mightyoz wrote:

___Didact___ wrote:Well, I disagree with disabling rubies because if a part time working college student can afford rubies anyone can? If you cant afford rubies fix your finances or get a job. No sense in disabling rubies for your sake. Thats how zorg makes money lmao.

Hmm, not a very valid point. There are some players that cannot buy rubies for other reasons other than finances. I myself had a problem, I was domiciled in one country but had bank accounts in another country. This really messed up PayPal, it cannot cope with a simple thing like that! I have asked for other payment systems to be considered like with other online games, but this was ignored and I never had a reply.


Also, a poor student in one country might live like a king compared to other players in other countries. IT's all relative. I think the general comment as a whole, "If you cant afford rubies fix your finances or get a job" is pretty insulting to others regardless of what your views are.

The disabling of rubies, remember, rubies pay for the game to exist is pretty daft. If you disable them at the beginning then you would have to carry that on forever. Either you have them or you don't! No wishy washy "don't have them, then have them".

If there was an offiical way to purchase them, fairly, through the game, much like the merchant option, with resources, it would encourage two things. Firstly, if the rate was fair enough, no "illegal" rubies for resources trading would go on between players. Secondly, it would offer those not fortunate enough to be able to buy them for real life cash the ability to buy a ruby moon in game, trade resources in game through the merchant and so on. Any thoughts on this idea?

How to fix that problem is how I suggested,
let those that buy Rubies be able to use Rubies to purchase Resources / Defenses / Fleet from players that
"----for whatever reason are unable to buy Rubies from Zorg" --
Now; Oz
the game already has that option in My Plus Acct


My Plus Acct - or trading Rubies for Resources / Items from other players
in order for me to have the Rubies to Trade / Purchase items from other players;
I would have to buy the Rubies from Zorg

Either way
Zorg gets the income from the sale of the Rubies

I think we did a post on another type of Player
Merchant / Miner / Trader
I'll see if I can find that Link

#Board index » Game Development » General Game Discussion » Game Suggestions
#Merchant

GRAVE DIG!


Now Buzzard, for somebody that has played Standard previously, then you might remember that the option via MY PLUS is NOT AVAILABLE in Standard. The only option is via PAY PAL!

So, for not getting the facts right, 0/10!

Secondly, trading of rubies s against the rules, this has been reiterated several times in the forums. Whilst that is the
case then people who play in that particular server who cannot use PAYPAL for whatever reason have not access to rubies.

I don't know if you have been considering that post for the last couple of years, but I would have thought that you'd have had enough time to think it through.

Also, when the illegal trade of rubies has happened, the exchange rates have been so high that is would have been almost like a Black Market deal. Very unfair.

mightyoz wrote:GRAVE DIG!


Now Buzzard, for somebody that has played Standard previously, then you might remember that the option via MY PLUS is NOT AVAILABLE in Standard. The only option is via PAY PAL!

So, for not getting the facts right, 0/10!

Ahhh, OZ
Standard Universe says::::

VMODE in effect
You are currently in Vacation Mode. Any active plus features will be resumed once you are out of VMODE. You can still purchase Zorg Rubies in case you want to send to a friend of yours.

Secure payments with PayPal


I can Purchase Rubies and then Gift them to a Buddy
or
use the Rubies to do
"Imperial Support"
and purchase Resources from the Game

What is the difference ????????

Oz;
Not everyone wants to be a Miner then just "Turtle - Up' under a large defense sheild
nor do they have the time nor desire to be a " Raider / Fleeter"
but they want to keep their acct active and growing,
being a "Merchant / Trader" gives these player another option of Play Style

Like I said,
If I can build Ships then sell those ships for a 20% Profit
I am gonna up my Shipyard and start building Fleet to sell

My Acct will look like a Auto-Dealers Lot
Players,
Its not
How much in Resources nor Fleet / Nor the size of your acct
its what can you do with it

for those that think having new and bigger ships Hey - A Dark "Hidden" Moon ---

we need one of those here also
No-One can find anyones Fleet,
that equals === No Fleet Crashes
also we need 4 Levels of Sheilds
yes; thats what I said; 4 spelled --- F O U R

