Basil Rathbone wrote:Admin you all need to compensate us all for the real money and naq we have invested on here in our planets. Thanks to you all you have just made it easier for the large accounts to stay on top and the small one to stay on the bottom. Admin has really dropped the ball this month starting with the threat of imploding. Which made the market run behind by about 2 days. Then you all made this last update and shut us all down for 24 hrs. Destroyed everyones UP without warning. You all as a suggestion should post in game messages to everyone voting on updates so you can get a more accurate depiction of what is good for everyone. And as far as I see the only people who likes the update are already at a 15 to 75 million man sized army. I remember when updates where few and far between and this game and Admin was more reliable. All I am saying it is like playing a board game with the rules always changing.
I have a couple of things to say.
First, anyone who has gone through a mental breakdown can understand Jason's situation that week. Sure, I didn't particularly like the game being down, but I'd rather it was temporary than he try to keep going and permanently quit running the game soon after.
Second, he does not need to compensate anyone. People lose things in this game due to the smallest thing (I'm sure many people have lost a lot due to even the smallest hiccup in the server). People have lost strike from that planet update. Large armies are being slowed down in their progress drastically. There are countless ways in which even slight updates screw some people's strategies up terribly, if only for a short time. People deal with it here, in other games, in real life. It happens.
Third, though I have yet to ascend and this will slow my ascencion recovery, I welcome this update, for a few reasons. First, it actually is better overall to invest in raw UP. "But I haven't ascended yet!" ...Then how did you get so much money to improve your planets to the point that you're losing over 20k UP/planet? Why not just spend that money ascending sooner? Also, it added too much randomness into the lower ranks for UP. If your planet got stolen, or if you found a good one (or hired someone to get you a good one), your UP could change by several factors of 10 in one day. I know many young players who invested a sizeable portion of their naq into UP planets only to lose them to a larger player. This update really shouldn't be affecting anyone with a decent strategy very much, but that's just my opinion.
Fourth, even if it does change market values, the market is still dictated by what everyone is willing to agree on. If suddenly it becomes less effective for you to raid than to trade your AT away...trade your AT away for a nice high amount of UU compared to what it used to be. The possible effect of updates on the market should never be an excuse not to do it (unless it is something like taking private brokering out).
While I agree that updates that happen too often would be detrimental, I don't feel that this is happening.
I believe that when planets came out, they were intended to supplement, not replace. That is the reason behind the "constant nerfing" of the planets over the updates. So you won't grow *quite* at the rate you used to. You're still growing faster than the large players ever did at that army size. You're going to be able to do everything easier than they did at that stage. You're still going to be able to catch up to them with alarming speed, considering they've been playing this game and donating money for far longer than many players.
One last thing I would like to say is that Forum may as well update the income planets right now with the 1/2 cap, as it could potentially affect players to the extent this update has (though I doubt it will do so as much), and I believe people should be expecting it anyway.
--by Miko Miko, for KonataChan, of animesuke. *borrows without permission, but with credits* ~_^
