Questions for Freezy

Also if it isn't a secret.. what is the dev team focusing on now

I can tell you... fixing the rank system.

And to be honest, I really don't give a flying f*** about renaming countries... the thing in central Europe is called Germany and I really don't care if it is called Germany, Greater Germany, the German Republic, the German Empire, the People's Republic of Germany, the Reich, the Core of the EU, or the Banana Republic of user18273466... get us rivers and a supply system instead!

Rivers? Pah! We need trenches!

K.Rokossovski wrote:

I can tell you... fixing the rank system.

And to be honest, I really don't give a flying f*** about renaming countries... the thing in central Europe is called Germany and I really don't care if it is called Germany, Greater Germany, the German Republic, the German Empire, the People's Republic of Germany, the Reich, the Core of the EU, or the Banana Republic of user18273466... get us rivers and a supply system instead!

another good Idea would be to allow modding for people with premium when they create their games, that would legit make my day. Allow us to change cores, countries, armies, research in HWW, blitzkrieg etc. It would be super useful for RPs. These suggestions would help you waaaaaaaaay more than Marine unit cards or revamping the diplomacy trading system

Focus on something useful for once and take my word for it the player base will SKYROCKET. but don't make renaming countries a premium feature or I swear to god..............

TheZhukov wrote:

but don't make renaming countries a premium feature or I swear to god..............

Renaming countries would be abused in an extremely bad manner.

And changing your flag, or leader name isn’t? That argument is always blown out of proportion, and it’s not right to let a few trolls take away the fun for others. Just kill those people, they suck at the game anyway.

Carking the 6th wrote:

And changing your flag, or leader name isn’t? That argument is always blown out of proportion, and it’s not right to let a few trolls take away the fun for others. Just kill those people, they suck at the game anyway.

Carking the 6th wrote:

And changing your flag, or leader name isn’t? That argument is always blown out of proportion, and it’s not right to let a few trolls take away the fun for others. Just kill those people, they suck at the game anyway.

As car's legal representative Id like to state that this was a joke-

Btw I won't have time to answer every question, that's why I usually don't like being tagged, as it kinda forces me to answer specific things instead of giving me the freedom to choose where I answer in the forums. So please don't expect me to answer absolutely everything here .

Anyway, to answer this one:

TheZhukov wrote:

To make it easier for the Wolf Monarch of the Forums, His High and Holy Highness @freezy, to answer the questions of the parliamentarians of his realm, we have created this chamber. If you have a question for freezy, please post it here so he can reply to it more easily.

@freezy, what does the current CoW Dev team think about allowing us to rename nations? and, being a dev yourself, can you tell us roughly how long it would take to implement such a feature?

Another question, why is it when I change the flag of my nation to a custom flag, it shrink to like 1/4 of its first size,and can I bypass that

There are certainly upsides and downsides to enable users to rename countries:

pro:

- allows users to fulfill their fantasy of building empire XYZ. Also good for roleplaying purposes.

- funny memes

con:

- meme names might make people who wanna enjoy historical authenticity uncomfortable.

- ToS violotations. Moderation workload / player reports would go up. If you wanna prevent that by allowing players to only form names from pre-set words, then the feature complexity would go up.

- It would be harder to find certain countries. Right now when someone who changed their flag and ingame name writes you, you can still identify them on the map by their country name. If players can change everything, it makes it much harder to keep track, especially if players change this multiple times in a row. If you wanna prevent that with a limit, then storing the info for each player how often they used the feature in each match makes the whole feature more complex.

- Country name is rendered on the map. Map font does not support all exotic characters that players could put in. Also not sure if the name on the map can be altered on the fly, as it is not a UI element it makes it slightly more complex. Could also exceed available space on map or in UI, so probably would need some character limit.

Don't know how long it would take, depends in which format it would be implemented in the end. Just allowing players to rename with 0 restrictions or limitations, then it would probably be not that much. But of course it would increase workload for support over time. Oh and always plan in the QA process and release cycles, even small changes have to go through sometimes bureaucratic processes to ensure nothing gamebreaking happens.

I can tell you that currently it is not really a prio of the dev team to do any changes in this regard.

Regarding the flags, as far as I know they are stored in a certain resolution at maximum to not overload the servers with lots of big images. I dont know the max resolution right now but with testing you can probably find out.

imo, don't allow name change or flag change...

I want Spiderman's suit to be purple and orange...

Just....Don't

Next thing you know they will want to have pink unit icons on the map.

Nostroma wrote:

imo, don't allow name change or flag change...

I want Spiderman's suit to be purple and orange...

Just....Don't

Next thing you know they will want to have pink unit icons on the map.

I know....remove them

That’s the stupidest suggestion I’ve ever heard. When has it effected a game negatively? You can’t even see the flag 60% of the time!

Give an inch and they'll want a mile

We've seen this many times in these "suggestions"

Didn’t you want all monetization removed from the game regardless of games need to survive? Isn’t that quite the mile?

Heh, I'm perfectly OK with removing gold from the game and then make them pay for changing their name, their flag, or those pretty pink tanks to drive around in!