Post Update: Are you playing less?

[Onley]

I'm playing the same amount.

But I rarely sit down and play it in large chunks. I don't think it's meant to be played that way?

I usually quickly check in every 1.5 hours or so to harvest my stuff, donate troops to alliance.

I do spend a chunk of time (15 mins) battling a few times a week.

That's where my crowns go, speeding up army training during multiple raids. For the first 5-10 battles I medal hunt with cheap pikeman and unprotected town centers. My league bonus more than pays for the pikemen I use and it's only a handful of crowns to speed up their training. After 5-10 battles like this, I'll look for resources and find someone I can roll with my whole army.

While I'll never top the leader boards, I seem to have a lot more fun than most of the people on this forum.

 

[dbukalski]

While I'll never top the leader boards, I seem to have a lot more fun than most of the people on this forum.

who knows who has more fun. i have fun competing for the top....i think. i dont have fun when my army is throwing rocks and other players are using tanks. u play for 15 minutes a day. so ur super low level. someday ull be on here posting about how u cant progress. ull start to play more than 15 minutes a day or quit. both are fine. but if u do stick around ull start to have stronger opinions

 

[MadFury]

I think the structure build times are more or less standard in this type of game Aurelius. The one thing everyone on my line chats or alliances agree that keeps annihilating the games playability is training times and nerfs. This is already the second training blessing nerf (there will probably be a 3rd) and another nerf to units we all like. Nerfing infantry for some and adding even longer training times for other units is increasing the boredom the comes along with those longer progression times already. I understand that it may be fine for some no lifers (mostly kids like dbukalski) but for the rest of us who only play an hour or so a day it's testing the boundaries of how enjoyable the game can be.

 

[Texan]

Yes playing less going on 5 days due to update release has OS players and now Android players unable access game from update.

Like myself great many aren't playing for days now, due fact game designers have released update blocking access for many loyal daily players.

With no fix in site yet or idea when able play again, understand others reasons for not able play as much.

Recent update release could be one update many choose not continue playing due one issue after next less improvements.

 

[dbukalski]

haha i take offense good sir. ill have u know im an adult with no life lol. kids do not have the patience to be awesome like me. duh

besides dont be jelly cuz my adult life is cooler than ur adult life. my epeen wins

 

[Onley]

who knows who has more fun. i have fun competing for the top....i think. i dont have fun when my army is throwing rocks and other players are using tanks. u play for 15 minutes a day. so ur super low level. someday ull be on here posting about how u cant progress. ull start to play more than 15 minutes a day or quit. both are fine. but if u do stick around ull start to have stronger opinions

I've been playing for a year (since Philippines launch) so I think I'm here to stay I often wonder if the game is meant to progress at my slower level. Those who obsessed to the top seem the most frustrated. Those of us who are more slow and steady seem to fit the pace of the developers.

 

[Aurelius...]

Onley, thanks for your response. If possible, could you reply to the post? I asked whether you play more or less as a result of the slower build times. It's probably clear to most that if you're not interested in competing for medals that you'll be less frustrated than those who are.

 

[Sikander_]

For me it's not fixed , regularly I play for 2-2:30 hrs , but at times I have played for 4-5 hrs as well if I had free time , or I wanted to achieve a certain goal etc , but with new changes I m finding it slightly tough to cope though my medals have gone up by 150-200 since the release with same time frame .

 

[Texan]

Build times do suck between raids, can say never had them go over 30 minutes on all 3 barraks. Several hours never had unless you dont attack with out all your tactics. That can see why dont like build gimes, taken down players many times with out tactics, most had one to use during troop builds.

Updates have had several with good things they tried to improve and change, delivery and launch of most everyone updates create more glitches then fixes updates items adding.

Was playing daily now that gained access with out there help, many cant access game still from update release.

What seeing from update and attempted changes not balance the French or British etc., looking more they are balance the new countries adding that are spending tons to level ages not so much focused on upgrades.

Change is not bad thing only wish they would change how they dont stop fix glitches and game crashing more often, before moving forward and launching upgrades.

 

[atramar]

Yes, but not cause of raider time, or TB change. play less cause of AI... games are to relax you, not give you grief, anger and dissatisfaction...

 

[The Prince]

Seriously, after the new update, I playing less and lesser for my main Roman EA, level 98.

1. Probably I dont have AW, thus, I always lack of diamonds for 2 TB a day. Normally once, and I always dropped diamonds btw 1-3 in 9/10 attacks.
2. When I tired of chasing medals with TB, I shift to raiders plus infantry to hunt for TC or 2 stars game with resources. But I accepted the long training time of Raiders.
3. Keep repeating the same thing everyday, unsure whether medals is really crucial for me. My EA offensive was maxed, except the Alliance Gate to 15 troops and my defensive was > 50% ( left 2 stables and 3 towers to max out my EA based ) and only with 1mil worth walls.
My last few defensives were sucks than previous update, here was the record
Raided by IA, 20 levels ( ono ) more than me, 100 medals ( ono ) lesser than me, took me 8 medals via 2 stars
Raided by IA, 40 levels more than me, 50 medals more than me, took me 8 medals via 2 stars
Raided by IA, 60 levels more than me, 150 medals lesser than me, took me 28 medals via 4 stars
Raided by IA, 60 levels more than me, 100 medals lesser than me, took me 26 medals via 4 stars
Raided by IA, 60 levels more than me, 50 medals lesser than me, took me 24 medals via 4 stars
Raided by IA, 55 levels more than me, 120 medals lesser than me, took me 12 medals via 2 stars

I just wonder, when I am on 1 hour TB to chase back my lost medals, I dont mind to risk my entire Roman armies against a stronger IA base. But, I never able to search such IA based which can give me more than 4 medals per star, not only IA, but not even EA.

It's a bit crap for Nexon to mentioned that defensive is part of the attributions for medals. If above IA easily raid my base with greater offensive, then why I dont get such strong defensive EA bases that can give me above medals, but 1 or 2 max?

 

[Denquin]

I'm still in gunpowder. I play every hour or so.

 

[Onley]

I did reply to the post. I said 'I'm playing the same'.

 

[Aurelius...]

Ugh. Those defensive results are good examples of the problems with the medals award system.

 

[David Pasquinel]

Some weeks ago I finally got my hands on a current-gen console and I rarely am playing Dominations. If I'm going to sit on a grindfest, let me do that at Destiny. In fact, way before that, since the early patch notes for this crappy update, my interest went down to 33%. While my patience to this game is at the lowest, I'm just trowing away my resources upgrading my farms, caravans, traps and wall pieces so nobody will get rich raiding my semi-abandoned EA city.

 

[acied]

playing less then before..

I've had resources filled to the roof, so upgrades could be easily started.
With all workers working for days, only medals were interesting to go raiding for

But as medal rank was rising also the no opponent issue was rising with it.

Now looking at 4,5,6,7 days upgrades and slow progress in medals it becomes a "I'll check it once in a while" game

The week of fast army training made it a good game-play week, since those days are gone, and I've done the upgrade, I've used 1 TB for an hour, only to find myself pretty bored with it....