Why this game is dead

[Shadow I]

Thi game is dead because you guys give up too easily. For example - on WoA, most of the game, including the emps, are on vacatio. In BFR, my only competition just quit as soon as I got one run ahead, and I am not even that strong - any two person team could ruin me with ease. Get off your butts and start playing, or accept that the game is dead and stop paying hosting fees, but either way do something to change the status quo.

[Arthus]

I quit because I didn't care enough to bother. I didn't run for 2 days because I couldn't, come back to my empire being murdered like 50 times and nobody bothering to attack you. It is not worth my time, considering there are 4 people playing and none of them do anything.

[Shadow I]

Murders you say? Who ever heard of people being murdered at FAF? God forbid...

[Arthus]

My annoyance is more of how nobody else seems to even want to try to attack you. No point of me trying to free the land for people who don't do anything.

[Shadow I]

Did the thought of teamwork not cross yor mind? A clan could take down a solo petty easily.

[Arthus]

Wow, not sure how to begin.

Lets see. First off, considering you are not clanned up, no it is not easy. We have like 8k land while you have 60k land. Secondly, the people playing don't seem to have a clue what they are doing. Teamwork doesn't always cut it. Geez, one set it was everyone agaisnt me and I won.

[Shadow I]

The bazaar sucks - two indiers working together could make enough troops to break me in any type except T4 even on the land you guys have now.

[The Beatles]

The game may be dead, but I'll not stop paying the hosting fees until I see evidence of that. It seems to be -- barely -- alive just now.

[Kutolah]

I didn't have turns to break Shadow when he was landlocking. But I did have the troops. I tried to message Arthus to work together to break you but, he was on vacation when I logged on again.

[Freenhult]

Maybe we should just have some fun with the code. Anyone up for say, 2x indy production and $7 food?

[Arthus]

Well currently no strat is on even footing with mage. Farming doesn't make nearly as much and is easily beaten by mage attacks. I just don't understand why magers have been given such an advantage. They can steal and murder without losing anything. While other strats have to lose troops when attacking and stealing resources. Plus a mager can easily break other strats with mages while the same cannot be said the other way around.

As far as this BFR round is concerned. I'll come back if I see people have made a clan and are actually doing something.

[Shadow I]

Maybe we should just have some fun with the code. Anyone up for say, 2x indy production and $7 food?

Sounds fun - how about 1.5x scroll production so the mages get something too

[Arthus]

When the magers are powerful enough? I do not think so... lol.

[Shadow I]

With 2x indy ill be down in two runs lol, don't worry - the extra scrolls would be minimal benefit.

[Freenhult]

Well, honestly the kicker is that when we did the original numbers... We made it so a mage, and indy, and a farmer were "nearly" identical for output. The difference being in 10's of guys.

So how the balance is so broken is beyond me. My only guess was that since we didn't take into account what I'm coining "Attackability" with a strat, it allowed mage/hawkers to become powerful faster. Since spies/hawks/mages are easy to get and you can have the required ratio after one run.

If that is truely the case, then leaving mages alone and increasing production of the other strats, expecially cashing again to make it more pleasurable, would be a good idea. Something I have Bjorn do within a day.