A Few Bones To Pick

[Ataraxia]

I really enjoyed the idea behind this game and, for about 40% of the time, i really enjoy the game itself. I make sure i vote daily for the benefit of publicity and, if it was not for the fundamental problem i find in playing it, i would gladly spend my hard earned money on it for the various benefits associated with Bulfleet General. Sadly, i believe the battle system to be utterly flawed and it has caused me to consider quitting the game completely.

For a start, the 48hr immunity period does not work properly, unless i am mistaken and (despite extensive searching) have missed reading something. If there are fleets headed to your planet when immunity is initiated the battle still occurs and casualties are calculated/resources are stolen. This is an infuriating topping to a rather infuriating cake.

Now, the main body of this utterly unbalanced cake is the battle ranking system. It's great isn't it? I can't bully weak players because, unless the account has been logged-out for a long enough period and considered idle, i can't attack a player beneath a certain percentage of my rank. Fair enough. So, why can they attack me?. This is a critical failure in Bulfleet. A useless player with no skill at all has been relentlessly chipping away at my empire for about 1 month now and about 5 days ago he finally got through on a technicality. He repeatedly showed a total disregard for the battle system ie weapon types vs. shield types and so as you can probably imagine, for a while, this pestering was quite entertaining. Until he got through by seemingly blind stupidity and ripped a hole in my massively superior aerospace. That really got my blood flowing, the senseless moron had completely by accident configured a fleet strong enough to get through. What did i do? Well, i attempted to recon him of course. I fully intended to smash him to funny little rocks. Especially since i'd put up with around 30-40 spy missions from him daily for about a month...can you even imagine how annoying that is? I even tried reporting him because i'm sure it violates a game rule. Anyways...guess what happened when i tried to recon him? I was told i was too powerful to attack him. Yes. Despite him for a month sending wave after wave of pointless chaff at me to be obliterated by my defences, i was unable to retaliate. W.T.F?

So, i soldiered on because i like the game so much. Despite only playing the game for about 2 months and having 1 month of that playtime totally ruined by this idiot, i'm ranked 480ish. I'm quite proud of that really after 2 months playing.

Then guess what happened to force me to sign up to this forum? Another player attacked me, within my retaliation range this time. Nice. A proper battle for me to finish the round with before i start a new on a level with everyone. No. The player attacking me was under protection. WHAT? Yes. The player who's fleet was happily on it's way to finish what little defences i had left and cripple my power infrastructure beyond belief was.....protected.

What the hell is going on with this game?

I don't mind telling you..i'm a total and utter gamer and i've been fabulously successful at many games of this type. All i can say is this, "if you know who this was you had better make sure you change your name for the next round because i am going to spend the whole of next round sitting on the pair of you".

Further from that, on a more official point, is this supposed to happen or is the game simply flawed beyond all feasible logic?

[RoYaL]

I've read so much and didn't understand what's the main problem? You have activated an imunnity instead of running away with fleet? You have been attacked from a player who's on a protection? You could to the same. Stronger player is attacking you... you go away. You are attacking a weaker player, if he had the luck to go online and go away... he will... and that's the neverending story. Hidding from the stronger and killing the weaker.
For these 2 months, u got enough time to reconstruct your strategy.

P.S.: Or maybe I didn't udnerstand the main idea... between all that things about the protections, stronger players, another protections, etc, etc..

[Ataraxia]

I have a Degree in English Language. Perhaps it is your lack of comprehension

I shall endeavour to make it very simple, as simple as is possible.

Player attacks me and i canot attack it back. Why?

There should be no reason whatsoever in any game at all that one person can attack a player without fear of retaliation.

I'm not discussing semantics, are you administration? If you are not then i'm afraid you are not equipped to help with the problem.

I appreciate you trying but you will only consider my problem from your position and success in-game which is entirely useless to me and my position and therefore an excercise in futility.

[freeico]

Hello Ataraxion, there is no need to have any degree in any Language to know that It is how .... let say just not polite to use words like moron to anyone, that have spent any time to play with you, even as opponent.

The immunity is good feature even when it is not used in good way. The idea is to be able to recover without way for the opponent to respond back. If you are so strong as you said, then just wait until that opponent has gone out of immunity and then crash him down. There is no reason for 1M to put the stress over general rules of the game.

[RoYaL]

Цитат(Ataraxion @ Jan 19 2010, 12:13) I have a Degree in English Language. Perhaps it is your lack of comprehension

I shall endeavour to make it very simple, as simple as is possible.

Player attacks me and i canot attack it back. Why?

There should be no reason whatsoever in any game at all that one person can attack a player without fear of retaliation.

I'm not discussing semantics, are you administration? If you are not then i'm afraid you are not equipped to help with the problem.

I appreciate you trying but you will only consider my problem from your position and success in-game which is entirely useless to me and my position and therefore an excercise in futility.

Congrat's for your Degree. I haven't. Does it mean, I shouldn't post here?

Yeah, that's said from my position. And I don't think there are any other real positions, to be said.

The immunities aren't endless. They are total 10 days for all the round (90 days for speed, 120 days for uni2...) ... It means there will be at least 80 days to revenge the person, who attacked u in a protection. (or u have revenged him yet, and he launched an immunity...)

Accept my apologies that I'm talking nonsens for you.

[experriment]

Ataraxia, u should be more careful with your English degree, somebody might attack you badly from behind :D

[Ataraxia]

QUOTE (RoYaL @ Jan 19 2010, 10:52) Congrat's for your Degree. I haven't. Does it mean, I shouldn't post here?

Yeah, that's said from my position. And I don't think there are any other real positions, to be said.

The immunities aren't endless. They are total 10 days for all the round (90 days for speed, 120 days for uni2...) ... It means there will be at least 80 days to revenge the person, who attacked u in a protection. (or u have revenged him yet, and he launched an immunity...)

Accept my apologies that I'm talking nonsens for you.

Marvelous! Brilliant! Seriously.

This answer is EXACTLY what i needed.

The immunity only lasts for 10 days? Then, even though it was used badly this time, it is good overall.

All i needed to know was "what am i missing? surely a game can't be this unfair?" - i was missing the fact that immunity only lasts 10 days.

Thank-you RoYaL, and no need to apologise - from out of chaos came understanding!

"freeico" - no help at all, well done.