Discuss.

team warfare

this could be achieved as race vs race or race group vs race group.

if race vs race then each race would start in a different quadrant and only be able to attack members of opposing races.

if race group vs race group, IE good races vs evil races,  same applies, good races can only attack evil races etc. each race group would have to start out in same hemisphere, either north and south, or east and west

current , proposed and  new races

human- this would be base race, no pluses, no minus on stats or build times
elven - could be + 10% attack - 5%hp + 10% build/travel
dwarven- could be+attack 5% + 15% hp  +20% build/travel times
halfling+ could be + 10% defense due to size perhaps -10%hp -20% build/travel

dark elven+ 5% attack -5% build/travel
orc+10%attack - 10% build/travel
troll+ 5% attack, +5% HP  -10% build/travel
ogre +5%attack +15% hp -20% build/travel

just arbitrary numbers here..

as well, you could also make each race be better or worse at something, IE mining, food gathering et all.  as long as it balances out where a player has equal chance regardless of race choice, the pluses and the minuses etc

would probably have to implement option of clan war, for a same race clan to attack other same race clan for as we well know, not everyone gets along. this could be done by mutual agreement or by perhaps a poll option, say if majority of clan A wants to attack clan B of same race, they vote, if % met, the two clans are attackable for x number of days, no vacation mode permited, perhaps 2 days?   this would keep the theme of team work in tact since there would be possible player driven penalty for playing against your team.

honor system.  attacker gets penalty based on size, but defender should get bonus as well

so...if attacker loses 50 honor on attack, thats 50% atk, hp etc, defender should gain that much as well for battle, would make it alot harder to attack lower people i would think

some kind of slow moving siege equipment should be implemented as well, perhaps something so slow it would rarely be used as offense, but would help on defense and require new building type such as siege factory etc. could make travel time 3x of infantry, high atk, high hp, but large res requirment and long build requirement. perhaps ballistas and do upgrade to catapults or onagers

I like many have asked questions and have not received an answer, I like many believe the reset was wrong and far too harsh, I like many consider stable and speed 2 completely different games.

The issue of what was done to the 2 players has been a very long and drawn out problem, very little was known by all but as the questions and chat continued information was discovered, information that changed the whole outlook on the Moderators decision to the point where the Moderators have to answer some very serious questions.

I know that there are several Moderators that did not know or believe the reset was the correct decison {behind closed doors}, I also understand that their are several who had no idea why Stable was reset {behind closed doors}, but I was amazed to read what one of the players wrote about the moderators knowledge.

{whamra1987 wrote "regarding conan.... are you even a speed player? you yourself said you're a stable player"}

Whamra1987 has admitted something, the 2 bloody games are seperate!!!!!!!

Wolfieke posted this chat with Whamra1987
  {"Ok you got me.I understand the resets are final, but I still don't understand why stable was reset when two mods said on global this is not done and 3 mods and Thijs did not know about the reset on stable (and that's the ones I asked, don't know about the rest)"

My question is this, if some Moderators did not know or agree with the reset on stable why was it reset, surely someone has to take responsibility for the resetting without informing the other moderators. The person or persons responsible failed to communicate with their fellow moderators and made a decision that is opposed by players and moderators, so why is it continueing, the majority say it is wrong, a couple of moderators took it upon themselves to implement a very unpopular reset, so why has the decision to reinstate the players not occurred.

This now leads to a very serious matter, based on what is now public knowledge that some moderators were kept in the dark on the resetting of players in stable as well as speed, then the serious question is what else has been withheld from them about the information on the allegations of cheating.

If they did not know about the stable reset then surely it is not unrealistic to accept that they did not know all the information on the cheating allegations and if this the case then it is deplorable that this has been allowed to continue.

How can players be reset without all moderators agreeing to it, someone has made that decision illegally, without proper consultation. Who is running this, is there a hiden agenda, by what has happened in all the forums on this problem it has caused discredit to the game, if the moderators do not know who is doing what then the game is in trouble.

To stop all this mess so no more posts are done, so no more censorship is imposed on forum topics, do the right action and reset the players on stable, then open the case against the 2 players and get all the information to all moderators, consult properly with the players in question and make a decision, please do not tell me the decision has been made, i know that all players know that but we also know that all information was not given to all moderators which makes that decison invalid. So do it and be transparent, let the players in this game be informed, get feed back on ways to improve the game and let the game get back to a higher standard than what has happened because of the decisions made.

I actually logged onto the speed server yesterday... and did a little math.

Total pts of top 25 clans = 1034340
Total pts of top 2 allied clans = 412980
Total % of top 25 allied together 39.93%

These numbers include all inactive players in the top 25.  Let's drop out the scores from those clans.  In this calculation 'active' is defined as when a significant portion of the players in the clan were not in vacation, and had logged in within the past week.

Total active: 544150
Total % active allied at the top:  75.90%

So looking at these numbers 76% of the top 25 has rallied against the other 24%

OK.  Now I am going to crawl out on a limb here.... but people are not going to play a game where they cannot actually play competitively.  You talk about ways to get more people to play, how about you actually let them play?  Break up your mega-clans, the mega-alliances.  This is something you don't even need the developers to do, you can do it right now... today even.  However as much as the people at the top talk about things that 'need' to be done to increase activity, they would rather rule a dead server than have to mingle and play with their underlings. 

Now I have read the thread about changing vacation.  I think the change is good.  However speed players this change is not going to somehow force people into playing with you.... the people hiding in vacation now will just quit (or be farmed to nothing...)

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typo

The Soviet Union ended because they spent way too much money on the military, which was ultimately the American's fault.

Capitalism is cruel and unjust. People say that capitalism works because they are bourgeois Americans with health insurance.

But in the real world, the world of starving millions, famine, drought, war and murder, people cannot live their lives like they ought to able to, with a home, a real job, a good wage and a place to live.

Capitalism cannot grant people these things, because it's all about making money, and you need money to make money.

Thus the people in the poorest parts of the world with little or no infrastructure cannot get the help that they need from capitalism, and the scarcity of resources leads inevitably to war, as it has done for centuries.

People say that Communism had its chance and failed. This is not true.

It has only just begun!

BUT I"LL BE BACK!!!!!!