The Real Picard

I warned you about this. I've said ever since I started that both UP and bank were the way to win. The Bank is inherently broken, and UP is the past was simply boring, since anyone that understood the game knew you just had to max it out first before focusing on anything else. This round, though, you managed to screw it up big time. I still haven't figured out how you did that one. As you can see, I've taken the privilege of labeling your points, so I can shoot them down. #1 Wtf? Never resetting at all? ALL of the popular html strategy games reset, and for a very good reason. The only ones that don't are not only extremely unbalanced and unpopular, they end up a sausage fest where the original creators and some of the original players sit around and suck each other's !@#$%^&*s all day. Although I guess that's similar to the way a lot of SS zones have been run in the past. I'm not really sure I can even explain why it needs to be reset, but I can guarantee that the noobs would quickly tire and quit, there would be no more new noobs given SSForum's small population, and eventually, the guys at the top would get bored of hoarding their items(and probably being all spy by that point). #2 This is !@#$%^&*ing re!@#$%^&*ed. No one likes losing a !@#$%^&*load of items, but it's part of the game. But it can't be taken to that exponential level. The game isn't built to stand the high numbers you've set it up for this round... it didn't even work right last round, and you made it exponentially worse this round. Armies and items certainly are "fleeting", but they're not SUPPOSED to be. That's a symptom, coming from Spy being overpowered. It's meant to grow at a slower rate in the beginning, but quicker later in the round. But there's so much growing going on this round that spy beats standard attack methods very early, and the gap grows to monumental proportions. #3 Maybe if you hadn't increased an already super overpowered UP, that might work. Of course, you've got to be re!@#$%^&*ed to think that's a good idea in the first place. What? You're great at this game and have an army 10x everyone else's size? Well, that's cool, because some noob's about to !@#$%^&* your world up. I don't think so. #4 That's so !@#$%^&*ing ridiculous it doesn't even need a proper response. I will however mention that since spy items can't be destroyed, you make something that's already exponentially overpowered to the nth degree even further overpowered. As the matter of fact, nearly all of your changes have done this(except for the UP move) despite my best attempts to show how broken it was last round. #5 Um... UP can't be massed, but the army it produces can, so that's the same thing. And freaking SPY can't be sabbed. Wtf are you trying to do to spy? You are the very definition of a scrub. You yourself tried to dominate with your SSCentral Gods clan. However, when another clan that's even bigger enters the arena and overpowers you, all of the sudden, it's cheap. That's like throwing people a lot in SSBM, but then calling it cheap when someone chain-throws you way more than you ever were able to. If it's unbalanced at high levels, then it's probably unbalanced at low levels. Most importantly, there aren't any limiters on any level. I will now refer you to a series of articles on video games and developing video games, which also goes into detail about what exactly classifies as "cheap" and "broken" in games, and also goes into detail of the psychology of scrubs. ( http://www.sirlin.net/Features/feature_PlaytoWinPart0.htm ) I suggest you read every article under the "Playing to Win" section. You don't understand how casualties work, and that's why you were so weak to massing. It's that simple. Add to that the fact that this game isn't meant to be run at such high numbers(for one reason, because the casualty system breaks down, slowly) and you get a humongous, steaming pile of !@#$%^&*. However, you are STILL treating massing as a "problem", and not as the symptom it is. It's a result of bigger problems closer to the base, it's not a problem in and of itself. There are a few reasons for why UP is and isn't useful at different times. For one, 100m in the bank gives you 500k an hour. However, if you spend 128m on the 100UP, it'll take 10 days before the extra troops gained from UP begin to make you 500k per hour, and this is !