Dear chadz and Dev Team,
I cannot stress more how important resolving of this issue is. And I know that this is not only my sentiment. We know that it is Beta and we are beta testers so the bugs may happen. However, please note this:
- this round of strat is really slow, time consuming and requires activity of many players. It is difficult to motivate people to do something when after many weeks of hard work the bug like this spoils the fun. Contrary to what many of community members may think it takes a looong time and so much of the organizational effort to craft such amount of items.
- this problem does not seem to be human error, it rather looks like system error or the result of human interference and therefore requires investigation, clear answers and reaction. Otherwise what is the point of playing the game if after such event no action is taken? If you guys want people to play fair, or play at all in the first place, you have to react to situations where the obvious injustice happens. If you find it suitable to weaken large factions do so, but not by letting things like this just happen.
- It does not matter that it happened on the battle between Mercs and Druzhina, it could happen to anyone (at least I hope that it could, I cannot believe in human intervention here and I really hope that this is just a bug to be fixed). And after such event will to do anything further drops to zero; do not let that happen.
- I do not expect Mercs to return the eq and troops willingly (although this is something that should happen if they want to act honorably) - they play this game to the same extent as we do, and this is a great gift for them. It is up to developers who have the ability and resources to look into server logs and know the game mechanics details, and, finally, can assess the evidence, to resolve this issue and pass to the community the clear message what happened and how it is going to be fixed.
Guys, I appeal to your conscience and sense of fairness. I understand that you may have your personal sympathies and dislikes, but in such cases the sentiments like that should be set aside. I know that many players do not act totally fair you have the power to punish them, and in many cases you rightly do so. You are the ultimate judge here and if you want community to act fairly you should show the highest standard of behavior.
Whatever your findings are please share that with us all. And please do it sooner than later.
Dear Erasmas and all others looking in this thread.
I react strongly about these accusations and i hope there is something to be done with those individuals. but lets check the facts ?
1. Drz and there allies the Greys and so on accuse us of cheating ? lol wont even comment that especially from those 2 clans who had cheating in a system (100 loggins and so on. There is a big difference for a individual to cheat compared to a system for a hole clan to cheat).
2. Drz and allies talk about a bug, most likely its one in there clans own fault. (chadz reply on this thread saying its likely commander of DRZ retreating)
3. They attack us knowingly that they cant finish in 2 hours (then complain after the match) FACT..
The to Erasmas .
I do not expect Mercs to return the eq and troops willingly (although this is something that should happen if they want to act honorably) - they play this game to the same extent as we do, and this is a great gift for them. It is up to developers who have the ability and resources to look into server logs and know the game mechanics details, and, finally, can assess the evidence, to resolve this issue and pass to the community the clear message what happened and how it is going to be fixed.
chadz and Dev team have as i know of never replaced anything, and in all fairness the 2 hour limit is not a bug. THEY would have lost anyway. There only argument from Drz was our crappy gear, yes we had a plan to use all the crappy gear first then use the crafted stuff when needed. And if you check my post i was confident that Mercs would wipe Drz army and the Grey one why you think that ? becouse we knew we where getting more equipment IF they attacked us with whole army.
So we would have won no mater what, only difference is how much loot and troops we where going to get. In fact this is DRZ lack of understanding the mechanics in Strategus in my view.
Now when that is sorted dont speak as this is a bug anymore. but rather if it should be so in the future or not.
