Reply to VP961
This change shows the Devs either don't understand the protected tile mechanic or don't care about the hardcore GvG players. Either one is unacceptable.
I mean come on, Inno just took GvG out of Prime Time. Who in the world looks to take their business out of prime time? Maybe you should run your adds on TV at the same time you want us on your GvG maps. Off hours.
There is about a half hour of fast paced excitement available in this game. That is at re calc, when 2 guilds are ready and lined up before the bell, and tee off on each other when it goes off. The hardcore players prefer this action. Would prefer to attack a tile that is being defended, rather than trying weasel a tile when the opposing guild is not on. Re calc is that universal time when we all know to show up in guild chat. Inno just took that away from many, many players.
The fact that you ask us to submit a proposal is a joke. You can put it up for a vote and the casual players may not even care....but trust and believe what you are hearing, your hardcore base is pissed.
You want us to go away? We can do that. There were so many other fixes that could of been implemented to smooth out this game at re calc, but you just threw the baby out with the bathwater.
It's time to treat this game like the troll in this thread that types in all caps. FREEEEEEE.
Low rent move Inno, low rent.
I am (proud to admit) a friend of VP961. We have always been honest and forthright with one another and as a result, even when our opinions differ have managed to maintain our friendship. However in this case, my friendship has done nothing to influence my agreement with him and many others in this thread.
As mentioned, many players are not competitive, so the change in recalculation time bothers them to no extent at all. Thanks to websites that publish our fight counts I'd say your "premium" or diamond players are probably the most active of all though and from what I can see based on their cities buildings, GB-Levels, special events prizes or any other indication that they're your base when it comes to generating income, you've angered the wrong crowd.
Would it be nice for ALL of us who pay for this game to once see a change that benefits US above them? When you neutered our Attack GBs in exchange for adding more to our defenses we were mad... but accepted it because you were in the process of introducing Guild Wars. This time what are we getting? More Elevnar ads and spam to go check out Tribal Wars 2?
This is a huge mistake and I see no reason to submit a proposal because your top people already know what to do
BUY OR INCREASE PERFORMANCE OF SERVERS, CORE NETWORK SWITCHES, (perhaps some flow traffic optimization software). ADD RAM, PROCESSORS, SSDs to THE SERVERS a NAS OR SAN for DATA STORAGE.... AND FIX IT THE OLD FASHIONED WAY!!!!!.... with newer technology
yeah ALL CAPS IS AWESOME... REAL NEAT-EE-O STUFFF
Inno Technicians/Tech staff, if any of you are reading this, I can even design you a Server/Chassis system for FREE.. you can have my work audited by whoever does the hardware purchases etc. Not only will you be able to handle reset whenever and maintain some dignity off half the stupid glitches we end up seeing fixes to every 2nd week
Here's a start, check out these products.... HP C7000 Chassis, Stocked with BL460C Proliant Blade Servers... Add proper RAM, Processors, SSD Drives etc.... It costs more than whatever Dell/White Box systems you have running this now but it will fail about 0.0000% of the time