I'm on an Historic World War map, and 3 of the original 23 people are active. A simple alternative, which Duck and I were discussing would be upping the minimum requirement to make games, therefor leaving less games and focusing members on a few open games, rather than a lot of games
I created a game with pw. 6 hours later it's not on the "new games" list
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I think we all agree that players disappearing the first day is a big problem; it's a little like the Klingon curse: "may you outlive all your enemies!".
I like knowing there's a person on the other side of that border, and I love the diplomatic trash talk a lively game creates. None of that when all your neighbors are AIs.
there are some interesting ideas floating around this thread. Is anybody from the developers' side here to comment on anything the company might be doing to encourage players to stick with what they started? -
I agree, I'm kind of getting bored fighting AI repeatedly. Half my friends have stopped playing the game with me because it's boring, so now I play more online games, but everybody goes inactive.
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In my opinion, the best way to fix this problem is the following.
You can control what rank you have to be to join a game.
They up the rank you need to create a game.
I can't think of anything else, any ideas? -
I think those things would help (hence my original question that started this thread because I was using the workaround of password-protecting the round. Which was a total bust, btw-- nobody contacted me to join). How about also:
Limiting the number of simultaneous games?
Rank penalty for abandoning a game? Doesn't have to be much. -
vanyel1963 wrote:
Perhaps a limit on the number of games a player can be in at once?
I don't believe that fiddling with the player rank required to create or join games by a few levels will make much difference. The early ranks come quite easily to active players, but less active players want to experience new maps without having to play for months. I think they are good where they are.
I also think that the new achievement rewards will give players an incentive to play games longer in order to build units that give them rewards.
If you want games with players that don't go inactive I would suggest the Players League Tournament.
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Players League June Signup<<War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin keep out of the way til you can. - Winston Churchill
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vanyel1963 wrote:
I'm on day 5 of a North American game and there are only 15 active players out of the original 50. That's absurd.
"If you want games with players that don't go inactive I would suggest the Players League Tournament.""
The Players League offers just one game a month, with about 20 players, several of whom will go inactive, or get DQ for inadvertent gold spending. There are at least two 50P maps starting every day, and in most cases, more active players at day 30 than there are remaining in the PL games.The post was edited 1 time, last by WayneBo ().
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WayneBo wrote:
Most of the 50P maps I have joined since the minimum rank requirement was instituted have had about 50% remain active.
I have noticed that some regular games get abandoned when Event games come out. Players might archive a regular game they have not put a lot of work into to play one of the limited time event games.War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin keep out of the way til you can. - Winston Churchill
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T-3PO wrote:
In my opinion, the best way to fix this problem is the following.
You can control what rank you have to be to join a game.
They up the rank you need to create a game.
I can't think of anything else, any ideas?
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I'm in an alliance, for my friends. A few still play, but all the others are quitting after one game.
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A pity, you should kick the inactives and get yourself some new members.Forum Gang Commissar
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