Elephant in the Room

Sentinel114 (US1) · 11.05.2023

So the "elephant in the room" is really a giraffe with a medical degree... Dr. Giraffe has declared war on our entire server, but is not mentioned anywhere in forum. I've yet to see a b/r where they've lost anything, Theyt play with open gates, and no one is posting any possible remedy here. I "get" the whole- it's a war game- deal with it guys, but these hackers are ruining the game for people who spend money too... I am starting to lose players again to frustration, almot as bad as the attack screen fiasco.

dandelion1958 (GB1) · 16.05.2023

Sentinel114 (US1) said:

So the "elephant in the room" is really a giraffe with a medical degree... Dr. Giraffe has declared war on our entire server, but is not mentioned anywhere in forum. I've yet to see a b/r where they've lost anything, Theyt play with open gates, and no one is posting any possible remedy here. I "get" the whole- it's a war game- deal with it guys, but these hackers are ruining the game for people who spend money too... I am starting to lose players again to frustration, almot as bad as the attack screen fiasco.

UK server is down to less than 2k actives - from well over 25k 10 tears ago - the latest updated just seem to help the VPN players despite GGS stating they are cracking down - as suggested before there should be a fixed currency for each server - if you are playing on US1 = $ on UK1 + £ - etc. ! that would some - perhaps many of the ruby cheats .

JPS Kills (GB1) · 16.05.2023

dandelion1958 (GB1) said:

Sentinel114 (US1) said:

So the "elephant in the room" is really a giraffe with a medical degree... Dr. Giraffe has declared war on our entire server, but is not mentioned anywhere in forum. I've yet to see a b/r where they've lost anything, Theyt play with open gates, and no one is posting any possible remedy here. I "get" the whole- it's a war game- deal with it guys, but these hackers are ruining the game for people who spend money too... I am starting to lose players again to frustration, almot as bad as the attack screen fiasco.

UK server is down to less than 2k actives - from well over 25k 10 tears ago - the latest updated just seem to help the VPN players despite GGS stating they are cracking down - as suggested before there should be a fixed currency for each server - if you are playing on US1 = $ on UK1 + £ - etc. ! that would some - perhaps many of the ruby cheats .

I am not sure that is strictly true. Anyone can look at statistics but they need to be interpreted correctly. Personally, I am always looking at the looting stats, from the one who loots the most, to the one who gets the minimum (56 resources) and I have always found that the server has between 1,750 - 1,850 active players for the last 6 years, and this year alone, the amount of active players per sunday night is just over the average. What you have is a stable server.

Secondly, 10 years ago, there was never 25k players on this server. Capitals were brought out back late 2012 and there were capitals per 10k population on the server. We only had one at that time. By the same token, the US server had about 3 capitals in green, simply because their server had a great deal more number of active players. Just as the number of players expand, the number of CoPs expand too to give others a chance.

Sentinel114 (US1) · 17.05.2023

So now the hacker group "Dr. Giraffe" have changed their name to Soft Kittens (the space is significant). They have taken the name of 1 of the major alliances on the US Server, by placing a space between SoftKittens. A group that is certainly not happy about their named being assimilated. We'll just have to wait and see what they have in store next... Sure glad GGE is playing along- would hate to have them step in and spoil their fun- I don't know- maybe investigate the hackers origins possibly allowing people a break from the constant threat of an invincible enemy, from whom no one is safe. I have 1/2 an allinace of no shows for the upcoming BTH event because of it...But you know it "is" a war game...

JPS Kills (GB1) · 17.05.2023

Sentinel114 (US1) said:

So the "elephant in the room" is really a giraffe with a medical degree... Dr. Giraffe has declared war on our entire server, but is not mentioned anywhere in forum. I've yet to see a b/r where they've lost anything, Theyt play with open gates, and no one is posting any possible remedy here. I "get" the whole- it's a war game- deal with it guys, but these hackers are ruining the game for people who spend money too... I am starting to lose players again to frustration, almot as bad as the attack screen fiasco.

Very few people post on the forum nowadays. It is like one of those old American western towns where you see the tumbleweed rolling around.

Sentinel114 (US1) · 23.05.2023

JPS Kills (GB1) said:

Very few people post on the forum nowadays. It is like one of those old American western towns where you see the tumbleweed rolling around.

Love the tumbleweed referrence! Our entire server seems to be slowly turning into that western town- and the only thing moving are tumbleweeds. Then of course, beware the rattlesnakes like Dr. Giraffe...

Poseidon · 23.05.2023

dandelion1958 (GB1) said:

Sentinel114 (US1) said:

So the "elephant in the room" is really a giraffe with a medical degree... Dr. Giraffe has declared war on our entire server, but is not mentioned anywhere in forum. I've yet to see a b/r where they've lost anything, Theyt play with open gates, and no one is posting any possible remedy here. I "get" the whole- it's a war game- deal with it guys, but these hackers are ruining the game for people who spend money too... I am starting to lose players again to frustration, almot as bad as the attack screen fiasco.

