Zeroed Out : Your opinion

yeah the advertising for this game does suck no one in my town knows about it and the only reason i found out about this game is because i was looking for some space games and it was like on the 5th page back so they need to advertise it alot more if they put it on a commercial like gametap does we could get another 2 mill or more people to play this game

While I do agree that making the UW reset the server is a bad idea, adjusting the UW slightly would probably encourage people to do them a little more often, make them more fun for everyone, AND make it not so bad for the new players... The following are my ideas. Some or all of them might not be viable for this game because of coding, etc. But...

1. UW causes people to lose 10% of their infrastructure research (Boom causes computers holding the research "data" to be lost)
2. UW causes everyone to lose their top 3 borders (Explosion causes outer planets that aren`t well built up to blow up)
3. All ships are destroyed. Fed Members only lose 75% of fleet. (Explosion too strong for hulls to survive)
4. UW causes 90% loss of sellable stuff Fed Members only lose 25%. (Similar to how it does now)
5. UW is destroyed if empire is successfully attacked below 5 million pr AND/OR Exploring is disabled while UW is active (Interference from UW causes scanners to become non-functional)

And then to make UWs more attractive to people to set off, If they are successfull they have to restart, but get 50% of their research points to "re-distribute" in their new empire.

lol i`d just quit if i lost everything. coz it takes weeks and days to get anywhere decent with tech. Im not really keen on being put back into the stone age. :D

Ahah... If I wanted to restart I`d do it myself. No thanks to losing my research, artis, and empire age.

I wouldn`t mind seeing a 10% loss of land on all colonies from a successful UW, I think it would add a lot of incentive to fighting UW`s and if the fed that pulled it off didn`t lose anything, it could add more UW`s. If you wanted to hurt your enemies, what better way than to make them lose land while yours stays the same. But there are many points why that is a bad idea also. As for loss of everything from a UW, thats the same as a system restart.......Won`t voice why it`s a horrible idea, Aba did a excellent job explaining.

as for the older players with near max/max infra or loads of planets and land they will hardly be willing to loose that to some new player doing an explore UW with the support of a few players with arties.

It`s not fair to loose everything and not everyone has the time/resources to fight or even hit a UW so everyone gets screwed which is bad. 60-90% loss of sellable items and cash is fine as I see it.

Jade, IDC who you are, but if you think fed mates on all servers for most of the top feds are all fighting independently then you are sadly a fool. On all servers it is required to work as a team to hold ranks and assist fed mates that are low on borders (by riding shotgun for them as they hunt for more borders).

Now for the server wide reset idea:

In vain to your referance to Slow server and M|K`s UW dominance. Now if your idea was implimented every UW would set the entire server back about 1 year. With all research gone guard players (true only 2 or 3 exist there) are screwed due to no more missions for easy Hun Li. All other races are stuck with no income, effectivly next to no turns and no colonies.

Not a good idea.

As for the game in general on normal and fast (ultra too IIRC) there are really old empires with lots of planets and infra for their server, a UW going off going by your idea`s rules means ALL of them would quit in a heat beat I would assume due to the time it takes and difficulty in gathering the colonies and making the C3/C4`s.

On RT it would also be a silly idea because this is were new players generally start out before venturing into the slower servers (were the gap is even bigger it seems to some). For new players to get pretty much force restarted when a UW goes off (they have no idea whats going on anyways) they would think `screw this game i`m off to lay XXYY` and the game looses the following:

1: a new body playing
2: new potential money from paid time
3:more players to get higher in game rankings and more clicks to get more rankings etc
4: another player to spread how good the game is to get more potential players


Alienating the newer players is a real bad idea and kills word of mouth advertising (the only advertising this game has worth a dam)

NO. the big thing that`s keeping ANY of the older empires is that they have alot of time invested and have alot of planets/reasearch/reasources to play when they want to.
If this game was to reset that WOULD be the death of it as almost anyone sticking arround would never log back on again

I second Ragnarok

if you said this when GC started out, maybe, cuz then people would spend more time fighting than researching. Now, if you do that, you`re going to see a lot of people either leave the game or no one ever does a UW ever again. Why would fed mates support if they`re gonna lose everything too?