Construction time for buildings

[talon]

Jan 9, 2022 20:42:35 GMT -5 bohemondhauteville said:

Time-based limitations largely only benefit current whale nations, keeping them ahead of everyone, moreso now than ever due to time limitations put on newer nations, hurting them and discouraging new players from playing as they can't hope to catch up to these whales when limitations are placed on them.

I know I'm coming up this from a top 10 position so please correct me if I'm making some false assumptions here. I propose these time restrictions don't affect what we see right now as the nation building on Dennis. I propose the restrictions start being implemented with the next colony, presumably a colony on the moon. And then those time restrictions get multiplied again with the colony after that on Mars. If I understand the gameplay development plan, each colony will essentially look like what we see as our nations on Dennis, but will be located on the alternate planitoids. This will allow expansion of total production for larger players, but because the colonies are farther away from Dennis, a slowdown in production timers fits the role-play aspect by accounting for distance. It also can be the opposite of your concern, slowing down whales while still allowing them to expand.


I do believe there should be some degree of limitation in boosting a new player. For example, one year from now, a high level player could essentially donate 7 days of production and bring a new player to nearly full production on Dennis and get ready to expand into outer space colonies... I don't technically object to that, it's someone's choice but they do with their own resources... Resources... But I do think we do players a disservice by not giving them a chance to understand and analyze growth mechanics. If it's so cheap for experience, players to boost their new allies... So my dennid proposal would be just some kind of a restriction against boosting someone to level 30 of all buildings during their first week. I'm not sure exactly what the mechanic would look like, but conceptually I think a player should want to play and show that they want to play and show at least a few weeks of dedication before we bring them to full size Full speed gameplay. I understand this might be a minority opinion and I don't mind being overruled. ..

..But I do believe in that first paragraph my concept of implementing timers for colonies after Dennis responds to your concern about keeping whales on top.

[Spartan]

Jan 9, 2022 20:42:35 GMT -5 bohemondhauteville said:

I am largely strongly against the implementation of this mechanic. It seeks to limit the growth of nations to time instead of resources (even though the accumulation of resources is a time factor in and of itself), it makes gameplay and growth increasingly more frustrating to people who can login all the time to check if their timers are done, this will quickly drive casual players away from the game.

On another note, though this does try to limit the growth of new nation to prevent them from receiving a boost of resources from their starting Alliance... so what? If the success of these Alliances' econ alloaws for the quick development of nations, I do not see a reason as to inhibit said growth. Alliances don't have unlimited resources, the new nations will also hit a cap and be forced to wait for the accumulation of resources before levelling up more.

Time-based limitations largely only benefit current whale nations, keeping them ahead of everyone, moreso now than ever due to time limitations put on newer nations, hurting them and discouraging new players from playing as they can't hope to catch up to these whales when limitations are placed on them.

Imagining these worst-case scenarios where players dont even know when their buildings are going to be constructed and have to log in constantly to check this tells it may be too late to implement such a big change, because the playerbase is already very much used to to the existing mechanics.

I still think it would be a clearer and easier solution in the long run: much more resources available to players in game, but time limitations in forms of either cooldowns or construction-times.

However, I also want to respect how players feel about planned changes, that is what this forum is meant for.

In that sense - So Ill close this topic for now, and halt further work on it.