This is from a player on skype going on about an entire account getting deleted because it given to another player.
No names, no reasons, no arguments for or against the ban, just simply elaborating on the constant shrinking number of players on Alpha with one possible solution to keeping what's left of it alive.
Good grief
They are going to have to lighten up...since they are doing nothing to improve this world...nor present it with further challenges players are leaving...dropping like flies
This presents a challenge for the game as a whole.
I understand not wanting people to cheat, but on the other hand...it is unrealistic to think that those players who are remaining loyal will want to sit by and watch as players drop and the cities they have spent the last 2 years defending go barb while not having the city slots to take them themselves so either they need to get rid of the city slot rule or they are going to need to provide account sitter rules
But if you try and make that suggestion you will be told you are doing nothing but being negative and should change your attitude and that they are not changing anything
~sighs~ Seems they feel they have made all the money they can from this world
By doing nothing to modify they game or present the world with new challenges nor alter the rules they are creating stagnation...no growth capability...and thus making the game unenjoyable as a whole...and what is the motivation for these players to play a different world after that? So they are hurting their long term game as well..why would some one want to play another world seeing how they treat long standing worlds? After dumping so much into Alpha and watching it self destruct, why would I want to then invest in a new world that same energy only to watch them do the same thing over again?
And on that note I will shut up
With no 2.0 in sight or probably
at all a lot of members of my alliance have said they will probably quit once they've settled old scores, I being one of them.
The same old repetition of farming, building, growing and attacking has become mundane with no new aspects or events to look forward to.
We all have spent nearly a year, if not more, playing this game. Creating, protecting and expanding our empires.
As we grow, more time is taken to run our empires, more effort required to manage and boredom kicks in.
We all have real lives and after all, this is nothing more than a past time, something to amuse ourselves with. I will never sacrifice my social life or hinder my career for the sakes of a minor past time, but as time goes on we have to choose which to spend our time on.
Account sitting can for a minor part, allow people to be covered for times when they will only be away for a couple of days, less than vacation mode's activation time.
But people going inactive then the grey cities shrinking only to eventually disappear coupled with the painfully slow building times from founding cities is spreading players further and further apart.
I honestly don't see many people continuing to play after Christmas through eventual boredom and seasonal neglect from every school holiday and personal vacations.
How many would be wanting to start from scratch in a new world after all this time, effort and emotional investment (not so much as crying over the loss of a city, but more a sense of achievement of what you've managed on the whole) basically thrown away simply to rinse and repeat with mild changes?
My Grepo experience is coming to an end, not yet, but definitely in the near future.
