CyberPtra You are right, it's something that's going to be very difficult to balance and figure out.

From my perspective as a player in a smaller group the pre/re system is basically guaranteed to cap my progress throughout the round because I only have 2-3 people I can ask for help but the people we are going against have 20. There is nothing in the game that can make up those odds. The group with the +1 pretal wins, my group will get run over immediately with no recourse whatsoever.

BUT with CLI at least I can take the initiative and hit someone and earn protection for it, rewarding me for being aggressive and not farming. One system punishes me for attacking and the other rewards it.

Another reason I believe CLI to be at least worth a try is lets say there's a certain loudmouth in a big alliance that I want to take down a peg or two, which system do you think would be better for me to do that?

Jaxx you don't even have the balls to hit reply to anyone, just toss your trolling whiney comments out. You could try coming up with positive ideas and improvements - then your opinion could matter. As it is, we might as well boot you off the forums since you have nothing useful to contribute, and the game will develop better without your useless negativity around.

When will be the L19 becomes ex-communicado? I do love to get one those castles. Hahaha πŸ˜…πŸ˜…πŸ˜…

    King Haybol sorry, going to have to dismiss the castles so as not to unbalance the round to whoever sees it first. The land is fair game though - just be careful not to make yourself too fat br grabbing too much when the time comes πŸ˜†

    Lord Thane

    I respect your thoughts and dedication to the game, and that CLI is a solution. Hence I said that the plan was poorly executed. I believe (and I can be wrong), the idea was to show that the cycle can be worse with CLI (not that it had to be, I think the group was trying to prove a point). Nevertheless, I will adapt and play to the current rules/environment. Like I said, I am just posting my thoughts from what I am perceiving. I am neither agreeing or disagreeing...

      Who cares if someone runs away with the round? Lol us small guys never had a chance anyways and it's not like we are going to take on a 20 player alliance and bring him down. It's players from large groups that create these problems and then complain about them πŸ˜‚. That stunt proves absolutely nothing and if one group decides they are all going to give up their round to feed one player all the power to them, we will just stay below the big guy and pick off the weaklings

      CyberPtra that's what the plan has always been, we rolled it out and now we'll tune it to work best depending on how things go. Giving retals CLI was part of that process.

      I'm liking the idea of not giving CLI below a KS % to reduce bottom feeding, but other than that I think we're just going to see how the rest of the round goes as people play their strategies with CLI.

        How did they give up their round? A couple people got halved one tick oop. Like that doesn't happen every round.

        Wait I thought that it was only possible because the devs added CLI?

        Cli didn't make that problem it's just made it easier to abuse for more protection. Cmon it's been said multiple time now.
        And I'm not gunna argue about it anymore. It's obviously pointless.

          DougEfresh 1 player abusing multis and getting 6 extra hours of protection out of it thanks to cli isn't the flex against cli you think it is.

            DougEfresh
            Who was he abusing it against? He only took castles from his friends and is now too high to take a castle from anyone else. The round should be pretty boring for him, but that’s due to his choices. The rest of us don’t care because we’re not likely to interact with that kingdom

            Lord Thane

            Yep. Just trying to think of solutions. Looking at the Guardhouse suggestion in the other post 😁. Individuals adjusting accordingly.

            DougEfresh yep, functional multis = multis. It's common sense. Lacking common sense isn't an excuse, especially since I warned Saadht beforehand that if they did that plan they had better be sure their friends were planning to actually play the game.

              Lord Thane I would assume...there was activity and once the castles were passed the activity dropped off and became stagnant. Especially since we have a vacation mode and small player base...wouldn't take much to figure out.

              I guess I just don't understand why some would go to such lengths to be on top vs playing the game as intended. It's a shame really. This just makes me disappointed, and we are adults, we already have enough disappointment in our lives now.

                Jets yeeep. It is sad, weird too! 6 players that didn't like how the cli vote went, thought this stunt that's totally unrelated to CLI would somehow prove a point against it. They didn't even try to play the game, just straight from the start of protection run it to dump resources and quit.

                Oh well, the game will progress a lot better without their dead weight. Imagine how much toxicity is removed just by that small group getting nixed. It's a cleansing that will benefit new players.