Your Thoughts? Suggestions?

RasczakRough wrote:

TheSaracen wrote:

maybe atleast a harbor like some provinces get...i.e. gibralter and ethiopia

I'm not really sure why a harbor would be helpful. If the point of a harbor is to provide access to a landmass, there's no point to it because Hawaii is an island chain. What else are those standalone harbors for?
Maybe if the CON Developers were to make it an upgradeable harbor so whoever controls it can produce maritime units in the Pacific, or a non-upgradeable harbor and airfield which would allow whoever controls Hawaii to stage units out of there, it could be helpful. But I don't understand the point of a non-upgradeable harbor in Hawaii.

adamjz.312 wrote:

This game is similar to most app games like ( mobile strike, march of empires, etc...). Honestly, which I am sure I will be bashed for saying it. But anyways, I really like the game and the only thing that keeps me from really getting into the game is that it takes so long to do anything. I mean I get wait times, but when you first start out you can move a couple of things and that is it for the entire day. I mean I think mobilization times should not take near as long. I mean 4hrs just to move one space over or 9hrs to move across to the other side of your country? Build times are a little ridiculous as well. Just about any units you try to train take a day or more to build. that is a little steep. I understand once you get into the higher level stuff or the higher level research. I just think the times should be marked way down and when you do that, you will have a lot more active players. Trust me, most people will play it for a few minutes and realize it takes a day just to move a unit a couple blocks. Take a good look at some the the mobile app games mentioned above and see how their times are and you will realize that the wait times on this game are way to much. Hopefully it is something that will be changed soon or you will end up not getting very good reviews or people to play the game.


-Thanks

DeeCa wrote:

adamjz.312 wrote:

This game is similar to most app games like ( mobile strike, march of empires, etc...). Honestly, which I am sure I will be bashed for saying it. But anyways, I really like the game and the only thing that keeps me from really getting into the game is that it takes so long to do anything. I mean I get wait times, but when you first start out you can move a couple of things and that is it for the entire day. I mean I think mobilization times should not take near as long. I mean 4hrs just to move one space over or 9hrs to move across to the other side of your country? Build times are a little ridiculous as well. Just about any units you try to train take a day or more to build. that is a little steep. I understand once you get into the higher level stuff or the higher level research. I just think the times should be marked way down and when you do that, you will have a lot more active players. Trust me, most people will play it for a few minutes and realize it takes a day just to move a unit a couple blocks. Take a good look at some the the mobile app games mentioned above and see how their times are and you will realize that the wait times on this game are way to much. Hopefully it is something that will be changed soon or you will end up not getting very good reviews or people to play the game.


-Thanks

Quick early mobilization is easy when you have gold.....get it?
A few suggestions after several more hours of play

2) Paratroopers would be nice especially if they could be dropped deeper into enemy territory than the air mobile units can reach. They should be able to drop in with armour or other small mobility units.

3) I would think that Special Forces when sent into a city should be able to target specific infrastructure. So if I want to send my Spec Ops units in they would target lets say an air base specifically. If they are on that kind of sapper mission they could have their HP's reduced making them more vulnerable but also allow them to have specific sabotage based objectives.

4) Again I know it's been mentioned several times already but satellites or long range high altitude spy planes would be very interesting. I kind of envision that you would be able to target anywhere on the map and get a snap shot of all units in that area once every 24 hours or so....just a thought.

5) I wonder if food production would give an interesting twist to the game. Having low food stores could reduce morale and decrease HP's in units maybe? Ceasing farm lands and food rich nations would add a whole new element to the game.

I have really enjoyed the game I like learning the nuances of the different units and understanding the strategies and how to prioritize your development goals.

Never be the last one without Nukes!


Thanks

War-spite wrote:

DeeCa wrote:

adamjz.312 wrote:

This game is similar to most app games like ( mobile strike, march of empires, etc...). Honestly, which I am sure I will be bashed for saying it. But anyways, I really like the game and the only thing that keeps me from really getting into the game is that it takes so long to do anything. I mean I get wait times, but when you first start out you can move a couple of things and that is it for the entire day. I mean I think mobilization times should not take near as long. I mean 4hrs just to move one space over or 9hrs to move across to the other side of your country? Build times are a little ridiculous as well. Just about any units you try to train take a day or more to build. that is a little steep. I understand once you get into the higher level stuff or the higher level research. I just think the times should be marked way down and when you do that, you will have a lot more active players. Trust me, most people will play it for a few minutes and realize it takes a day just to move a unit a couple blocks. Take a good look at some the the mobile app games mentioned above and see how their times are and you will realize that the wait times on this game are way to much. Hopefully it is something that will be changed soon or you will end up not getting very good reviews or people to play the game.