@#$%^&*uming no extra soldiers have died as a result of your increased army size. However, having a larger army is in and of itself a good thing, so depending on your strategy(and your amount of bank whoring), up to even 150 UP could quite plausibly be useful. Were these strategies not a direct result of other incredibly broken things, they could actually be legitimate, balanced strategies. I'll admit I never mastered how spy works, but I always was a more effective spy than you, so I can only take that to mean I understand it a bit better than you, and I disagree with the statement about spy weapons. As for the repair costs, you're wrong yet again. Repair costs CAN'T be balanced when dealing with such high numbers. The reality is you should never repair your items, when they are bought and sold in amounts of several digits - I could explain why, but that'd take a while, and I prefer to keep the secret to myself, should I decide to play again. Oh, really? Ahem. #1 Repairing is useless. I figured this out when the repair system was broken last round, and repairing was near impossible - I never repaired my weapons, and never once did it affect me. #2 The whole item system needs to be reworked, this isn't going to help. Especially since you're still factoring in repair. #3 I honestly don't know what to say about turns. They haven't really mattered except in the beginning of the round yet, at least to those that have been smart with their attacks. People in the Penis clan have had limited targets, so they've been forced to play their attacks smarter than other people have - as a result, they've had an abundance of turns. I can think of some problems that would arise from having a very limited amount of turns, but all of them can only hurt you if you don't think of the possible strategies and prepare a defense against them. So I suppose there's nothing wrong with it. Too little turns, though, and you weaken attack even more - not something that needs to be done when spy is so boss right now. #4 Kill yourself. #5 I don't know what you mean by quadratic price system, but if it has anything to do with quadratic equations, it's almost definitely re!@#$%^&*ed. I suggest lowering numbers all around, though. Start at 5, next upgrade at 10, etc. I don't know what to think about increasing soldier income, but I'd be hesitant to do that. Not because I'm worried you'll break an already working system because absolutely nothing works, but because none of your ideas have worked so far. My biggest problem is with the line, "...defense mercs don't die in offense, so they certainly *won't* be unlimited.". This just further proves that you don't understand how casualties, and therefore massing, works. Take mercs out. If the system isn't there, it can't be broken. !@#$%^&*, that one statement makes me want to play next round so I can m!@#$%^&* the living !@#$%^&* out of you so that you have to change the whole game just because I used it against you. Again. Like I said before, get rid of the bank. Don't take the !@#$%^&* way out and get rid of the income, get rid of the whole !@#$%^&* thing. This forces them to buy items, which makes someone's rank days 1-29 mean a lot more than they do now. Because now, rank means nothing until about an hour before the game ends. This is your first good idea so far, no one's going to hate ou for it. I don't know why it's taken you two months to figure out that banking was broken, or why you still want to keep banks. But at least this shows you're capable of learning. No, SS RPG sucks. Most html strategy games don't suck. And for that matter, lots of them already DO have a system like that. You obviously have no experience with html strategy games, why on Earth did you just make that re!@#$%^&*ed statement? I can safely say that your last two lines are without a doubt the stupidest in your whole post. Also, you should stop referring to SS RPG as an MMORPG, because it's not one. I guess there's a chance you actually were referring to real MMORPGs, in which case, I'll just remind you of the existence of the most well known MMORPG, WoW, in which there are two teams. I will further elaborate on this, because I believe Alliance is bigger than Horde(I could be wrong). But I also remember Horde having about 10x the skill Alliance does. As for your actual idea, it won't work. For example, I seriously doubt you'll be attacking Dav next round, regardless of the system set up. Joining clans has only been a representation of bonds shared outside the subspace community - one reason people have stuck to them so well. Betray someone in-game and they might feel betrayed in real life. Well, in Continuum, which is practically real life for most of us. It's not even a matter of being a good idea, or not, it just plain won't work. Seriously, you piss me off with stuff like this. You obviously have no experience with these games, so why do you go off and plan everything on your own? What makes me angry is you actually made topics last round telling us about the changes you were going to make next round. I !@#$%^&*umed that meant you would listen to our opinions and consider them. Turns out it was a lie, you never once told us about your re!@#$%^&*ed ideas like wanting to never reset. We could've told you it was a horrible idea from the get-go and saved a month. I swear, you could probably staff at DS with the way you pretend to do things for the pop and then do everything for yourself. This whole time I thought we were playing SS RPG, but apparently it's now Aileron RPG. This is ridiculous. This reply is entirely too long for me to read, can you folks please speak in easy to read laymans terms for the reading impaired?! How many kinds of changes take place to the RPG every month? Is it a different format each month?

