I remember starting this game four years ago under the name Rishard, drop out after a hit on a fleet. After awhile I missed it and came back as TheEnd played for along time and stopped again because more important things came up. Now I've come back with time on my hands but the game is different I regret supporting addition of vacation mode because players start it and quit so no one else can touch what they built. So I wonder for the sake of the game can v mode be shortened? its sad, once you could start the game and have a other planets that quit the game and build from them, now at 60 points I look around and everywhere players are in v mode and few startup players around,not much activity. The excitement of the game was to hit at higher up once you got going now the only ones around to hit are at 1 million points so no excitement there just a total defeat. So my thoughts are there is less activity for sure and less new players. Everyone in v mode went to a game I know about but probably can't meantion the name. Overall I like this game or I wouldn't have came back again.

I see where your going but what about the players who got called off to war they play this game like all of us are their accounts going to be deleted all the dedication to Zorg gone serving their Country.

I think we could make exceptions for that but alot of them in v mode are not military. I talked to some people before they when v mode. I just think its effecting the game before v mode there was more incentive to keep playing..if you didn't play you got hit and nobody wanted that so everybody keep active. I understand the purpose but the con side to it has overcome the pros to v mode.

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I have seen some players in Vmode for more than 120 days.

I doubt we would see such return.

nuada shows a point there, once in v mode they just stay put and lock away from the rest of the game.

tis true, alot of people dont just quit anymore, they VM and quit look at speed for example blues everywhere and the ones that are inactive dont have very good mines to farm off of most of the time.

Well personally speaking. i have two of ze accounts in two different universe in vmode currently and playing with just one universe.

Before a few months back well to be specific just before May 2012, i had all three accounts in vmode for more than 6 months. well i did try to play a few times in that period just to see if its feasible for me to play the game but i couldnt. work does take alot of time that you can not adjust online games to it.

anyways my point is i have returned to one universe to play actively as i can only do that much at the moment. and given that i can manage and able to .. i will return on all three universe asap.

even i couldnt play i did and still do check into my accounts for updates or reply private message conversations in game.

i am sure many of the vmoders are doing the same as i do. also point to be noted i do have the ruby limits for the perma vmode availability so my account wont get deleted. but thats for only two servers.. on the other server i am just keeping the account for the hours i get bored with.

one more point that i want you to focus on to is... well its a both way logic...

is it better to have inactive accounts than active players who can come back and make the game interesting?

or

is it worth more to have more inactive planets to raid just for the game to sustain better? you are asking for an universe where players only raid inactive to sustain.... and eventually i think the game will be a barren field.

starting over is fun when you are flattened to bottom in a battle... just because i was away and i have to restart everything (fleet and defense) its no good....

just an fyi if my account goes to inactive after vmode i will get the mining production down to 0% just so i do not draw in inactive raiders and bash my defense so that they get free bees...


so i personally think that the idea will not get mass sell out....

what I hear is that you vmode while you play another account in another universe, that is the problem it was not the purpose originally it was for emergencys and vacations now most people use it for purposes that are not of that nature. At first a few people used it but would come back and the game was real good, but now everywhere there are vmode players that haven't come out and its a waste if your going to quit the game then leave the account don't block it from all the other players the feeling you get from a big find makes the game worth coming back to day after day and using that to grow from.if two account are hard to run then maybe you should switch to one.
A thing you said about is it better to have inactive accounts than active players( that are in vmode) that can come back to make the game interesting
..well yes it is better because the game ran fine before vmode all together, inactive players just meant fun times raiding and growing and sticking with the game before vmode the game didn't become a barren field actually it was the opposite more players coming in and more players growing from inactives, the vmoders now don't come back much so I think vmode should be shorter, so they HAVE to come back out.
when you get flattened to the bottom in battle you rebuild, complaining and quitting isn't going to help you but you can rebuild and come back stronger like players before vmode learned.
the idea may not get a mass sell out from alot of players..most are gone on vmode

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