-Thanks

Quick early mobilization is easy when you have gold.....get it?A few suggestions after several more hours of play

2) Paratroopers would be nice especially if they could be dropped deeper into enemy territory than the air mobile units can reach. They should be able to drop in with armour or other small mobility units.

3) I would think that Special Forces when sent into a city should be able to target specific infrastructure. So if I want to send my Spec Ops units in they would target lets say an air base specifically. If they are on that kind of sapper mission they could have their HP's reduced making them more vulnerable but also allow them to have specific sabotage based objectives.

4) Again I know it's been mentioned several times already but satellites or long range high altitude spy planes would be very interesting. I kind of envision that you would be able to target anywhere on the map and get a snap shot of all units in that area once every 24 hours or so....just a thought.

5) I wonder if food production would give an interesting twist to the game. Having low food stores could reduce morale and decrease HP's in units maybe? Ceasing farm lands and food rich nations would add a whole new element to the game.

I have really enjoyed the game I like learning the nuances of the different units and understanding the strategies and how to prioritize your development goals.

Never be the last one without Nukes!


Thanks

Just my two cents of commentary on your suggestions.
First off, I don't want to play mobile strike, etc where i play a whole game in one sitting effectively. The longer production times I find means you have to think more strategically, knowing you can't just build up troops and attack, to get yourself out of a troublespot. If you send all your forces to one area and leave a border unprotected, you will get attacked and that is much more realistic than spamming armies.

To that end they have run "fast" games where all the times are reduced. Not all players want that, so I would say for the impatient ones, allow for fast games to be a variant of starting games, so that players like myself that would hate that, don't have to play them.

Now to Dee,

paratroopers really aren't a unit of modern military. they use helicopters for air assaults, because after paras drop they become really slow really weak infantry. kind of a one shot unit. Air assaults can include anti tank, AA, mobile sam, theatre defense units. I use air assault units almost exclusively. I think they are well balanced

spec ops to sabotage specific targets would be unbalancing. If they did enough damage to be effective you would end up with no one having labs or airfields. makes for a boring and really slow game. If they didn't do much damage they are an expensive waste.

satellites and high altitude spy planes - i find this ironic that your comment on how to speed up production, ie: gold, is the exact answer to your wish. You want to see all an enemies units? spend the gold. Voila, spy satellite.

Food production. For the love of God no. This was the most annoying part of COW was having to skip over conquering non city provinces because I didn't want the food burden. It made for a cheap an easy tactic wherein you send saboteurs against food production cities, and only conquer cities of an enemy, so he loses all his production, but has to feed so many he can't produce any units. The best part of CON for me is not worrying about food anymore.

If you want to try a fun tactic, build up a few spec ops, and send them into an enemy country alone to just pick off units. You can use first level drones to find targets. You don't actually end up declaring war on them, they are stealthed so they are hard to detect, and you create all kinds of chaos behind enemy lines. One test i haven't confirmed or not is if they are stealthed when using long range air trans. Using this you can take out the often unguarded cm launchers, and attack airfields to take out his fighter armada on the ground. I find the nuances of this game much more fun than COW because it is more than just spam light tanks and attack food supplies. I hope you continue to enjoy it.

adamjz.312 wrote:

War-spite wrote:

DeeCa wrote:

adamjz.312 wrote:

This game is similar to most app games like ( mobile strike, march of empires, etc...). Honestly, which I am sure I will be bashed for saying it. But anyways, I really like the game and the only thing that keeps me from really getting into the game is that it takes so long to do anything. I mean I get wait times, but when you first start out you can move a couple of things and that is it for the entire day. I mean I think mobilization times should not take near as long. I mean 4hrs just to move one space over or 9hrs to move across to the other side of your country? Build times are a little ridiculous as well. Just about any units you try to train take a day or more to build. that is a little steep. I understand once you get into the higher level stuff or the higher level research. I just think the times should be marked way down and when you do that, you will have a lot more active players. Trust me, most people will play it for a few minutes and realize it takes a day just to move a unit a couple blocks. Take a good look at some the the mobile app games mentioned above and see how their times are and you will realize that the wait times on this game are way to much. Hopefully it is something that will be changed soon or you will end up not getting very good reviews or people to play the game.


