Irv_the_Mighty
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Hey, people. Long time lurker, first time poster. Been playing DomiNations since the first month. I'm the leader of a pretty decent alliance that usually hovers around 19k glory points. I nominally run a web site where we can communicate. This is the message I posted there to the group today...
Warriors:
I’ve come to believe that “combat rebalance” will be the end of DomiNations. I doubt that Nexon/BHG are unaware of this, and I rather think it’s by design, but more on that in a minute.
This game is no longer fun for me. In the space of a month, prior to which, the game was as good as it has ever been, they turned it into a miserable chore. I hate attacking anyone anymore. I know I’m not alone, because after 3 1/2 years of being attacked nonstop, now I hardly ever get attacked. I go to bed without a peace treaty, and wake up with everything as I left it.
We built something really good here. You and me. And if this is the end, I will miss the crew, but I will not miss the game. In recent days, I’ve been scouting out new games where we might be able to keep the gang intact. Nothing really promising so far, but I’ll keep you posted.
Okay, now let me get this out of the way. I don’t begrudge anybody their desire to make a buck. If this is all really just a move to sell more elephant archers and Guan Yus, honest, I am fine with that. I’m a free play player (except for the estate and the 8th house on my main account), as I think most of us are. To the extent that any of us are paying, I don’t think any of us are whales. We work within our casual framework, and that’s fine. But these war mismatches we’ve been seeing lately are going to keep coming. People who aren’t paying are going to find a game that is more and more hostile toward their desire to have a good time. They are going to play less, not pay more. Their alliances will wither and die, and they will not be there to match up with.
On top of this, my ability to lead us in war is already taking a serious hit. The best thing I though I brought in leading the alliance was knowing what we had. I thought I had a pretty good idea of what our people could do, so I felt comfortable directing traffic when I needed to, and I knew which way to motivate our target selection (though I was not always successful). I actually have five accounts in Sutekh, and a couple have stayed incognito because I like to use them to “calibrate” target selection in war. We’ve won a lot more than we’ve lost. It’s worked, more or less.
But now, I don’t even know what I can do, let alone what anyone else can do. I look at an enemy base, and I have not a clue what is going to happen when I drop troops there. It just gets worse every week. And next week, at high levels, every base is going to have roughly another 20 heavy tanks’ worth of hit points in the buildings to chew through.
I am not quitting the game. Not yet. But in a very meaningful way, I am done. After this war, I am pulling Irv and the Colonel out of wars, and will no longer start wars. Irv Prime will stay on as nominal leader of the alliance, and if I do wind up quitting the game, of course, I will transfer the title to the most capable hands that want it.
What will me staying look like? I’ll still check in every day and collect my loot. Still donate troops (got to get my lifetime mark to 100k!). Still manage the enrollment. But mostly, I’ll be waiting. Waiting for what? To see if they fix it. But I doubt they will. See, I think they want to shut the game down. It’s probably a marginal money-maker, and has been for a while, so they want to cash out with the PTW crowd while they can. And, again, that’s fine with me. Hell, I’d probably do the same thing. It’s just that I don’t think this game is coming back to where an alliance like ours has much of a place in it.
In the meantime, the beat goes on, such as it is. And again, I’m looking for a new game where we can set up shop. If anyone has ideas, do share.
-Irv
Warriors:
I’ve come to believe that “combat rebalance” will be the end of DomiNations. I doubt that Nexon/BHG are unaware of this, and I rather think it’s by design, but more on that in a minute.
This game is no longer fun for me. In the space of a month, prior to which, the game was as good as it has ever been, they turned it into a miserable chore. I hate attacking anyone anymore. I know I’m not alone, because after 3 1/2 years of being attacked nonstop, now I hardly ever get attacked. I go to bed without a peace treaty, and wake up with everything as I left it.
We built something really good here. You and me. And if this is the end, I will miss the crew, but I will not miss the game. In recent days, I’ve been scouting out new games where we might be able to keep the gang intact. Nothing really promising so far, but I’ll keep you posted.
Okay, now let me get this out of the way. I don’t begrudge anybody their desire to make a buck. If this is all really just a move to sell more elephant archers and Guan Yus, honest, I am fine with that. I’m a free play player (except for the estate and the 8th house on my main account), as I think most of us are. To the extent that any of us are paying, I don’t think any of us are whales. We work within our casual framework, and that’s fine. But these war mismatches we’ve been seeing lately are going to keep coming. People who aren’t paying are going to find a game that is more and more hostile toward their desire to have a good time. They are going to play less, not pay more. Their alliances will wither and die, and they will not be there to match up with.
On top of this, my ability to lead us in war is already taking a serious hit. The best thing I though I brought in leading the alliance was knowing what we had. I thought I had a pretty good idea of what our people could do, so I felt comfortable directing traffic when I needed to, and I knew which way to motivate our target selection (though I was not always successful). I actually have five accounts in Sutekh, and a couple have stayed incognito because I like to use them to “calibrate” target selection in war. We’ve won a lot more than we’ve lost. It’s worked, more or less.
But now, I don’t even know what I can do, let alone what anyone else can do. I look at an enemy base, and I have not a clue what is going to happen when I drop troops there. It just gets worse every week. And next week, at high levels, every base is going to have roughly another 20 heavy tanks’ worth of hit points in the buildings to chew through.
I am not quitting the game. Not yet. But in a very meaningful way, I am done. After this war, I am pulling Irv and the Colonel out of wars, and will no longer start wars. Irv Prime will stay on as nominal leader of the alliance, and if I do wind up quitting the game, of course, I will transfer the title to the most capable hands that want it.
What will me staying look like? I’ll still check in every day and collect my loot. Still donate troops (got to get my lifetime mark to 100k!). Still manage the enrollment. But mostly, I’ll be waiting. Waiting for what? To see if they fix it. But I doubt they will. See, I think they want to shut the game down. It’s probably a marginal money-maker, and has been for a while, so they want to cash out with the PTW crowd while they can. And, again, that’s fine with me. Hell, I’d probably do the same thing. It’s just that I don’t think this game is coming back to where an alliance like ours has much of a place in it.
In the meantime, the beat goes on, such as it is. And again, I’m looking for a new game where we can set up shop. If anyone has ideas, do share.
-Irv
