Another unannounced, unscheduled maintenance?

[chrysim55]

In the middle of sieges? Great! Another way for R2 to try and make me lose my city and I suppose our next siege, there will be 1000 npcs instead of the usual 490. Which is bad enough! R2 cut these stupid sieges already - they are boring and obviously not important to the game as you are always budding in with random maintenance during them.

Notice when I try to login: Our server is currently undergoing maintenance. While waiting for our servers to come back online, please look around R2Game's community, or read up on our current promotions and activities! We appreciate your patience and understanding. Thank you.

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[chrysim55]

It's early morning in the UK. Early evening in Australia. Almost 2:45 am here in Eastern NA. R2 you really know how to kill interest in a game; make it impossible for as many players as possible to play it!

[MemoryLane]

Unfortunately, R2 does not get to decide when maintenance is, and maintenance will always be during the normal business day in the GMT+8 time zone. But, I will forward your feedback about the lack of prior announcement.

[chrysim55]

Thanks Memorylane. So R2 do not do their own maintenance? That explains alot. Like how everytime there is maintenance, we all get hit with 1000 npc sieges. Like today and probably tonight. The regular sieges are too long - double sieges like these are a waste of resources, troops and precious time that could be better spent actually playing the farking game! Feel free to pass that along to them, too

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[MemoryLane]

The devs do the maintenance for this game. Sometimes they even tell us first so we can post an announcement, but it seems they usually skip that part.

[chrysim55]

Thanks Memorylane for the info. Not blaming you; yours must be a mighty thankless task sometimes. The issue with the sieges in general and the double sieges in particular is an issue the devs should be aware is ruining the game. People are quitting because it is boring! All there is are endless sieges and no time to play the game. It is a waste of time, troops and resources that some players cannot sustain. These sieges must be curtailed and double sieges eliminated entirely because if not, this game is done!

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[MemoryLane]

I will forward your feedback.

[Clifford Rottweiler]

Thanks Memorylane for the info. Not blaming you; yours must be a mighty thankless task sometimes. The issue with the sieges in general and the double sieges in particular is an issue the devs should be aware is ruining the game. People are quitting because it is boring! All there is are endless sieges and no time to play the game. It is a waste of time, troops and resources that some players cannot sustain. These sieges must be curtailed and double sieges eliminated entirely because if not, this game is done!

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could not disagree more. unpredictable npc seiges offer dynamics; change the map up; offer some break in routine. why is predictable clockwork battles that turns game into boring farming game ok, but dynamics and random encounters would make game boring????? seems contradictive

[chrysim55]

Simply, there are too many sieges. Once a day, okay but twice is too much. They disrupt the game - how can you carry on a campaign when it is interrupted by sometimes multiple sieges that often block routes. So now you have to sit for 2 hours fighting boring npcs instead of fighting your own wars. People just put their troops on dispatch and go play other games; they rapidly lose interest in this game as a result. The sieges are not exactly random when you know 2 hours in advance where and when they will be. They may be fun for the first few times but they quickly become nothing but routine and there is nothing exciting or unpredictable about them whatsoever. Same old, same old - twice a day every day except on Paragon Sunday - equals boring!

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