Firstly, about 95% of my raids would be on inactives, the other 5% (probably less) on low risk actives. This is a personal trait, I just don't like taking risks.
granted this is in xtreme, but the sentiment holds across to the other universes probably.
In standard at least I can guess war is not profitable since there are plenty of inactive farms around. that and there are few sufficiently large fleets belonging to someone who is practical to hunt.

Secondly
What i'm curious about is what the programmers/developers are up to,
I'm assuming there are one or two programmers/developers that are actually working on the coding, however I'm assuming that fixing bugs is occupying most time that is available, slowing development of actual progress. (i doubt this can be released, this is just my speculation)
I can guess that development is slowed by bugs, and bugs come from the changes that players are asking for. and given the number of changes since 2-3 years ago when i first started, I'm not surprised that development is seemingly slow for any approved additions.

I guess I'm somewhat of a wannabe programmer (currently studying computer science at university).
If its not too gamebreaking to have active players know about (even parts) of the game code, would I be able to donate some of my time to attempting to help?
(I don't hold out much hope, and I haven't looked through much of the forums, so for all I know there have been others with the same idea..)

zorg why you you need generals server its same thing like others
simple boring
why you dont use yours time and check all forums sugestion there are tons very good there and implant them
to servers you have now

also extreme need sommething new :tech or ships or event
why you delete inactives anyways why you dont delete v mode players instead ho dont come at all back to game
inactive are food for all players to grow up and you kill it by deleting it
when player join and grow up little bit he starts attacking but ho to attack when he check left and right he can see only blue players



if you only stay with one servers as was on begin when i started to play extreme
also about inviting players ho to invite when nobody wanna play zorg game i asked tons people online to join zorg
but the say its boring like hell
also the only like galaxy view as is not as redesign in others game thats all

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SPY wrote:curious question for a curious idea i have.

how many players does it make a good battlefield for a server like generals?

i guess i will have to speculate on that number.

lets say for a server to be sustainable that will run for a fixed period of time the active player pull needs to be around 200. lets not forget that generals is a server where veterans comes to compete from all other servers.

now if that is the case then how do you know that this server is played by veterans only?

few restrictions and process of entry i wd like to suggest here.

1) Each universe will get a certain number of players to get entry in the generals section.
2) The entry numbers will be split in quota based on player performances in major focus that is fleet/buildings/defense/research. to balance it the quota ratio might be adjusted.
3) A player who is playing in the existing server can only get in the generals there will not be any free sign ups.
4) Upon entry all players will be given even number of rubies to start with (that number needs to be larger than just mere 10 as many players do not buy or get to buy rubies unless you make generals for only ruby users)
5) the ranking page will dictate who is fore runner to get entry in the generals. but that entry needs to be enabled in options section. like you can sign up for it before the generals is launched.
6) while in general server depending on which universe you log in from you can only register one account and that account cannot be changed that is once entry is confirmed your IGN will remain fixed till the server finishes its period.


why the above restrictions or process of entry? simply because this ensures that generals server is really a veteran server. and there will be real interest in actually trying to get in the generals.

i believe this will really make the game more interesting and it will be an unique way to bring all four universe close to each other and we will finally have a way to mingle players from other universe in a clear platform to compete in with.

Sorry I do not post much here, but people play this game for different reasons.

I use it as a way to chat to the active raiders in my guild. We talk about anything in game chat and I enjoy that. Every week we change our avatar pictures to meet with different themes and generally pal around while we raid inactives.

We launch raids against actives occasionally for excitement but it is not a major focus of our alliance as a whole.

Personally I think that deleting inactives is a bad decision. Last week I decided I would only raid for one day instead of the entire week because of the actions made to delete inactives. That means that a major chatter and alliance leader was only enjoying playing the game for one day. The other days of the week I found other things to do.

Players who raid inactives are actively around and thus will chat with other members of their alliance which causes player interaction. Players who are attacked are more often than not likely to quit, the better ones may come back and seek revenge but that is only if they have time to do that.

Me? I don't really have much spare time, but I enjoy coming in and raiding every hour and chatting with my team mates between doing other things. If someone was actively probing me and raiding me while I slept etc I would just go into v-mode for a while and preferably stay there if people bugged me when I got back because I am already very busy with one full time and two part time jobs. I used to be a very serious gamer, but I don't have time for my gaming hobby like I used to, which is why I play here these days.

