Parlament?

[MicWoe]

Who has the first experience with the Parlament? Good idea or not? Think about it! Everybody pays millions in and what do you get out? 1 or 2 percent increase or 10 min help. Ok, in the highest level 10% less or increase or speed up. Sorry, but that is nothing, compared with what you and your players have to give.

 

[moriador]

I think some of the rewards are great. At highest level you can get 5 hours of speedups per day (which is a > 20% increase in speed), you can get an extra 10 troops in your alliance army... I think these are very valuable boosts and I'm happy to pump in resources that I wasn't using anyway to get them.

The game is pretty good as solving the problem of having money sinks for end-game things, i.e. things that are very expensive, but give you some gain & something to spend resources on rather than resources just over-flowing. It also is good in that not everybody, or every alliance can have everything in the game. Those who strive hard will get small, but relevant advantages, and most people will have to specialise... you can't control if the base you're going to attack has artefact advantages that will nullify the formation of troops and attack style that you've chosen to use. It means there are lots of different play styles, which is good as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Zaxillaxifrage]

It's a good concept that many other games have used to encourage cooperation within an alliance. Some of the current branches/perks seem fairly worthless but others are definitely worth investing in. If they continue to add worthwhile perks and enable better contribution tracking than just the daily top ten, it could eventually be a very strong game feature. Many higher age players are sitting on gold and food they have no way to spend, so putting millions of resources into Parliament isn't a big deal for everyone.

 

[KnattyNate]

I’m pretty happy with the parliament. The daily contribution to the parliament can be gained in just a couple battles so it’s not like a grind that we have to put tons of time into. The rewards are great even though it does take a long time to get them at the highest levels. Extra alliance gate troops, decreased build times, decreased research times, parliament becoming a defensive building, all very good rewards. It also gives something to put resources into for those who are maxed or near maxed or even those with just maxed walls. It’s a reason to raid outside of NTG gathering for war.

 

[Spaceboy]

Too expensive. For an atomic, it is 5.5mio daily to donate. For maxed players with nothing to spend, this is alright, for the casual player it is not worth it.

We just decided in our group to make donations optional ! It is much more interesting to spend 5.5mio in your walls than in new laws. The cost is really too high for what you get.

And we are only a small group of 10-15 people so we have very slow progress.

We do not see the benefit for our group.

 

[phil_dee]

For active players, the cost to contribute to various Parliament branches is less than the equity lost when raiding with full resources.