Actually I am used to playing games much faster than this. 5 times faster would work for me. I don't have that much time to wait for it.
Dont fault the game because TEE is playing it right way, fault most playing for not knowing how to
lol.... way to funny
Never mix business or Grep with friends and family, unless it is to get 200 free gold for them linking your account when they start lol
There is nothing wrong with taking a noobish style player in and teaching them, I did it for years in fact some of my members were in that same situation.... in fact I would rather take a noob and train them the right way then have an experienced player who knows it all...
However if you are a noob you need 3 things to be good in grep:
-Activity
-Lil Gold for the basics
-And AD teaching you, not ramp8ge.... LMAO
If you think the game is too simple, you truly are a noob and totally clueless. You know nothing of the game. The beginning phase of a server is just the first phase of this game. And that is where you are at the moment. It is where we all are. We are at the building our first cities, farming, establishing alliances phase of the game.
There are SEVERAL phases to this game. And to get to the END of the game with World Wonders is a TOTALLY different can of worms all together.
Like the typical noob, you do not listen. You think you have figured it all out. I would guesstimate you are probably 14, 15, 16 years old. It is so obvious. People like you do not do well at this game because you are incapable of listening and learning. You do make great farms, though. So you do serve a purpose...lol. You make excellent fodder for "bully" alliances like ours who are composed of 25 members.
I think you would do much better playing Sim City or one of the kiddie hack and slash games. This is a grown-up game. It requires planning, strategy, long-term goals, diplomacy, and tactics. You are too closed-minded to listen and learn, too inexperienced to know what you are doing, and too intellectually limited to grasp the concept of the game.
*coughs* Sorry, Gamemaster. But it needs to be said. Players like this who do nothing but whine, moan, groan, and complain, interfere with the enjoyment of the game for the true Grepolis gamers who are capable of meeting the challenges of the game and willing to put in the work to learn how to do it.
Wow, talk about a condescending response to a legitimate concern.
Personally, I read the wiki and several guides on my first day playing. I have not come across any further information of tactical significance since then. What in the world do you guys spend all this time learning? The tactics seem very simplistic to me; the difficulty is in the execution of said tactics and coordination across a large team.
TEE is winning because they have more large, active players who are effective team players. "30 hardcore actives vs 10 hardcore actives" (as the leader of one recently disbanded enemy of TEE described it to me) does not have an ambiguous outcome. As other commenters have implied, the only way to "win" against them is to wait and hope for internal issues like a split or major inactivity to weaken their position.
Kaana raised this issue and I don't think anything you have said even addresses it, let alone refutes it!
As someone who has worked on balancing games before, my initial recommendation would be some sort of BP bonus based on the ratio of the attacking and defending alliances point totals.
This would give people an incentive to actually attack the top alliances - if they have 4mil points and your alliance has 1mil, you'll get 4x BP when fighting them, whereas they will get 0.25x BP fighting you.
Encouraging combat between the top alliances would probably make the game more fun. Many games use similar mechanics to make weaker targets yield diminished rewards.
Not saying this is a perfect solution or anything, but that's the sort of discussion we should be having IMHO.
Wow, talk about a condescending response to a legitimate concern.
Personally, I read the wiki and several guides on my first day playing. I have not come across any further information of tactical significance since then. What in the world do you guys spend all this time learning? The tactics seem very simplistic to me; the difficulty is in the execution of said tactics and coordination across a large team.
TEE is winning because they have more large, active players who are effective team players. "30 hardcore actives vs 10 hardcore actives" (as the leader of one recently disbanded enemy of TEE described it to me) does not have an ambiguous outcome. As other commenters have implied, the only way to "win" against them is to wait and hope for internal issues like a split or major inactivity to weaken their position.
Kaana raised this issue and I don't think anything you have said even addresses it, let alone refutes it!
As someone who has worked on balancing games before, my initial recommendation would be some sort of BP bonus based on the ratio of the attacking and defending alliances point totals.
This would give people an incentive to actually attack the top alliances - if they have 4mil points and your alliance has 1mil, you'll get 4x BP when fighting them, whereas they will get 0.25x BP fighting you.
Encouraging combat between the top alliances would probably make the game more fun. Many games use similar mechanics to make weaker targets yield diminished rewards.
Not saying this is a perfect solution or anything, but that's the sort of discussion we should be having IMHO.
Hey, TEE got the skilled active players together and took over, but it's still possible to take them down. There should be no balancing it would not be fair for the players who play this game that put in hard work to get up there.