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I just burst into laughter after the first 4 lines.

are you saying that its the people who have tried to play the server fault :lol: for this inbalance

not the people who took the bonuses & just never did anything
& in deed did cause the inbalance.

& in deed ae the ones crying about how strong people are in ascension

or have i got something wrong here :lol:

what i have been saying for ages is something needs to be done to bring people into the game, but the lvls is way to high which are being talked about, going from 33 up to 1500 or is it 1700 is just crazy & everyoe i have spoken to think the same & thats from both side of the fence.

I & others come on here & say these things, but when you can not disagree with us you start using words like whining, crying etc.

why can't we for one have a open discusion, so what if we dont agree.

we may gain knowledge from it.

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Glad I can make you laugh but it makes me wanna cry that after it has been stated so many times by so many ppl that they and others tried and were smacked down by a clique (that subsequentaly becoming the n1 reason for only ascending for bunuses btw) it allways boils down to the same old story of "the people (outside the clique, *naturally*), who took the bonuses & just never did anything"... How can you possibly have a honest discussion about the problems if you (note that the original post was not aimed specifically towards you as this "you" is not) refuse to even aknowledge all the facts lol and keep on repeating the other side is to blame therefore it`s "unfair" for it to get a boost? C`mon, you`re better than that...

And you`re big on RL comparissons... The courts(forum) aren`t telling mozilla(lill fishes) to F off and that it`s their fault cos they came in late and/or weren`t as good as MS(guess who heh)... they`re imposing fines on MS to remove IE/WMP to make room for "the little guys", for the good of the market etc etc(the game)... Is it so hard to comprehend the concept?

So yes, any update will end up with the big guys getting shafted on account of smaller/new ones, that`s the point lol. For the "greater good". But taking relative size into consideration it`s like john goodman geting shafted 0.5cm deep with a coctail straw... as if you`re gonna feel it... so the really funny thing here is how hard some ppl (not necessarily you) are clinging to their huge advantages refusing to give even a portion of it... so we play the stupid "blame game" on who "deserves" what... sweet. Carry on..
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Re: changes to ascension

High Empty wrote:blahh, raven,... whoever.

Now think carefully, on this
Why do the larger accounts want raiding to stay?
Is it so that they can destory your account, well i don't need to raid you to do that, i just remove your defence, and have people farm you, and descend you.
Is it to grow. Well damn guys i would need to raid a stuff-load of planets. To be correct, i would need to raid ranks 10-20, and i might save a day or 2 of my UP productions.
Is it to keep the soul of ascension alive, well it might be that.
Or is it just to keep people in line so that they don't do anything foolish, like start farming everyone members.

Now ascensions

Anys APP, conversion is going to leave your main account weaker, THAT is the POINT of ascension! It's a place to spend main resources. As for the people selling dmu, well they are just helping people, since people don't buy if' the deals bad. When it comes down to it, it's cheaper to buy then to ascend, cause you dont need to rebuild everything.
If neither of you want to ascend, so what no one is forcing you too, get yourself descended, and go on your way, you gotten your shiny weapons, do you need anything else?

@Brdavs,

having reread your statement, and well your right.
however would like the power ups to be a bit more expensive.

To general, NO UPDATE IS GOING TO EFFECT ANY MAJOR PLAYER
for one simple reason, the major players can change to suit the update.


first the last thing, if no update messes up your gameplay and it we think it will bring more ppl to play back the game, and see it as a good update, why do we have the majority of big ppl complaining about this update?

@raiding part.
I have no idea why you would want to keep the raiding, sure you are unraidable, and if you play the game right you will remain as such. But others arent. To keep us in line? well i m sorry to be the one to tell you this, but ascended wasnt made so you could keep ppl in line ;)
The soul of ascension has been dead due to the raiding, at least thats what majority ppl claim :)

