Nation-Wars 2010 Plans

[Mr President]

In the coming sets 3 new units and 3 new attacks will be released. Missiles, SDI's and Subs are the units and Missiles and Subs have there own attacks. The missiles will have 2 different attacks and the subs will have just 1. The game has needed another sea unit and the subs fit it perfectly..

I am not going to go into detail at this time about what they will destroy in the attacks. I am still working on the missile unit trying to get it separated from the main attack. I would like the missile to be it's own attack only. The subs WILL attack in a SA.. Missiles Won't.

Now as i was thinking of upgrade names for the subs i came up with what i think is a cool idea. We will name the subs after certain HOF members. Like one upgrade would be called the USS Svenneman or the USS Tnova ect ect. I think it would be cool to have units named after certain members who have helped the game in many ways over the years. From time to time as the game upgrades we will change out the names as there will be more HOF members than upgrades..

Now i do have a question that i would like your opinions on. We can leave all attacks as they are and just add in 3 more

OR

We can remove 1 or 2 attacks that nobody uses and replace them with the 3 new ones. Bombing Run (BR) has been a flop and Ground Attack (GR) is also a dead attack. I did have plans to tweak up the GA but i'm not sure it would do any good. So please give me some feedback on what you think we should do.

The 2 Missile attacks will be a reg missile attack and then a Nuclear Missile attack which will require lvl 12 missiles which will be given at random.

SDI's will be the only thing that will defend against a Missile Attack. Regular SAM's will only protect against jets and bombers.

Also please note that this is still in beta stage. NOTHING is final. I'm still working on it and almost have it finished and then we will test it and then implement it in the game. I am only posting this up so you all know what some of my plans are for the coming year.

Also one of my top plans is to get the game on Face Book. It's going to be a huge pain in the butt and take me some time but it is doable and i think it will effectly help our member base. The new units and attacks will happen first as i'm 90% done with that and then i will focus on getting us on FB. Also, this way we have a chance to get use to the new units and attacks before we have to train a lot of other people

So there you have it....... discuss


Also i forgot to mention our status. Currently we are still headed in the right direction. Each set we increase memberships and also our returning rates are still at a all time high. Our budget is still very small and at the moment we have enough money to keep us up and running for 7 more months. I am going to remove one of our advertising spots as it's not worth the money so that will save us some money. There is an emergancy reserve fund that i have been building since the start of last year. That would keep us going a full year if needed.

Our only revenue is premium accounts. I took almost all of the google ads off in the game. I just didn't like them and they didn't really pay out enough so they were not worth the trouble. I lowered the amount of free premiums to the winners from 3 months to 1 month. We just can't kep giving them away as it's costing us greatly. What i would like to do is come up with a new thing for winners and remove free premiums totally. But i have nothing in mind at the moment.

VB has released a new forum and new plan to go along with it. At this time we are not switching over to the new one. I did go ahead and buy the new forum cause the intro price was 200.00 cheaper now then if you waited.. So i used my own money to buy it now (don't tell the First Lady)
and am testing it on a test account to see what's it's like. It is pretty cool and has some good features but the bad part is NONE of our features we have now will work with it (casino, credits, bookie ect ect). There is a new credit system being made for VB4 but i don't know if it will erase all that we have now.

We can keep what we have cause i actually bought this forum outright. The problem is we will never get any updates for it or support for it. One of the good things about the new forums is that once you pay for it then it's lifetime free support and upgrades. We would not have to spend anymore money on upgrades like we do now...

The game has advance nicely over the past year. OUr biggest gains were at the end of the year when all the changes were made. So i am hoping to continue the growth or the community and the game. So please the best thing you can do is use the hell out of the invitation system and also tell all your friends about this game and work hard at getting more and more members.

Thanks and have a great New Year!!!!!!!

[Divine Intervention]

sounds exciting but i hope this isnt for January ?

btw instead of having HOF members how about we have Alien events renamed to players (we can have a massive list not limited to HOF)?

