ItZMuRdA
2003-12-07, 06:54 AM
Hey, this is a copy + paste directly of my post over on the official forums so excuse some of the adress's to the devs and what not. I'd like to hear what you guys think so I figured I'd post it here too
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Sup fellas, to start off, I love the BCE (server merge). Player recerts are great and hey, the lodestar is ugly, but its cool too :P
A couple quick things that would make me love it even more and benefit the players who play night and day like myself are as follows.
I appreciate the recent reduction to 12 hours from 24 hours, but one of the things I'd like to see done would be a further reduction to like 6 hours, or even 3 hours.
I totally agree with the prevention of spying, but most spying is done on a real-time basis. Things like AMS positions, good OS opportunities, and battle/zerg movement. Even at 3 hours all that stuff will be changed enough so that spying wouldn't be a factor. As far as weapon/vehicle trading and what not, thats going to happen whether its 1 hour or 24 hours. And, to be honest, someone dedicated enough to spying will probably have a 7-day trial account, a friend on an opposing empire, or a second account themselves that they pay extra for.
Heres another idea, whether its coupled with the above time reduction to 3 hours or 6 hours, or even if its implemented while the timer is still at 12 hours. I think, now that you allow us to use TWO empires per server, why not let us use all three? I personally would love to get a taste of the 2 empires that I dont play primarily, but the main reason I still play this game is for my friends and my outfit. So therefore, I'm not planning on leaving Emerald for anything. As of right now, I can play two of the three, but why not all three? You dont even have to extend the max # of characters anymore. 8 characters would be fine.. though 12 would be cool too, I'm not going to push that
This idea of being able to play all 3 empires on a specific server would also incredibly benefit the player who plays nonstop. Say he logs off his TR character to play NC.. he cant play TR for 12 hours, so hes stuck playing NC. However, if he gets tired of NC, with the ability to play all 3 empires, he can now switch over to VS. And chances are, provided this player is quite indecisive, he can switch back to TR by the time hes bored with VS, since he'll have about 6 hours to play NC and 6 hours to play VS, respectively.
Anyway, I usually dont voice my opinions too drastically, atleast with regard to starting my own thread about them.
But the BCE has made my love of the game a lot deeper already, and I'd really appreciate if these ideas were taken into some serious thought and add to my love of the game even more.
I'd love to hear what the rest of you guys think, whether it be agree or disagree, thats what these boards are for it seems. Hope its taken into some serious consideration by you guys that make everything happen (devs)
Alright, time to rap it up. Thanks for listenin.
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Sup fellas, to start off, I love the BCE (server merge). Player recerts are great and hey, the lodestar is ugly, but its cool too :P
A couple quick things that would make me love it even more and benefit the players who play night and day like myself are as follows.
I appreciate the recent reduction to 12 hours from 24 hours, but one of the things I'd like to see done would be a further reduction to like 6 hours, or even 3 hours.
I totally agree with the prevention of spying, but most spying is done on a real-time basis. Things like AMS positions, good OS opportunities, and battle/zerg movement. Even at 3 hours all that stuff will be changed enough so that spying wouldn't be a factor. As far as weapon/vehicle trading and what not, thats going to happen whether its 1 hour or 24 hours. And, to be honest, someone dedicated enough to spying will probably have a 7-day trial account, a friend on an opposing empire, or a second account themselves that they pay extra for.
Heres another idea, whether its coupled with the above time reduction to 3 hours or 6 hours, or even if its implemented while the timer is still at 12 hours. I think, now that you allow us to use TWO empires per server, why not let us use all three? I personally would love to get a taste of the 2 empires that I dont play primarily, but the main reason I still play this game is for my friends and my outfit. So therefore, I'm not planning on leaving Emerald for anything. As of right now, I can play two of the three, but why not all three? You dont even have to extend the max # of characters anymore. 8 characters would be fine.. though 12 would be cool too, I'm not going to push that
This idea of being able to play all 3 empires on a specific server would also incredibly benefit the player who plays nonstop. Say he logs off his TR character to play NC.. he cant play TR for 12 hours, so hes stuck playing NC. However, if he gets tired of NC, with the ability to play all 3 empires, he can now switch over to VS. And chances are, provided this player is quite indecisive, he can switch back to TR by the time hes bored with VS, since he'll have about 6 hours to play NC and 6 hours to play VS, respectively.
Anyway, I usually dont voice my opinions too drastically, atleast with regard to starting my own thread about them.
But the BCE has made my love of the game a lot deeper already, and I'd really appreciate if these ideas were taken into some serious thought and add to my love of the game even more.
I'd love to hear what the rest of you guys think, whether it be agree or disagree, thats what these boards are for it seems. Hope its taken into some serious consideration by you guys that make everything happen (devs)
Alright, time to rap it up. Thanks for listenin.