Softer Reset?

*Speaking purely on what the game is today, right now, no changes*

The problem is it's practically impossible to catch up in Ogre Wars, we all keep saying it's possible through cooperation but then every season someone gets on top and no one is ever able to catch them. Since the game has no way to actually lose strength you can only make up ground by generating more gold than them.

Realistically assuming they don't stop playing that is impossible as why would someone stronger than you purposely give up his/her advantage? Our excuse was always well the other people could attack and then this one person builds above ... but that doesn't work as it has a super limited window before the stronger person can just fight all of you on his/her own as we've seen many times.

It's just how it works, the game is flawed. A soft reset giving an advantage to active players this season sounds good in theory but it'll just handicap everyone else. It'd have to be a pretty small and equal advantage otherwise the season could easily be over before it started.

 

I don't see any issue with resetting to 0 as a alternative to a hard reset aside from maybe the current player numbers are quite skewed towards the Ironheads but it's kinda a fluff number as I'm sure many are inactive anyways. Bonuses for active players isn't completely a problem either as long as they aren't too large.

 

I don't see any issue with resetting to 0 as a alternative to a hard reset aside from maybe the current player numbers are quite skewed towards the Ironheads but it's kinda a fluff number as I'm sure many are inactive anyways. Bonuses for active players isn't completely a problem either as long as they aren't too large.

 

Unless ogreman has since gained the power to alter player weapon/armor count, a soft reset to zero is about as useful as any other soft reset: negligibly so, except to remove the inactive players from the top and make it a bit less likely people will complain about not being able to quit the game. If armor/weapons can be removed as well, sure, resetting everyone to zero that way is effectively the same as a hard reset would be anyway.

Any reset that leaves long-term players with their accumulated items is not a reset, it's an excuse to make them use turns on troops instead of gold and to bring inactive players further down the list.

 

Unless ogreman has since gained the power to alter player weapon/armor count, a soft reset to zero is about as useful as any other soft reset: negligibly so, except to remove the inactive players from the top and make it a bit less likely people will complain about not being able to quit the game. If armor/weapons can be removed as well, sure, resetting everyone to zero that way is effectively the same as a hard reset would be anyway.

Any reset that leaves long-term players with their accumulated items is not a reset, it's an excuse to make them use turns on troops instead of gold and to bring inactive players further down the list.