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Feedback and Suggestions / Re: Remove coin limits.

« on: May 07, 2018, 04:12:19 am »

I don't feel Muse will implement this. It encourages exactly the playstyle they do not want on the world map.

1) It promotes a hoarding play-style as you identify. This is not exciting, its not dynamic and it does not make the world map and exciting place. I think it would actually result in stalling and slowing down the war.
2) It makes the world screen mean even less. If it can all change territory instantly and this is in no way visible there is no way to predict. A level of strategy is removed.
3) Muse wants us to feel our battles effect the world not our mass hoarding of coins. This devalues performance in matches over simply dumping coin at the right time right place.
4) Worst of all its awful for new players. One of the hooks of the world map is to make the new player believe and see themselves making a "difference". If caps are removed then the new player is robbed of this belief. "Nothing I do matters". It makes the classic problem in this game of experienced veterans overpower new players.
5) Its terrible for the whole concept of factions if faction bank is removed. There is then almost nothing that ties you to a faction. What is encouraged is not allegiance, loyalty and TEAMWORK but out of game scheming and much more highly individual play. Your fantasy of top ten anime betrayals to me sound like a nightmare.

Maybe not all of these are valid arguments but good luck trying to get muse to implement this.

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Feedback and Suggestions / Re: Suggestions for Factions/Diplomacy

« on: May 06, 2018, 05:25:15 pm »

These are great ideas. My suggestions are not concrete. I really feel this discussion is needed. Thanks for your good ideas.

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Feedback and Suggestions / Suggestions for Factions/Diplomacy

« on: May 06, 2018, 01:50:24 pm »

I would like to suggest the game includes more diplomatic elements for Factions. It’s all fair and well saying natural leaders emerge and such but its very difficult to work together as a faction or communicate at all with other factions.

1)   Faction Message
Suggestions:
Add further formatting tools to faction message.
Coloured text would be amazing.
At least make it so in the faction message input the text shifts down instead of running off the screen

2)   Chat options as regards a faction are quite limited
Suggestions:
-A faction leader only chat
-A faction leader only chat for all factions
-A #1 leader chat between all factions
-A elected representative chat between all factions
Any of these could equally be done in discord. Maybe a faction leaders chat with your factions own leaders only.

3) Any way at all to know the leaders of a current faction. Without this makes it hard to contact them. You basically have to stalk them down
There are only 3 ways to know the leaders of other factions
-Bump into them in a game AND notice
-They are around on discord AND you notice
-Word of mouth

Suggestions:
-Maybe make it possible to see the leaders of other factions in game or on the forums at all times
-Add a diplomacy/all factions war channel to discord-it could be just leaders, some leaders, and elected rep or make it an open channel to all.
Just please anything to make it possible talk with other factions or your own faction more effectively.

Ultimately, I would love a full-on diplomacy system with in game alliances and truces but its unlikely to happen. I know the response in the past has been to leave it be and let diplomacy grow organically outside the game but with some factions with low player numbers and new players constantly joining and players leaving makes this a challenge.

How can one hope to form a meaningful treaty if 6 players who live in the furthest time zone from the other players, sometimes without a shared language people are confident in, can just decide to attack somewhere and faction a break a truce.
Another response is to say that good coordination and communication are what the faction war rewards. Well I feel like it that’s like turning it into a sheep herding competition without any “tools”. In fact its not what it rewards at all. It rewards faction size and desperate, blind chat spam and herding. I know things scale for faction size but you cannot scale shared languages, time zones or people seeing messages. What should be rewarded is good strategy on the world screen and grind in game. Not herding people into installing discord and what feels like a desperate challenge to contact anyone.

That’s my experience as a newer player to Alliance. I played GoI a while a go but never really became part of the community. I understand the experience might be different for those who have been part of community for a while or those in bigger factions. The lack of any diplomacy really feels like a ceiling on the world map.

Or maybe you think I should just go play CIV5 instead