i cant agree more with this. it gives us a entire new view and changes strats completely. only thing we need now is nolio to bend stefan over to do something about these ideas.

yeah ok and only a retard would think of that lol

yo for real man, they could even include pictures and the such... i'm pretty sure lots of people would play IC just for this... even though i'm not gay, i would be amused and would probably tell my friends to check out IC lol

static,

mods do make changes every round....as much as they are able.

The rest is up to Stephan...and we all know he wont make changes unless a majority of the mods AND a good showing of the community can agree to a few changes.

race pics for vips

~ Cloud

The truth is that text based games are becoming more and more unpopular. There slow there boring, and people rather play other strat games like C & C and civilization.

I play Ambar I play Utopia I use to play tdzk and still play ic and
I've tried many other text base games and they all complain about lack of new players. The problem is the servers and time cost to much money with no pay out. Compared to paid games these games have no chance to become anything terribly exciting. Text based games are dying enjoy them well they still exist.

You can point the fingers at the players the mods the creater or who ever you want. New players are simply not coming like they use to ic.

To be honest ic isnt a friendly place, new players are treated poorly, and its usually the same players wining with the same teams, new players either dont come, or dont stay long. Theyd rather play games where they have a chance, they dont have to be here 24 hours a day and they dont have to depend on inactive team mates. The old players are growing up having family's getting busy with work, they can't be very active or there getting bored, so there simply moving on.

Players will realise, once they hit a certain age that theres simply better things to do then play ic all the time, and play games that work on there own pace. I've been playing ic for a long time, I enjoy it i've enjoyed it for years, but yeah it does take up alot of time and it does get dreadfully boring...

Keep it in 1 thread TMK. I'm closing this one and leave the one in ideas open..

and Static, what exactly are you aiming at?
what rules should we change?

how about the bombers can target infra after laser are destoryed and there are either very few or no fighters to shoot them down

Maybe during the summer they could open one big galaxy, otherwhise you got 2-3 empty galaxys.

> [TI] Primo wrote:

> and Static, what exactly are you aiming at?
what rules should we change?

All of them, right now you got IC the ugly duckling... Keep the same duck, give it a new look... The rules need to be revamped, not changed... and mods need to get the power to do something about it, not just sit back and say "well technically the rules say... so i cant"

Insert a better checks and balances system between mods... the one now sucks, mods are all friends so there is no one to ever disagree with you, you guys wont recruit anyone you don't like because you don't like them... Stop spending so much time finding mods that fit into the system, find people to throw the system for a loop...

I honestly don't know as much about the mod system as I used to when Ane and Lizzy were around, they were friends of mine and I used to know how things worked, now I don't... So if you guys disagree and think what you have works thats fine, but from what I see and what everyone else see's it doesn't, and since its not shared with us how things work and since we cant "discuss blocks, bans, problems in the forums" how are we supposed to know otherwise?

the problem with the you mods these days primo is that you abide to strictly by sum sort of mod rules. not that this is a bad thing in itself, but there have been a few incidents in the past year or so where it would have made far more sense to bend the rules for that situation. you're probably all afraid of getting the boot like smartys, but as far as i know he was turned in by a fellow mod. if you all agree on sumthing that needs to happen then i think you should do something about it. stefan's not exactly going to notice anyway.

that would be another reason to recruit mods from different circles of players as well, to have a mod team that is more representative of, and therefore fairer to, the players