EphemeralEternity
2013-03-19 |  | RT UW |  |
On RT If there hasn`t been a player UW that has gone off by April 1st then we will be setting off a mandatory UW starting that date.
why you ask, because it`s been a year since the last one. Also, it`s no April fools joke. |
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Infernal
99+ day(s) ago | 60 hours on slow? You underestimate the server`s ability to kill stuff lol |
American4Ministry
99+ day(s) ago | well, The UW shouldn`t take 48 hours on all servers.. should be 60 hours on slow, 48 on normal and fast and 36 on rt and ultra |
Brotherhood
99+ day(s) ago | Yes AM you would think so. but i guess i am wrong. i am still not convenced that it would be as hard as some are saying, Cattle and opus uw was post build rates along with another that i cant remember. 4-5 defenders and a strong fleet is all ya need. build rates work both for and against, and what does it hurt to try? worse case ya give up and regroup. fact of the matter is simple. they like the way it is. so only thing to do is whats proposed, wich does very little but separate the power again for a week till they maxxed again. |
ThEpAkIsTaNiEmPirE
99+ day(s) ago | Or the market.. what happened to that anyways.. everything is too dry. |
American4Ministry
99+ day(s) ago | New ships, new goals and objectives would be the best way to keep old players interested imo |
borok
99+ day(s) ago | Having an NPC UW every month there isn`t a player one sounds good to me, gives everyone something to do rather than just sit around. |
Africa
99+ day(s) ago | The likelyhood of succeeding Brotherhood, and getting that reward ship is really low. So players with a high and count dont want to risk their empires (which I totally understand) |
Brotherhood
99+ day(s) ago | then thats what they need to do. i would just take my reward ship and build another powerhouse with another race and try again, but thats just me i guess. But what good does a reset do when they at max infra and that much land? they will be back at max everything in 5 days when too many of them make that kind of money. pointless to just sit on empires and vm. play or get outta dodge. |
Apollo
99+ day(s) ago | if i was gonna UW with that much land id plunder before the UW and quit whether it went off or not |
Brotherhood
99+ day(s) ago | We need the empires that are holding 2-900k land to UW. Then maybe activity and market might level out more and those empires will stop vm and have reason to actually play the game again. |
Apollo
99+ day(s) ago | i want an NPC uw attepmt every friday |
Renegade
Game-Admin
99+ day(s) ago | Actually monthly UW`s are a great thing. And it was the case that the staff did it each month if a player didn`t UW once per month. On the other hand, player UW`s are 1000x harder now, so... maybe not once a month. But far more often than we have them now. |
{DrKsT}GuArDiAn
99+ day(s) ago | WolfHaley: Their are other ways to consider going about to stimulate market activity other than using a mandatory us. An uw going off takes away 90% of all your resources, credits, minerals, ore and so forth. Taking that away on a regular basis is discouraging for new players, young empires, and races that have a hard time making money. Unfortunately one does need to go off more regularly to balance out empires with massive amounts of land.
Monthly events of different kinds centering around battle will stimulate the market more but please keep in mind that staff are volunteers only and can`t be at on GC 24/7. |
LordTumbles
99+ day(s) ago | Haley we have allready seen that in times of UW (The collective uprising last week for example) Mineral markets actually get stocked! So I think we at least need the threat nigh constantly. |
WolfHaley
99+ day(s) ago | Wouldn`t the period after a UW stimulate activity in order to rebuild wealth? I believe many a.miners use the "already at max creds" excuse for not posting any minerals. However, I am not sure how out of balance food producers and taxers might be.
@EE
If this UW helps bolster activity on RT, could you consider doing a `forced` UW every month? |
DraconianParadise
99+ day(s) ago | I wouldn`t mind doing a UW.... it`s the only thing I haven`t done |
Africa
99+ day(s) ago | I agree about the player thing. I dont really see, what a uw would accomplish at all.
But I dont think it was a long and gruelling process talking down the coll uws. It went surprisingly fast considering how few were hitting.
And yea, make arties take some of the arties and watch people get all giddy. |
LordTumbles
99+ day(s) ago | I always wanted the UW ships, but alas I`ll never be popular enough to launch one :p |
borok
99+ day(s) ago | maru uw anyone? hahah |
{DrKsT}GuArDiAn
99+ day(s) ago | Africa: yeah I agree but because we only had a handful of players helping it was a long grueling process and we ran out of time so we didn`t finish off all of them. Me, sibi, and Balzac dragged down one more using counters to get him in range then staff did away with it before we could finish him.
I would be more willing to either allow or possibly defend an uw at this point in time if were facing a mandatory reset, I would rather a player get the reward than some NPC/staff flipping a switch. |
