Last chance for CA to save me for the total war series

[Kocmoc]

I noticed a very interesting thing yesterday, Im sure you can repeat that at yourself:

1. I opened the "Battlelist"
2. I saw just 2-4 games
3. I waited around 5-10 minutes - was working on the other monitor
4. suddenly a BIG (really monsta) list did appear and than disappear after a few seconds

This happened many times. Now I tested to click really quick to get into a game and I could manage that.
Sitting in the setup page for like 20 sec and than got "kicked" out of the game.

There are still problems, to ensure that everyone can see all the hosted games.



Anyway, CA is not able to deliver whats needed for a successful MP-game. They have good ideas, the basics are very good, but they dont get it online.
Since many years its more or less the same, they publish a game, we go online and than face a big bunch of bugs.

This is clearly a problem of bad programmer or people who lack MP-experience. As long there is no heavy change within the CA-team, we wont see any change concerning MP-quality. The biggest problem I see here is, that CA has no idea what their own MP-part needs. The basic gameplay is bad designed, its shown by the massive amount of negative posts everywhere.

A MM is a good thing to have, as long you got a certain amount of player playing online, right now new player face lvl 10 full time.
IF you think about the way the game has to be played, with veterans and good clan-upgrades, than you can imagine, how frustrating it will be for new player to win some games even! They give up, since they need at least 10 clantokens to even get a single good upgraded vet.

This are basics, there should be smart people thinking about a Plan-B before the game is released.
It was obvious before release and I already pointed that out at a time the demo came out.

To let people unlock maps, units and retainer is a nice mmog thing, but after 1-2 weeks things get out of hands. New player who come online need much better petting,
I would give new player veterans for free and also half the unlocks. Another way around would be to give them all units for free, but not the retainer, so the unlocking has still some value.

Example: I go bring my monkbow with 200 range in a 5k game! Standing there with my bow gen (also 200 range) and just shoot them to pieces.
What is that for an experience? New player has no chance!

Lets take that example. Imo there should be a limit of things which are allowed to bring in 5k battle. An easy way would be to not allow any veteran unit in 5k games.
This would at least give new player some chance, but only, if they get all units free from start. Else people will go with monk bows (175 range) at those poor guys.


There was many more good suggestions, look at my "artillery button", that would solve the problem with artillery. It would still be in game, but people can choose not to press the button. Same goes with enemy shown before the game starts, its a spoiler and the escaping is getting out of hands.

People alt-f4, drop from the game, the AI takes over and if the AI lose, he still get a loss, even if not playing anymore.


All those things was known before release... We speak about clancampaign, tons of people mentioned it before release, that this is only mass > class.
It makes no sense, its pointless, in the current TW game skill is not really seen, its all about mass, alt-f4 a lot of time.... thats it.



I just can say, that Im about to stop playing, this game (with all its potential) is an early beta or even an alpha. I cant see other people hosted games, I cant play vs other clans, since someone always cant see the game and cant join. Ladder is crap, clancampaign is crap, tons of bugs, tons of problems, tons of imbalances....

Its a nightmare and a shame! The game got dumped down, but is that really what people want? I doubt it, look at WC3 there are 40k people playing it still in the morning and a lot more in the peaks, 12k games up the same time.... this game is not dumped down its extreme good, balanced....

Amazing is, how CA can get away with this. With such a big amount of problems... The MP part is no success and they might never learn it, but looking at what they brought for the MP part all those years, I just can say, that they are not having the personal for getting it done correctly.
There are too many people who have no idea about how their game is working online, they dont see it, since they dont play online and if there are some playing online they are utterly crap player and wont understand the problems anyway.