unfair mergers
ok guys, I am posting the whole conversation here with the dev/moderator, i have put the ticked in as I was very annoyed with what's been done to me, so here it is and any of your input is appreciated:
"Hi guys
I have been merged to another hood today and i have to say, that it is already 3 times guys when you knocked me back to the bottom of the hood from top 10. I am an active player and obviously we all start aprox. with the same level players at the same time and trying to progress and work our way up. But for all this progress to be take away overnight 3 times already is quite unfair. twice I've already worked my way back to the top 10 after you knocked me back . But now you have put me in position number 56 with people that are 3 to 10 times stronger than me, making it virtually impossible to catch up since obviously they played a lot longer than me and made me very vulnerable to the attacks. How is it fair? It makes this game absolutely pointless. You are going to lose a lot of players like that. The merges should not be so aggressive and people at least should be put into a competitive environment, with similar players without leaving them feeling that all the progress and hard work on the game have been completely lost. i was shifted from the position 7 to 57 in a recent merger."
dev:
"It is not points that determine whether a player is able to compete in a neighborhood or not, but whether you are at a similar level of progress in the tech tree (and thus have the same kinds of buildings available to you).
The way the system works is that neighborhoods are broken into chunks of players of a similar level of progress in the tech tree (not global ranking points) and then each of those chunks is put together with other similar chunks. Sometimes this will mean you are near the bottom of your new hood (on points), and another time you may well be near the top. You do not say what age you are in, or what age the rest of your new hood are in, but the chances are that the top players are only one or two ages above you at most.
Should you find that the top players in your hood are more than 2 ages above you, the first thing to bear in mind is that the new merge system is still in its early stages and it may take a few more merges yet to get the neighborhoods to how they should be - that is with all 80 players at a similar level of progress in the tech tree. The second thing to bear in mind is that with the new system the merges happen every two weeks, and there is a very good chance the next merge will place you in a more equal hood, so hang on in there.
If you are being attacked and defeated, the best thing you can do for now is to protect your goods (but also supplies) by timing your collections so that you will be online at the time the buildings produce. That way you cannot be plundered. If you can only guarantee to be online at one time of day then 24 hour cycles are best. After all, being attacked does you no harm at all if your productions cannot be plundered
me:"Hello
thank you for your reply, but I'd like to make a few points.
First of all, why do you have points system in place? Surely it is a stimulating competing tool to get people interested to compete with each other. Just strip off people of their points altogether so they don't know who is higher/lower in the rank and maybe that would be more fair. But no, of cause it is interesting to compete for points, but when you put people into a non-competitive environment it doesn't make any sense.(i.e i have 200.000 against 2000000)
Secondly,, you have GBs now in place. And people that been here longer had a chance to maximise them. So, no matter how far I am in my tech, tree, they are still going to be better than me as they have started a lot longer than me.
it is like playing a faulty game you bought in a shop. You make a progress through a hard work and play and then it breaks, you have to do the same over and over again, and then it breaks again. Would you personally play this game?? Ps: I am in a progressive era, and i am a paying customer too, so would be a shame to leave it as i have invested some time and money in it. But you do not take a lot of consideration when you do your mergers, The tech. tree is just one aspect of the game and I am sure you know that.
dev: Hi ,
I personally think that the merge system needs some work, but the moderator team is in place purely to help with the issues people face and there for not involved in game design or balancing.
Can i suggest you post this on the forum in the ideas section, there are lots of others with issues with the merge system and getting up there can only help.
http://forum.en.forgeofempires.com/f...y.php?76-Ideas
me:
hi , you want me to post the whole conversation there? well, so far, i looked at forums and i got the impression that nobody gives a damn about what people thing and about the paying players. which is bad in way as I am a debt collector so i am aware how important the customers are. I personally cannot dismiss customer complaints in my job as we'll lose the customers. but i can post it if you recommend. thanks. ps . however i have seen similar posts and al that was said to them: we don't care!
any response guys??
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