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Topic: Downfall of IC

Hi,

I used to play this game, but I think it has been quite a while. It was my cousin Arocalex who introduced me to this game. And I really liked it smile But now it hurts me to see how this game lost its former glory..

What I would like to know is what the causes were of its downfall. I know that browsergames aren't that interesting anymore and that the community has lost the majority of its players over the years. But still I would like to hear your thoughts about this, just out of curiosity. Do you think that this was inevitable? Or could the game still be saved and have a moderate player base if the needed actions were taken?

PS I was reading some old topics in the Forum Graveyard and saw a few discussions about the declining player base, that's why I came up with this question.

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Re: Downfall of IC

In my Opinion u will need:

  • Active dev / mod team: here we have active mods but no active developers

  • U will need to enter this game into top 100 sites

  • U will need either voters to get to the top or a sponsored place which will cost the game a bit of money.

  • When u get the player generation from those sites u need to get the players interested in this game, so a bit more graphical design an active player helping community

  • An actual Newbie Complete Guide and galaxy like it used to be, that veterans dont belong in

  • A way to generate money for the game to help fund the sponsored places and to enhance to site/pay the developers

  • A way to get some compensation from mouth to mouth advertising from people playing currently (5 day free premium for example per subscribed player

So if and when Stefan (the owner and current only dev) gets more interested in the game in its current state I guess we (current player base) would not see it any problem in making this game better for everyone(donations).
So it is actually partly the owner that needs to be more interested in his game and then hire or recruit devs and make the steps to advertise this game to the public.

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Re: Downfall of IC

The last time stefan got interested in the game he screwed it, thats all you need to know.
Its a long story, you can read it all in the forums like if you were reading a novel, you'd just have to locate the important threads and do a composition. Its worth reading, and some of rhe ideas cheveyo posted above are precisely part of the downfall story, they tried to make a pig fly, and pigs dont fly.

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Re: Downfall of IC

Flippy wrote:

Hi,

I used to play this game, but I think it has been quite a while. It was my cousin Arocalex who introduced me to this game. And I really liked it smile But now it hurts me to see how this game lost its former glory..

What I would like to know is what the causes were of its downfall. I know that browsergames aren't that interesting anymore and that the community has lost the majority of its players over the years. But still I would like to hear your thoughts about this, just out of curiosity. Do you think that this was inevitable? Or could the game still be saved and have a moderate player base if the needed actions were taken?

PS I was reading some old topics in the Forum Graveyard and saw a few discussions about the declining player base, that's why I came up with this question.

+1 i missed imperialconflict and its sad to see from old glory days to see whats happend.

well if coder screwed the game up its in viewers eyes, as i saw it years ago ppl was bitching already then to the coders, why not stay in a good place and be there, i been coding some in my time and i putted that on the side coz ppl was complaining all the time
about it didnt worked, it hadnt work from beginning if ppl coded it, ok i know ppl can have a negative side when been sponsoring the game but we got benefits, so we cant, ill give stefan and the other ppl that helped him a thnx for a good game time, i hope that in some way it could be possible to revive the game, if not i am playing another game that need coders wink a swedish game again like this but far more complex.

that was my view, now to the next one pls redo front page it looks like u ppl given up, old IC page looked alot better that u had from 2006 and up, php coding i can... and this can be a fast better looking frontpage... anyhow i am off gl ppl, ill might be playing or not, always wanted to try not be a opper or crazy popbanker so...

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[14:08] <Parrot|afkish> omg its mrcoolman

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take some back there, no info at all no more isnt really good, but hey if u wanna give do so, stefan is swe as me ifnt my memory isnt wrong, and belive me when ill tell u this last 12 years games i found most complex in world is swedish made, first this then the other one wurmonline, stefan take a job there ill suggest and spread ur ideasm i think that game dev and u share rather same visions.

Btw is sharing this experience i dont rember when it was but its a while ago, i dont know if any one else got this huge jump of agents as i did, 2500,000+ agents i had my whole fam jumped me coz our ally broke alliance and jumped on us, i got that fam to kneel before me ppl and mathematics cant they do a simple %, ill nuked 24/24 possible ticks, and a fam placed as nr3 and only fighting me, with rest my fam in vacc mode was a hilarous fun time, put a cf banker at 500% ob on 200 planets and ill hit 7/7 cf's do that math, i was nuking  some days untill i got a pnap and my fam come out from vmode, thats a good war wink i lost 65 planets and infra and nr 3 went down to 9 i dont know, agents can be deadly if u know how to use them, but this is a long time ago perhaps game mechanic changed, theres' no race info.

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