopia specific function.
One possible purpose of the kingdom is to allow admins and staff to have a province in the game to easily view on goings without affecting another kingdom or being biased by playing in one.
As for the news staff, I assume that it's due to a lack of motivated reporters and in particular motivated reporters that don't want to play in another kingdom.
Im not going to bother sifting through threads, but I pretty distinctly recall that reporters could have an account in the admin KD and in a regular kingdom. Since provinces in protection can't conduct ops, the 1:1 province can't be used unfairly, and it ensured players of the identity of whom they were discussing their war with.Quote:
Originally Posted by AquaSeaFoam
So, 12 months, and the creation of a kingdom dedicated to the purpose, and we've zero reporters?
You're also not an admin and not a reporter, and as a (sub) forum moderator have no reason to posses a province in 1:1... yet you do. Why?
Can anybody just sit in 1:1 if they don't want to play?
Can we all multi there for fun?
There were other provinces in that KD last age, which I assume were reporters. There were no articles done though that I can recall.
There was exactly 1, it looks like. Towards the end of the age of course. And I doubt that reporter even had a province in the admin KD...Quote:
Originally Posted by Pestilence
Anyways, evidently ASF believes that having a province in protection for 12 weeks is an effective way to grasp changes in order to fulfil his duty as Strategy moderator. Maybe this is a sign that Strategy mods should play the game so that they can offer practical advice? Probably not - I'm sure its fine. He's definitely got important changes understood from this experience, like how relations throttling and ops changes impact game play.
EDIT: For the sake of being thorough - there were infact two articles posted last age. One during YR0 by Barbara Walters who did have a province in 1:1, and one by Nim (Dumnorix) who I dont think had one.
But for 12 weeks, 130+ kingdoms, and probably several hundred wars and hostiles... seems a bit light.
So write some war articles Pillz. I think your positive and charismatic charms would translate well into a fun read!
Unsurprisingly, but without reason, nobody in decent kds trusts me when I approach them as a reporter. Or at least that's the impression I have gotten when I've tried.Quote:
Originally Posted by Swagger
Ghettos don't interest me so I haven't tried with them. But, why not give it a whirl yourself?
Edit: also why would I contribute articles to this ****hole forum with its Nazi moderation anyways. What's the point if free flowing discussion can't be had?
Yeah, I didn't have an account in 1:1 (still haven't), just felt reporting a win streak. :)
We could use more reports though.
Because Im not there. I was a reporter last age, there were supposed to be several others aka panthira and I think sassy was even a reporter. None of them contributed crap. So I left. Why put effort into something when no one else gives a crap...I was barbara walters.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pillz
And your single contribution is appreciated zuluQuote:
Originally Posted by umajon911
But obviously you put more work into this whole thing than the admins.
The problem with reporting wars (and having it publicized in game) is that your kingdom becomes a highly visible vulture target. No one wants to contribute to active warring reports and no one wants to read about an ordinary war that's already over
As far as 1:1, I understood it as spot in game where people can contact people in official positions. The fact that there are no reporters doesn't really mean the kingdom isn't fulfilling it's purpose.
What you really need is war correspondence. I'm not using fufu whippersnapper tools, so count me out, but any enthusiasts who embrace modern witchcraft could travel kingdom to kingdom and report wars.
"oh, that one buzzed right past my head.."
Yes that stopped the probably hundreds of Temple/AR/utimes war articles....Quote:
Originally Posted by Palem
The fact you can now click next kd and do the whole server in like the time it takes to finish a cigarette should probably minimize that concern.
Also we tracking in munk....
Eh that is actually false. In order to contact game administration they still need to go through the direct avenues via utopiasupport@utopia-game.com. I had many many people actually PM me in-game, but being the nice person that I am, I could give them an "unofficial" answer, but the "official answer would be to contact game support via email. Everyone always keeps track of the top wars, so in my opinion, why report on something that everyone already knows about? 150 kingdoms in this game, 150 different perspectives on warring, so why not try and grab someone else's perspective. When I chatted with Camelot last age for instance, they were actually very open for the reporting. Obviously they could turn down any question I asked them and tell me to eff off, as it was all voluntary. And I made sure I did not give away any strategy that may have worked for them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Palem
You understand that having an article that's literally plastered on everyone's throne page catagoricly means that it the information was directly available to more people than munk users right?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pillz
Temple/AR/uTimes existed at a time was the game was 50x bigger than it is. Things change. Do you still use Phrophet to simulate your province? The fact that the game is so small and targets are so scarce is exactly the reason that people don't want the entire server to know the exact hour that they'll be leaving war protection.
