Gandalf the White wrote:I never cried, complained or whinged about the game before the updates. I was doing better before the updates came along and allowed people to overtake me with their ridiculous growth rates.
I can't see how you have been disadvantaged Mojo.
1) You are still at the top
2) You are making more dmu and planets than ever before
3) You and your 100 trillion strike can farm anyone else in the game, even though the pitiful amounts mean nothing to you
4) You yourself say that no one will catch you citing SGW_replicators 50 mill APP as only 2 days work for you. Lets face it you can count on 1 hand the number of people who would be willing to do a 50 million APP ascension REGULARLY, not just once.
5) You got your wish (eventually) that the SW would disappear
6) You cannot have your planets untrained and raided anymore. High Empty jumped for joy at that one and his posts indicate that it is now utterly impossible to remove you guys from the top
7) Your alliance and napped alliances are cruising up the ranks even faster now thus further distorting the power balance of the game.
8 ) The new army size limit and raiding/trading caps in main are of massive benefit to you and others over 100mill, further allowing established players to concentrate their power to the detriment of newer players who started 1 or 2 years after you.
1.) I am not at the top.
2.) Actually I am making less planets than I was BEFORE the update, thank you very much.
3.) No I can't farm ANYONE. About half the accounts in the game (at least) are "too far beneath me" to attack.
4.) I have never said (since the updates have come out) that no one will catch me. I am pretty sure that in six months or so, I will be off the first page.
5.) The SW was a broken construct in the game and should NEVER have been introduced in the first place. Sinister and I (and eventually S T I) contributed trillions of DMU to ensure that the SW would never be used to utterly destroy someone's account. Putting in a screwed up update only to remove it later is not my idea of an update in my favor.
6.) Yes, you are correct. I cannot have my planets stolen. But on the same token, I really never worried about that BEFORE the update when it was still possible. And now, I cannot raid any of you, which is definitely detrimental to my growth, as my CER is decreasing by massive amounts daily.
7.) I have not seen any "cruising" up the ranks of people in my alliance. In fact, a lot of them have fallen in ranks with the new updates. I, myself, have not been able to gain any ground on the people above me. And, my growth is slowing down tremendously. So eventually, in six months, there will be 2000-3000 accounts with between 2 billion and 3 billion planets, unless Forum does something to counteract this update. My solution would be to remove rank mods, damage caps, and the raiding restriction. Ascension was supposed to be a challenging server, fraught with peril. Those that didn't play should have been punished, not rewarded. But Jason listened to the people that DIDN'T play the game and hasn't played the server himself, so had no idea what effect his updates would have on the game, despite the fact that I and people who have played the server for nigh on two years now, told him exactly how messed up his updates were and offered alternative suggestions on how he might make the server fairer for EVERYONE.
So to say that the updates didn't disadvantage me is a gross understatement. Just so you know, I am losing over 36 million planets per day. With my fleets and charisma, I should be making nearly 77 million planets per day, but I am not. I am barely making 41 million planets per day. Now many of you are going to tell me that I don't have anything to complain about but considering that, to get where I am, I had to spend about a million times what you are currently spending to get to the same level, it is pure and utter BS. Check your facts next time before you say that I am not disadvantaged.
