There are fewer than a dozen players regularly posting, IMO we could whittle down these forums to 2-3 threads or a handful of sticky threads since we basically just repeat the same feedback and suggestions dozens of times.
Well, we tend to have fun with it. The communication could be better, the badge system could be better, everything about it could be better. Still, as I said, we tend to have fun with it. Different strokes for different folks I guess.
It's a self-imposed feeling of guilt. All it takes is one player to say "Oooh, I could use that wishing well" and now everyone feels like they are letting their fellow down if they don't help.
its also hard to tell who is really doing well in FSA. there so many badges needed its hard to tell if someone dumped 50 1 day production badges. while someone might as well have worked for an hour or 2 and did 50 brewery badges. Now who did most of the work? its hard to tell
As long as FSA is about whoever makes most room in their city and fills it with lvl 1 workshops, its a wrong kind of competition in my book.
Uhm, I can't fully relate to that, not with my FS at least. During the last FS (on server 2), we managed to be #1, and my contribution was pitiful. I had warned the FS that I wouldn't have been able to participate much as I had a lot of IRL stuff going on and was mid-chapter with upgraded constructs stuff going on, and I wasn't requested to tear down anything to participate in it (which is proof that you don't have to enforce stuff in an authoritarian way in order to be a competitive and successful FS, but I digress). There was some guilt on my part, because whenever I could log in I'd check the progress and the chat and the effort they put in it was amazing, but it wasn't that bad, and whenever I apologized for my lack of participation I'd get nothing but "d/w it's ok RL comes first" kind of messages). Which I guess was what drove me to connect from a long-range flight (FRA-NRT) in order to contribute what long-cycle badges I could. If I had been asked to forcefully participate, on the other hand, I doubt I would've done so. Internet access from planes is cheaper relatively to what it was in the past, sure, but still far from cheap on an absolute level. But again, I didn't feel pressured into doing it - which is one of the reasons why I absolutely love my FS.
Before the start I decide to myself that I won't take part, but find myself being sucked into it... yes, I know, no will power at all!
It sounds like your FS is exactly what I describe(self-imposed guilt only, no pressure, everyone awesome), the only difference is that yours was going to be #1 no matter what and mine was not going to even finish 1 path per stage.
First part I agree with fully. I won't break down any existing buildings for an FA, only when I have empty spaces when I'm between chapters I will add buildings to play the FA.
Second part I don't agree with completely. In live, my guild has always been in the top 10 of an FA but we are absolutely against using little accounts to our advantage only. All accounts are regular, daily players who simply communicate through the means provided. We have even had 2-3 players leave the guild because we weren't "strict" enough and not "dedicated" enough to get to #1 (although we did win it once).
As for the graphics, I agree with @Sunnydae , I think they look great
jajja directly to the academy of magic to change it for spells. Another unicorn that bites the dust. thank you for the "" gift "" but I think for all, the real gift is to see the icon of notifications on the map, finally, thanks for that if that is a great gift.
not true in my case. got them in both worlds.
How can there be guilt if there is no pressure? And how was my FS going to be #1 no matter what? That's very false, since another FS is usually #1 on my server, my FS had to organize extremely well and put in some exceptional effort and teamwork in order to beat them. But nobody was forced or pressured into doing so, and nobody was kicked for not tearing down their town or things like that.
Different strokes for different folks, as I said. The competition is there and pretty lively in my world, there were constant unexpected turns score-wise during the last two FAs. I don't see how setting a score to be reached first would make it any less of a race than it currently is - I think it's funnier this way, more space for unexpected twists and turns. If there'd be a set score to reach, it'd be much more straightforward and less engaging, whereas this way you don't really know till the very end. I realize how some might dislike that, but that boils down to personal taste, which is a rather pointless thing to debate.
Are your worlds tied to the same account? If not, I guess it was a lucky glitch, because I even asked support and was told it was a once per account thing and they couldn't do anything to, for instance, make the gift show up on my main world too, or transfer it from my alt world to my main world.
As I said, "Self-imposed". When your mom is totally cool and understands that you have no choice but to work overtime on mother's day you can still feel guilty about not spending it with her, right? Self-imposed guilt.
You said you didn't help much and they still got #1, therefore your contribution(or lack thereof) didn't matter to the end result, right?