Oz,
with my techs at L-50
and yours the same it would take you
50,000 Death Stars to just get thru the Sheilds
to try ( 50% chance ) to PoP my 1st moon so you could see if I had 2 Moons
another one Hidden = A Dark Moon


Hey; we need those here also
Even the biggest Fleets cannot Raid any one
even better
All I need is 3 - 4 Hidden Moons and I don't even need to Fleet Save any more,
I like that Idea

Players;
Like I said before
Its not how big your Acct is

Its What can you do with it


For the Old Times that play here
Question

What was the most active Game, the one with 2-3,000 Players

That correct
The Old "Epic Blue"
Standard speed, standard Fleet with no add ons

every site that has tried all these new and better ways are all Dead,

Zorg wrote:The new universe must be designed in a way that will lure back old veterans from Zorg Empire and beyond.

To achieve this, we need to focus on the strengths of the game.
The biggest strength of the game, is arguably the fleet activity between players. This was the major characteristic that Zorg Empire enjoyed from day 1. This is what we need to promote with the universe design.
.

Hopefully you are serious about this .
if so; then
What was the Original Success Forumla ???????
Thats correct
the Old Epic Blue
Standard Speed / Standard Mine production / Standard Research / Standard Fleet

Small Cargos
Heavy Cargos
Light Fighters
Heavy Fighters
Cruisers
Battle Ships
Death Stars
standard size Recyclers

Phalax Sensor - Any fleet sent in Attack Mode could be seen on the Lanax at the Target Planet or Moon
If dispatched from a Moon; its return to the Moon was hiden,
but not its return to a Planet
and makes just having a Moon a "Big Thing"

Creates a lot of Fleeter vs Fleeter action

the only New Ship that was an improvement to the Game was the Battlecruizer

There were a few sites that started a 0-Game Clone that did add a few things to Game play that helped

Zorg;
Just get on the Net and visit a few of these sites that have all the so-called
New and better ways
see how many accounts / members / players they have

Zorg has more active accounts than all of them combined
Zorg has 4-5-6 times as many active accts as all of them put togather
they are all a dismal Failure


Hopefully you are serious about this

Think what make the game is the players the more the better and don't give up if you make a mistake deal with it move on more players that's what all the servers need the most a new uni will not mean more players if u look at the other games they lack activity cos there's to many servers ,servers running for years that are full over blue accounts. And the golden age was before smartphones and the rip-off apps

Buzzard, the fact is, you said there were other options when it comes to buying rubies, to which my reply was, no, there isn't, not in Standard at least.

So, after scrolling down the rest of that considerable post, I lost the will to carry on. That is why players give up. They get bored. However, none of that post (that I could be bothered to read) addresses this point. It just turned me off reading it.

You can buy rubies, well, whoop de doo! That's really nice for you, and, considering that you don't actually play then it's sort of irrelevant.

Others can buy rubies, yes. How many players would buy rubies that others couldn't, then gift them to others all the time?
Not many. Seeing as the trading of rubies in game is unlawful in the game then they would have to be extremely charitable to buy rubies then keep giving them away! lol.

So, I don't think any of your points have been thought through.

mightyoz wrote:Buzzard,-----------------------------

So, after scrolling down the rest of that considerable post, I lost the will to carry on. That is why players give up. They get bored. However, none of that post (that I could be bothered to read) addresses this point. It just turned me off reading it.

.

My Apologies Oz,
Evidently I didn't explain myself very well,

The Best to you and Yours
and a Happy and prosperous New Year


If Zorg does start a New Universe somewhat similiar too the Old Epic Blue
I know several Players that will be back;
I know I'll be back in a Heart Beat

Happy New Year to you and yours and Everybody else.

The old epic blue didn't have rf which is why battle ships were king once rf came in battlecrusers became king and rips didt blow up that's the past buzzard lol sometime changing needs to happen