I have a few (in fact i have a heap) of suggestions for later updates or sequels ive been meaning to post for a while, so i thought id put down a few.
I have to say great job to the creators first, I've been waiting for this game for a long while, almost like a TW campaign in multiplayer format. Awesome, if somewhat life draining.
1. Id like to suggest a more comprehensive characters system. I.E. id LOVE to see characters like diplomats, spys, assassins, generals, admirals and country leaders brought onto the main map. It could make the diplomacy and espionage part of the game soooo cool. You could also then add them into the tech tree. Players would have to send diplomats all around the world and set up embassies before communicating and starting alliances and assassins could be sent to stop them. Players could set up massive spy rings in order to find out who knows who and would have to set up counterspy networks, it would also open up the need to set up check points in strategic locations and loads of other possible buildings as well. You could have generals with your main stacks adding buffers to your troops, even having a traits system within them would be wild. Country leaders could be campaigning building national pride and moral, they cold become great generals or diplomats , But would also have to be well protected and kept safe from master assassins. All up this could add firstly a whole new dimension to the strategy and realism of the game and another level of micro management that could make those quiet periods between wars much more interesting.
2. How about a style of game play that is all about gold(you should like this). Make a style of game play where the winner takes a percentage of the gold spent in game. Ie you guys get 50% of the gold spent and the winner/s get the rest. This would mean that players would be encouraged to spend more gold knowing that they potentially would win it all and much more back. It would start fierce spending wars at times as players that have already spent gold will not want to lose it. It would also open up a challenge for real serious strategy gamers who don't like to spend to win, if you go into one of these games and win without spending gold you stand to win big. You could also set a gold buy in on these games, this could then lead to a gold spend limit, setting a more even play on the game. players with less gold would go into a cheaper buy in game and would be limited to a small amount per day, but a wealthier player or a player who has won more could choose to go into a higher priced game where the stakes are higher. Good players could start with nothing and build their way up through the buy ins. This style of game would create HUGE competition and basically open up a kind of betting on your own strategy ability, especially if you bought back gold... Worth MASSIVE $$$ to the creators this could be huge opening up many possible advances, making the pay to win scenario that people don't like into something very different. It would draw in huge amounts of players who are keen to try and make money themselves and make things way competitive.
3. Lastly a much more comprehensive tech tree could create a huge amount of diversity in countries strategies. By giving a much larger range of tech advances you open the way to greater country tech specialization. it also could make secret tech quite interesting, if you had a large range of tech specialty branches you could make it that you had to finish two or three branches to get a particular secret tech, similar to how you have the nuke tech set up. Also domestic tech involving manufacture and scientific research capabilities as well as population growth and moral boosters. Then diplomacy and spy tech, a player would have to research how to spy on communications or to disrupt manufacture or research, or to create a particular diplomatic relationship. Add this with the first suggestion i made and you could have countries nearly totally dedicated to espionage working alongside countries who are military focused, manufacture focused or scientifically focused. And a good solo player will work out their own balance of power and strategy.
I have many more ideas on how to improve this game, and much more detailed ideas within the three I've already outlined, I've spent years thinking about something like this being put together and really look forward to seeing it advance.
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