Gonna go ahead and stop playing as well. I don't think I'm having fun with this, so I might as well stop fiddling with it. Dropped alliance, fired military, tore down walls. Have at it, if I'm not too far to plunder!
I think part of Ikariam's problem, why players get burnout like this, is that it seems to be never ending. Most web browser strategy games go through continual resets and rule tweaks to keep things fresh and interesting.
In Ikariam once you get up to 4-5 cities it just becomes a resource grind, either through production or farming people.
I'm around; I should probably purge the ranks of the not-logged-in-in-a-month.
We've had some offers, for people who want a more active alliance:
Crew (pirates: arr, matey, and ye be helpin' wit' th' inspections!)
DPX (high score, end game focus, recommend proxies for military maneuvers)
and one of the Templars (webber's group)
If anyone wants to switch over to a different/more active alliance, feel free. I don't see us doing too much organized action at the moment.
So; if I have a 30% chance of failing at spying out a garrison, the odds of 4 spies all failing are like .3*.3*.3*.3 right? Assuming I'm not forgetting my math (which admittedly was a long time ago) that's 0.0081, or 0.81%. Less than 1% chance of happening, yet this situation occurs all the time. If one spy fails to spy out a garrison, all my other spies will fail too. I've seen it happen at least half a dozen times and I don't do all that much spying. Is this a RNG based on a clock thing or what? If I wait 5 minutes or something for the next spy to attempt will I be better off?
Many people on the official forums have reported things like that happening, as well. My best guess is that there is some sort of error in the spy calculations, and I cannot really say why that is happening.
It's at least worth a shot to wait a few minutes after a failed spying, but I haven't seen any true resolution to that problem.
TamorlaneGnnrThe Halls of MontezumaRegistered Userregular
edited November 2008
Hmm. So after I finish handing out some well deserved punishment to some ill-advised pillagers who tried to take advantage of my leave of absence, is there anything going on?
You/we could volunteer to help Crew with their inspections program, if we wanted. Or we could let someone amass a huge fortune in gold and then spend all our time and effort keeping that one person from being pillaged. That could be fun.
Sniperguy - I'm nearby on 32:24. Send me a message when you need some marble/wine/crystal/sulfur/whatever so you can accelerate to four islands as soon as possible.
I've still got a bit of corruption, but only in my 5th colony (new wine island). I decided having the possibility of a proxy was more important than first clearing the corruption from that colony.
Alright, I'm fairly well setup. Got a level 3 warehouse and a professional army. Any free stuff would be awesome. heh.
Drop me a message in game with how much of each resource you have room for (i.e., max - current), and I'll fill 'em up for you. You can search for me on the high score list or find me on 32:24
so, i'm close to breaking the top 100 of money havers on the beta realm
woo
once i get enought to upgrade my palace to get a 6th colony, im going to temporarily make it on an island that gives discounted trade ships, and run myself out of money buying them.
Thanks PA, for introducing me to a game that ruins lives...
hey all, long time lurker first time poster here (be gentle.)
I'm very much addicted to Ikariam now because of all of you and I thought I should create a PA account to inform you of this.
I see you play on beta and was wondering if any of you did anything on the other servers?
I didn't see anything reminiscent of anything PA related in Epsilon so I created the PPK (Pillaging Pirate Kittens.)
Did I win your favor???
*Please correct my grammar and tell me that I am trying too hard while telling me to eat a dick (I need it)
When we were really active, we had stuff going on beta, delta, epsilon, and zeta. But I think everyone who was on epsilon dropped.
The game is a lot of fun for a while, but eventually the bugs tend to get to people. The combat system still leaves a lot to be desired. (That having been said, I am still active on Alpha as well as our main group on Beta.)
i have 48 boats right now.
if i invest my full 4.9 million, i could get up to
59 ships
with the wonder: 61
so, that's true, but the difference is like a million bucks
By the time you actually need 50 boats, a million is a drop in the bucket. If I sold all my excess resources for 10 gold each, I'd be up over 10 million in 24 hours.
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28:26
32:24
43:11
I'm guessing the bugs got to you, then?
There will be a reckoning!
Is it just like a normal battle?
Islands at:
54:35 (sulfur)
55:34 (marble)
55:35 (wine)
55:36 (crystal)
In Ikariam once you get up to 4-5 cities it just becomes a resource grind, either through production or farming people.
Shorn, did your girlfriend abandon as well? I noticed she was inactive the last time I looked at those islands.
Lloraos[12:49]. Name - BELAR.
I suspect from here on out shit is going to get reeeaaalllly boring here in the old West-Pax section.
Is anyone else actually playing anymore? i just keep building my infrastructure and climbing the high score charts
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We've had some offers, for people who want a more active alliance:
Crew (pirates: arr, matey, and ye be helpin' wit' th' inspections!)
DPX (high score, end game focus, recommend proxies for military maneuvers)
and one of the Templars (webber's group)
If anyone wants to switch over to a different/more active alliance, feel free. I don't see us doing too much organized action at the moment.
What? Whar?! Linx, plz.
It's at least worth a shot to wait a few minutes after a failed spying, but I haven't seen any true resolution to that problem.
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~T
You/we could volunteer to help Crew with their inspections program, if we wanted. Or we could let someone amass a huge fortune in gold and then spend all our time and effort keeping that one person from being pillaged. That could be fun.
Sniperguy - I'm nearby on 32:24. Send me a message when you need some marble/wine/crystal/sulfur/whatever so you can accelerate to four islands as soon as possible.
So hopefully that will get people to come after us a bit more.
Whooops.
I've still got a bit of corruption, but only in my 5th colony (new wine island). I decided having the possibility of a proxy was more important than first clearing the corruption from that colony.
Drop me a message in game with how much of each resource you have room for (i.e., max - current), and I'll fill 'em up for you. You can search for me on the high score list or find me on 32:24
I sent you 300 of each resouce. I can't remember how much level 3 warehouses hold.
woo
once i get enought to upgrade my palace to get a 6th colony, im going to temporarily make it on an island that gives discounted trade ships, and run myself out of money buying them.
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http://ikariam.wikia.com/wiki/Cargo_ship
i have 48 boats right now.
if i invest my full 4.9 million, i could get up to
59 ships
with the wonder: 61
so, that's true, but the difference is like a million bucks
SE++ Map Steam
screw it, i bought 11 more boats
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hey all, long time lurker first time poster here (be gentle.)
I'm very much addicted to Ikariam now because of all of you and I thought I should create a PA account to inform you of this.
I see you play on beta and was wondering if any of you did anything on the other servers?
I didn't see anything reminiscent of anything PA related in Epsilon so I created the PPK (Pillaging Pirate Kittens.)
Did I win your favor???
*Please correct my grammar and tell me that I am trying too hard while telling me to eat a dick (I need it)
The game is a lot of fun for a while, but eventually the bugs tend to get to people. The combat system still leaves a lot to be desired. (That having been said, I am still active on Alpha as well as our main group on Beta.)
By the time you actually need 50 boats, a million is a drop in the bucket. If I sold all my excess resources for 10 gold each, I'd be up over 10 million in 24 hours.