I think it's bugged.  Pmode has been flagged before.

Tbh, I think both vmode and pmode have had soemthing screw up with them.  Pmode at least used to work better than it does now (even though it was still never properly working).

I'll have a chat to Pie.  Pmode and Vmode both, I believe, need to move to Urgent status -_-

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That could be on way.

The other is to just not let NAPS have date agreements?

I mean, why do we want to condone the people who are wanting "EOR wars"?  Why do we let fams "line up" their wars?  Imo, keep it to the ingame system as is, which allows any cancellation.  That's the dynamic we want.  We WANT people to be cancelling on each other during the round.

If you make agreements beyond that, you're welcome to - but you do it at your own risk.

lol

I disagree, with what you refer to here.  And this is what I was referring to about where do you draw the line?  Why is building explo ships a mindless task?  Yes, it requires no thought (most of the time), but it's a necessary component of playing.

Also, why have a cap at 3 days then?  If you firmly believe this, then why have a cap at all?  I should be able to create my empire, then not login for 4 weeks, and be able to build 224 explos in one go.  Why punish me for not logging in for 4 weeks?

I mean, you could say building infra is a mindless task too.  Why not have an option in my HQ that i can turn on, that every tick I make gc, if I have enough resources, I autobuild cash factories?  Cos building Cash Factories on planets is also kinda mindless.  That way I can log in once a week, and during this time, I've auto build CFs all this time.

Also, I don't agree with the above.  They don't have to be mutually exclusive.  Yes, it's difficult but it's our job to find a midpoint where we satisfy new and old players both.  Hell of a lot easier to retain old players/customers and look after them, than it is to gain new ones.  I say this cos of my Sales and Business experience -_-

Anyway, just thought I'd share some logs of a convo I had with Lee before I left.

10:49:57: <Torqez> Yea
10:49:59: <Torqez> thats why
10:50:01: <Torqez> the longer we wait
10:50:03: <Lee> 72 1 aswell
10:50:05: <Torqez> the worse it is for us
10:50:09: <Torqez> cos we have 3 non-infra players
10:51:01: <Lee> ye
10:51:06: <Torqez> thats also why i think an eor war with 80/70 is stupid
10:51:09: <Torqez> they'll eventually catch up
10:51:21: <Lee> i wanted to cancel like today...
10:51:30: <Lee> but allies are so far behind its a joke

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10:55:02: <Lee> Week 46, 7Send Another MessageSave
10:55:02: <Lee> 48h alliance Core Nap between 7878/7884 & 7880/7870
10:55:02: <Lee> - it will be a EOR war with the dates of cancellation settled when WS gets on
10:55:08: <Lee> u know we never did arrange a date
10:55:14: <Lee> we can use thast to our advantage tbh
10:55:37: <Lee> im just guna say anytime during the last 14 days nap can be cancelled
10:55:40: Torqez shrugs

Not saying what you did is wrong.  But I was just disagreeing with the fact that a war at this stage of the round, can't be as fun.

Yep, we can't be making it so that activity doesn't play a factor at all.

I mean, hey, why don't we make it you just login once at round start, and just queue up all actions.  That way you can log back in 4 weeks later, and your empire is still fine.

Yes, an exagerration, but the point is we want to be making people more active (through some other ideas).  I'm of the camp that, we want to make them log in every day, but not just to build explo ships.  Let them do more to grow their empire through meaningful activity.

Also +1 @ IMLC for using cookie examples!!

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