Wow,
Ravenlord, I happen to be here reading today, and I'm so GLAD you seem to start realising the things too...
Just give me this sentence for sounding like the grandpa, I told you, but it's the fact, I told you all Global was going to be a disaster, and I was the negative one, spoiling the big party that was here when few people was realising how bad where things looking...
And so now, ok, I'm done, let's talk about situation...
Global Age has been a disaster. A disaster for the casual-moderate spender player, and heavy timers. Take me for example, I used to play like 4 hours a day, I was playing less and less Clash of Clans, Nexons almost had me... But then Global arrived, I can't understand why already, and I have not even upgraded to it, I did not need it to understand how terrible it was. Nexon killed me.
My ex-alliance leader, reminds me of you a lot, because he says problem is the same, he is only playing once in 4-5 days, to max loot, and then sit for ages until buildings done... He says loves the game, but that his situation is starting to kill...
I really think we should make an Elrond's Council, all the players as I describe, like you Will, Gail, Bravy, Martine, Maximus, Qt, etc, to make pressure united to Nexon and be heard, because if not... Things look real bad. Game will fall in revenue and active players base, and Nexon solution will be... Rushing even MORE new ages and content. So heavy 0.5% top spenders spend heavy money, and we enter a run spiral, run before it ends... A fatal bucle.
So I think we should agree in possible solutions... For me these were the main issues:
-Generals to the castle. When they were up to level 30, I thought having them upgrading in the armory was mad. When I saw they raised to level 40 in Global, I was like ###***... Generals should be though to upgrade, but still possible, if a player is active. Moving them to the fortress, will be a HEAVY motivation for raiding, since every 2-3 days you'll have to have 50k oil, that's a motivation for raiding and be active and war.
-Food, for walls... Again, yes. No one has ever told me of another solution that will balance more economy. And why it's important? Because as you say the problem of the game it's when you are full in loot, it's very frustrating. Why is in part so boring playing just for walls? Because you maxed of food, no use for oil either, so just raiding just for gold, becomes stupid and tiring. My first proposal alongside with this one, will make difficult to ever have too much loot... Of course it doesn't help Nexon added prices like 8 million to them... Was utter dumb, wall has to be very though, but not cheater only prices...
-Forests as you said is super dumb too, and also I think like an experiment... 21 days is way TOO much even for this kind of games. I would say 12-14 is a very solid barrier, even a game now 4 years old like Clash of Clans, has never broke... I think they should really start thinking on a time limit for future building upgrades... Or a posibility will be that you have workers, and builders, workers can convert to builders, like having 4 workers will be another builder, but the idea will be for them to remaing idle, collecting rss and animals. :S That united to the other two proposals, should make motivation for being active...
I really think that only all the proposals together could make for a save of the game... Sucks that Dominations has so great potential, but is being treated this way... If anyone think they have better ideas or things that need to be added, I'm glad to hear, will be nice if we could make a point of consensus, like a "declaration of forum player base" of something, so Nexon hear us...
Main point to be addresses are those in my opinion: game has to be encouraging to play more, so for that, make possible to do walls and generals, for players that already cover the basics easily, and make for solutions to the time problem, and not having all the workers busy... Immo, the game drops a lot if fun having like 4-6 workers idle vs all busy...
Like it is now, it's TOO easy doing the basics, and it's TOO impossible doing the premium, like walls and generals. Fatal combination that lead us to the darkness of the ages...
Happy Dominations anyways to the ones you are still enjoying...