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hate it.

I love how people say it's a retarded idea without pointing out why it wouldn't be a good idea.
If i was a moderator I'd delete your posts for not being constructive, but obviously mods don't even care about the idea's forum.

I could remove posts for not being constructive, but that won't change much.

But to give you a proper reason: This is not a turn based online game and it would not suit this game at all. People don't get rewarded for not logging in, because activity is a big part of this game play as it has always been. Your income keeps working when you log out so the longer you are logged out the more you have, but the reason of having decay is that saving up is a bad thing and being active and using it constantly is part of what makes you better.

Uhmm.... except that this is also a Random Join game. For the most part most families don't get to choose every member they get each round. So you guy's are saying  that the super active families should always win just because they are the most active? That every other family who was jooked into getting a bunch of guy's who can only login 1-2 times a day should be doomed to lose because they have no way to keep up?

The reason world of warcraft added rested XP was so that when friends play together and one doesn't play as much as the other that person get's a little boost to his growth so that they can still play together at approximately the same level range.

I don't see why other games don't do the same. I don't see why people prefer to reward superactivity. It feels like cheating to me. Activity isn't available to everyone, how is it not cheating when the same things aren't available to all? It's like punishing half the families in the game for the sake of people who are only good because they can login every single tick.

I don't really think the comparison to wow is a good one. The game dynamics are just too different. There you would gain XP when playing and gain 0 by being off-line. in IC you always get your income, it is the skill + activity you put into the game, which gives you the opportunity to make your empire better.

..:: Why is Skylar wrong ::..

Real-life comparacy :

You dont get to choose your family, you dont get to choose parents, you dont get to choose where you are born and you dont choose wether or not your family is gonna have money or not.

Why should IC be better than third world countries ?

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MMORPG-comparacy :

In mmorpgs using offline-xp gain, its something they added to keep friends working in same level range - AND STILL COMING BACK TO PAY FOR THE GAME - so they dont miss out while being offline.

In IC, you already get that by having income added even while you are offline. You cannot explo or attack while offline..obviously..so there are no rational reasons anything should increase income while offline UNLESS before you go offline... BUILD SOMETHING !!!! It actually works..you get income boost, and you paid for it !
You dont pay for IC, you dont expect something from IC, and IC expects...not much from you aside from somewhat decent behaviour.

What would happen in IC with this ?

Imperial Infra Inc Fams ->Share MSN, Explo and build until explofase is over, then abit mroe until about 700-ish OB...then aside from one watcher, goes inactive until EoR saving. weeeew..whats the point? Top fams would gain FAR more from this than small inactive fams with one person built on 3 planets with 100% SS infra

basically your rewarding people for being less active. and the more active people are being punished for being well active. yeah it sucks when your stuck with inactives but thats part of the game.

FfT - Because people play GAMES to get away from real live. You're point has no relevancy. And beyond that poor families get extra cash from the government. Food stamps and welfare checks. Lol. I just blew your post out of the water. If we used your judgement then rested xp would already be added ingame

~Yo, everything is comparable to real life, so the point is definatly relevant. And poor families get extra cash if they cannot manage their upkeeps on their own..not just for them to have a more similar life value to rich families.

If a bum(SS) is dumb enough to spend his cash on alcohol (lasers on homeplanet) BOOHOO, dumb move, no money for food(cash-gaining infra) sucker...

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Also while you are offline active players are building things every tick. Their income multiplies while not-so-active players are at school or work. Lol you have no argument

~You know why ? Cause the active fam built something constructive before they logged off...its not that hard. Even in sucky fams, as SS you can go pretty high in IC these days...not that many players and even less good fams...

~This is a dumb idea, Skylar..there is no justification as to why people being inactive should be rewarded. Do we really want to give prizes to people for staying away ? Is that a healthy way to keep the game played ?

EDIT : PS ! The name is Damon. FfT is a fellowship.

Last edited by .:]FfT[:. ~Damon~ (06-Jan-2010 20:03:26)

if your not active the game allows for they ability to make adequate defences, if your not going to be very active, then you pay the price for it.
you need to rethink how you play if your not active.
most people portal everything laser it and build an inordinate amount of fig's or soldiers, true this will through off the amount of cash or resources you can build, but like i said it's the price you pay when your not active.

I remember playing a game once, I think it was earth 2025 where if you did not login for 24/48/72 hours you would get some extra turns (you could stack turns)

So in that particular game it was a slight advantage to sometimes wait and not think about it so much.

Would help giving some of the inactives a better chanche though

Why not just go to the game bot idea.  I know it is old, and most people that can log on all day long, and do very good already are opposed to it, but it would be a way to help people that simply cannot be here 24/7.  My idea is to make the bot last only a short time, say 8-12 hours, at which time it needs to be recharged and the amount of time u could use it could gain back in much the same way our spec ops do. Keep in mind I am completely opposed to having the game play entirely on it's own, and u not having to be here at all.  This is definitely no substitute for actually being here, but it would help level the playing field.