You sound upset.
You sure whine a lot about Strategus, considering that with every breath you remember to tell everyone that you don't care about it at all.
WIPE!
Nah, really, i mean it. Strat is fucked up right now and no more fun. Well, at least it's not, if you are part of one of the few clans that don't suck the dick of the almighty carebear. Not to mention the bugs destroying many hours/days of strat-management for both sides...and now even the map is fucked up...
There shouldn't be a wipe at this stage unless the game was being changed in some really radical way again, and even then it should be done with advance warning, not as a follow-up to a crippling bug. Just fix these current problems and roll back to before they started.
There shouldn't be a wipe at this stage unless the game was being changed in some really radical way again, and even then it should be done with advance warning, not as a follow-up to a crippling bug. Just fix these current problems and roll back to before they started.
Meh. I guess after HRE is wiped out it's time to say goodbye to strat then =(
This is why I made my 6 factions only (that anyone could join) with unique cheap gear in different areas of the map suggestion, to make Strategus less likely to cut large portions of the playerbase completely out of the game. People that just want to work could work and have no restrictions, and the people that just want fight would always be able to join a faction and have someone to fight. If their faction was destroyed, they could all join another faction with no preconditions thus maybe keeping players interested in the game instead of cutting them out bit by bit. I think a system like this would give active players more value and make the game more open to casual players too.
This is why I made my 6 factions only (that anyone could join) with unique cheap gear in different areas of the map suggestion, to make Strategus less likely to cut large portions of the playerbase completely out of the game. People that just want to work could work and have no restrictions, and the people that just want fight would always be able to join a faction and have someone to fight. If their faction was destroyed, they could all join another faction with no preconditions thus maybe keeping players interested in the game instead of cutting them out bit by bit. I think a system like this would give active players more value and make the game more open to casual players too.I'm not sure people will be happy about having to join factions full of spies, sabouteurs and randomers unable to do anything on strat, and you didn't considered language barrier too (not everyone can or want to speak english, how will you coordinate with them?)
Well have you ever seen any MMORPG that lets players start their own faction where you can potentially be totally wiped out ? It's always Blue vs Red (sometimes vs Green) and the Capitals aren't attackable. There should be a wipe of Strategus and people can join a side, and they can,t all stack in the same faction, so if too many red , you have to go blue. So if the carebear alliance still want to be together, they'd be against much more people that they can't force to ally themselves to their alliance and you'd have people standing against such faction.
If it gets too many red vs blues , than red should get handicap or blue a bonus. So a mercenary will go for the faction with a bonus to Gold / XP and fight for them. That's how Shattered Galaxy do it to balance their game, that's how Battlestar Gallactica Online does it and so many others... If you put the possibility to be wiped out totally , people get scared and make huge alliances , but if you,re safe and can always restart from a Capital or town that can't be taken, then you care less about taking risks...
That's my opinion ... now fight and troll
I actually agree with you. The next Strategus will be just as boring unless some radical changes are implemented (movement speed, cost of equipment, reduced losses from flag capping/retreating (95% is excessive) etc.). Plus most of the people I know are burnt out with the tedium and wouldn't be jumping back into the water right away if it was reset without major overhaul.
P.S. Though interesting note, Strat 2.0 was ended in a follow-up to a crippling bug where 14 man armies could take cities and many of the european clans tried to abuse it in force.
It's kinda sad, every round some clan either gets completely wiped off the Strategus map or faces odds so insurmountable that most of the players quit playing cRPG altogether because Strategus was the only thing keeping them around. Last round it was the Eastern Tsardom and a large portion of ATS and now this round it's Fallen/allies and FCC showing signs of doing the same, sticking around making suggestions because they like the game but at the same time threatening to do this:(click to show/hide)
As a neutral player moving around on the Strategus map this round, it was really fun initially when I could go wherever I wanted and craft wherever I wanted. Then I kinda got hit by that same wave of apathy toward the game the moment when most of the villages were captured and locked down with 100 gold fees so my movement was severely restricted. Around that time a couple of the other traders and neutrals I'd been coordinating with lost interest in Strategus en masse, just like these clans do when they lose a war and have no hope of recovering.
This is why I made my 6 factions only (that anyone could join) with unique cheap gear in different areas of the map suggestion, to make Strategus less likely to cut large portions of the playerbase completely out of the game. People that just want to work could work and have no restrictions, and the people that just want fight would always be able to join a faction and have someone to fight. If their faction was destroyed, they could all join another faction with no preconditions thus maybe keeping players interested in the game instead of cutting them out bit by bit. I think a system like this would give active players more value and make the game more open to casual players too.
It sounds like we're getting a bigger map next round and maybe that will fix everything, but I just think it might be delaying the inevitable thing that happens every version of Strategus.
have you ever seen any MMORPG that lets players start their own faction where you can potentially be totally wiped out ? It's always Blue vs Red
As a cRPG veteran I know one thing and one thing only, nothings gets reset until its abused till the last drop, then its rebooted to something even worse.Hehe would be funny if wipe is the day Mercs little fortress Emerin is about to fall. i would love to read the forum that day :D
WIPE!
Nah, really, i mean it. Strat is fucked up right now and no more fun. Well, at least it's not, if you are part of one of the few clans that don't suck the dick of the almighty carebear. Not to mention the bugs destroying many hours/days of strat-management for both sides...and now even the map is fucked up...
No need to wipe Strat, again.... Just fix it and move on :rolleyes:
The issues that have plagued strat v3 are enough to warrant a wipe. Most factions were relatively inactive (at least vs other factions) due to some large issues. Losing gear you had equipped when you won a battle was enough to warrant a wipe when it was an issue for months and completely changed how people played (basically never attacked unless absolutely necessary).
not to mention chadz said a decreased crafting prices was in the works a month or two ago.
Strat is basically dead as of now, although some factions are still going through the motions. Massive gameplay bugs will kill interest very quickly as we've seen. Strategus is great, in concept. Not so much in production.