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Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 158
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Revolution
It would be wise to slowly move away from the concept of 4 rounds per year as the MAIN source of entertainment and revenue. Once again I humbly ask those interested to pick at the very successful ConquerClub.com. I know the games are very, very different, and that implementation of their concepts here would be as hard as them trying to implement ours. But, INgenuity, Necessity, and imitATION are the parents of innovation. You gotta keep up with relevant modern trends if you want to survive!
THE IDEA:
(1) Lets put more effort to develop better speed games.
(a) Let us come up with a system that allows players to sign up at any time of the day and within 10 minutes play a 1 hour or 2 hours speed game, from start to finish.
(b) As time goes by, we will add different types of speed games to the available roster of games to play. For example, there can be team games (2 v. 2, 5 v. 5, 50 v. 50, etc), there can be solo games, there can be terminator games, there can be different galaxies games, different goals games, etc, etc
(c) all players got to do is log in, find a game waiting for players or start a new one, wait until enough people have sing up, and play, win or loose, and have #s of points added or deducted from their account.
(2) This does not mean we should abandon the long-all inclusive round concept. In fact, I believe the big rounds would greatly benefit from having its same players playing a multitude of concurrent speed games. Rank wise, politics wise, fun wise, income wise, etc
(3) Lets once and for all implement the passport system or whatever you call it nowadays. Lets keep track of EVERY player's performance, for all times... WHY? WHY don't we have this yet?
(a) Every player will earn/loose points for every game they play based on formulas/concepts to be developed.
(b) Additionally, players should be rewarded with specific medals, recognizing specific skills and achievements, i.e., speed player, economic mastermind, XP warrior... And levels within each category, bronze, iron, silver, gold, etc
(c) Make sure everyone has ready access to the table of ranks. Make sure everyone is tempted to do better (and be recognized for doing so). And, make it so as the numbers never get lost. A system that perpetually keep tracks of players. If I want to take a year break, fine, I should be able to do it and comeback next year and reopen my account and have my historial saved, ready to be improved.
(4) Income wise
(a) With a passport, I should be able to buy what I want.
(i) If I want an all inclusive account for 1 year, then I'll pay X, and that much would give me the right to play anything and evrything I want.
(ii) If I want to buy a bunch of limited credits, then I should be able to do so. And spend them as I want. 1 here for a speed game, 3 here for a tournament game, 10 here for a long-round game, etc..
(iii) If I just want to pay $1 to play this week only 3 speed games. I should be able to do so.
(iv) etc, etc, etc
Last edited by Aedolaws; 16 Jun 2008 at 02:41.
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