-Thanks

Quick early mobilization is easy when you have gold.....get it?A few suggestions after several more hours of play
2) Paratroopers would be nice especially if they could be dropped deeper into enemy territory than the air mobile units can reach. They should be able to drop in with armour or other small mobility units.

3) I would think that Special Forces when sent into a city should be able to target specific infrastructure. So if I want to send my Spec Ops units in they would target lets say an air base specifically. If they are on that kind of sapper mission they could have their HP's reduced making them more vulnerable but also allow them to have specific sabotage based objectives.

4) Again I know it's been mentioned several times already but satellites or long range high altitude spy planes would be very interesting. I kind of envision that you would be able to target anywhere on the map and get a snap shot of all units in that area once every 24 hours or so....just a thought.

5) I wonder if food production would give an interesting twist to the game. Having low food stores could reduce morale and decrease HP's in units maybe? Ceasing farm lands and food rich nations would add a whole new element to the game.

I have really enjoyed the game I like learning the nuances of the different units and understanding the strategies and how to prioritize your development goals.

Never be the last one without Nukes!


Thanks

Just my two cents of commentary on your suggestions.First off, I don't want to play mobile strike, etc where i play a whole game in one sitting effectively. The longer production times I find means you have to think more strategically, knowing you can't just build up troops and attack, to get yourself out of a troublespot. If you send all your forces to one area and leave a border unprotected, you will get attacked and that is much more realistic than spamming armies.

To that end they have run "fast" games where all the times are reduced. Not all players want that, so I would say for the impatient ones, allow for fast games to be a variant of starting games, so that players like myself that would hate that, don't have to play them.

Now to Dee,

paratroopers really aren't a unit of modern military. they use helicopters for air assaults, because after paras drop they become really slow really weak infantry. kind of a one shot unit. Air assaults can include anti tank, AA, mobile sam, theatre defense units. I use air assault units almost exclusively. I think they are well balanced

spec ops to sabotage specific targets would be unbalancing. If they did enough damage to be effective you would end up with no one having labs or airfields. makes for a boring and really slow game. If they didn't do much damage they are an expensive waste.

satellites and high altitude spy planes - i find this ironic that your comment on how to speed up production, ie: gold, is the exact answer to your wish. You want to see all an enemies units? spend the gold. Voila, spy satellite.

Food production. For the love of God no. This was the most annoying part of COW was having to skip over conquering non city provinces because I didn't want the food burden. It made for a cheap an easy tactic wherein you send saboteurs against food production cities, and only conquer cities of an enemy, so he loses all his production, but has to feed so many he can't produce any units. The best part of CON for me is not worrying about food anymore.

If you want to try a fun tactic, build up a few spec ops, and send them into an enemy country alone to just pick off units. You can use first level drones to find targets. You don't actually end up declaring war on them, they are stealthed so they are hard to detect, and you create all kinds of chaos behind enemy lines. One test i haven't confirmed or not is if they are stealthed when using long range air trans. Using this you can take out the often unguarded cm launchers, and attack airfields to take out his fighter armada on the ground. I find the nuances of this game much more fun than COW because it is more than just spam light tanks and attack food supplies. I hope you continue to enjoy it.

Well, first off I never asked you to play Mobile Strike!! Second, I think there should be more options. I mean It literately takes hours to fight one tank. I'm just saying that it taking all day to move one unit or to destroy one tank is ridiculous. Obviously more people like the " Mobile Strike" like games because they have a lot more players than this one does. Like I said, I am just suggesting that they have more options. taking 24hrs just to make one unit is ridiculous. This is a suggestion forum is it not. So, I'm just suggesting stuff like it was intended for and I am not the only one that thinks the same thing either, obviously. Just my two cents!!

Oceanhawk wrote:

Nah, focus more on the game, skin, units, maps etc... alliance mailing systems is really not as important as those

UndeadSpider wrote:

Oceanhawk wrote:

Nah, focus more on the game, skin, units, maps etc... alliance mailing systems is really not as important as those

Really not Important? Why do you say that? I'd actually like to stay in contact with everyone and have everyone on the same page when going into Alliance Vs Alliance games? You keep asking for more units, skins and maps are not important. besides wanting a map with 100 human players? why? half will leave after the first 3 days.

Oceanhawk wrote:

Nah, focus more on the game, skin, units, maps etc... alliance mailing systems is really not as important as those