I logged into IronJawedAngels but they only have 2 flags now. If someone wants to let me know a nation that is having problems due to lots of flags, I'll look into this.
I'll decrease Zoth's wipe durations further with the next update.TheRealPP wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2017 10:09 pm2. DEFENCES-
Rockets and Zoths are still way over powered, at the minute the game is just turning itself into stalemates and playing "lets see who logs off first", IJA and Barbarians have been basically had a stalemate on a void orb for a few days now, neither nation can click we both have mass rockets on our land and whoever hits is gonna get mopped up, i spoke with Perrin, he agrees, Rockets need to be nerfed again or make it so you can only put one every 3 squares or 5 even, and the timers for zoths needs reducing, ALOT.
I don't think this is lag, since other server actions seem to be happening in the meantime; it's not like everything gets paused. So what's probably happening is that some messages updating the client when a square changes hands are not being sent or received for some reason. One problem that could cause this is being fixed in the next update. It only affects squares that have a defense in them, though. If this keeps happening after the update, I'll keep searching for more possible causes.TheRealPP wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2017 10:09 pm4. ORB FIGHT SCREEN LAG-
Seems the server falls way behind during an orb fight, i go to click on a peice of my land to build a defence and it turns out its already the enemys land, and visa versa, sometimes this can get quite bad, ive had it many times where ive had to close the client and re open it to see whats going on, this can be a pain, and even worse a wrong click in this situation can make the difference between winning and losing, and thats not fair at all if youve temped up and gained good grounds during a fight.
This is most likely also related to huge lists of messages and flags. It would take longer when logging out and into another nation because it needs to discard all the first nation's messages and flags and then create all the second nation's. The messages fix with the next update should help this a lot. Nations with many flags may still be affected though.
I plan to increase the frequency (and decrease the bonus value) of manpower and energy resources. I don't think we can get a fair picture of how scarce energy is at this point, since there are just a few nations defending way more orbs and resources than will be practical once there are more players. And, energy is intended to be less abundant than players would like, so they have to make tough decisions about where to put defenses. Energy being too abundant could lead to more defensive stalemates like you described earlier.TheRealPP wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2017 10:09 pm6. RES-
I'm not sure what plans you have to change res, but the game is going to need ALOT more energy res, or make them higher value, right now there are probably 5-6 nations in the far east area competing for orbs, and everyone is having energy issues, i understand when the game takes off its gonna be less chance to hold as many orbs, but equally a less chance to hold energy res too, so its gonna be a constant struggle.
Yes, usernames and nations can only be created together. The idea is that every username always has a "home" nation they can go back to if they want. But unlike in old WoC, nations can always be completely wiped off the map, so unused nations won't be around for long as they're attacked for XP. Old WoC used to have lots of 1 square nations that would get kicked around because the last square would just move when defeated.TheRealPP wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2017 10:09 pm7. NAMES-
Unless im being a complete noob about this, it seems the only way to make a new name is to make a new nation, with most players needing to make second names or more to join friends or team up with other players, the game is going to get littered with tons of level 1's.
This will be a bigger job so it's a longer term goal, but it would be nice to have an alternate, list based interface for advances. I agree. I don't want to get rid of the graph form though, because it makes it a lot easier to visualize how things connect and develop. It's not the fastest form to navigate though.TheRealPP wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2017 10:09 pm8. TECH TREE -
I think the tech tree needs to be in list form rather than this diagonal lines here there and everywhere, also setting a desired advancement and letting it run to it itself like in old woc would be much better too, also keeping all the temporary tech purchases in one list rather than over 3 will make things easier.
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