MonteK wrote: ↑Mon 06 Mar, 2023 13:53
CrazyLegs wrote: ↑Thu 02 Mar, 2023 00:30
Not to mention the fact that is utter BS, why should you get a leg up on players that actually kept playing for 16 years? When you quit and just came back? It would be massively open to abuse. Anyway it's not that hard to build your account within a couple of years and have enough fighters to be involved in stuff. If you lack the abilty it's probably a skil issue and you would have never kept up anyway.
The unfortunate thing is, I'm suspecting the tone of your response would've been significantly different if I came back and joined SHLD or V instead. Going to ignore some of the pretty rude comments at the end, because they're just unnecessary. I haven't been conditioned to hate you by the block I've just joined, my friends are here. You're more than old enough to do the exact same thing in return.
Having it open for abuse is a reasonable point but it's the same as absolutely any request that could be flipped on its head. If someone came along today and said, "I wish there was a Shared IP form", you could assume the worst - that it was by someone that was after their own interests and wanted two accounts without needing a VPN. Or, you could take the suggestion at face value and assume the person requesting it was doing the right thing and genuinely had a family member that also wanted to play. You said it yourself - a new player would need 'a couple of years' to be able to contribute here - that's a pretty brutal tutorial (and at best simming) phase for someone that probably just joined to blow other players up. If you had to start fresh, under the strict agreement that you couldn't have an existing account that was lying around, would you bother?
When you last set your account up, versus when I last set one up, there was a significant difference in the landscape across each and you may be missing that context. You had a whole galaxy of other new players to tread over to climb upwards, a new player joining Alpha in 2023 only has their own build queues and maybe one or two inactives with multiple Rings (as well as relationships going back over a decade and a half). Do you believe that sounds particularly enticing to you?
Why are you trying to put words in my mouth to try and make your argument. It would make no difference what "side" in our war a player is this is a terrible idea plan and simple that would never work on an existing ae server, least not alpha. If it was a shld or vandals player my response would have been the same.
Why should you as a new player have a leg up on this server, what if as an existing player you play say 15 years and upgrade every year in order to ensure your account is the best possible you make hits over years to invest in your construction and tech. Then some new rule is applied and players can come in and essentially make 50% (random number) of your construction /research useless, essentially nerfing you.
In these circumstances is wizard going to refund 50% of upgrades historically for existing players? Because he would have just rendered them useless wastes of money and favoured new players over existing.
This is not a thing you can do on alpha or any long term existing server that has lasted such a long time. Perhaps a light version on newer servers of this but still feel it cheapens the experience for everyone else just because you are too lazy to put in the work and not just really old accounts, all the good players that have started in the he last 5 years and put in the work to become competitive too.
Furthermore to say new players cannot have any impact within weeks of playing alpha is just not true. There are still lots of things for new players to do and plenty of targets too.
