iphone apps undergo quite a lot of scrutiny in the development by apple. Potentially a headache for a developer who isn't really getting paid for their work.

just a word to the wise. remove posts like this one that talk about the death of the game before the facebook stuff goes live.

Yeah AxA works like crazy to get people back to the game ha.

We also keep things going with a ton of mafia games with other alliances.

sadly i've to agree with slag, alliance ain't fun to play unless plays at 20+ members alliance.

yeah, apparently iphone apps are a pain to get through.
go android! there are 0 restrictions on publishing an app :p that, and i have a HTC legend

I believe qz writes them professionally right now at his job :p
Likely far more effort for his app he's doing compared to what it would take to make the game work on an iphone :)

I also have some other ideas for apps that would appeal to smartphone users on the alliance server as well :)

If earth ever goes to an iphone app it's definitely gonna need hot keys for BPT/TPT etc, fluff typing in numbers over and over again on iphones..

This. Llaar recruits like mad, and we try to keep it fin for our players, but there's not enough non-pacted/farmed players on alliance to make it fun.

Been saying it for years... until alliance leaders stop enforcing some of the retarded policies that make land impossible to get, numbers will just keep declining. Get rid of alliance-wide retals, and you don't need to pact everyone else to protect your land. The game opens right up again.

restricting attacks (ss/ps) against alliance not at war to 2 per day would help small alliances to keep growing.

eh most people playing actually doesnt want to grab so I dont see how your post holds any merit patience, its the samethin youve posted about L:L killing the game

if anything removing alliance wide retals will probably kill the game for sure, the only reason its declining is because well we've all been around for the last decade and we all grow up anyone that hasnt played for 5 years is a noob these days

etc

fluff

Llaar is actually a fairly bad example. Recruiters should focus on recruiting outside the game. Recruiting from inside the game is practically automated.

I have worked some on a Game Info page about the LCN/Fist/Omega* vs ImagNum*/SoL war

*Noting that The Omega and ImagNum did not engage in a war between each other.

If some other people could help on pages even a little bit once a week, then we can add some serious pages. We might even want to get some postings up about the wars and/or warring periods that had major consequences for the alliances of this game.

I can add some stuff. But it's all super old. heh

But I am looking at ways to recruit outside of the game.
I was at the library earlier today using their wi-fi. The guy sitting next to me left a notecard on the table. It was an ad to join some first person shooter clan on xbox live. Hello.

Ivan, if grabbing wasn't so impossible on this server more would do it. See team, primary, express, etc etc.

grabbing isn't impossible for laf.

Heh I don't grab because it's tooo much effort these days.... and i'm waay too busy =/

I am beginning to think that a really good start might be made by banning every single person currently playing the game today and essentially start over with an entirely new member base. As a group, we have been very good Beta testers, but we are pure poison when it comes to creating a welcoming environment for throngs of new players. It would be kind of interesting to see the game re-evolve with new players. If FB actually does as advertised, the 500 or so assholes already here will be nothing but an irratating pain in the ass to the dev-team.

Hey now, The Omega treats untaggeds well for the most part.

The TAN does as well!

I agree with archaic lol. Perhaps leave us a server or two (where politics and alliances would matter) where other FB players don't get into yet(or create side servers that aren't connected to FB). Primary for example would be fine adding players, but alliance certainly would not.

Maybe give the servers rankings.

Primary: Rated Everyone
...
Alliance: Beware of Sharks! Untaggeds mercilessly attacked.

Untaggeds on all clan servers already receive warnings that they should tag up.

I suppose we could add additional information to the country creation page as well.

There are ads on this site?

stoping retals would be a mistake for sure as then people would hit same guy more then once would farm whole clans

maybe define them a bit

the game is coming along great thanks

if you wiki working would be great learning tool i have had few come to play but was overwhelmed

need where to start first steps for getting started

one thing would be great is make it so you can use your mouse more for buying and selling like sell all rather then typing in right numbers

search tools for finding targets easyer would help

this by far the best game out there just got to make it easyer to learn

i found it hard and i played before years ago

and sauron was the one that recruited me back

maybe it would be better if you allowed people to play more countires it would increase amount of targets but also would make one player more dangrous there always up side and down long as there playing there countries manually

maybe also take out selfarming can't farm anyone in your own alliance

just some thoughts

hmm 2 countries would be nice if i fluff up one i would have one more to fall back on :)

This probably has been brought up. But ever consider trying to get emails form the boys at Jolt. They have utopia running (Yes i still play utopia), there are 6.2k countries even if half are multies that is still 3k people who enjoy cooperative turn based games. Or exchanging ads and seeing if you can drive some new members that way.

Jolt/Omac never responded to any of our mails regarding purchasing the game for money... I doubt they'll respond to any kind of request like that :(

Comwood is a better option, maybe he'll get more time to come back to the game once his kids are off to college.

*puts Sauron back her little box*
I think QMDiver got in and let you out. Hrrrmmmm

this game will die if the following reasons are not checked

A: doing DR`S on each other.
B: L:L retals.

And as i see it both of the above will just make it impossible to gain land or at least make it a waste of time. cause once it starts it will just keep going like a rolling stone till everyone is doing it. or clans might just say fluff it and start land wars off which will suit the warring clans. so take your pick i just hope some see`s sense and does something to sort it out.

well everyone can agree that the current policys are not helping the game grow, but no one can agree what direction to go

well you could
A: ban DR`S
B: put a maximum number of retals per hit that you can take ie 2 retals per hit not 13 retals on 3 hits like LCN did today (see my LCN thread)

Considering the hopefully-soon-to-arrive FB population, I would think that they might be attracted to the game by a massive war, whether for land or just for the fluff of it. As a netter, I wouldn't find it too appetizing, but I can imagine someone who's never played the game before thinking, "There's a lot of action going on in this game! Let's get in on it!"

The downside is that veteran netters won't be happy to be forced into random wars for the sake of newbies. Nor will smaller clans care for the added strain. Just an idea, but it has its drawbacks.

missles FTW !!

they should be used as a deterrent, like in real life.

Well. We need a few wars to figure out which policy works better.

Or at least get forced into using one or teh other.

pang, why dont you make a list of example 'blog' sites. if i 'blogged' at all, i would be happy to blog about eempires.

a list of these sites would be nice for anyone interested in helping

Blogs, newsites and the likes would be a great idea. Except that in any competitive game anyone who tries doing this gets flamed and insulted because they are not t10 and their opinion/ideas are irrelevent.

I have an Earth Empires blog, and I link the fluff out of everything.