Recent content by rgb209

Good suggestions...and it made me think of one aspect that made Civilization great, which was that it had many layers. I really like the idea of aligning upgrade times to resource building times, as well as having more flexibility with gold and resources - they made a small move in this...

I recall from years ago a psychology for game design called Cognitive Flow, in which players remain in the zone, or 'flow' , which balances players between boredom and anxiety. Think of an XY graph, and flow is the line going up on a 45 degree angle, with boredom (game too easy) on one side, and...

Unfortunately my whole alliance has lost faith in Marco, which means rubies are effectively useless. This has impacted our wars...when you consider the loot you receive minus the investment for filling the bases, troop tactics etc, they really aren’t worth it anymore. Players are opting out and...

I guess the real question here is what algorithm would be a better alternative? Alliances will try to figure out a way to gain any advantage, so it isn’t manipulative...more just opportunistic. I personally don’t like sandbagging..perhaps put in a requirement that players have to be active AND...

Many times during the wars, although you ask for specific troops, you receive different troops from others in your alliance. It could be simply a mistake, or in our case, we have players from all over the world who speak different languages. It would be nice if you could reject donated troops...

I love the idea of a glory leaderboard and hope it helps in the difficult process of matching up alliances with others for wars. In addition, I hope this leaderboard helps find the cheaters, which is still very rampant in this game. In theory, the cheaters should be more visible because of their...