nc

he doesnt play or get involved at all. im not sure why this is a problem. hes there to show support only.

nc

This is purely temporary and for testing purposes. Darkstar does not participate.

hello and good whatever time zone you are in. I have just read this and find that i should inform dan that we really need 100 in a legion and that i have had many complaints that they feel as though they are about to be for farmed from higher level players. I asked them to be patient but we really need more per legion. i am in charge of DOO 3 and found it distastful to have to explain that i could not take more into my legion.these people were in my main legion and even though we are friends i wanted them to be able to stay with me. These legion members are the best i feel and i want them back. We have helped each other and been a true legion. I understand that change has its good and bad however we can make it better and easier on everyone.if we can increase even by 25 it would help. i enjoy helping the lower ranks but cannot do what i need to teach them with the lack of ship strength to fend themselves off from the high levels. i come to you on behalf of my legion to request that the lower ranks should have bigger legion for the simple fact that they are lower in rank.By doing this the playing fields should even out and help stop the worry about the farming fear.

Thank you very much for your time and energy.

balanced legions will survive longer than NPC farmers. i anticipated the tactical fail of the tiered rank in the legions, but nobody listened to me. it will have to be balanced or your lower level group WILL be farmed without high level support. i really feel sorry for those highest level in that group, no body above them to help when someone 40% higher in rank is attacking.

I am planning on staying to lead them even though i grow to give them the support of my strength of my rank and ship. we are attempting to balance them and i have found a better balance but we just need a few more. If any thing could there be a special place for a person that wants to help of high level in case of emergency? like a helper button? Call it a legion assist button? It would help alot and as the legion grows and moves on they will one day return the favor. Again thank you for your quick response.

I dis agree. i spoke about this long before this system was set in place. This makes it more likely that Uber types will form. its much easier to get 50 high level players consolidated for their own protection and projection of power then a group of 200. i predict instead the high ranks will consolidate as if by gravity being drawn to each other. these group can go unchecked and unchallenged. thats the direction i saw before for small legion sizes, and i still feel the same way, at least is not as horrible as 25 would have been.

I think a huge ball and point has been dropped here by the developer's. This is a Facebook game. as i understand Facebook games are social network games. now i may not be real life friends with everyone i talk to(actually none, im old fashion and talk by phone or in person to them) but i have built up friendships with a lot of these people because of the game. i come into contact with them due to game and group issues. the conversations do not stop there for me at least. after business there is time for personal talk. i have met a lot of interesting people from all over the globe, and talked to them about there real lives. i would not have found them without the game, but now they are all cut off from me except 49 others. i no longer get alerts that say x player needs help guard defend. then i go help out and ask whats up, and we talk and socialize. now i know spoony says im not having them over for pizza or anything, but i dont have to and it miss's the whole internet concept of having contact with people that you CANT have a pizza with.

my friend Matt hes a service man in the army in Hawaii (thanks for your service man). i can never have a pizza with him, but hes my friend. I have a friend in eastern Europe, who is really smart about the game, but he rubs it in that hes going to the black sea to the beach or a night club. i cant have a pizza with him but i like and respect him. the people i know better i am more able to keep in contact with, the others i have already lost contact with due to the last to alert system changes. so the whole Facebook social network is killed. its fine for people who actually dont want contact with anyone not a real life friend, but myself im fascinated by different well everything. people, places, ideas, they are all the spice of life. the game has to be about more then just numbers on a page instead its about the fun of doing things as a group. The social network part of the game has quite simply be disabled.

All in all im just very displeased with the direction the game has taken recently. it has tried to be to many things to to many people and has lost sight of what the active daily players wants.

Then as it is clearly not a good idea to go 200 or 25, that people are complaining that 50 is too low, then why not my first suggetion of 100? It works perfectly for the alliances in Kingdoms of Camelot.

Non-DOO Legions are having a hard enough time filling their ranks with 50 people as it is. With a few adjuncts to recruiting bigger groups might be more feasible for anyone, not solely DOO. The new system and its member limit still need time to play out IMO.

Now we have a comm, so communication, social or otherwise, has only improved. You can still communicate within the FB groups just as well as before. I might have friends I've never met, but I would still have trouble naming off 50 of them if you asked me to. I'm not going to blame DOO for screwing up game balances any more because the new system has essentially fixed most of the problems and disadvantages that the thousands of other players could have possibly had by simply not joining. If they are all your friends and not just a huge self-propagating group of people exploiting what they can in a beta, then it shouldn't really be a problem.

/concur
Once people get settled in with the new system im pretty sure things will improve and there will be more legion on legion conflict to spur up alerts and what nought.

As for the actual topic of this thread, while im sure those of you who really have a problem with this will choose to not believe this, ill say it anyway. Darkstar does nothing, at all. No alerts, no sharing, heck he dosnt even awnser questions. I can only assume hes just seeing what its like in a Legion to look for bugs or annoyances.

if its the case that no alerts of any kind are shared(0) then its not a problem then. if you chose to handicap you legion in the future as well then its fine but you are all still gaining a 2% bonus that you are not legitimately entitled to. if he just stays till you can fill your ranks then thats not right and your legion is gaining an unfair advantage.

spoony you just dont get the whole idea period. you just dont and thats fine if you choose not to enjoy that part of the game but i will remind you again....its a FACEBOOK GAME. Facebook games are SUPPOSED to be social network games. a new player has no incentive to network, and as good pvp player pointed out to me, all my friends have a permanent attack link to me. yeah yeah yeah if there supposed to be my friends why are they attacking me. thats because the game from the start encouraged it. i know i have tons of spies in my legion that i could control, and they payed the price of not being able to attack me to spy on me(defrienders were easy to spot). now i have to go to each one of these peoples pages to defriend them.

to quote Gunny Highway: "It's a cluster f@ck."

I wouldnt mind if Dan made it so that his Char didnt add many bonuses to the group. Though IMO the legion bonus isnt something worth getting fussy over seeing as the fact that hes a Dev dosnt make it better and hes using up a spot.

You are 100% correct....it dose not matter much...its more a matter of principle and propriety, thats all, to some of us its as important as any kill total or research per hour whatever.

If anything, Dan being in that group is hurting them. While they get that 2% (minuscule) bonus they are losing a spot that could be taken by an active player that will still get them their 2% bonus.

Like this...

Dan
2% bonus
No NPC farming
No PVP fighting

Other Player
2% bonus
NPC farming
PVP help

hey fyi dan does not add suport to that legion the 2% bonus he is giving really is not that much.... agreed he is giving them a 2% bonus by just being there, but that is nothing too the loss of a legion meber slot, that they have to forfit for him being their. I personaly dont have an issue with you being there, but you have to admit it looks a little odd having the dev in a group of active player. I understand you need to check thing out in the game to see how they work, as i said i have no issue with it, just letting you know how it looks from the outside. For those that question it.... Just look at the leader board he is 490 and does not even show up. He is only in the game as a dev testing things out. Just think of him as i said before as a ghost.... a jedi spirt. his present is felt, but he is not really there.

Well, he is supporting us in another way, he adds a TON to our total strength(He never uses it, dont think he uses it), and it got us on the strength leaderboard, which means, more members.

13 mins ago: DarkStar has left Project Anarchy
13 mins ago from DarkStar:
I will take my leave. Good luck to all

Wow, even without Dan PA is still on the strength leaderboard. We are just on a lower position.

see i told you he was not or should not have been a issue to others. as was stated all he was really doing is taking up a spot in you legion.