I know you dont need raiding for growing, no1 ever claimed you are curently growing from raiding, your main growth is your up we get that, thats why you were happy to change raiding into destroyn, you see as you dont need to grow, its practical to have an instrument to keep others from growing... I could quote you now from an 10months old post where you clearly say for main that if you wont be allowed to grow over 75 mil due to the cap, you ll sure as hell do anything in your power to keep others from coming close to that cap. I can only asume your aim at keeping raid or destroy planets is the same, to keep ppl down.
What i can tell you with certenty is what i have experieced (this applys to rebons 100 mil to 1 thing too) and thats the fact that i wasnt allowed to move over 4mil planets total, evrytime i got higher some1 raided me.
even now i keep about 1/3 of my army in "defence related" stats so that i m "safe" and i asume i m only safe cause there are some naps in place, else i d sure be a gonners sooner or later.
No one is sayn thats soo wrong, what we are sayn is that it brings down the will to play, its like that making a house/pyramid from cards, eventualy it will totaly collapse. Now some ppl might enjoy that and see it as a challange, but most of us simply dont have time to invest 3 months so that they get nullified periodicly, its idiotic, hence server is dieing.


@ascensions
I m not gonna go through the same story on the 5x time or more, you can find my vievs on it in previous posts, but to point out again, if you wanna compete in main you have to ascnedn and thats it. So stop with descend yourself theory as than we can simply stop playn sgw on all servers.

@sti the words cryn and whining, were generaly used when we complained agaisnt an update we deemed unfair, i m guessing now, (on a such rare ocasion) ppl are returning the faveour by calling big guys complaints cryn and whining, and who is to blame them, if you browse the forums for older posts you ll see that the word is used more often by your fellow members (both previous and curent) than any other.
@your coment to brdavses post, well, the big guys fault is that server is unbalanced, you see by sticking yoursefl together and that you did, working as 1, and that you did, you created a monopoly on ascended, an uncrossable barier. The ppl arround you thrived, the ppl oposed to you died. The connection you made was strong and usefull for you guys (again i m not complaing, you deserve congrats on good tacticks), but in a way you stoped ppl from investing in asc much, if you werent on the right side, it was resources throwen away as youd eventualy be destroyed. So there is some valid point in his post.
At least be honest enough to admit, that that was your aim (domination) and that you acchived it (obviusly) so you cant say you are not to "blaim" for some imbalance to the server. (agian this is only good for you guys and you deserve it as you worked right and hard, but i hate it when i hear from mojo that ascended is balanced and all ok, when we all know its probably the most unbalanced thing in the existance:) )

@APP point, again i agree it is a bit of a shocking jump and it would be more normal if it slowly grew through the years, but i m guessing admin is tryn to find and connect loose ends and doing what is best for the server.

and again i doubt any1 minds a constructive debate, but it is annoyn bringing up old topics that have been heavily discused (probably in this thread already) and whats more, they are brough up by the same person who brough them up in the first place.
give your viev, take others, argumente it, and discuss it, its all fine, but hearing stuf over again and giving same counter arguments becomes a bit time consuming, and makes the thread a bit too long and hard to folow, for us and for admin.

Hope i covered all, also that it makes some sence, if not its probably cause of the late hour and a few beers, or has something to do with sucking at writing :)
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Re: changes to ascension

TheRook wrote:
High Empty wrote:however would like the power ups to be a bit more expensive.



I saw someones post about using maths to work out the numbers and saying something like getting 500 upgrades on charisma is 12 million?

dug it up

PSICOLIX wrote:LOL, i have time to completly run the #s.
Charisma 0 to 500 cost 3 Mill LF
production 0 to 700 Cost 12 Mill LF
Maximum Natural Energy Capacity 0 to 500 cost 5 Mill
Wordly skills 0 to 500 cost 4 Mill each. 16 Mill total
Godly Skils 0 to 500 cost 3 Mill lf each. 18 Mill total

thats 54 Mill life force to BOOST ALL, like a 300k Up ascension...



surely thats not true? because if that is true then thats WAY To low (as much as I'd love that it would ruin ascension for me as I'd beat that too easily)

unless he means billion instead of million?


Which is why admin needs to keep the Power Up level costs at what they are, dont make them cheaper, leave some skill in the game, if you can ascend once and boost them all too level 200, there is no skill required.
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Re: changes to ascension

Brdavs wrote:
S T I wrote:
I just burst into laughter after the first 4 lines.

are you saying that its the people who have tried to play the server fault :lol: for this inbalance

not the people who took the bonuses & just never did anything
& in deed did cause the inbalance.

