Make Dock Great Again

[snowleopard]

Or just make it great because it was never great.

With the clever introduction of the Stronghold, the game has become even more annoying for the non-spenders. I am out cards to fill in strongholds in world wars. I don't want to buy cards. My alliance is getting crushed by the spender alliance.
The only solution is " The Dock". However, my Dock is still on level 2, I only used it once and I think the significance of Dock increase multifold with the introduction of Stronghold. The problem is that I don't want to waste my citizens on long expeditions.
So Nexon developers, can you guys kindly change the way Dock system works?

 

[Quovatis]

Dock is useless past about gunpowder age. I don't think anyone can justify tying up 5 workers for 5-6 days for a single card. Remove the worker requirement and make it cost resources. Or at least let a general head the expedition without workers.

 

[snowleopard]

Dock is useless past about gunpowder age. I don't think anyone can justify tying up 5 workers for 5-6 days for a single card. Remove the worker requirement and make it cost resources. Or at least let a general head the expedition without workers.

There are many ways it can be made useful in higher ages. One is what you just mentioned.

 

[Kaiser Shag]

I used it once just to test it, now I need my workers for something more usefull. But I would be glad to use it against ressources, for example a button "Send workers on an expedition or hire a crew for X" where X can be gold, food or diamonds for example (I have so many diamonds that I keep buying oil barrels at the refinery, it would be cool to use them instead for paying a crew which gets me a card.

 

[MartinK12]

Yes, there are tons of more important things for workers in this game which take years, than stupid docks, so no one would spend workers on stupid dock for stupid troop cards, not to mention those pathetic rewards like few trade goods for 5 days Everyone can raid NTG in few minutes

I also don't like the idea that expeditions from lower levels are no longer available every time u upgrade the dock. They should be available all the time. The higher the dock the more expeditions we should have to choose from.

All above ideas are great and I'm sure that developers will do sth with docks. The problem is that they always need to wait a year before they change anything here - like nerfed Demolition on oil refinery

 

[Quovatis]

Would be interesting for BHG to data mine and see how often expeditions are launched from lvl 7+ docks. I bet it's almost never, unless the player is maxed and has nothing else to do.

 

[Brand Marrow]

I dont think stronghold troop cards are making a big difference in wars, maybe we are just not up against spender alliances, but either way if you are evenly matched, its not that hard to get a perfect score without any offensive troop cards, just need to invest trade goods in coalitions and mercenaries... and maybe sab strongholds if spenders are going all out and filling them with strong defenders... we haven't seen this at all though, it would be pretty ridiculous to spend enough to fill all warbases with defensive cards every war.....

otherwise, it does seem fun to get new troop cards occasionally using the dock and I will eventually upgrade and send out some expeditions to get a couple new troops.. just for fun... which is what this game is about... right? If this shaves a few days off of maxing out my towers or some other pretty useless defensive upgrade, I am not that worried about it...

 

[JuDomines]

Even level 4 (mine) is useless

 

[JuDomines]

Sh does make a difference. When you have to sabotage sh which archer elephant and helico + 4 mortars + Pentagon + tc on 220+ base with HL walls...it all adds up.

 

[snowleopard]

It will definitely make difference in the long run. Strongholds cards really make a difference in war if the stronghold is kept at a good place.