*you have been visited by Aliens. You now have Lvl 12 Hyper Devil Fighter planes*

or

*you have been visited by Aliens. You now have lvl 1 Max Logan Scouts*

[Mr President]

added more to my original post. silly me i forgot to add it before i posted it... silly boy.

[Trigger]

I think you are trying too much too quickly---which is a compliment not a criticism. Most game mods don't ever respond to the responses.

I suggest you make the changes first to the Capture the Flag server, and reduce the costs from 1m to something more reasonable that newbs can afford.


Regarding the actual changes with the missles, the killing of population is a good idea---but its not powerful enough. If you remove that completely, then you just reduce the need for troops.


The true need is to have every military force to do something very effective. Troops should kill equal population than jets/bomber. Jets/bombers should kill same populations as they do but perhaps take 1 more turn.

Really what has been a flop is the useless attacks.


If you care to indulge me for a minute

Make the units independent of each other. Troops should attack troops, not troops versus troops vs tanks... its the same with tanks vs troops versus troops verus tanks. Right now tanks are useless...but could be valuable if you make them independent of each other.



This isn't the only thing i've seen. I like the idea of increase bomber's attack efficacy. Make it so that bombers only face SAMs. Which would make more sense. Bombers fly much higher than jets and it would make people who are at war more likely to buy SAMs.


The missles are okay--but I'd prefer if you gave SDI a different name since SDI is what Earth uses and would seem like a rip off.

[Trigger]

I didn't see the updated post but regarding money to help pay for the server costs:

Do a twice a year NPR drive where you ask for donations--its much easier and people feel as if they are helping this specific game rather than just buying credits which they can use on ****. I'd much rather donate to the game twice a year than buying my support.

[Divine Intervention]

@ Trigger RE: CTF costs:

http://forums.nation-wars.com/showth...6458#post86458

[-Z-]

I hate FB and will not use it anymore.


But it might be interesting if it adds people...

As long as I didnt have to goto facebook to use the game, god I hate FB.

the new units are a big step, I'm deeply interested.

I do like the idea of naming the upgrades after HOF members, but I'm not sure how it would fare with new members who have no idea about these people and would simply think the names are dumb and make no sense.

Perhaps using HOF members in some other aspect of the game would be better.

thats just my opinion.

CONCERNING GA***

GA is not a Dead attack Mr P.
if u are warring anyone except cashers its an option, if u look over the last 3 sets u will see dozens of GA kills. (at least 10-20 in the last 3 sets I thhink)

I agree with beefing up GA killing, however u would do it..... Im not sure.

or adding in a whole new way top kill a state would also be fun.

I would not get rid of it.

Just my opinion again.
SDI ... an earth Unit.

could seen like a rip off... but could also bring people in, having somthing they are familier with.

Mr. P I plan to buy another Premium soon, hopefully a longer one than B4.

Im glad u are working on all this for us.

Z

[Trigger]

@ Trigger RE: CTF costs:

http://forums.nation-wars.com/showth...6458#post86458

Well that's exactly my point. The newbs like me who are inactive don't know about the wonderful souls like you. I was lucky and was donated 5m credits, so I paid it forward to blade---but peeps who are inactive in the forums aren't as knowledgeable.

If payments are made so that it is known to support the game and server in a NPR type of drive i think it would be more profitable and we would understand that the money goes to pay the costs of the game not just what it takes to buy credits.

[Trigger]

Sorry for the multiple posts but regarding income from the game I would just like to elaborate on other types of forums I particpate in.


I'm a huge Colbert fan and the site nofactzone.com was needing income for hosting and DB (the owner of the site) posted a statement stating the financials that would be needed to keep the site up and running. It was very open and transparant and if you do the same asking for xyz money for the year or divide it by month donations i'm sure that 50% of us will kick in that money to help.


Edit: I believe she raised 1500 in just a week---so I think its worth considering.

[Dogma]

**** good posts Trigger.