-10 and you deserve every neg.
Let me start right here; I do not think this person deserves every neg just because he came up with an idea :confused:
1. no guild players
not all of us actually want to join a guild. some of us are fiercely independant sorts who network outside of formal structures and build a web of friendships in the game. of course, women are better at this, i can see your problem there.
Ok, there is suppose to be a point in why there are guilds in this game. If people don't want to join them, it should be their loss (but if you're including friends I think a guild only option should still include friends since you/they should act formally to help elevate a GB)
2. small guilds
the proposal favours only the big guilds, top players and redaction would clear everybody else off the board by simply swapping members everyday. smaller guilds with less connections would be left wondering how you even get a building to level 1, you've taken no account of the fact that the vast majority of guilds are about 30 members or less. check your server stats.
I'm a little confused here, how would not having a guild-only option affect this?
3. development crippled
we are going to struggle long and hard to get these dang blueprints. unlike you, i don't have a bottomless credit card and will need to think long and hard about buying the diamonds to complete which ever GB stops giving me nothing but duplicates everytime. why the hell are you trying to make this even harder?
Ummm, I don't use diamonds. I'm trying to use patience to wait for my blueprints (even though that's not working out well :p). I do try and contribute to my guildies' GBs, but I never do too much because
that would hinder my development across the tech tree.
4. top end players
by the time you get to the very top there is little to do accept be benevolent and generous to lower point players. nice to spread a bit of warmth to friends and players further done especially with all the lovely forge point bonuses coming in. if your guild has no GB's in development, what are you to do if you can't help a friend with them?
I'm pretty sure the top end players are already in a guild which already has a GB, and if they aren't, they are most likely using diamonds. If it's none of those, then I would like to include friends in the Guild-Only option and go find one.
5. excessive diamond advantage
you are piling huge advantages into the hands of premium players, the balance you are whining about is going to be thrown out with the bathwater here. do you think diamond players need your input? nope, they can buy themselves as many levels as they want. the rest of us have to struggle with the on the hour drip. you have handed the game to premium players with one silly idea!
Diamond players have an advantage. What's new about that? What is trying to be done is helping out some guildies that are not aiming to buy diamonds for their GB. Neighbors taking all the rewards ruin the guild morale for even having GBs.
6. guild leader abuse
now we get to the dirty bit, you are obviously an inexperienced player with no idea how nasty these games can get. if a guild leader is smart enough and has a few sidekicks, they can quite easily demand the entire guild focuses on making them more powerful. using threat, pressure and social engineering, entire groups of people can be manipulated for one person alone. by herding your sheeple into an ever tighter focus on guilds, you are taking down every fence to stop this evil sort of player abuse entire sections of the game community. i have CSA'd games before and seen this happen, and it destroys games for 100's of players.
Well then that is a pathetic guild; I would leave immediately, and aim for another guild.
7. neighbourhood characteristics
every neighbourhood is different. some of them are infested rat's nests in total war. others are fairly peaceful rub along and dish out the occasional poking places. some of them, we even like to help our neighbours rather than just plundering them endlessly. it certainly makes the game more social and fun, if you can pop next door and help a friend who decently has left you unplundered because the game's AI can't defend itself for toffees.
Ok, your assuming he/she is going to use the guild-only option which means that he didn't like some of those "peaceful" neighbors who have been stealing blueprints that he/she wanted his/her guildies to take. If you were a friendly-enough neighbor, you could try to be friends to help contribute.
8. newbie farming
newbies need to put their forge points into tech tree progress. not being coerced by guilds into supporting GB's. constrict use of forge points to guilds and i can guarantee you will get newbies being "pumped and dumped" by the large guilds all over. the game is bad enough for dumping newbies into neighbourhoods of higher level players, only to be eaten alive in a feeding frenzy. you're just adding to this problem.
I don't see how this option specifically adds more newbie farming...
9. game philosophy
this whole game is focused into something uncomfortably between Lag-goonia and Tribal Wars. it is competitive but has neat social touches which bring in a more mature (and richer) player base. the long term survival of a games company is down to a healthy philosophy and managing to accommodative the styles of the most players. if you want a game totally focused on guilds and having only the strongest and biggest survive, go and play Tribal Wars, if you like just being meat on the bone.
Sorry, I don't get the point your trying to make here, including since your using the word "uncomfortably". Doesn't that mean you don't like this game?
Finally, last one
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10. short sighted selfish suggestions
any game is bigger than you. everybody plays for different reasons. you deliberately are - and admit to - excluding entire sections of the player base and push your own selfish agenda. try looking beyond your nose a bit at the reasons why people play the game, and be inclusive of every playing style. if you don't, you are slicing off large chunks of the player base, large chunks of which pay Inno a lot of money. suggesting Inno cut off their money supply will go down like 2 days production of bricks and has ZERO chance of the developers taking you, and any future suggestions you have remotely seriously.
Please try and be more respectful to others. I really doubt they were trying to be selfish when they thought of this idea.
So in conclusion, I think friends should be part of the Guild-Only Option because they should understand you if you wanted to help out another guildy with your GB
