GeneralJackson's BLOG

~sets a box of puffs out~ You missed a tear ...

I still think resources on the market should be able to be looted. I mean, you can shift resources to another base, but that is legit..Market is not a bank!

I loot plenty, this game DOES reward foresight... You're just not insightful enough...

If you value realism and see the game as both enjoyment and education, for a possible future in the armed forces or even simply a preparatory tool for a time when you don't live with your parents, then the current game rules which allow a player to 'take his ball home' and essentially withdraw from reality, well, that's what's absurd.

Game administrators could easily change the rules to make resources 'for sale' still within the city, which is how they are in real life. When I put my house on the market, it's still mine and can still be burned down, vandalized or destroyed.

Actually when pple attack me - and I 'hide' my resources - I ALWAYS reply with a taunt - its like how dare you think me so stupid to build resources for you to just march in and take my respurces away from me after you just come in and build for a week - and I spent over 4 weeks of base building and actual physical cash on accumulating...

This is like WWII in that you had to adapt your strategy - this is a strategy nased game played over weeks and months - not an arcade game that you can master in a week - so look at it this way - you know that this guy was around to switch his finances only minutes before your troops arrive - so try 12 hours from then - he has to sleep sometime and try to avoid weekend attacks as pple at home not at work so more chances of the spotting the attack... Also build intelligence and spies and do research before attack (if they have no troops/defenses its for a reason - they have another strategy to protect their resources - theres no such thing as a free lunch in life - and therefore neither is there likely to be in this game - they way you are playing is likely to result in victory only because of the stupidity of others and not your current strategy - and both you and your sone can learn and play together...

Hope you remain in the game though as you seem genuine enough to want to succeed!!! Good luck!!!!

you were outsmarted thats the great part of this War, deceit and trickery, I just love it

Taunts create anger, anger causes Mistakes, thats a Great!! Tactic

I appreciate the insight into the purpose of the game. Obviously anyone who is playing the game needs to adapt to the rules of the game, so those who are using the rules (however poorly thought-out those rules may be) to their advantage.

Of course this is only a game, and therefore not like real war. Most importantly, no one is killed and no destruction is accomplished. I recognize that taunting is common in games, but it's a reflection of a lack of maturity and you won't find it among virtuous warriors. For them the means by which you prosecute the war and the accomplishment are sufficient reward.

I find the tactic of being able to 'hide' resources on the open market a serious flaw in an otherwise impressive game. There are lots of reasons to sell your resources at a discount (e.g., needing to sell quickly). I understand that I'm likely a decade or two older than most players here, but I think it would be better if the strategy games prepare younger players for the real world in whatever ways possible.

A few things -

This is a game and not meant as a life simulation - there is no substitute for life!!!

Try teaching anyone anything with WWII equipment - the King Panzer - argueably the best bit of kit on the WWII battlefield - or even the V2 - without doubt the most technically proficient bit of kit in WWII (bar the A bomb - but only in in terms of sheer fire-power)... You will be blown to simthereens in any modern battle - WWII is not good for contemporary tank -v- aircraft -v- infintantry debate - the world has moved on - a piolotless drone can do much more than any of those WWII resources - even if they were combined (a small nucluer device can be droped from a drone by one guy a thousand miles away!)...

So you wanna teach your son lessons relivant for the moddern age (and that is a laudable goal!)... Try strategy - when you go after something - and somehing is in your way - how do you find your way around that obsticle??? Much more of todays world will be virtual by the time your son is your age than it is for you now or you could ever imagine - Teach him strategy - what was relivant two thousand years ago is as relivant now - see Roman strategy for training and defence/attack strategy - let alone what the Goths etc. did to undermine that strategy. Don't fixate about who can actually blow up a building - this game is based on strategy - not reality! Adapt or die - now thats a lesson worth teaching!!!!

Run, hide swindle , do what you have to do to live, So you can fight another day... Dead Soldiers dont win Wars