Muf-muf, do you actually know what T.E.A.M. means?
It means Together Everyone Achieves More.
This game is about community and when one member of that community fails to inform it's citizens of changes then it lets down the Entire community. I have noticed alot of changes in this game as it ages and not all of them positive. Greed seems to be very obvious as time goes by. Greed for collect monies is the focal point of this game. Buildings like the goods buildings who demand too many citizens to construct them then culture buildings asking too many diamonds to build them. It seems to me that this game has failed to live up to our expectations of being a good game. When I first tried this game it looked very good and I told you that. But now looking back I wonder why I was so naive.
I look at all the Toop players who buy their way to the top and wonder what is the point? Tribal wars was never like this, but then came along Tribal wars 2, and that changed my opinion. With the change of Management within Innogames more emphasis has been placed on raking in the cash and little has been focused on building great content games. Elvenar's concept right from the beginning has been a giant flaw for the following reasons:
1) Too much emphasis on Diamonds.
2) Culture system a train wreck....In order to get my culture to 150% I would have to either destroy half my buildings or build a ton of culture buildings which I have zero room. Totally stupid waste of time.
3) Good buildings too much citizens required.
4) Weak player visiting concept.
5) Communication system a total failure. Mail is absolutely horrible. I get one mail and it tells me I got 8 of them. I have very little contact with others and reasoning is the mail system is broken.
6) Instant Battles...a complete failure.
7) Desertification....What happened....??????....Vast areas of the map are dead.
8) Visitation and culture.....If hardly anyone visits then what is the point of Culture.....
9) Culture buildings too expensive and the non-premium are a waste of space and time to build them.
10) City building....For a city building game, elvenar is a complete failure in that there are almost zero tools to do anything. At least F.O.E. has better tools, better mailing system etc.
11) Battle system....Hmmmmmmmmmmm.....lopsided maps, mis-balanced approach to the whole thing. Then why battle if the discovery of desert with no players makes it useless and research points end up getting wasted when tech is finished.
12) Trading....99% of trading used to be with discovered players and now 99% of trade is with undiscovered players long way from me. Very few players trade as this game comes to a close. So many inactives around everyone.
13) Trading system....When trading why cant my inventory show on every screen so I can see it.
14) Goods.....If my neighbors have the same stuff as I have it makes it very hard to trade as we are collecting the same stuff and all want the same stuff.
15) Goods---non--boost....what is the point of trying to get them when they trader makes them so expensive? Little people trade and we all collect the same stuff? WEIRD
16) others Relics....why, what is the point of having relics and can't do anything with them? Useless junk that is non-tradeable.
I have repeated this before. if the concept is flawed and then the game is flawed. I understand BETA and bugs, bugs can be fixed but can a flawed concept be repaired in a reasonable amount of time? I played Lagoonia, Rising Generals and kartuga, those games tried very hard to become good, and I tried to help but in the end Innogames called them a failure. Their collective communities tried to help but failed to get the game designers to listen. Those games ventured into different territory for innogames and they failed....Why?
So Innogame recycled Tribal Wars into TW2....Better game no....More money orientated YES...more flaws...certainly.
So Innogames recycled F.O.E. into Elvenar....Better game no....More money orientated YES...more flaws...absolutely.
I almost beat the following is gonna happen....
I will either be told to quit, this post erased, or might even be banned from game or this forum for speaking my mind. This game has great LOOKS and eye candy, but it stops there, as the basic game is very flawed, playability is weak, mechanics flawed, concept flawed and over all any game designed who reviewed this game would say 5 out of 10. Even F.O.E. ripped off the tech system from Civilization and this copied FOE.