& in deed ae the ones crying about how strong people are in ascension

or have i got something wrong here :lol:

what i have been saying for ages is something needs to be done to bring people into the game, but the lvls is way to high which are being talked about, going from 33 up to 1500 or is it 1700 is just crazy & everyoe i have spoken to think the same & thats from both side of the fence.

I & others come on here & say these things, but when you can not disagree with us you start using words like whining, crying etc.

why can't we for one have a open discusion, so what if we dont agree.

we may gain knowledge from it.

jeff


Glad I can make you laugh but it makes me wanna cry that after it has been stated so many times by so many ppl that they and others tried and were smacked down by a clique (that subsequentaly becoming the n1 reason for only ascending for bunuses btw) it allways boils down to the same old story of "the people (outside the clique, *naturally*), who took the bonuses & just never did anything"... How can you possibly have a honest discussion about the problems if you (note that the original post was not aimed specifically towards you as this "you" is not) refuse to even aknowledge all the facts lol and keep on repeating the other side is to blame therefore it`s "unfair" for it to get a boost? C`mon, you`re better than that...

And you`re big on RL comparissons... The courts(forum) aren`t telling mozilla(lill fishes) to F off and that it`s their fault cos they came in late and/or weren`t as good as MS(guess who heh)... they`re imposing fines on MS to remove IE/WMP to make room for "the little guys", for the good of the market etc etc(the game)... Is it so hard to comprehend the concept?

So yes, any update will end up with the big guys getting shafted on account of smaller/new ones, that`s the point lol. For the "greater good". But taking relative size into consideration it`s like john goodman geting shafted 0.5cm deep with a coctail straw... as if you`re gonna feel it... so the really funny thing here is how hard some ppl (not necessarily you) are clinging to their huge advantages refusing to give even a portion of it... so we play the stupid "blame game" on who "deserves" what... sweet. Carry on..



:lol: yet again you put the cart b4 the horse. yes it has been discussed b4 many times & it comes down to the same thing.

yes the accounts that were playing ended up hitting killing the other ones & as the pool got smaller this became worse.

you either never read this or choose to ignor this because it never fitted in to how you want to argue your case /point.

But yet again i will & many can tell you, that it was not the case of so many ascended quickly because of the above but the cause of it.(it left the ones who wanted to play in a whole heap of ####) when there are only so many targts this is bound to happen.

If you go back you will find that people from the very start bragged about ascending quickly.

If you look at the most powerful ascension accounts they are all the ones who ascended slowly, i think sinisters account is only lg, dead horse was one behind this & i am two ahead.

These people who did these quick ascension had no way back, i can name quite a few very big accounts who went right up to the max/cap, only to find us over taking them in second gear. you remember the story of the hare & tortoise.

so you see it was the case of the quick ascensions which came first & when the slower but more powerful accounts came through, yes it did cause problems, but that is good game play on our part.

so you can try & twist it any way you want, the facts are there, yes you got bits right, people did get trashed, but the overal cause was the lack of active account/players.

how come it always comes back to "these people picked on us theme".

instead of just saying what really happened & move on.

btw this is from a person who has

Worldly Charisma: 0
Cosmic Exploration Fleets: 194

& never ascended just for the bonuses :lol:
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Re: changes to ascension

generaloneill wrote:I think that as well as these changes, currently ascended players should get 48 hrs ppt and have an amount of life force placed in the cache, related to their army size to allow the server to balance out, otherwise there is gonna be inbalance when all these tauri, repli, asgard and goauld start ascending their 20 times.



This makes a lot of sense.
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Re: changes to ascension

alreayd ascending gives u way more LF so why the need to change the cost of LF for power up levels
they should get costlier as they go up
they are to dam cheap it will ruin any skill
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i like it gives me a chance :D
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Ok Im all for a bit of healthy debate as any one who knows me will atest to but honestly is there really any need for every high ranked member of DD/omega and every whiney member of TL (no offeence as you said earlier) to come online and post in this thread, you both have valid points but honestly is repeating yourselve constantly going to get the message across, I mean your all just repeating the same arguements just phrasing them differently.

