21JUL11 - Mobiles, other

I was not trying to suggest that the GMs reset everything, which would be very hard, i was trying to say that it would be a way to fix problems that are there with the update, from my point of view that is. And although i typed the former post at 2 am, i did think about it alot Brids, a lot indeed, just not organized.
 As for TornSky, having the tax at 100% would generate revenue, which would allow the purchase of adv. items to make the troops and/or allow for many to be made and sustained because of the upkeep, which indirectly helped level up the commanders and therefore was a part of exploiting the game, if that's what it is called. Very strange way too look at it i think, but meh. as i said I would not expect the GMs to even consider something like that.

I Have no real problem with the change, only a few of my cities were negative, remedied by reducing the size of the armies/diplos there. About specialization though, the only cities of mine that were running negative were the ones that were specialized(only one type of unit in that city), so I'm wondering how I'm suppose to specialize better? One thing this update does is reduce my ability to help out my alliance militarily as not everyone builds armies to defend themselves and they depend on me to defend them, which i will be unable to do if there is a larger threat, which is unlikely(i hope). But it also cuts down other peoples stuff as well, so that's a plus.

If you want to get rid of your troops the altars remains a kind of free combat zone. If you send them there I'm sure someone will be happy to kill them all :)

Cane, the only part of god destroyers post that I actually see as a potential issue are the winners of tournaments who used exploit. Now I certainly wouldn't go so far as to suggest that rewards should be revoked, however I  strongly believe that a tournament for players who used the exploit to get rid of troops is unlikely to be high on the devs list for this very reason.

G0DsDestroyer wrote: having the tax at 100% would generate revenue, which would allow the purchase of adv. items to make the troops and/or allow for many to be made and sustained because of the upkeep, which indirectly helped level up the commanders and therefore was a part of exploiting the game, if that's what it is called. Very strange way too look at it i think, but meh. as i said I would not expect the GMs to even consider something like that.

I agree albatross, specialization of cities should be the future. War is simply too devastating in ILLY to be the future of the game. It takes too much time, effort, and even real world money for prestige users, to build up a big city from a mere settlement. Nobody really wants to risk it for any MINOR reason. That means the economy and city management portions of the game have to be well done.  Otherwise, eventually, it's just boring.

Wish the economy would have more to it than simply "build stuff to build troops", especially since now it seems like you will be able to stockpile a lot less troops and thus need to only replace losses from fighting NPC's or participating in tournaments.


Edited by JohnChance - 29 Jul 2011 at 17:47