i got a good idea, make me into a mod.. i will change things around for sure..

mods cant change the game

static, we invite people we know, and think we can trust into the mod team
it's the only logical way to go if you ask me
why give power to someone you don't know that well

i agree with grat.. attacking is repetative, and eco is all thought out really, now its jsut about managment...

We need some new stuff to bring strategic thinking back

Id prefer shorter rounds- say 4 weeks with maybe 10 expos to start with, and much bigger starting resources.

But whatever changes are made to keep experienced players interested, I dont think that will solve the main problem which is that not enough new players are coming to the game.

Ic needs a regular flow of new players.

There plenty of text based games that are nowhere near as good as IC yet  seem to be better at attracting new players (e.g bushtarian etc..) I think part of the reason is that those games are regularly listed on the Free RPG games vote sites.

IC needs to get voting.

4 weeks is kinda short...not many conflicts will take place there...

longer ticks will just make everyone seem inactive...and imagine if mfs take 30hrs to build if u put each tick to be 2hrs long...everyone will just be bored to death and the game will die faster

bomber runs seem interesting...but how many pple will do it if u got 250 buildings on each planet=P

> SuperNolioBrothers wrote:

> lol I wonder why everyone thinks we all agree on things =p

Like I said, you guys don't tell me, or anyone about anything, and we can't discuss it... So how would we know... In the US you can find any police report you want online... Maybe its to much trouble to ask for people to have a reasonable defense when your trying to delete their empire they have spent all this time getting to where it is, but from what I have seen you can never convince a mod to change their decision after they make it... Matter of fact you won't even take time to hear what the person has to say, especially if its someone like Big Gary or Anubis... any other person would have taken like 20 hours to get a block on, you guys managed it on them in what? 2 mins of them breaking the rules? Thats a little ridiculous...

> [TI] Primo wrote:

> static, we invite people we know, and think we can trust into the mod team
it's the only logical way to go if you ask me
>why give power to someone you don't know that well

Its logical but it doesn't work... You think everyone in a government system likes each other?

> Piggy wrote:

> mods cant change the game

Right, they only have the power to convince stefan to do anything (not that we really need it or that he really will), change the rules, take action to change the rules, see what the players want changed, etc etc... Guess thats nothing

Read my post, im being more then respectful to the mods, I am not bashing anyone, and if it seems that way then the saying "the truth hurts" might fit this quite well...

im sure i saw ic3 mentioned somewhere above hasnt that been tlked about for years now? i thought the idea was binned ?

ok... IC3 is dead...along with all the idea's stephan had with it.

either he's forgotten what they were...or he's changed his mind.

Attacking in MW is SO repetative that the old hands dont want to bother anymore...nothing is new. 1/3rd the time invested into attacking compared to a couple years ago.

everyone know's how to infra whore....its not that hard if you take 15 minutes to learn the info from the guide and think for a few minutes...

we need some new races, we need 2 new units...whatever they may be.  It's not like the community is asking for new graphics.

Basic idea's to save IC:

1) new units -- 2 alone would change up things dramatically. Not saying mine specifically...but we need some new units to change how attacking is done.

2) changing up how some units interact with each other. Excess bombers able to target ground units would be a boon to the attacking strategy, but not make things too unbalanced as it would still cost a LOT of morale to bomber run ground and not be all that effective .  It would be too difficult to code things where excess bombers target infra, really...doesnt seem all that worth it as you are bombing one planet and not all planets.

3)  new research...mining research. Really, I dont know why we dont have it yet.  We have so many that are resource base...This would also change how families prepare for wars.

4) New race bonus?  make it possible to have a +50% defense bonus to choose from instead of purely attack bonus?

5) Map styles and home system locations.    Balance out the number of families per system. Stop crowding in several families into one sector and then have 3-5 all by themselves in another. Change up the design if at all possible.

can we please now discuss these 5 options for change?

If there is a consensus...the mods can take it to Stephan. The truth of it is that many dont think anything can be done...so they dont bother (this applies to a couple mods I've chatted with).

Before, the community rallied together for change...but never said what they wanted...nothing got done because of this. When the community has gotten together for a specific change.... a couple times that has happened (not saying all the time).