Just to say I wouldnt have said whiney had not someone called STI whiney when hes one of the most respectable players in the game.
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Spoon wrote:Ok Im all for a bit of healthy (mass) debate as any one who knows me will atest to but honestly is there really any need for every high ranked member of DD/omega and every whiney member of TL (no offeence as you said earlier) to come online and post in this thread, you both have valid points but honestly is repeating yourselve constantly going to get the message across, I mean your all just repeating the same arguements just phrasing them differently.

Just to say I wouldnt have said whiney had not someone called STI whiney when hes one of the most respectable players in the game.


The reason so many people come on here to post their opinions is to give Forum a better understanding of what the general public wants. If he sees that the vast majority of a wide range of people are for an idea he is more likely to implement it than if only 2-4 people sat there and argued, and little to no interest was shown otherwise. Same goes for when people are against an idea obviously. Yes, it makes threads long, especially on big updates like this one, but that is one reason to post a thread rather than just implement an idea after a chat session for example, so he can get a better understanding of what the public as a whole wants.
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The power up cost should stay the same. Given the huge APP:lf ratio anyone ascending with the current values with 2 mil APP ... which is medium low right now .... only 75-80k UP can get both charisma and production to 220 !!!!! which is more then 8-10 people on page one ..... now if you lower the cost they could get quite higher and they'll be better then some people on top 20 ..... this is completly unfair.

Making a big ascension - 200k UP - will get you with charisma and production at 350 each ...... this is very close to top 10 values ..... so anyone who starts crying that by ascending can't catch up is clearly foolish. And don't start giving me the difference in planets .... with this values you will be in top 20 very soon cause you will be making 2-3 mil planets more every day and every resources planet will produce 50% more.

What I don't understand is why people are putting only the uber account under scrutiny ...... you want to catch up with them in no time, sacrificing as less resources as possible and with as less effort as possible ..... anyone who makes a big ascension could be on first page in 2-3 months ... and once there you can attack the uber accounts ... just like a 50 mil account can mass STI .... with the proper tactic.
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Good update Jason, I will admit I was rather worried when you initially posted this...

Although this does make descension a piece of cake for the higher players and I certainly wont be coming off vac there, it should, given a few months allow people to start catching up at least a bit. One further suggestion I would have is mabye instead of increasing the lf on a static level put it on a percentage, perhaps 0.01% per turn or the like (havent calced at all... just guessing :-))
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Nostradamus wrote:The power up cost should stay the same. Given the huge APP:lf ratio anyone ascending with the current values with 2 mil APP ... which is medium low right now .... only 75-80k UP can get both charisma and production to 220 !!!!! which is more then 8-10 people on page one ..... now if you lower the cost they could get quite higher and they'll be better then some people on top 20 ..... this is completly unfair.

Making a big ascension - 200k UP - will get you with charisma and production at 350 each ...... this is very close to top 10 values ..... so anyone who starts crying that by ascending can't catch up is clearly foolish. And don't start giving me the difference in planets .... with this values you will be in top 20 very soon cause you will be making 2-3 mil planets more every day and every resources planet will produce 50% more.

What I don't understand is why people are putting only the uber account under scrutiny ...... you want to catch up with them in no time, sacrificing as less resources as possible and with as less effort as possible ..... anyone who makes a big ascension could be on first page in 2-3 months ... and once there you can attack the uber accounts ... just like a 50 mil account can mass STI .... with the proper tactic.


people will do what it takes to catch up if thatr measn big ascentions then so be it but it is not as easy as you say you don't understand how big people are in the top 10
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Lol ... you are 100% mistaking ... I know exactly how big they are.

As I said ..... when you are a rookie in formula 1 and you drive a Spyker ... you don't go after Ferraries ..... you try to beat Honda, Torro Rosso or Toyota. Any immediate goal for people trying to catch up in ascension is to get on first page. The last positions there are around 180-200 in charisma / production and all are under 100 mil planets .... so if you make a big ascension and they don't ... or they do it later and now quite as big you can get there.

And once there you should have enough resources not to worry about descension. And you can start making plans on how to deal with the top 10 .... but you can't jump directly to their level.
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Re: changes to ascension

i gotta say, i love the change to app conversion, and the cheaper levels, with that alone ill break from the 24k up ive been stuck at with level 62 charisma for like 2 months, with this ascension i have been saving for asc updates, i should get minimum 220k up :)

when does the changes go into effect? dont change app/level costs! :D
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