@umajon I didn't mean as a replacement for the support email. I meant for things like are actually appropriate for messaging them on Discord or a PM on here for the users that don't have access to either of those platforms.
Gotcha boss man!Quote:
Originally Posted by Palem
I come to the forums to have a geeze, and once again its Pillz having a teary about something that should not be his problem.
Do you have nothing else better in life to do mate?
Are you that bored that you flame the admins of the game?
Do you even play this game anymore?
Kind Regards :)
War us Sozz!
Many old time geezers complain about the devs w/o a single idea to improve their GRIEF.
I dont understand why these Griefers do not have parma ban?
Mehul from age 4:
The idea is not to remove landgrabbing, but instead to encourage kingdom to kingdom wars, since that is where all of the features of Utopia -- teamwork, coordination, etc -- really come together. A big part of Utopia is to emphasize the Kingdom rather than the individual, so I do want to do things that encourage that.
This from Temple and there is a real old photo of AquaSeaFoam
Geek but beautiful. Did you Mom take that photo?
If constantly complaining was against the rules we wouldn't have a user baseQuote:
Originally Posted by sl0hnd
OMGROFL Point set match
I've submitted more ideas than you've formed thoughts in life.Quote:
Originally Posted by sl0hnd
Last age I wasn't actually in 1:1 as a reporter, I needed a new province so that I could write the tutorial walk-through accurately. That province was reset a few times to ensure the info was correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by umajon911
But I'll give it a try, we will see if kingdoms are actually interested in submitting information for official War Reports instead of just having their news spied upon. I've started a new thread and reached out to a few random kingdoms I've seen with WAR AGREED tags up.
Well I wish you luck in your venture this age with that! <3Quote:
Originally Posted by Sassy_Wolfie
Uh how come I can't Intel asf pro build?
Also is it fair and ethical for this protected kd to take a spot on the charts?
Also <3 u asf
They wont be in EOA rankings.Quote:
Originally Posted by shamus
They were last age
And I retract my previous statement...Quote:
Originally Posted by Palem
I agree that 1:1 should be excluded from EOA rankings. I think Sassy_Wolfie and I serve as a benchmark for the land a province could have if they used all of their individual pool without being hit or making any hits. Likewise, DavidC's province serves as a benchmark for the size a province would be without exploring and just collecting daily free acres.
My question though is why are so few provinces using their pool that with over 3000 provinces on the server, just using your pool without being hit puts you in the top 50 land rankings? You'd think that with war win bonuses and pool use and attacking, there could be a good chunk of the server larger. I would love to see more provinces want to grow.
sl0hnd specifically said Parma.Quote:
Originally Posted by Palem
We have a helicopter on the way, Steel. You will board the chopper and you will be transported to Parma, Ohio where you will live the rest of your days on corned beef sandwiches and Rolling Rock beer as a Browns fan.
OH that sounds miserable....being a browns fan that is...Quote:
Originally Posted by StratOcastle
Can confirm. At least we got a parade ¯\_(ツ)_/ ¯
Because growing a province is just setting up your acres to be taken by growing kds. Without a group effort you're just setting the table for kds that make acres their life mission. I've always found it more fun to see how big you can get without exploring anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by AquaSeaFoam
That would be a cool stat if it can be tracked somehow, biggest province with zero explored.
Shouldnt be too hard for the admins i think? Since amount of explored acres are counted already?Quote:
Originally Posted by Swagger
See DavidC's prov...Quote:
Originally Posted by Korp
But hes not attacking..Quote:
Originally Posted by umajon911
Also i deleted my prov so cant see.
Made 6k acres 3 ages ago with just that tactic althougth my highest acre number was 7800 that age, made 8500 and 8875 exploring all I could 2 ages ago and last age respectively and I don't think it is possible to go above 10k acres without the kingdom to back you up, the right connections or some sort of farmwar.
The only ones that explore fully are the growth kingdoms, maybe a few individual players and the team I was with last age who is growing with a handfull of provinces. It is the dog eat dog mentality that causes people not to explore. No matter how unattractive I made myself as a target, or how much GB protection I had people still hit because they either believed I was afraid of them because their kingdom was bigger, or because they was afraid to hit anyone who was in bigger kingdoms themself, the only real deterrent was to go overly defensive so most of those people could not break, there is little respect for big offenses these days.
On a sidenote I would like to see the statistics for total kills and the kill/death ratio in my province history atleast.
Also with flat rate increase in explore pool it is not critical to grow all acres as soon as possible as long as the pool is below 700 acres, so fewer people explore early on, and when they drop out of competiton they then never explore at all.
The first war report is posted! Check it out here