As per oz's topic, and his last comment, I would like to reopen the discussion.

I'll mainly focus on the topic to having a time limited server, which is 'reset' every 1/2/3/6 months. I'm not going to comment on P2P vs F2P for now.

Pros:
- Allowing new players, to start on par with the experienced players.
- - Thus giving the newbies chance to join an actual ally, with the old dogs, which they eventually train them.

- Allowing more stable game updates, and for the updates, not to affect the current gameplay and tactics (like in massacre).
- - This also allows for "experimental" rounds, which could be on the "proof of concept" basis - only the ones accepted by the community to eventually get into the perma server (not including ZE Staff, since they have the call to what would make it in the experimental rounds

- Allowing players to experiment more with different tactics



Cons:
- Players won't be able to dominate a server for years (that actually should be a "pro", not a "con").
- Players could potentially skip to the next round, when they lose their fleet.



Extras, I would like to see there:
- No account swap/switch/whatever... You play with what you've built.
- Generals.
- No attacks/ scans against ones' own alliance & friendlist.
- 24 hour "deathmatch" after the final ranking is taken.
- Fleet in air to be counted as points.

I like some of these points, especially fleet in the air. Some prefer to keep their fleets hidden, but on a limited time server, all points should be considered.

The account swapping, again, why would they want to switch in a limited time environment, so I concur with his also.

Thanks for a great input. It gives food for thought.

Resetting Universe Would be a Good idea
But Just If This Goes i Action
Not in Words

Now there is the General's tournament. This topic was first raised BEFORE the inception of the latest tournament.

Is it now stale?

mightyoz wrote:Now there is the General's tournament. This topic was first raised BEFORE the inception of the latest tournament.

Is it now stale?

but tournoment is once a year :/
we need a universe who resets every 3 months

I thought there was mention that if it had enough players it would become a more regular fixture.

Axilles wrote:but tournoment is once a year :/
we need a universe who resets every 3 months

Time between tourney #1 and tourney #2 - 1 year.
Time between tourney #2 and tourney #3 - 2 year.

Continuing this timeline - we should see #4 in 2018 or 2019...

if the resetting universe happens too often, then the excitement will fade, and some people (the older ones perhaps) might be less likely to play it. keeping it as a more spread out thing, is better in terms of keeping players coming back to generals, imo

With the rewards, that are currently in place - I think that will be different.

Having 3 tourneys in 4 years made them more undesirable if you ask me. The MAJOR problem I see - Generals is also each and every time placed in the month, that MOST people go on summer vacation. Why start a 1 month race, when you'll be blue during half of it?


P.S.: This is NOT a Generals topic, there are few topics for it.

DoctorWho wrote:With the rewards, that are currently in place - I think that will be different.

Having 3 tourneys in 4 years made them more undesirable if you ask me. The MAJOR problem I see - Generals is also each and every time placed in the month, that MOST people go on summer vacation. Why start a 1 month race, when you'll be blue during half of it?


P.S.: This is NOT a Generals topic, there are few topics for it.

This so true. I missed about 5 days of Generals, and am flirting with top 30. I prefer the beach to ZE, so I just left my account open and let people farm me. One month isn't an ample amount of time to prove who the best is. It is like a company that would invest millions on a new product just because a single test group was favorable....


TLDR; Generals needs 3 months of time. Run twice a year