Well said, its a shame though that they WILL be recognized as a woman or a black president, I say heck, lets vote for a black asian woman!

While its running, open TASK MANAGER and see what else is running...

You better pay the five grand before she wants more!!!

You didnt leave an option for nooBs like me who didnt play anyolder versions of RPG...

Another Monkey falls outta da tree...

Audry did you sneak a photo in? I saw your signature as a tatoo below your naval on the last page... Woman YOU ROCK!!!

Hmmm... for the record I will be going out of town this coming weekend...

Vacation? What does it do in RPG?

Awwwww shucks...

Gotta be a major kink when a nooB like me can make it up into eigth place... hehe (snicker)

I had to read that THREE times!!! Thanks OAR. And you too are right! Peace TRP

Yeah but you need money to build defense, while building defenses it can be taken right? I get it that a box will appear. I hope not to see such a box.

How do you know what time the interest is added?

He goes by "Search" over at SSleague forums... he's an obsessed individual, like a few others, who has followed me here. I think he misses me at the other forum and wants me to stay there too. I've warned them if they keep chasing after me, I'll visit there daily for their benefit rather than have them continue to come here and barf all over the place. Personally, I think the ISP for "TRP is gay" should be banned as he is violating the following two Forum rules (and will continue): 2. No Stupid Pointless Annoying Messages will be tolerated. Any SPAM threads will be moved to The Wormhole, and any SPAM posts deleted. The poster will be warned, and continued violations will end in a ban. 3. Any off topic posts will either be deleted, or if multiple, will be seperated from the original thread. If you must go off topic, quote and create a new thread. Hopefully, somebody will save me from these obsessed individuals. Peace TRP

Welcome SSRocker... be careful, these games can be VERY addictive, and being FREE you would wake up ten years from now still very involved in them... Ack! That's me! I've been playing Subspace over 12 years now!!! ZUMBODY HEP ME! TRP

Yeah that one caught my eye too, what state can you fly an airplace at eight years old... cmon, an 8 yr old is not mentally or physically able fly any aircraft, except maybe a remote controlled one... TRP

So what do untrained mercs do???

this is why i said "this isn't MySpace." cause on MySpace, this is exactly what you do... Well, I'm not on MySpace, don't need it. Whats the point of the Profile here if not to use?

Who said anything about MySpace? I just think the Profile section is pretty cool when used to its fullest. Peace TRP

Can you be attacked while working on your base? Will you know you're being attacked other than by all of a sudden realizing some of your cash is missing?

What so when they heard gunfire, they could drop the key, or shake so much they couldn't turn the tumblers? Nah, they should be strappin', I remember how I wanted a strappin' teacher way back... hehe

No, it's gotta be legit or the whole thing looses credibility.

Here's a few things I'm wondering about regarding the RPG game: 1) When entering the game is it possible to byp!@#$%^&* the Menu Screen and go directly to the Base screen thereby eliminating an extra step? 2) After attacking, is it possible to go return to the Attack Menu instead of having to read the results of the prior attack, again eliminating an extra step and saving time? 3) Can a "Ranking" option be added so that you don't have to pull up the Attack Menu just to see how players are ranked?

Tha's exactly what I'm talking about, though I am fairly certain there are at least 12 hot Subspace females such as Audry and LOSA that would make it a "real" thing. All we'd need is their support, cooperation and help in participating and finding the other ten. Nudity not required (though encouraged of course, oops testerone kicking in, sorry), swimsuit poses would do the job. Audry? LOSA? You two game? It would truly benefit the game, zones and forums. And you'd have complete control over what photo you submitted, could be as easy as having a friend take the shot, poolside, beach, backyard, etc. Your thoughts are encouraged! TRP