Ok, so we all know the last time GAX came back it kinda failed. Chick is going to give it one more try!

She has made some changes.


1st... 2 week rounds. No more long drawn out things, rounds are 2 weeks max! 24 hours of pre-game, 24 hours of noob, then bloodshead!

2nd... Scores are now archived! So when you win (or die) your score will be archived.

I think she plans to do more, but wants to see if the round lenght will fix things a little. Also new starting resources (enough to actually build your planet!!!)

yey, my scored idea was implemented

alliance restriction is a neccessity!! maximum of 5 in an alliance.

also apply a bash limit. the amout of times you see farmers miraculously hitting a nice planet straight out of noobie 4 times and getting full whack for it. have a bash limit of 35% like GA war status.

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short rounds, small alliances, less reason to bash...perfect game all we need now is players :D

Bash limit isnt a good idea...the game would lose his point of beign extreme, maybe a MA Protection, like we had in SK. I dont remember very well how it works, but every consecutive hit the player would get less land. This way the players wouldnt hit 4 times the same player.when she is going to re-open it?I still didnt fiish a round in GAX, not because someone killed me, because I always had to quit in the middle of the round!

Starting Monday hopefully!

there is nothing extreme about hitting a farm 4 times every 30 hours constantly. which is what was happening when the game first reopened

thats why I said to reduce the amount of resources grabbed and looted after the first hit...

lets say:

1st hit - normal
2nd hit - -15% (this mean he will get -15% of the normal)
3rd hit - -30%
4th hit - - 45%

its extreme if u decide to start late in the round and when u leave nb mode, u get hit 4 times or more...if someone could survive this start, then he could be called a extreme player

No, bash limitations would be very wrong.

What should be done to GaX in addition to the changes made just now, is that the game doesn't run the same way GA does.

Ga runs like this: 5 day signup - 3 day newbie - 6 weeks of play - 1 week chaos - and immidiately starts a new round sign up.

GaX does the same thing, but should be run hand in hand with GA imo, either every game -but preferably just every 2nd game.


5 day sign up GA
3 day newbie
2.5 week play -> GaX sign up for 3 days.
GA still running - GaX runs for 2 weeks, no chaos.
Ga keeps running for 1.5-2 weeks after GaX ends.
1 week chaos

NEW ROUND. Repeat procedure.

This will give GAX a break for 6-7 weeks between end and sign up. And it would make it a little exclusive as well.

marcus, the point is last time chick tried to restart GAX there was a group of players *cough* lone wolf etc*cough* just hit 'new' planets right of noob 4 times.

they wernt active players, just farms. and hitting a farm 4 times every few hours, even with reduced loot/land and still more worth while than hitting an active decent planet.

last round GA kicked off there was 3 groups of players, 1 group that just wanted to raid everyone, 1 group that farmed and 1 group that was the farms.

its NOT an extreme element of the game, its an element that encourages farms to be made. and its definately the week link to GAX.

SWB im not commenting on your post, cus its probably a very good suggestion, but without sorting out the core elements of the game then there is no point.

if the no bash limit is kept then it must be closed sign ups.

i'll get naked

Closed signup would be a dream.

you mean like signups only for the first x days of the game?

We should try it...

:-D

Pre-Game is saturday, and noob sunday.

Prepare!

The new GAX is now open for signups!

There were quite a few code changes, so please email me a bug report if you see any problem.

The new implementation is

1. 2 week rounds (first one will be a couple of days longer to get on a Tuesday reset schedule).

2. 2 days of signups, 1 day of newbie status, 11 days of play.

3. No restrictions on alliance size, attacks, etc. You want extreme, this is extreme. You want limits and controls, play GA.

4. Signups will be open for the entire round, HOWEVER accounts made after the round starts running will remain in Newbie Status for the entire round. This is to allow people to see the game, new players who happen to come in the middle can still signup and start learning, but no one straight out of newbie to bash.

5. Scores will be archived (this is new so no guarantees on the first round (round 14)).

6. No Chaos, but game end date/time will be known.

Have fun!
Chick

Just wnated to make sure, if your in noob and the game ends, your not archived in the scores right?

lol GAX

new round, same BS.

theres barely 15 active planets.

7 of them are in same alliance with this for policy:

!"£!£"!£"!£$ (#:#)


Aug 3, 7:59 pm


this alliance is stop the other allances or planets from getting so big that they ruin the game.

$%^%&$^&


so by having all the actives in one alliance, will stop other planets getting too big and "ruin the game"

i understand you want no rules in GAX.. but wtf is extreme about everyone being in the same alliance?

Attack each other?

get naked

sorry, didn't make it this round as i just got back from vacation.

No alliances might work to some extend. I'll play next round and help you rip thos stackers apart;)

I signed late...but I'll sign up next round...I can help with ths stacked alliance...

I'm thinking about doing an active suicide strategy

maybe you should test out that theory in real life first

New round of GAX starting Tuesday! We had a good showing, but sadly Master Jedi owned us all. Lets get some more players! Then we can make sure he doesnt win 2 rounds in row!