UK server is down to less than 2k actives - from well over 25k 10 tears ago - the latest updated just seem to help the VPN players despite GGS stating they are cracking down - as suggested before there should be a fixed currency for each server - if you are playing on US1 = $ on UK1 + £ - etc. ! that would some - perhaps many of the ruby cheats .

It would make it worse.

millwall97 (GB1) · 25.06.2023

JPS Kills (GB1) said:

dandelion1958 (GB1) said:

Sentinel114 (US1) said:

So the "elephant in the room" is really a giraffe with a medical degree... Dr. Giraffe has declared war on our entire server, but is not mentioned anywhere in forum. I've yet to see a b/r where they've lost anything, Theyt play with open gates, and no one is posting any possible remedy here. I "get" the whole- it's a war game- deal with it guys, but these hackers are ruining the game for people who spend money too... I am starting to lose players again to frustration, almot as bad as the attack screen fiasco.

UK server is down to less than 2k actives - from well over 25k 10 tears ago - the latest updated just seem to help the VPN players despite GGS stating they are cracking down - as suggested before there should be a fixed currency for each server - if you are playing on US1 = $ on UK1 + £ - etc. ! that would some - perhaps many of the ruby cheats .

I am not sure that is strictly true. Anyone can look at statistics but they need to be interpreted correctly. Personally, I am always looking at the looting stats, from the one who loots the most, to the one who gets the minimum (56 resources) and I have always found that the server has between 1,750 - 1,850 active players for the last 6 years, and this year alone, the amount of active players per sunday night is just over the average. What you have is a stable server.

Secondly, 10 years ago, there was never 25k players on this server. Capitals were brought out back late 2012 and there were capitals per 10k population on the server. We only had one at that time. By the same token, the US server had about 3 capitals in green, simply because their server had a great deal more number of active players. Just as the number of players expand, the number of CoPs expand too to give others a chance.

Server is pretty dead, no point saying any different, a good example of a game company that gouged money out of the spending players at every chance while making the general pop leave in mass. Short term gains were prioritized over having a long term playerbase, not the only factor but was the ultimate nail in the coffin. I presume all servers are in a similar state but sad to see as met a lot of nice people on this game that got pushed out due the developers not taking action against cheats or exploits and developing quick money grab updates instead of developing the game to expand the playerbase. The worst of all is ggs rinsed this game to continue to develop more games that all flopped and this is still the main game even in a shell state far from what it should be which is a war game that no war.

bazzara (GB1) · 02.07.2023

i totally agree with the above its very sad but true in everyway
i would imagine thats another finished player playing the game

as for the paste i agree from my records that this server has flattered out over the last few years with members but what differs is at other points there are less players reaching looting scores where the top group are getting more
this itself is not health in the long run

Trjunk (SKN1) · 04.07.2023

Sentinel114 (US1) said:

So the "elephant in the room" is really a giraffe with a medical degree... Dr. Giraffe has declared war on our entire server, but is not mentioned anywhere in forum. I've yet to see a b/r where they've lost anything, Theyt play with open gates, and no one is posting any possible remedy here. I "get" the whole- it's a war game- deal with it guys, but these hackers are ruining the game for people who spend money too... I am starting to lose players again to frustration, almot as bad as the attack screen fiasco.

Looks familiar. In SKN1 server it's somebody calling themselves HOC EST BELLUM who has declared war on everybody. They seem to have endless access to food and units and are making sure to burn whatever they attack. Doesn't matter how many def yoou have if you get 12-15 attacks at night with a lvl 60 general, and 11 waves of lvl 10 mead troups, you will burn. We see more and more players just quiting the game. Lvl 70/950 ruby playes who's been playing for years leaving. They don't see any point in paying GGE just to be an interesting target for these players. Only alternative is to play constantly with a dove, which costs and takes away some of the fun. Thus I believe the SKN1 server will probably die at some point.

JPS Kills (GB1) · 09.07.2023

bazzara (GB1) said:

i totally agree with the above its very sad but true in everyway
i would imagine thats another finished player playing the game

as for the paste i agree from my records that this server has flattered out over the last few years with members but what differs is at other points there are less players reaching looting scores where the top group are getting more
this itself is not health in the long run

As it stands at this moment in time, there are 1,818 active players since Monday morning, which is quite steady for the UK server. The UK server as a whole since around 2016, has been hovering around the 1,700 to 1,850 active looters every week and if this had been put on a graph since then, it will show dips and rises as graphs usually do but I am sure we are within the mean.

As for the 2nd paragraph, I am gussing that it may have something to do with the refinery and this means the top players need to loot even more than ever just to be able to create the tools. I have seen it myself on the French server where players have gone into negative loot.

Sentinel114 (US1) · 04.08.2023

Not an Elephant this time, but a "special offer," that portends the end of time skips as a game reward...
When (not if) GGE consumers do not buy into the latest "special offer," i.e. cool down skips, will the offended game engineer get approval to start enticing already over-burdened players by reducing the numbers of time skips offered? Well it would follow a pattern establihsed by previous "updates" within the game too numerous to single out examples...
Time skips on...

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