well when you put it that way i wanna put "stupid" comments up too. you cant tempt a cat with yarn and not expect it to swat at it.

First of all, this is getting off the topic which is interesting given your points.  We do have a feedback forum for this kind of thing though, which granted is relatively new.  However, this kind of discussion belongs there so I will be moving these posts into a new thread eventually.

Anyway, to your points:

The questions forum exists for everybody to help eachother out.  This is the devs, mods, fmods, players, and even Stefan if he cares to join.  That said, we are in no way obligated to make any specific question a priority.  Unfortunately there is already too much work for the current staff to do so if a mod is informing you that your topic was in the wrong forum, they are doing so because it is part of their job to keep things organized.  They are not required to answer your question at this point, or even at all.

However, this was indeed handled incorrectly.  Not because of what they said but because a forum feature exists that allows us to move threads and leave a "ghost" topic.  Why that wasn't done, I'm not sure.

The point is context.  This "MW = new PW" thread is the result of and regarding events that are specific to the round.  That's why this forum exists, for events that happen within these galaxies.

Farming is a serious problem indeed, but its discussion doesn't belong here.  It belongs in feedback, ideas, or questions, depending on the content of the thread's original post.

We all work as volunteers.  If we want to engage in conversation about a more simple part of the game/community, there's no reason why we shouldn't.  This is the same reason that sometimes I'll work on smaller "pointless" additions to the game even though there are so much larger things to be done.  We don't always have to be working on such serious issues.  We need to stay interested and motivated if we are meant to enjoy the work that we do for free on our own time.  Participating in conversations about less serious things helps.

If anybody has a right to an opinion on where the staff spends their time, it's the staff.  We are the ones doing the work and not getting paid for it.  We get to prioritize amongst ourselves, because we are the ones who are giving up our free time for the benefit of the game/players/community.

That's a great question.  I recommend you ask that in the questions forum.  If you have ideas to improve it, I recommend you post them in the ideas forum.  If you have feedback regarding your perception of this problem, I recommend you post it in the feedback forum.  That is why these forums exist.  In any case, that topic is not relevant to any specific ingame events, therefore it does not belong in uni news.

You're welcome to do so, just make sure you do it in the right place.  If you can't figure out where that is, feel free to ask in the questions forum. =P

I wanna galaxy where all galaxy can gang up on 1 fam ( that somehow deserves it too)

And beat the bullies
No pmodes
No newtworth limits
Even pnaps can be voided for the lolz of it

That would be different from pw and mw altogether

I think this all has to do with the smaller player database as well. Back in the days when you had a lot of fams and a lot of players loosing a war wouldnt be considered the end of the round. You could grow back since theres a lot of other targets which you could gain planets from.

Nowadays its you loose a war at start of the round no biggie just cripled a lot. Loosing a war in the middle/towards the end of the round means you're pretty much dead. Most of the fams napped due to having earlier conflicts or the fact you made naps before since you were both "top fams". This will limit your targets for the remaining of the round thus your chances of recovering.

Now you have like what? Maybe 2 fams left to gain planets from? Since you obviously wont cancel a nap with the remaining top fams since you'll most likely loose that war as well getting into further crap. The 2 fams you could gain planets from are most likely also fams destroyed because of battle. Declaring war on those fams will be considered without honor and you get bitched at plus it will turn into a farmfest.

This whole thing also has got to do with the trend nowadays that warring another fam means destorying another fam. Best example is with the last supposed to be war between 81/72 and 78/84. Cancelled upon 78 had no attackers to fight the war so offered a deal to pay planets. They didnt take first offer due to the fact that if they took it there would still be a chance that 78 would win the round so they demanded more planets. So its not about taking an amount of planets but destroying once fams aspirations to get near a top ranking.

Hydro, it wasn't just to "prove a point".  That's only the surface level.  Really it's about playing the game on our terms.  Just how you have your idea of what is fun, so do I.  If I gave your fam or allies any planets I wouldn't be having fun anymore.

It is more the same than you realize.  I'm playing the game how I want to, just like you are.  It's no more smart or dumb than you preferring to war 78 for entertainment's sake even if it means more cost to get the same planets.  That's what I mean when I say it's hypocritical to criticize another person or team for playing how they want to, and then go and do the same that is by your own acknowledgement not the "smartest" thing to do.

@LEGEND: Those are good points.  I think we're in an unfortunate place with such a small amount of players now.  I think though, that we can and should be able to adjust the game to work with any amount of players.  If we do things like (for example) minimize role specialization and change what type of activity is required to be successful, we can make the game balanced no matter how many people play it.

Yep, in terms of skill! And Pinwheel is the new Virgo.

Skill overall has declined drastically.

Also, you're poll answers are very loaded

Oh calm down Lee.  I had to move them out because we were cluttering up the war thread.  Your posts and my responses are below:
http://imperialconflict.com/forum/viewt … ?id=182565

@Torq: loaded?  nonsense =P  i gave the option of top fams being good at attacking, do you know how generous that is? =P

@nolio
^^^ This. The overall skill of MW is horrible.

^^^^^ because you have not retired yet, if you retire the skill level would go up about 50% over all

all he said was "talk about lack of free speech" i wouldn't call that an "over-reaction", in fact that was probably the most diplomatic way he could address what he thought (with good reason) that his posts were deleted.

Yea my post got deleted in here aswell ... I guess only certain people can post

~ Cloud

unable is way different than wanting to.

I am able to ride a crotch rocket motorcycle but I am old school and like my Harley.

In my opinion crotch rockets are sissy bikes while a Harley is a mans bike, but the new generation of bike riders like the sissy bikes, does that mean I have to adapt and like them also?   NO!!!

New just to call it NEW doesnt mean BETTER.

The old saying if it aint broker dont fix it is still true. The problem is they tried to fix it about 4 yrs ago and it just messed it up worse.

the whats wrong is its text based and slow, I have said for years now make the ticks occur every 15 minutes instead of an hour.

That increases the activity 4 times.

That is just 1 simple way to make the game to where you want to stick around but one hr sucks waiting when you can play games that keep your attention every minute you play