Redemption!
As states earlier, i will list out all the changes that have been made on the new server. This post will be very long, so if your not up to sitting there a good 10 min, do read any further from this point..
Still there? Good.. Ok here is whats going on. Redemption is not only a new server, but a whole new game altogether. What i mean by a whole new game is, many things will be what your use too, but many things have changed. One thing i would like to make clear is, EVERYTHING from WoW, Resurrection, the old Nation-Wars has been scrapped. We are going back to the beginning with EVERYTHING.
There will be no more Patriot Act. All members are on there own to handle things. I liked the Patriot Act and what it was intended for, and like how it has pretty much squashed the suiciding problem, but what i don't like is all the admin interfierence that goes along with it. It's not mine nor Tnova's job to baby sit you and your state. If you run 100% inf and get hit for it, i'm sorry your on your own. If you quit, then thanks for playing. Somewhere along the lines the attitudes in this game has changed. It went from people being revengful and having fun while getting hot under the collar, to well lets all hold hands and sing a luliby while the admins take care of all the mean people in the world. Perhaps this was my fault cause well i use to do the same thing in USA, protect those who needed it but never really making them learn to stand up for themselves.. I don't have the time and neither does Tnova to take care of people and there states.. As i was just told by someone, "yeah, lets take the diapers off...pull them out of the walker and let them walk".. Could not agree more.
I have played several games the past 2 months to see mainly how they were played, what features they had, how successful they were and what age group the members were.. What i discovered is our game is still one of the best out there we were just lacking some features and a larger variance of ages.. I could not believe how many 40+ yr olds were playing war games along with 15, 16 + yr olds.. Why is it they play those games and not ours? perhaps it's the rules we have. Perhaps it's the lack of advertising, perhaps it's when they get here they are turned off by things.. There are lots of reasons and unless we begin to change them now, we won't make it much longer.
Some of the memebers in this game are in a nice little "safe zone". They have been for years. The fire they once had is now a little flame. Not sure if your bored with the game or if your just sticking around cause you feel you have too.. We need to change this. I want that fire back, and you all are the ones who can really help keep the game going. I understand people won't play this game forever, but hell lets get some people of all ages in here to carry the torch.
A lot of work has been put into the new server. This will be my last attempt to keep things going. I will still make upgrades and change things, but only if we start growing. It's beyond pointless for me to be spending all my free time and this whole weeks of vacation if people are just going to continue to be in that rut..
Many complain about nations like LoR. They say they are ruining the game. I'm still baffled by this. How can a nation who is doing exactly what the game was made to do be ruining it? The game was set up with many different avenues for memebrs to take. Not just one where we all sit and hold hands and net against eachother. I looked at all the suggestions to make the game better. Some were make a netting server. Make a war server. Make a training server. ect ect.. And after many chats and lots of thinking the bottom line is, the game we have now is exactly the server we need. Why change what works?
You can't tell me Earth is a better game than this one. But why does it have more members? You can't tell me NukeZone is better than ours, but why does it have more members? The whole thing is, THEY HAVE MORE MEMBERS, so it's easier to get new ones. New and More members is all we need to make this work. Not all will like this game, but many will. We have less restraints then most games. Here you can actually cause damage and war and kill nations without being ousted from the game. In all the other games i played, members and nations took care of actions they did not like, not the admins..
An idea for a massive recruiting campain was started last set and is being prepared to launch when the new server is released. I urge you all to do your part. The time is now if you want to save this game. I was very close to shutting it all down a couple of sets ago.. But i was talked into giving it one more shot. So i have done what all of you have asked. I have added new things, changed old things, revamped things.. Now it's time for you to do what needs to be done. I can not stress enough that without more members this game will be gone within months. There is just no point in keeping it going for 50 active members.. I don't want this game to go away and i don't want our community to break up, but running the game is not cheap and spending all my free time trying to keep it going for 50 ppl is really not smart..
So that is why we are starting 100% fresh. The forums will be cleared, new conversations will be started. (no you will not lose your post counts) A spam forum will be added, and then mods will strictly enforce spamming of other sections. You want a section to spam in, fine with me just keep it out of the other sections. There will be a 0 tollerance policy for spam now.
Some sections of the forums will be going away. We have too many, and they just leaves to many to post spam in. We don't need this many spots anyway.
Again, remember that starting next set everything is starting over. The double taps in the top 10 rule will be gone. The triple tap rule will be gone. The Patriot Act will be gone.. All of these things have hindered our game more then anything. I was not around when WoW first started, but from what i understand things went downhill after stupid rules were set in place. I remember how hard it was when a new person joined trying to update them on what they can't do.. 3/4 of the message was telling them NOT to do this or that and then a couple lines of ok yea you can do that.. How stupid is that? In no other game is it like this.. So we are getting rid of it too. I don't want to be like all the other games, cause really we are not. We have a much better game. problem is all our stupid @ss rules..
