game seems slow

[Busterrudd]

i am used to playing turn based games but to me this one seems slow. maybe it is just me. i am ranked in the top 3200. when i try to mass somebody it doesn't seem to do anything. i spent 1200 turns attacking someone and all it did was take his naq and a few thousand men. i could have done that with about 100 turns. what use was the other 1100 i used. i didn't seem to accomplish much in this attack other than using my turns. the main thing i seem to be doing is just using my turns to build up my own world. i just wish the battling aspect of the game was a little bit faster and more of it. like i said it may just be me. i do enjoy the people who i play with though. over all the game is interesting and fun.

[Lore]

i am used to playing turn based games but to me this one seems slow. maybe it is just me. i am ranked in the top 3200. when i try to mass somebody it doesn't seem to do anything. i spent 1200 turns attacking someone and all it did was take his naq and a few thousand men. i could have done that with about 100 turns. what use was the other 1100 i used. i didn't seem to accomplish much in this attack other than using my turns. the main thing i seem to be doing is just using my turns to build up my own world. i just wish the battling aspect of the game was a little bit faster and more of it. like i said it may just be me. i do enjoy the people who i play with though. over all the game is interesting and fun.

You need to explain more because the main problem with the game now is its to fast. A non Nox/crit account can be massed to 0 in under 2 minutes? What your saying is rather confusing. What was your strike to their Def? Both have MS? Whos was bigger? We need more information. I can't imagine not being able to mass a def with 1200 AT.

[bigcakes]

a recent massing against me.... actually used less than that many AT because i was attacked a few times since.
Attack Turns Used Against You 547

Super Defenders Lost 686,277

Defending Mercenaries Lost 628,165
kbye
john

[Busterrudd]

i have 6 planets. he had none. i have a well equipped mothership compared to his. i was losing 3 points at a time. he would lose 30 or 40 mil at a time. i don't know what i did wrong. i am positive with about 200 turns he could undue everything i did with 1200 turns.

basically you are saying if i want to mass someone they need to be way way way lowered ranked? he was over 10000 poits below me. i spied on him and say everything.

help me make this game more fun please. i like the people i have come to know but if the game can't keep me interested i probably will quite. i don't want to because a lot of people have helped me get this far.

[Busterrudd]

more info. he has 0 defense. no mother ship to speak of. he doesn't even know i am hitting him. he has 5000 attack turns. he isn't even rebuilding. still not getting much done. he is strong on attack and anti covert. i still get through though.

[bigcakes]

u cant kill attack and anticovert guys. if he has 0 defense thats why when u attack him he loses nothing. for him to lose stuff he has to have guys in defense or u have to have an anticovert and he needs guys in covert.
kbye
john

[urogard]

imho lol

[Busterrudd]

so what exactly is massing a guy? just taking his money and what few men he has available? you can't completely wipe someone out?

[~Josh~]

Massing means killing their MS, def soldiers, and weapons. It sounds like you were hitting an inactive player. You can kill covert agents by training anti-covert higher than their covert and attacking. Lifer suicide kills AC. Nothing kills lifers.

[Busterrudd]

so you can never really destroy anybody then???

[urogard]

no, and for very good reasons

however a fair number of players would invite the option of killing attack units

[Busterrudd]

what is the reason urogard? worst case senerio is that they would have to start over.

[urogard]

well talking from your position that is easy to say cos I could restart with a new account and have your army size in 10 minutes, maybe 20 tops.

however there's people with 300 and even 400 mil armies.
now considering the unlimited amount of at's floating around imagine them being wiped out overnight.

[Busterrudd]

oh come on now. it would take atleast 30min lol
i still don't see the problem. let everyone be at risk of being destroyed. that is why you belong to an alliance. they will protect you or if you are destroyed they will return the favor and destroy them. right now i am beginning to wonder why we even have alliances. i belong to one but never seem to be envolved. i didn't even know we were at war until i received a peace note from the other alliance. i would have loved to get in the middle of it. plus make it harder to build up. don't allow buying your way up. never liked that idea anyways. i played a game called monarchy which had similar rules to what i mentioned. it was great. not that i don't have fun with this game i just think it could be better. make alliances matter.

[Lore]

oh come on now. it would take atleast 30min lol
i still don't see the problem. let everyone be at risk of being destroyed. that is why you belong to an alliance. they will protect you or if you are destroyed they will return the favor and destroy them. right now i am beginning to wonder why we even have alliances. i belong to one but never seem to be envolved. i didn't even know we were at war until i received a peace note from the other alliance. i would have loved to get in the middle of it. plus make it harder to build up. don't allow buying your way up. never liked that idea anyways. i played a game called monarchy which had similar rules to what i mentioned. it was great. not that i don't have fun with this game i just think it could be better. make alliances matter.

Your looking at it all wrong tho, look at it from the alliances side.

Alliance is 10 strong and play kinna even. Diplomatic but will war, middle of the road. Now 1 guy makes 10 multis, masses each to 0 and then walks away from the game. Not cool.

Secondly, under the conditions you specify, why have an income or a def? build only strike and farm your income when online, and leave nothing to die when offline.

Look at it like this as well. You got 2 guys, one is online and active every day. One plays 1 hr a week. Should the second guy be able to reset the first guys work every week?