Big rant about progressing in Dominations

[papier]

Progressing in Dominations is extreme no life farming and takes way too long. Also progressing in ages doesn't help you get faster resources at all and still upgrading buildings and units has become extremely expensive. In my opinion the designers have to give some love to the casuals players and make sure they can also progress. One of the options is to permanently double the hourly production of farms an caravans. It takes me many crowns AND many hours to do one 9M food upgrade, after that I just have to save up free crowns for months on end until I can do another upgrade. I don't even bother the oil upgrades anymore. One thing that's also bothered me from the beginning in this game is that staying very low in medal count has helped me get more resources, because there are more dead accounts there which have weaker bases and more resources, but still not enough to decently progress. I hope this rant will be read and I sincerely hope Nexon will do something about it in the future.

 

[British Coffee]

I have to disagree.
Im currently in industrial age and I'm not entirely sure if it is same for globals and atomics, but thing I find most frustrating is the upgrade time. It's extremely easy to farm gold and food if you use training blessing and raiders on low medals. Problem is, because I can do this, and most upgrades in industrial age take like a week, I find myself spending less time playing the game because there's literally nothing to do. I think they should do something about ridiculously long upgrade times which causes higher level players to spend less time instead of more.

 

[The Huns]

Upgrade times are definitely the killer for the active player. I have no issues getting the resources, workers to use those resources is another matter.

 

[Singaboy]

Well, getting the oil for upgrades can be a challenge and I can imagine casuals to have issues. However, upgrade times are what gets you into a very inactive mode for days before some new upgrade kicks in.

There should be some way to decrease upgrade times (maybe via the university).

 

[JNation]

I have to agree with British coffee on this one. Getting resources is easy but a lot of the time I'm setting on resources to wait until I have workers free, which is usually a week.. out of all things the armory is definitely the bottleneck of the game.

 

[Mountainking]

Yeah upgrade times are such a killer. Best to get a 2nd account!

 

[ReekyBullet]

Up until atomic age I always have more resources than I can spend without going hardcore on raiding, mostly due to chilling in low medals where it's very lucrative. Just use a proper full army and your losses are minimal. In atomic age the food is bit more scarce as people are actively using it or building walls now.
As everyone else has said it's really the time to upgrade that really hurts on progress. In my opinion using casual crowns on significant amounts of resources is a bit of a waste

 

[papier]

I'm really wondering how you guys manage it then, how many hours/day are you playing this game? Suppose I gain 100k food per attack, which for me is a good amount considering troop losses and tactics to rebuild. This means I have to do 90 attacks to gain 9M, how?

 

[MonsterMMORPG]

i 100% support that
farms , oil producers and caravans income should be doubled

 

[T-800]

Hello,
I don't know which age you are but for me it's easy to stole 1 millions food in 30mins.
I'm industrial age around 800 medals.
In my army, i have 10 foot troop, i just look for 2 deadbase and farms without protection, it's already 500000 food.
Then 2 easy attacks with my real army and the total is 1million

 

[Mountainking]

@MonsterMMORPG All your posts is about simplifying or making everything easier to attain/obtain....

 

[British Coffee]

Easiest way?
Stay around 600-1000 medals. Use only raiders and attack dormant bases.(Or bases that has resource buildings outside the walls)
You should be able to raid about 100k each with like 5 raiders. Do that with training blessing.
Easy 3-5 million resources in one hour.

 

[papier]

Easiest way? It seems like the only way. Plus I think I'm struggling more then you, so it's a longer and more boring process. I'm atomic age and all opponent bases are global age or above, so less dormant bases or bases with resource buildings outside walls. I also don't think this is a good game design, you should be able to get enough resources from normal raiding.

 

[papier]

@MonsterMMORPG All your posts is about simplifying or making everything easier to attain/obtain....

He is right! A lot of the games I play, the passive resources are enough to do most of the upgrades. Progressing in the game shouldn't be hard, even for the casual player who plays 30m-1h per day. What should be hard is of course climbing the medal ladder, which should be only for the hardcore players, but you shouldn't have to spend many hours per day just on progressing.

 

[Singaboy]

I find it a welcome change that not everything in this game is given out freely. If you want to progress without effort, you can spend crowns. Otherwise, you will need to find some ways to gain resources in other ways and it's part of the fun. Remember the journey is important not the end stage. I find it deeply satisfying to go for an oil run and finally be able to upgrade the air strip for 120k oil. What is the sense of excitement and satisfaction of everything is given for almost no effort?

 

[papier]

I find it a welcome change that not everything in this game is given out freely. If you want to progress without effort, you can spend crowns. Otherwise, you will need to find some ways to gain resources in other ways and it's part of the fun. Remember the journey is important not the end stage. I find it deeply satisfying to go for an oil run and finally be able to upgrade the air strip for 120k oil. What is the sense of excitement and satisfaction of everything is given for almost no effort?

In my opinion it's an enourmous effort everytime, which will force you to extreme no-life and play for hours on end or spend a lot of money just to progress in the game. Most people keep lowering their medals and searching for dormant bases to speed this process a little, but this is because the resource gains are just so poor. Maybe for you this suffering is a joy, but for a lot of players it just isn't fun.

By the way the hourly production is only 1.25% of the capacity. In all other games I've played of this type this is 2-5%. From all other games I know this game is by far the most meager on resource gains. People are creating the most frantic strategies to still get some resource gains, which in my opinion really creates zero fun factor.

 

[ReekyBullet]

Jeez unless you've rushed and it's your own fault, use a FULL army or raiders with engineers. Both strategies work extremely well at LOW medals as long as youre selective with the bases you attack. Yes there are less easy bases in atomic age therefore YOU need to adapt rather than blame the game, be patient and look for one with bad layout and 400k food or whatever.
All these people are giving you viable options and it sounds like you won't even try to use them and just want to complain.

 

[Singaboy]

If you play regularly (I don't mean 24/7), you would automatically accumulate food and gold in one way or another. That would give you a good base for an upgrade that costs you, say 9 Mio food. If you upgrade all your farms, I guess you can make sth like 500k food a day (including those fruit trees). You could also store some in the vault, that could give you another 700k.

Now, combine this with a base stock of , say 3-4 Mio food, you would need to gain another 4-5 Mio food. Not easy to do in 1 hour, I admit, but you can time you training blessing at a time when you have the citizens for the upgrade ready and then go for the loot run. If you raid bases for 300k food each time, you could make a few Mio in 1 hour. Even if you are short of 9 Mio and get raided, you can use the peace treaty that usually follows for a breather and then time the next loot run with your own free time. Nobody expects you to be in Global Age and upgrade buildings when you play 15-30 min a day. If that would be possible, the game would be a joke, really.

 

[British Coffee]

Or you can go for that heavy tank planes tactic. There are enough global age bases in lower medal ranges that would be steamrolled by proper high global or atomic age army. If that doesn't work for you either, just go really high medal range and do town centre raids. Every victory gives tonnes of resources from about 3000 medals.

 

[Mountainking]

British Coffee How much resources does it give at 3000 medals?