The main rules will stay. Like the no multies and stuff.. I'm basically talking about the unwritten rules that have continued through the game that should have dropped off years ago.... If not even created..
Ok here are the changes in the new server called Redemption.
First lets see what Redemption means..
Redemption-salvation, rescue -recovery or preservation from loss or danger.
I picked this name cause i figured we were as close to being lost as we could be without actually being lossed. So here is our one shot boys and girls..
-New Features-
Personal bank- members no longer need to be in a nation to use the bank.
Welcome message- The 500 page welcome message has been shortened.
Loading Bar- Fancy loading bar when first entering. Makes the game look powerful
Public Market- This has been revamped. Buy and Sell pages have been separated to make the pages look cleaner and not so confusing.
Black Market- Same as above.
Foreign Relation pages- Separated and revamped. Sanctions have there own page, Retaliation and war have there own pages as well.
War attack- now 3 turns instead of 2. trying to make killing a little bit harder then it currently is.
Bombing Run- New attack that will lower readiness and also destroy a % of all buildings.
Main Page- When your state has new events, it no longer looks messy when you log in. There is a nice clean table with graphics displaying certain events, along with what has happened. (looks sharp, i love this page)
Archives - Not only do events stay on the main page for 7 days now (there is a manual remove tab if you don't want to look at them) you can now go back to 28 days worth of events instead of the week time frame before.
Nation Members- Now it only takes one member to make a nation fully functional. I think it's wrong to hinder a nation cause it only has 1 member and not 4.. they should be able to do whatever the rest can do.
Attack Page- Totally revamped. New drop down menu for (Prem members only) that you can chose your targets from or you can still enter the state number manually.
Ads- All the ads on top of the pages have been removed. It looked trashy. There will be more features for Prem members coming soon to make it worth while to purchase one.
Intelligence- Page has been revamped along with a drop down menu for prem members.
Preferences- Page has been revamped and put in order instead of that confusing mess we had before.
Invite Friends- Members can now send a invitation email to friends they would like to join the game. It has 3 spaces for info. Once sent, a nice email with your real name along with your state name will be sent to this person and it will come from your own email address, not the games. There is no limit on how many you can send at this time, so i hope this does get abused. All invites will remain on db for quite some time. Any abuse of this system could result in a ban from game.
United Nations- This is a very power feature with loads of potential. Nations in the UN can send aid to other nations in the UN. Leaders can send other UN leaders secure messages, with a UN header in the subject line. Any UN leader can create a poll and all the other UN leaders are automatically notified of this poll with a message telling them who created a poll and asking them to vote on it quickly. I have not added everything to the UN that i have planned for it right now. I wanted to debut it and get people use to basic features before we make it more complicated.. I think you all will like this. UN nations have a UN flag in the nations scores.
Profiles- Totally revamped. members can now click on the state names in the scores to view other members profiles along with what medals they have achieved.
World Map- When creating a nation there is a section asking you to select a zone (country) on a map. you can select any open zone on the map and it then becomes yours till you leave it. This also has huge potential and lots of feauture plans down the road. Right now after you made your selection, you can hover over countries on the map for quick details on who occupies it, or you can click on that country and it will take you to the nations stats of that nation. yes the zone carry's over set to set for prem members.
Scores- Revamped!
End of Round Emails- These now come in a HTML form with a NW log and a tan background. They list out who won the set, along with the prize they won. Wars from that round and other major events along with the top nations of the set. More will be added to this as time goes by. Only problem with these kinds of emails is they hit your junk bin in your mailbox more then the other emails do.. So you might want to check that at the end of the rounds and maybe ok mail from this server.
There are other changes that i am forgetting i'm sure, but these are the main ones. the biggest change is the layout of the game and how you navigate through the game. Every page is now "cleaner and crisper" looking. Things do not look messy at all. All the navigation is different, so those of you who have played the game for awhile will be in for a change and prob have a harder time at first learning your way around again.
That was kind of my goal when doing all of this. I want things different. Change is a good thing. Now we all will learn things over again at the same time
The main functions of the game are the same. none of the formulas have been messed with. Except the new Bombing attack.
More attacks will be added in the months to come as long as things are moving forward.. I have lots more ideas for this game and i'm looking forward to implementing them as we move ahead..
Hope you all enjoy this new server..
oh yea btw, hours and hours have been put into this. If you complain i'll ban your account.. lmao.... jk no really i'm serious.. jk.. no i'm not.. yea i am.. no, yea STOP IT! see what you all have done to me
This server opens for the Sept Set..
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