IDEA! Dev Team/Gm event on a 1-6 month basis..

[MrVicchio]

If it happened to me i would get my boyz together and wreck havoc on the enemy, not cry about how unfair it was.

War is for warriors, all others need not apply.

[CrazyMike]

Waaaay back in the early days of the original forums the devs were thinking that every month they would have a major campaign (war). You would have to register for it before hand and it would take place in a location that would change each month and would be seperate from the game world. They were thinking at the time that, among other things, doing this would satisfy the gamers need for pure victory in a game that never ends.

Are they still doing this? Who the hell knows.. maybe, maybe not.

a: ITS A WAR PEOPLE.... you win some you lose some.

Actually it's a game. A game that people pay each month to play, hence some peoples insistance that the game be fair and ballanced.


CrazyMike

[�io]

Well hopefully there will be special competitions or whatnot from time to time to spice things up. Like on easter the Empire who succeds in finding the hidden egg and bring it back to base would get a special bunny costume or something like that.

[Unregistered]

Now that sounds like fun!!!

[�io]

Yeah i can imagine flying over the enemy gloating and tauting them in our brand new Santa sled on 24th december.

[Hamma]

That would own. hehe

[�io]

I would love it if they did stuff like that. My favorite game of all time so far is PSO(Phantasy Star Online) and Sonicteam did stuff like that for the DC players but since a DC mem card is very limited so were the possibilites, however on a PC they could send us plenty of special holiday stuff or competitions.

[MrVicchio]

No, sorry cant do that, not by Crazymikes logic. It might be unfair to someone else.

This is a War. It might be a game, but if you go into it thinking everything must be fair, and they make the game "fair for all" then it will suffer.

Yes, I do mean that. Fair in terms of base power amongst the empires is a nessessity, but some one has to lose and some one has to win. If you dillute that in order to not hurt someones feelings, then you take away from the game. Plain and simple.

The FAQ does state:

Yes, its PvP with a vengence.

That means someone is gonna get capped, and someones gonna do the capping.

[stick100]

Originally posted by MrVicchio
No, sorry cant do that, not by Crazymikes logic. It might be unfair to someone else.

BTW it was me (stick100)<= not crazymike.

Originally posted by MrVicchio
This is a War. It might be a game, but if you go into it thinking everything must be fair, and they make the game "fair for all" then it will suffer.
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I disagree, will be adressed later.

Originally posted by MrVicchio
Yes, I do mean that. Fair in terms of base power amongst the empires is a nessessity, but some one has to lose and some one has to win.
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Fair in terms of base power... well what if we did what someone suggested and let undersome conditions people get more hitpoints. Ok lets say your empire never get it right, and for kicks VC always gets it, and after a year they have double the number of hit points you do, how are you going to feel. You are going to feel cheated every time you do 190 damage to a VC, reload, and he turns and does 100 to you and you die. These are the sorts of things that would make a game not fun and would make people quit.

For those that have played eq, how do you generally feel about event items. Most people would say "pissed, I never get em", this is the feeling you have to avoid.

[MrVicchio]

EH?

Stick... what are you talking about?

Base power, i.e. no one side has a clear weapon/hp advantage, and nor did I advocate such as your "example" would have done.


I just mean, that some ones gonna win, some one is gonna lose. I wont worry myself over what ifs and how would I feel if. Thats a bridge to be crossed if the Devs do that.

I mean, if your side loses... dont cry, get even. bah

[stick100]

Originally posted by MrVicchio

Stick... what are you talking about?

Sorry I misattributed an idea to you that was someone elses [to lazy to look who].

Originally posted by MrVicchio

Base power, i.e. no one side has a clear weapon/hp advantage, and nor did I advocate such as your "example" would have done.

Yea, I agree. And your nuke idea isn't bad, and it does fit the not that big a deal rule [couple bases or something] , but still cool [especially with cool graphics].

Originally posted by MrVicchio

I just mean, that some ones gonna win, some one is gonna lose.

Yes but for one side to win you need .... uhhh

/me puts on flame-proof vest and decides never to return to this thread

time-limited servers.

/me runs for the door.

Slaming noise heard, quickly followed by the sound of a car pealing out.

[MrVicchio]

WAYYYY out of context dude.

WAYYY out of context.

I mean there will be a winner and a loser per each battle... each base...

Not the whol game.