When people first get into the game, they might be a little put off by the apparent lack of action. In fact, it may take some time for the newcomers to complete the tutorial and since figthing for your land is not taught in the tutorial (yet ?), beginners have yet to imagine what a battle looks like. Plus, they have absolutely no idea of what's going on, rank-wise, or alliances-wise. It's a bit sad, considering this is one of the most interesting and social aspect of the game : sharing Battle Reports, talking about ratios, layers or how the Alliance A stuffed Alliance B yesterday and stuff like that.
One could argue that most of the information is up to the players to discover, and surely, I agree with that, but the truth is that when you register an ID, all you do at first is grow seeds and plant stuff with absolutely no idea of what's going on or what will be going on. The first few days within the game hardly give an accurate picture of the real gameplay.
So yeah, enough with the justifications, on with the suggestion : how about we get a daily optional (as in : you may deactivate it if you like) automated Newsfeed from the game ?
The Bushtarion Today could be a link at the bottom of the "Main Options:" tab or be fully integrated into the News. At 12:00 GMT, it would publish the BR of one the best land grabs (no IDs revealed, of course) or the one with the highest values of troops killed or involved. It could also show advertisements for alliances recruiting or random news on how the first T-Rex has been spotted 3 days ago according to the rumour (with a quick description of the units or a link to the manual/wiki). Links to get onto IRC and ask for help could be shown once a week too. A lot of possibility there : publish awesome ratios on Traps, how to contact an admins, how active the average player of the game is, etc. as long as all those global news remain anonymous.
It would have to be automated obviously, so that Azzer wouldn't have to select the BR manually or the interesting stats/facts each day.
Would you want to wake up to a nice BR that isn't yours ? I know I would like that. Probably ain't gonna be implemented any time soon, as I s'ppose it would represent a lot of hard work but yeah.
It would give the new players a heads-up on what a BR looks like, and how fun it can be to fight for your acres. I don't think it'd be dangerous in anyway since nothing too important, no vital informations, or nothing that could be used to gain knowledge against a particular someone/alliance would be shared. Probably useless to veterans though, even if fun, so an option to hide the link or disable the newsfeed would probably be more than welcome.
Thoughts on this ?
One could argue that most of the information is up to the players to discover, and surely, I agree with that, but the truth is that when you register an ID, all you do at first is grow seeds and plant stuff with absolutely no idea of what's going on or what will be going on. The first few days within the game hardly give an accurate picture of the real gameplay.
So yeah, enough with the justifications, on with the suggestion : how about we get a daily optional (as in : you may deactivate it if you like) automated Newsfeed from the game ?
The Bushtarion Today could be a link at the bottom of the "Main Options:" tab or be fully integrated into the News. At 12:00 GMT, it would publish the BR of one the best land grabs (no IDs revealed, of course) or the one with the highest values of troops killed or involved. It could also show advertisements for alliances recruiting or random news on how the first T-Rex has been spotted 3 days ago according to the rumour (with a quick description of the units or a link to the manual/wiki). Links to get onto IRC and ask for help could be shown once a week too. A lot of possibility there : publish awesome ratios on Traps, how to contact an admins, how active the average player of the game is, etc. as long as all those global news remain anonymous.
It would have to be automated obviously, so that Azzer wouldn't have to select the BR manually or the interesting stats/facts each day.
Would you want to wake up to a nice BR that isn't yours ? I know I would like that. Probably ain't gonna be implemented any time soon, as I s'ppose it would represent a lot of hard work but yeah.
It would give the new players a heads-up on what a BR looks like, and how fun it can be to fight for your acres. I don't think it'd be dangerous in anyway since nothing too important, no vital informations, or nothing that could be used to gain knowledge against a particular someone/alliance would be shared. Probably useless to veterans though, even if fun, so an option to hide the link or disable the newsfeed would probably be more than welcome.
Thoughts on this ?