Very much so imp. Once bashing rules are lifted then accounts could be bashed into submission... Its completely pointless. As sprog said its a war game and so 'war' should be a strong feature.... and yet it isn't...
So i propose a change to the way war occurs, i havn't thought about it much and it would require some small in put from admins... but there could be awards or bonuses for alliances involved in wars or such. That would make ZE a much more focused , teamwork and enjoyable game. I suggest we start a separate thread under game suggestions for this

Yes because the track record for approved suggestions getting implemented is stellar right now.........................

I can understand both points of view. But, I have said it before and will repeat what I have said again. This is a WAR GAME! However, the rules as laid down by the games masters are silly. I declare war on you, you capitulate right away, what's the point? There should be a minimum amount of time before that surrender should be accepted. Stop the stupidity. He declares war, you surrender, 5 minutes later, he declares again, you are offline, perhaps for another 24 hours. In that time you will not see the new declaration and he hits you before you can surrender, again. Madness. A minimum amount of time should pass before any cease fire/surrender can take place. It takes 24 hours from the declaration of war before the bashing can begin. Surely, 24 hours from that point should be administered, allowing that war to proceed for at least 24 hours, by which time you can surrender. All that a war does is lift the bashing rule. 5 hits from Gozar in a 24 hour period is enough for anybody, war or not. When this game was envisaged, I'm sure that the powers that be would not have dreamt that a player with a fleet of the magnitude of Gozar's would come in to being. Shortsighted, yes, but that's what we have come to expect from the administrators of the game. THings need to be shaken up, a couple of little tweaks here and there. In the short term it would be easy. You would think. 5-10 years, perhaps they would get off their collective backsides and put something in place. But as we know, the simplest of little things take an eternity in the game, broken promises, time frames that mean nothing and so on. But, the war declaration thing, perhaps you cannot surrender before 48 hours have elapsed from the time the war was declared, a fair idea?

I like the ideas of bonus for wars and such

But what I would really like to see is higher retention rates. So many players join and leave before they even earn a point.

Lemme say again what other peeps mentioned already.
If you guys want to "Last" a couple of more minutes and don't suffer premature surrender lol
Maybe you could declare wars with "fleet hunt only" style.
Just my two cents

Yep and bashes (on planets without fleet ) are taken away from this... However weather it's a war or not they'll still hunt you so it makes no difference. Also because of grandaddy G no ones foolish enough to go to war with azguard and everyone will instantly surrender or vmode.
Go with bonuses etc... it'll be a few months till I even have enough fleet to be a threat let alone an opponent

Sprog wrote:

JorgeFlores1 wrote:I may not play actively in X anymore but I see Gozar and Sprog constantly wanting to go to war with other alliances and then complaining about it. You have a combined fleet of 120m+, why would anyone even bother to waste time losing defenses and fleet with you. I've come to a proposal that will most likely get shut down by Azgd anyways. Instead of trying to "test" other alliances, try to test your own. All Azgd does is hide behind gozars a** anyways. So if you want a good war Gozar, ditch Azgd and fight 'em. And if you don't want to, then stop complaining, please. Cause if your own alliance denies the war because you have a huge fleet you now know how the other alliances feel. Your alliance would be doing the same exact thing as the others.

Awww bless.......u all keep saying we hide behind Gozar....let me tell u this...... I was hunted by Gozar and Torgard (let alone Fishpond,Ikyan, PK etc) way before Gozar and Torgard joined AZG.... I lost moons...I got multiple probes every day........did I moan to them? Did I boo like a baby that they were bullies? Did I say it was unfair they had such huge fleets chasing a player just out of protection? Like **** I did!!! I got on with the game and built up...I stayed active...I evaded where I could.....got real close to getting crashed a few times aswell.....but I didn't!!! I was respectful of my opponents and I carried on....and there it is....respect!!!! All the great players made me a better player....AZG went to war with ~A~ when Gozar was leader...we didn't hide...we tried!!!! Gozar had a huge fleet then as he does now...... Torgard had a huge fleet aswell.... was that unfair? No....we got on with it.....All you moaners need to man up and play the game...and ftr it is a war game....Deal with it

Btw...constantly wanting to go to war????? Show me all the war declarations this year or admit you are talking (how do I put this) b*ll*cks

I have heard you say all that like hundreds of times Sprog and players like you. The bottom line is can you show me a single war thread where you actually won against big guns?

If you cant do that just dont waste others brain waves with all these talks man. This is really not needed.

Ease up on me a bit sprog and then well have some fun Im building 500k fleet per week so soon you can have the war that you always wanted... So far you guys have yet to hit my fleet... not for lack of trying though Give it some time and then you can have your fun. Good things take time.
You say being hunted by gozar and torgurad was tough, how hard do you think it is then having Gozar (Now with twice the fleet), torguard, medal, jim and now you hunting my fleet... Lol ive had it way tougher than you mr
But i do promise to deliver you some fun : )

Dag, I hate when y'all make me agree with Gozar. I need a 'Surrender' button on my galaxy view next time I see 150k lg's coming at me..

That said.. we all need to take a look at server morale and noob retention.. we all have bashed. Game needs more attack zones maybe?

Complain , complain.
We`ve all been here , at this point , where big guys kill little guys , only the strong survive.
Gozar , Torgard , pkromm , skirmish and 10more other fleeters were hunting me and AZGd aswell.It`s the typical story every time.
Bashing was here from the beginings , so don`t complain.
Learn to send a PM if you see a fleet coming and you are online , pretty sure most of us would recall and stop destroying your beloved defences.