As it seems to me at the moment, currently winning or getting a good rank in PA is when you have the time to log
at least every other hour. Shortly said only for the die hard players who give up a lot of
real life thing for this game (no offense ivé also done this for a round and it was really exciting!).
I re-started playing PA in about maybe 5 years or more, I think it was round R16-R17, after playing the first few rounds without even know what I was doing, because some guys from school dragged me into it. In about R16 I was surfing on the internet, a bit bored and didn't know know what to do, and then suddenly I thought of PA what I used to play secretly on school (without the teachers knowing of course
. I searched for the site and found out that it still existed. I signed up because I knew I used to have a lot of fun with it. After playing the last bit of that round I got hooked again on PA. I signed up for the next round and started, after some searching for more info on the game, looking for my first alliance. I ended up starting to play with my first alliance 'Hidden Agenda' (which turned out to be a great starting alliance to learn more about the game!!). I played a couple of rounds and starting to get more and more interest at the game. After some time, until R20 to be exactly, I was really into the game. At that time I was a student who went to school only when he wanted to, so I had a lot of free time. At that time I was nowhere near someone who really knew everything about how PA works (I'm convinced of that). I decide to trade my alliance for some other and I joined Vengeance . That round I didn't went much to school and played alot of PA. I had a very nice time with Vengeance and the game was going real well. Even though I didn't knew exactly what is was doing (of course I picked up some things because of playing with 2 alliances and learning from other players) I ended up endeing somewhere in T75. I think the only reason for me ending up 'high' in the ranking was because I had lots of time and nothing really else to do. So I think winning this game has less to do with your skillas then how much time you have for it.
My point actually is, to have more ppl attracted to this game, make less experienced ppl have more chance against ppl with years of experience. And find for a way (like the prelaunch and put buildings up in a queue) to make the game use less of your time. One idea is to make the game dependable on the different timezones, to give everybody around the glode the same time and the same chance of winning (don't even know if that's even possible, but would be nice, eh
)
Well I'm gonna quit now, I'm drunk and I have to play a match in about 5 hours, but I just wanted to have this out
Cheers,
Ratcha