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The Docks / Re: [SREP] Sandstorm Republic

« on: February 20, 2015, 08:42:20 am »

I renew the friendship and the alliance between the Amon-Ra Priests and the Sandtorm Republic!

Long life and many victories to our alliance !!!

Enochh

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The Lounge / Re: Introducing the new CAs!

« on: February 13, 2015, 01:00:41 pm »

Hi to all!

First of all I am proud to be part of the staff and  to help officially one of the best communities I've ever met (I play online since 1998).
I'm Enochh, the leader and founder of the clan Ra (Amon-ra Priests). But real life is not so exciting...
My name is Niccolò and i'm italian (so forgive my terrible English (although people have never had troubles to understand me).
Iìm 29 years old and i usually play GOIO with my wife Erya. I work as teacher, so teaching and helping other people is a natural attitude for me

I will try to do my best to help this community to grow because here I found a place to settle down and have fun.

So.... See you in the skyes! (don't worry I have already paid the copyright to Jacob)

p.s. Pizza is ITALIAN!

Enochh

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General Discussion / Re: AN OPEN LETTER: "Return to crew form or rematch?"

« on: February 10, 2015, 02:05:42 pm »

I really appreciate your replies

Some clarification:

While having low level players join in on other clans so they can play together and increase their skill level is a nice utopia,

It's not an utopia, my clan just does it. And not only mine. I can bring you the SREP example, where players with different levels play together.

Another issue with this way of thinking is the assumption that all low levels, want to be associated with a clan that is not their "core-4-players-who-just-bought-their-4-pack", they wanna play with their friends, and until they don't develop any other friendship bonds in-game with other people, I honestly don't see a reason for them to want to join a foreign clan, never mind how active it is.

They could play with their friend anyway, but staying in a bigger clan that can teach and help them too

On the other side of the coin here you have the higher skilled players that are oriented with a clan already, that are basically being forced lower levels upon - No one asked them if they want to befriend the foreign people who you just added to their clan.

Because this is the definition and the true meaning of being a community and being a clan . This is the problem i suppose, that so many "high level players" don't want to play with low levels, even if they are in their own clan, and i saw so many skilled players leave lobbies for that reason or even swapping team.

Ultimately, The system for making new clans shouldn't be harder. It wouldn't stop new players from confiding into their small play groups, they will keep playing with those 4-core-players, only without the clan tag. While I agree "troll-clans" are annoying, the way to stop them wouldn't be to stop them from creating a clan, it would just constrict their level of customization and creativity in-game - they would still be trolling people I assure you. Also, if what you want is only a few core active clans that are available for people to join in on, what would be the requirements for a clan to be a "core clan"? What is it that makes a clan, in this new system you propose stick out and serve as a "core clan"? Is it the amount of players? activity? Commendations? Strong competitive base? because as I see it, there isn't a good way to classify a "core clan" as you call it - All clans deserve to exist.
I would say that if you are going for only a few "core clans" to be in existence, for the unified community, delete all the current clans, and make one clan for each faction. Which is sort of what adventure mode is gonna be. Btw, I think that this clan for each faction deal in skirmish mode is totally idiotic, but a cool idea for adventure mode.

About the clans troll: if you make it more difficult to create the clan in comparison to the possible satisfaction being trolls, the troll clans would not exist
About the way to classify, we can help the Devs to find some reasonable selection criteria like some that you have gently already said.


My best regards

Enochh

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General Discussion / AN OPEN LETTER: "Return to crew form or rematch?"

« on: February 10, 2015, 08:47:18 am »

Hi to all, i'm Enochh, the leader of the Ra clan
I've decided to write this letter to share with everyone my point of view about a very burdensome issue.
Many people complain of matchmaking because low-level players often find very unbalanced matches and they encounter ships full of members of the same clan or friends with high-level.
Often these high-level teams, after winning the game, instead of doing rematch, they go for 'return to crew form'.

An example. Yesterday for the first time I could get two ships full of Ra members. I found a game and immediately all opponents left. Only one player remained (whose name I won't say here), and started complaining about the problem I have explained before. He did pressure on us to split up, he pushed for that. I assured him that after that match we would have done a rematch. He could hardly believe it, but in the end we did rematch and all ended up well.
Now, a little premise.
We members of the Ra clan, always try to help the community in different ways: accepting on match lower level players and trying to teach them, we are very sociable in the lobbies, and many other things such as trying to balance the matches (I have seen other clans doing that, for example, the SREP, the DAGZ, the TT). But sometimes I think it's normal for friends, or members of the same clan, wanting to play together for various reasons, including training for the official competitions. I can understand the problem of the players because I was low level too. Everyone here has been low level. I also understand the need to try as much as possible to balance the games. But this can not become a matter of aggressive discussion every time or even become a requirement. It is not our fault if we were put in that lobby. Also the clans sometimes need to be able to practice playing together against other people. I remember that, when I was low-level, those situations helped me more than anything to learn and grow my determination to improve myself in this game.

I thought about it a lot and I came to the conclusion that one of the causes of this problem is this:
I noticed that if I participate in 3 games, I can meet players of about 20 different clans. I think that the ease with which you can create a new clan (as well as increasing the possibility of trolling clans) also contributes to the dispersion of the community. Often these clans have very few members and then often the members play alone. Or often, having all members of that clan low level, it is normal that they have higher chances to be put in an unbalanced match. I believe that it should be harder to create new clan (and remove inactive or with few members clans) to encourage new players to try to get into the most active clans. Within these clans, the low level players will be able to participate to games with more experienced members. That will increase the chance to have more balanced matches and clan versus clan matches.

Then I would suggest the developers to make it harder to create new clans because I think that this will make the community more united and furthermore enhance the education of new players from those with more experience.

I also want to encourage all members of the major clans to try to balance games as often as they can.

My greetings!

Enochh

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Steam Workshop / Re: Need Blender's friends as Friends

« on: December 30, 2014, 01:09:45 pm »

Thanks Richard, and if you have more advice i'm all hears!

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Steam Workshop / Need Blender's friends as Friends

« on: December 30, 2014, 05:27:47 am »

Hi, i'm Enochh and i really want to create some stuff with Blender (for GOIO of course) but i'm totally noob of this program. I would like to learn to use it but I need someone to help me for a little time to figure out how to get started (for example when i can find the GOIO human models). I would be very happy if any of you, that already have some experience with the program, added me to steam.

My regards

Enochh