atWar 2019 and beyond

Prispeval Black Swans, 06.12.2018 at 14:33

Hello Dave,

it's in your best interest to kick me and people like me from this game. The core playerbase that is toxic. Tbh that's only reason I used to hang around here. Yeah toxicity goes both ways, but it sure has been fun calling people niggers and stuff.
Only thing that pissed me here is russian propaganda, but I guess that is because this game gathers usually right-wingers. Anyhow you should probably remove lifetime premium to maximize profits, instead make it yearly 40 bucks option.

Glhf

Prispeval K_Himmelreich, 04.12.2018 at 21:49

- I might get memed for this, but in regards to the toxicity of the community, it won't be solved by people who bitch and whine about their feelings being hurts or ego's being shut down by another person's insults. Back then, people quite freely used the Mute/Ignore feature and went on with playing. Now It it seems that people oh so conveniently forgot this exists due to a malicious intent to attack the people they deem ideological enemies like some sort of crusade and trying to convince new developer blood into feeding their self-interest. (I'd say that is toxic in itself) One aspect of AW's chat is that people like to fight each other, make jokes and banter about. Even if some of the content projected is triggering to those with self worth issues. Every insult is mostly a joke as I've observed and the only real trash talk is when discussing a players skill (These are the arguments that turn heated most of the time). Players here for awhile have developed thick skins and it's mostly the lower ranks who complain. If people cannot handle that not everyone is going to carter/pamper them and fit their singular worldviews, then helping their mental sickness isn't possible, but they should not force nonsense here or towards David, begging him to make them feel "Safe". Although, another layer to "toxicity" is when two players have a PERSONAL confrontation and since this is a chat based game, it can be observed and more often than not laughed at for the sheer stupidity. (Plenty of personal beef can be noted on this site) Some of the toxicity is fake, some for the fun of triggering others, and some may be genuine. However, cracking down on such subjectivity within thought/language needs mediation not annihilation.

- Rankism is legitimate: but the only reason has developed is the overt trolling of the very new blood we seek to acquisition. Failed games, complaints and pestering of older players. Those who stay are quite patient and love this game as proof for them being here taking the torture. To solve this would require a tutorial that is not so useless and more interactive. Perhaps a YT channel or Media page could also assist in "educating" the new about AW mechanics and Basically culture. AW is a mix of those from many backgrounds, nations and perceptions. Of course there will be conflict, but it could be lessened (maybe). This also adds to the "toxicity" since other people with wholly opposite values do tend to "troll" such as the time with our Turkish infestation period of AW where the praising of ottoman glory, Islamic glorification, Christianity bashing and lack of proper communication due to English not being spoken was a thing. Also didn't help when the Balkan population (Serb/Croat met the Turkish one). Good example of cross-cultural conflict.

- Getting older players to be less hostile to newbros: This is a hurdle that is really the obstacle, not rankism itself. Many high ranks are willing to teach, mentor and help newbros. Some are just blatantly anti-new or anti-instruct. But this has always been around. It may not be easy to introduce.

- *COUGH* the map editor, needs to be like it was during the glorious Silverlight days, once that content generator is completely fixed and able to be utilized, then AW shall soar like it was always meant to.

- Chat and speech: This is a valued aspect of the game, changing this will not sit well with the influx or maintenance our "specific" player base of historical map loving blood-lusting psychopaths.

- Last but not least: "Want a Mod who knows the difference between troll, meme and attack? Want a mod who won't abuse and hawk-eye the mods who do? Want a new era of peaceful bloodletting purges of the areas of radioactive poison? A promoter and advocator of all maps and game modes? A kind and impartial stout? # Libra goals, Well look no further, Himmy for Mod 2k19! Promote and support the rise of the 12/7 mod today! - Propaganda brought to you by Stalin's Ministry of Love.

Prispeval ITSGG1122, 16.12.2018 at 03:38

Hi Dave,

I have a few suggestions that might help the game.

I don't know a lot of the technical issues so i can't propose any improvements on that. But for the game itself there have been some thoughts of my own that can help it, as i am an experienced 'scenario' player:

Firstly, i think it can help the scenario scene if (team- based games), you get less sp by surrendering than defeat. Or in a positive sentence, one gets more sp when he is defeated than he surrenderes. It can encourage players in a team based games to fight on and help your team. However, this can mean that players can '' troll'' and not surrender when the game is already done for. To solve this issue, any team can propose a surrender vote. When it passes the vote by majority the game is finished and the losing side is defeated instead of surrender.

Secondly, there are obvious differences between high ranks and lower. But i see quite often that higher ranks fail in comparison to some lower ranks. To help this issue one could implement a 'new' ranking system , that ranks you by your wins. So one gets points for winning in a map, and loses points by leaving/ losing. In this matter, you get more points relatively than one you lose points. So for example, you get 30 points by winning, and 15 by losing. Or we could just implement '' SP 2'', SP is the normal SP everyone gets from a game, SP 2 is the points you get/ lose from a win/ loss. Just implement elo system from dueling to normal games.

Thirdly, for the scenario maps, it can help to let the join option open for the first few turns. So when a player leaves, someone else can fill it up. This has been mentioned before. and i think it can greatly help fix the 'failed' games issue.

Fourthly, as mentioned in the previous comment. One map should be available for play for any player, prem or not prem each week. It can encourages variety in different plays of maps since non- prems can start it. Also, i think everyone in this map have all '' gen upgrades'' or maybe even all upgrades. In this case non- prems can have the general benefits of a premium as well. Which in turn can help promote non-prems to buy premium.

Fifthly, i miss the protodrops, I remember games with 50+ players last year. Suddenly there was a lot of activity.

Citiraj:

Citiraj:

Prispeval RatWar, 05.12.2018 at 21:23

Prispeval ulvi., 05.12.2018 at 15:43

4. It takes time to learn this game.
Create a single player mode let players to play against computer. For example i cannot play my favorite maps or scinarios becouse it doesnt fill or it fails becouse of someone. Atwar has great content if you create single player mode you can get millions as profit from these game.

I definitely second this - very interesting point! It would help to learn somewhat, though I learned by getting my butt kicked, like most people here.

Prispeval Penultima, 15.12.2018 at 23:25

People have mentioned how the general makes it play to win. The general does help a lot. One thing we could do is premium for map making. If you make a map and it gets a certain number of plays in a month or votes in a month then you get premium for a month or two.

Prispeval Penultima, 15.12.2018 at 23:25

As far as roleplay is concerned, some people really like roleplay maps. Which is fine, but a lot of rp maps are point farms. This should be addressed. There should be some kind of guideline as far as how much points you should expect to make per turn and per game and each map should adhere to that. I think there should also be a map approving authority for any map that comes out. Basically just to make sure that the map works. We have too many maps that don't work and that no one plays.

Prispeval Penultima, 15.12.2018 at 23:25

I absolutely positively hate the "Other" units. You start a game, you pick guerilla warfare or mos and then you find out that none of your bonuses apply to stealth units because they're classified as other. I think this category should be gotten rid of completely.

Prispeval Penultima, 15.12.2018 at 23:25

I would also like to propose introducing a building or emplacement category since some maps use forts and trenches. We could have a strategy and/or upgrades for the category, that focuses on emplacements and buildings. Cheaper buildings or more hp and one more unit per city if it has an emplacement. Just some thoughts.