alot of posts for 1 day of this thread being open
Ok time for me to weigh in since there are a few people throwing insults and being condescending towards other posters. I think I will clear up some of the issues people have here.
Altruists
Are not staff. We dont tell them what to post. These are players who are knowledgeable and willing to help out the player base with BASIC questions about the game. They are as free with their "opinions" as the rest of the players are, which means up to a point where rules start getting broken or mud slinging starts.
As for the 'legal' threats levied. I dont want to see anymore of this. There is no legal basis on privacy and legal action to be taken. This is my own opinion and that of my experience and education in law. If people want to threaten legalities then they are in my opinion against the growth of the forum as a whole and will be removed from said forum.
In regards to having this system of replaying battles take out of the game... 99% of what is put into a game in development will stay. The % here asking for it to be gone is extremely small. So far I have read approximately 6-7 different users asking for this to be removed out of a player base of tens of thousands of players. Now if 3/4 of the player base asked for this to be removed then I can see the 1% being enacted out of the 99% and removing the feature from the game. While the few are very vocal about it you unfortunately are in the extreme minority by being a % of a % of the player count.
Unfortunately a lot of updates put into the game are put there in preparation for other future updates. Gotta lay the groundwork. Without knowing 'why' something was placed there, then there isnt too much argument on trying to get a piece placed removed till the whole picture is revealed.
As to the reasons for having this removed there havent been many good reasons. The one a couple are focusing on are "other people will learn how to counter and fight back or set up their defense". I mean cmon. Seriously? Its a STRATEGY GAME this means you USE STRATEGY. Change up your troop types... Attack the person every 2-3 days. They MAY set up their defense for your particular attack type but there are 80 people in a neighborhood which means there are other people attacking as well... they cant know when you exactly attack if you change it up and skip a day or two here and there plus they cant set up their defense against 79 other potential attackers individually.
A civilian will NEVER be able to reconstruct a battle he simply watched in reality (don't ask me how i know this or i'll be forced to boast off and say that i'm an Army Lieutenant - real life), more than that, technically speaking, if the army is dead 99.99 out of 100 your are conquered and/or dead.
So it's already TOO much that our town can't be burned. But giving 100% reincarnation is a bit silly, let the memory die at least if all the army dies.
Well there are surveyors to military action even nowadays with satellite and video feeds. But other than that the 100% reincarnation is silly but its there because you cant control your own troops in defense so its not fair to penalize players because an AI is moronic and doesnt know how to control troops. However this can and most likely will change in regards to future updates at some point.
