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so that we get allllloott of new members 
more noobs to flame more noobs to kill more fun
hey... one war in MW and no one can play ic properly cuz of all the lagging, if u want more people GET US A [high-performance] PROPER SERVER FIRST!
pff Zarf i even allready censored my swearing for you
i second paininside with all the swearing words i can't see anymore.
Get a decent server first before more people join or atleast let us know your working on the goddamn problem stefan or who ever is in charge of this game.
Also a visual overhaul of this game would be nice, it might also appeal more people to join more.
Every tab should have his own background. Example:
Market - A market like background (space market!)
HQ - A command base / center like background
Family - Maybe let fam leader edit and make one for his own fam in this tab?
Fleet tab - soldiers and droids entering transporters, ships flying up in the air or something.
i highly doubt that the money that is donated to stefan for VIP benefits goes back into the game. i seriously doubt his hosting costs on this crap server cost as much as he gets in VIP money and he doesn't even develop anymore. if he had any class at all he would give up the game to one of the players who was willing to take over the server costs and use the VIP money for its intended purpose.
Pretty much what DP said...
The game is revivable, just not in the hands of its current owner.
> Poley wrote:
> Pretty much what DP said...
The game is revivable, just not in the hands of its current owner.
Truth be told... If PS or any of the other developers bought it id buy a vip for them.
The current "owners" does not a thing and can eat a sheep cock
> NaKuShItA wrote:
> i second paininside with all the swearing words i can't see anymore.
Get a decent server first before more people join or atleast let us know your working on the goddamn problem stefan or who ever is in charge of this game.
Also a visual overhaul of this game would be nice, it might also appeal more people to join more.
Every tab should have his own background. Example:
Market - A market like background (space market!)
HQ - A command base / center like background
Family - Maybe let fam leader edit and make one for his own fam in this tab?
Fleet tab - soldiers and droids entering transporters, ships flying up in the air or something.
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awsome..
Since we're all being so honest about it.
Why not ask Stefan what he wants for the game.
Good question.
I thought Stefan worked in a server farm? Telling me he couldn't toss this on a multiprocessor server with VM and run it off a core or two and make it faster?
I hear there is a fix in the works for lag.
I've investigated making IC a facebook app in the past, as have others, but one large obstacle is the use of inline frames.
Facebook apps are actually just an inline frame on Facebook with contents from the apps website displayed inside. The problem is IC already uses iframes for the sidebar. Bad things happen when one tries to stick IC's iframe inside of facebook's inline frame.
Rewriting IC's code to not use frames is a very big task. We'd need two copies of code to display a page, one for a normal website and another for display on facebook. Because IC has grown over a long period, it was never written with a specific architecture. To make the code maintainable, we'd have to write the code using something like MVC. With that we could have one view for the normal webpage, and another view for a facebook app while using the same model and controller for both. This isn't impossible, and it will happen eventually, but separating ICs code into an MVC architecture and then writing two seperate views is a lot of work.
i know one or two people showed interest in buying the game from stefan but nothing came of it most likely because stefan is unreachable.
i only see a copyright notice on the forums and not the game
at this point the game should be considered abandoned property anyways so it should be free for the taking
The last person who "copied" the game never was a big hit
Couple of issues I thought of, firstly Facebook requires even higher costs to run the game (I heard that the costs are quite high, so high Zynga? games moved their games off it). Also, adding more graphic intent content (IC makeover) would also increase server load yes? (uploading images and such, in fairness, most of it would be cached after it was downloaded for the first time, but it I would imagine that the connection load of the server would increase).
I do not disagree with the idea of facebook or a makeover as such, but the problem is still larger than just going "hey, we do this, there is no downside!" is not quite right. I would say simple advertising would be more effective anyway, which I believe is being considered already. Furthermore, I think the general community of IC would actually benefit more from fan art advertising (it would target the right niche, and would cost a lot less, ie. players time, etc).
With the current level of gameplay, I would be surprised if IC made a move to Facebook...just my 2 cents
agree with Wornstrum, doing an app for fb means everybody can play and the amount of accounts created will increase but not the amount of real players, we'll have a lot of inactive people just idling here like they do in other stupid fb games, the difference is, in those games mostly players are on its own while on IC players are in a family, so it completely ruins the game (even more!).
The advertising is a good idea however, only people who's really interested will test it, and I think there are more chances that new players stay, not because of the game itself, because of the community/forums.
In summary
app = a lot of new players not qualified to play (quantity, not quality)
advertising = not that many players but more qualified (quality, not quantitiy)
> ~Killas~ wrote:
> And with fb, you have to see everybody you play with so we would have to remove the ugliest players...... Sry tbo 
Eddie
screw you X:
Render has a point, Facebook app is no good since it will only increase the numbers of idle players. so thats bad.
Fan art and put that into IC is a option, i had fun with photoshop in previous tutorials.
I do think that you should not consider pictures here and there is a big issue wormstrum. Technically your correct that its more data for the server to handle but todays servers should have no problem with that.
The Game lag and register problems should be adressed first. Its annoying as hell to register or play the game under these lag conditions.
I also feel like the gameplay of this game has to be changed slightly
according to Final Doom we are getting a new server.
Nakushita.. We arent dealing with todays servers... We are dealing with stefans home server that costs him like a buck per year to use
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