Long story short. I like my inactives, keep em around so I can keep playing like I have been, thanks.

I say to you Zorg , look around into the ideeas from players that play here a lot , try to implement something , and bring something new .. something new will allways pay , even if it`s bad at the start , even if it`s bugged , things will get sorted out after all , all ideeas are welcome as i say to my buddies in my alliance.

Last night i tought about something , and it went a little like this

Transfer accounts from server to server - I know this might sound absurde , but thinking more of it , it might be a good ideea.

Ex : Transfering an account from Speed to Extreme , i know Speed has 10 planets and X has 21 , but the player can transfer his 10 planets and have 11 new colonies to start again on them.

Imagination is the future . I think Leonardo Da Vinci was like that , he just imagined things and build them , maybe they didn`t work first time , but he fixed them untill they work.

New ships - we allways talk about this.
Yes you got 3 type of new ships on Generals , yes they were not balanced at all , but you got feedback from Generals , you can make them work. Introduce them to all 4 servers.

The inactives are a part of this game, i know players who transfered 50 rubies to inactives just to keep them , and farm them.Deleting inactives might be a bad decision , will reduce income for all raiders and maybe will make them play little knowing they can`t farm that much , but it might be a good choice aswell , making active players interact more .
Do something.

Well i thnk my suggestions can bring players ...
i brang 31 player on the referral competition and alll are gone inactive
wanna know why ?
Cause they find this game hard to play
a disattractive galaxy and systems view
its really boring all galaxies got same color same size (in RL they re all different)

and before wanting need players need tu REPAIR your game !
only 490 systemS 9 galaxies for more than 200players
there are players who plays 14hours per day 1 player raid 4 galaxies a day
and what about the others ??
and you want to delete inactives ??? WTF!!

any new player go inactive as usual its like our routine...
talk to newbies and ask them what they suggest tom make this game survive
Think.. and take suggestions in consideration........

ahem i used to know a player who played this game 21 hours a day gogetasse. this game is 24/7, you cant argue on player time input to this game.

and about the inactive deletion. it was a miscommunication. deletion of inactive is always a chore that keeps the univers from getting cluttered. and as hellboy said alot of inactives do not get deleted cause active players likes them to remain as farms and feeds rubies so that they do not get deleted.

we are only saying lets not get trigger happy on the deletion part. the current inactive pull is fine as it is. if inter player activity is low its not because of the abundance of inactives it is because of shortage of active players.

for example when i raid i only raid till its absolutely profitable. if you take out inactives i will still not be able to hit active players because the ones i find that i am not touching they are not profitable. so taking out inactives is not a solution.

also about raiding. there around 40% - 50% players who plays this game want to become a fleeter. out of the rest a mojority are heavy raiders lets say 30%. rest are devided by miners and turtles.

now when this game grows at an uneven platform where one player has 67million fleet point the nearest player has less than half of it. and that number grows down to 1 million in less than 20 player rank, for a new player getting a fleet up there is no alternative but to raid. if i cannot raid an active player around my coordinates with my fleet power obviously a new comer wont be able to do so.

taking out inactives at a higher rate will only make it harder for them to get a fleet growing.

just an fyi. it still takes 1400 raids to get 10k LG. now i wonder how many will a new comer be able to do against active player while number of inactives that grow less and less.

having said that. it is not like i do not hit active players. i do. its just that that number is low compared to inactives. we simply need more players playing this game, thats all.

Holy cow! You sheeple waste your time too much. How about take a break from game, go find yourselves some GF's, spend more time

Hey Dredd... can't find a Dredd in extreme, do you actually play, or are you just a Forum Whore?
Hard to hire a Merc that doesn't exist. I have a chihuahua... yap..yap...yaps a lot, but can't do anything else,
His name is Dredd, any relation to you?

DREDD wrote:Holy cow! You sheeple waste your time too much. How about take a break from game, go find yourselves some GF's, spend more time

maybe you need to find a game cause you are getting butt hurt over this as well lol.

and hatter its karnage. check welcome thread he posted there about being the annoyance for everyone in game.

nobody is same dredd, what is fun for me probably is a waste of time to you. and what is fun for you i might call that psychotic behavior. at the end of the day it really doesnt matter. you do what you like, let others do what they like.