zaphod
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The title of this topic is quite bold and may be considered offensive by people at BHG/Nexon. But unfortunately it is the truth. Though most avid players of Dominations, and readers of this post, know it is correct let me explain why. Just in the unlikely case somebody at BHG or Nexon might read this. Now bear with me, this will by no means be rocket science.
In order to understand why Dominations lost it's reason for being you first need to define the concept of the game. And it's surprisingly simple.
The concept of the game is to build up a base in order to be able to withstand attacks from other players. You do this by acquiring resources from battle with other players which you spend on upgrading defensive structures and research new technologies. The secondary objective is to gain as many medals possible through battle in order to get a higher ranking.
As I said: surprisingly simple. So why did Dominations lose its reason for being? Again, very simple. Because BHG/Nexon has proven to be unable, or unwilling, to deal with cheaters it doesn't matter how many resources, or money, you pour into your base the moment you log off somebody will come along, drop a few destruction tactics and you lose maximum resources and medals. So the need to to build up a base in order to be able to withstand attacks from other players no longer exists.
As for the secondary objective: once you get the point where medals start to become important you are no longer able to gain enough medals to cope with the amount of medals lost to cheaters. A succesful attack may net you one or two medals, or once in a blue moon maybe five if you are lucky. To illustrate this: yesterday I gained 5 medals in succesful attacks, but lost 42 to cheaters. And this is by no means an exception.
Why continue playing? One reason might be to see your base become maxed out, and maybe because of the status which may come with it. But on the other hand: every second base I come across is a maxed-out cheater base. So in the unlikely case that I might ever get to the point where my base is close to being maxed-out people will not look at it in awe but consider me just another cheater.
So why does BHG/Nexon take stupidity to the next level? That is even simpler: if there's no more reason for people to play this game BHG/Nexon will no longer make any money from it. A lot of money has been spent on designing this, potentialy fantastic, game. But BHG/Nexon is unwilling to spend just a little more to make it work. This is very shortsighted because even though they may be able to get away with it in the short term, eventually it means destruction of capital.
What can be done? Well luckily I'm not in charge because in that case some heads would roll. But I do have some suggestions:
It's a petty.
In order to understand why Dominations lost it's reason for being you first need to define the concept of the game. And it's surprisingly simple.
The concept of the game is to build up a base in order to be able to withstand attacks from other players. You do this by acquiring resources from battle with other players which you spend on upgrading defensive structures and research new technologies. The secondary objective is to gain as many medals possible through battle in order to get a higher ranking.
As I said: surprisingly simple. So why did Dominations lose its reason for being? Again, very simple. Because BHG/Nexon has proven to be unable, or unwilling, to deal with cheaters it doesn't matter how many resources, or money, you pour into your base the moment you log off somebody will come along, drop a few destruction tactics and you lose maximum resources and medals. So the need to to build up a base in order to be able to withstand attacks from other players no longer exists.
As for the secondary objective: once you get the point where medals start to become important you are no longer able to gain enough medals to cope with the amount of medals lost to cheaters. A succesful attack may net you one or two medals, or once in a blue moon maybe five if you are lucky. To illustrate this: yesterday I gained 5 medals in succesful attacks, but lost 42 to cheaters. And this is by no means an exception.
Why continue playing? One reason might be to see your base become maxed out, and maybe because of the status which may come with it. But on the other hand: every second base I come across is a maxed-out cheater base. So in the unlikely case that I might ever get to the point where my base is close to being maxed-out people will not look at it in awe but consider me just another cheater.
So why does BHG/Nexon take stupidity to the next level? That is even simpler: if there's no more reason for people to play this game BHG/Nexon will no longer make any money from it. A lot of money has been spent on designing this, potentialy fantastic, game. But BHG/Nexon is unwilling to spend just a little more to make it work. This is very shortsighted because even though they may be able to get away with it in the short term, eventually it means destruction of capital.
What can be done? Well luckily I'm not in charge because in that case some heads would roll. But I do have some suggestions:
- The moment a new cheat/exploit is discovered: work overtime to fix it.
- You absolutely need to work on your communication. Take the community and complaints seriously. Besides, they know more about this game than everybody in charge at BHG/Nexon put together.
- Delete all cheater bases.
- Fix the force quit exploit. You cannot alienate the majority of players in order to protect a few. You can allways compensate those.
It's a petty.
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forgot about that
