Developers, I hope that you will be keeping an eye on the NA side of the map, since we have a problem that EU does not: declining player participation. There were basically only ~300 people total signing up for battles in NA Strategus by the last few months of the previous round, which meant that even many prime time battles were unable to get 50 people for both sides without the use of hefty bribes. It was a domino effect that caused the majority of the map to go inactive or quit outright because, even if you handled the tedious micromanagement aspect of Strategus perfectly, it was virtually impossible to obtain the player support necessary for a sustained offensive (i.e. getting 50 people who will show up pretty much every night for several battles a night).
Considering that the battles in this round of Strategus are likely to offer much less experience than those of the previous round, I imagine the problem is only going to get worse rather than better. If history repeats itself and non-megafactions start getting steamrolled due to lack of mercs, it will probably make even the diehards give up on the gamemode out of frustration or boredom.
this is not only a NA problem. Also for the reason to have a full roster, i started an alliance of smaller factions last round. If you are concerned about your roster you still can do sth about it. If it would be overall only 300 people in participation you can get 3 blocks a 100, then you only need 50% participating ^^regularly or get always from the not attacking/defending 3rd block additional mercs.
Then again, fuck micro management, chadz while i find the things you want to implement as always nice and all, i rarely see sth which would allow me as leader to handle things more easily. With the new system i now need to take care of even more stuff, figure out how to integrate it into my battles, figure out how perhaps to integrate it into an alliance, figure out what happens when it is neglected or overused, also it sounded like i need to do it for every battle over and over again, as there would not be already enough things you need to keep in mind when oyu organize a battle.
Less Micro
- please let me as faction founder or rank 10 set a base nighttime and other settings, everyone who joins has that then set for themselves, but still would be able to adjust it individualy for himself.
- task queing, so that my guys can so to speak hold shift and send a second(or more) commands to their strat bubble which then would if possible at the time be done(at least for movement commands or have you ever seen a a caravan stopping in the center of the desert for no apparent reason waiting to get raped by some bandits)
- i still like the idear about an action point system, where i as leader or others with rank 10, would be able to use daily refreshing action points to make a few critical moves for very few clanmates(you cant disallow remote access between pcs you dotn control, well then give that option for those who are not that versatile with the pc and those who wanted to do remote access may think again if that would be even needed)
What about the existing community scripts, any chance something of those will be integrated?
