Bird Tracking

Recently, I've noticed that an industrious player (or a player with nothing but time to waste) can track a diplomatic mission sent to his city back to the city which it originated from by following the dove on the map. This defeats the purpose of stealthy diplomatic missions. If the mission succeeds and is undetected, then it should truly be undetected. This feature gives the defending player a god's eye view and ruins what is otherwise an important and useful game mechanic. The display of doves on the map should be modified or eliminated completely.

I thought it was everyone else that tracked the bird, as the bird is invisible to the hit player afterwards.

It is the flaw, it ruins the concept of using a bird. You don't have eyes in the skies, so all the community -1 shouldn't be able to track the bird.  You should eliminate that and allow the players the old way, catching the diplomats, via your own

It should either be fixed so only the player whom was hit can track the diplomats, and no one else can, or as kushman said
  [21:34]< kushman> i think it would be cool if we were able to send trackers after them within a certain time limit

Bring in a new unit for the job, trackers.



Edited by Kurfist - 08 Aug 2011 at 21:34

I don't see the problem, it is not unreasonable to think that "villagers" can spot the diplomats and then track them back.

If you commit a hostile act against another player then you cannot come crying to the forums when they give you a slap back. It's all part of the risk/reward decision.

tracker is the basic elven scout already, you have to come up with another name Kurfist....