450(450) is just an absurd amount of turns that unbalances things. If you aren't going to play for more than say 30 hours (a bit of a buffer over 24) in an EXPRESS server there is nothing wrong with you losing turns. 30 hours is 450 turns so something like 200(250) max. Even that is probably still too many, so perhaps slow down from 4 minutes to 5 or 6 minutes per turn as well.

I can go into the many problems of being able to store 900 turns if you like, but I would think Slagpit would understand, not sure who designed express...

we didn't so much design express as make a test bed before alliance; and we just accelerated everything linearly from alliance....

so you can't make any changes to the express server that wouldn't maek it an exact replica of alliance with turns sped up?

err yea we can change each thing individually ;) we just didn't see any particular reason to change it yet :)

oh well if your open to changing things drop the max turns then.

no leave me alone

200 turns would mean youd need to play every 13.33 hours or lose turns, thats probably not the best solution

the last logins to use all turns would have to be 13 hours apart, before that you could have some longer but not all

26.66-13.33-6.66-6.66-26.66-13.33-6.66-6.66-26.66-13.33-6.66-6.66

for example would work with your number, but i would guess the design goal is not to force people to play more than once a day

should we not allow 1x per day play?

personally if i was playing express i'd only play 1x per day; and maybe 1.5 days if i was busy

qz I think you either have to slow express down to 8 minutes/turn (in which case is it really express) or you have to set it up so that you must play more than once a day. I mean wasn't old express like a 24 or 48 hour event?

24 hour event yea i think, but turn rate was faster too i think