MAJOR IDEA FOR GC

E eclipsOP

OP 28/09/2006 · 07:44 AM #1

A new server, the MasterClass server:

everyone from the turnbased servers with more then (for example) 300 bil cash and more then 4 mil minirals average gets automatically promoted the Masterclass.

the players from each server can keep their own servers` statistics, so someone from normal or slow with that amount of cash and resources still gets 48 hours dp and someone from fast or ultra just get 24 hours of dp and everyone gets 1 turn every 3 minutes with a max of 220.

If you promote to masterclass you can measure with the best, while the lower powered people can fight their own battles, or to dominate a server, or to build their way up to the masterclass.

Offcourse you can be demoted to the normal servers aswell.
like when you have less then 50 bil cash and less then 4 mil minirals average left, then you automatically get demoted back to the server where you came from, this will help improve the fun in the game, fun on the servers, and will balance the turnbesed servers out a bit.

feedback please

E eclipsOP

28/09/2006 · 08:16 AM #11

1. the people with cash and resources that would get them in the masterclass will have to start fighting again to show their true power and dominance between all the other people that wnat the power and domination, while in the meantime the marketprices drop a bit again, making the normal more attractive for new people while the `masterclass` gives the game more stylepoints for people to check it out and start playing.

the things that I would expect to happen on the normal servers will be that the marketprices drop, fighting will get more interesting because people don`t go too high, and even if they go high (hide) then there will be no/less respect cause h`/she isn`t in masterclass.

so more fights, more fun, for the weaker empires aswell as for the strong empires.
you must be awesome to dominate the masterclass ;)

ow, and if the distance between normal server and masterclass gets too big then you just lower the standarts on cash and resources ;)

D DraconianParadise

28/09/2006 · 08:14 AM #10

Tis a nice idea

Agreed money and mineral reserves mean nothing, be a server of bot babies from RT XD

Then what Loof said about lack of Coll, Guards, and maybe 1 or 2 Maru;s

Also it should be fairly apparent the game engine will NEVER be changed

I have seen many ideas better than this for a " Vet Server" which ppl have cried out for years

Sadly it just won;t happen

P PervertedGardenGnome

28/09/2006 · 08:13 AM #9

1.) Neither cash nore money is a good measure of determine, who is a master player

dont think eclips meant master player, more of when a certain level of status achieved. u could get on the server without fighting at all so no relation to skill

2.) there are already too few people arround (for several reasons), distributing them even more may be contraproductive

this would be my biggest worry, it could end up killing off 2 or 3 servers

E EvilLoof

28/09/2006 · 08:10 AM #8

and i agree with everything species said too

E EvilLoof

28/09/2006 · 08:08 AM #7

this server will have:
No guardians, no collectives and no maru`s.
No empires from slow or normal(with perhaps 1 or 2 exceptions)

alot more interesting ideas for a 6th server been presented before.
a server with only people who have finished the game, with no artifacts and no virals for example :D

S species382

28/09/2006 · 08:04 AM #6

There are several problems on multiple levels with your poposal:

1.) Neither cash nore money is a good measure of determine, who is a master player

2.) there are already too few people arround (for several reasons), distributing them even more may be contraproductive

3.) Well, one has to relativate point 2 is a little bit, because the empires, which are active=making the game funny usually have less money/minerals, since fighting costs...

4.) Since the mineral market still works on the turn-based servers (even so it is on the edge on ultra), there is no effect of "bigshots out of the way"...

5.) By removing the hoarding empires to their "premium leage of booring empires", one may reduce the mineral price, i.e. makes it even more unpleasent to be an a.miner, improving the mineral shortage

P PervertedGardenGnome

28/09/2006 · 08:03 AM #5

also it would have to be limited to just 1 of your empires allowed in it at any tme, could end up with all your accounts on it lol

P PervertedGardenGnome

28/09/2006 · 08:01 AM #4

I think it sounds like a good idea but would take stephen til 2020 to write\test\threaten.to.implement.it and then forget about it altogether

maybe have an option pop up though inviting u to join the server once u reach a certain status, you`d have people hovering just below the threshold to stay in the lower server and dominate it

E eclipsOP

28/09/2006 · 07:55 AM #3

with the bigshots out of the way to by out the market there will be more room for people to grow in this game and it will get more attractive for others aswell

S species382

28/09/2006 · 07:53 AM #2

Yea, good idea, reward people, which are hoarding minerals and cash instead of fighting, this will indeed "improve the fun in the game"....

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