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[Supaman771]

Originally Posted by paintballdude956

What stops a lot of them from getting hooked is the lack of players, obviously.

So I guess what I'm saying is that there is no easy solution and that they're almost entirely different games. One thing though: I would be tempted to play iEra if there were just a standalone client and I didn't have to play on a crummy web browser. That's probably the biggest beef I have with iEra

This mentality is one of the biggest issues we have with PC Era as well.
They don't want to play because there's not enough players; but there isn't enough players because they don't want to play. Trollol.

I didn't mind playing iEra on my tablet but once they added the BAR and it basically became pay2win I immediately stopped playing.
If I could get online via the Graal client though I'd consider playing again just because it makes it much more accessible.

[MysticalDragon]

Originally Posted by paintballdude956

From what I understand (Andy could comment on this a lot more than I), iEra is coded quite a bit differently. I know for a fact it runs higher than 20 FPS, which is already a huge difference both for development and player experience. For instance, this allows a huge diversity in weapon statistics, since stats freeze, sleep, etc are not limited to .05 of a second increments (1 divided by 20 FPS = .05 in case you didn't know where that limitation comes from).
And apart from guns, every script on PC Era relies on the fact that the game runs at 20 FPS. I don't know how easy it would be to port things over to iEra

This isn't true? All the iphone servers are on the same maxed out FPS as the normal servers. However iEra is indeed scripted differently. Snk/Andy scripted a huge portion of not all of it from scratch. It's much more efficent than era pc. So it lags alot less, the only reason it does lag it maintains over 3000 players at times.

[paintballdude956]

Originally Posted by MysticalDragon

This isn't true? All the iphone servers are on the same maxed out FPS as the normal servers. However iEra is indeed scripted differently. Snk/Andy scripted a huge portion of not all of it from scratch. It's much more efficent than era pc. So it lags alot less, the only reason it does lag it maintains over 3000 players at times.

Ah, apologies, I was under the impression it ran at a higher frame rate. It's obviously an impressive feat that iEra lags as little as it does when it has thousands of players at a time. Though I do wonder how much of that has to do with the quality of the servers iEra uses compared to PC. I have no idea about that.

[Ceasar]

Originally Posted by Godzilla

suggestion; merge pc era and iera together already

i have been wanting this, iera is missing the party dungeon content, and era has better mining, mystery coin/ chest system. i would surely play iera more often if it was playable or merged with era on the pc client.

[shrimps]

I think a gang admin would help somewhat, even if they don't make changes all the time, just having an active staff member host and promote raiding from various ways. You pretty much have to baby people into raiding now.
Swift did a lot of those random gang events/activities and there was a lot of people raiding.

[shrimps]

Well I for one play for different aspects of the game, Businesses, economy, community, economic wealth? I don't think these things are on iEra. I'm pretty sure the movement system is different as well, as when I tried to play on it on my phone and facebook it felt clunky.

[shrimps]

Why not remove k/d or any show that someone is better and just have it based on word of mouth. That way if you're good you're good and everyone knows, if you suck you just suck.

[Logababy]

Originally Posted by shrimps

Why not remove k/d or any show that someone is better and just have it based on word of mouth. That way if you're good you're good and everyone knows, if you suck you just suck.

Yeah, I think it should only display kills, for at least some sort of recognition for your effort. People care about deaths way too much.

[Kohola_KinG]

Removing deaths and K/D from profiles is a positive move.
Removing the elo system is a positive move.

It encourages people to raid more, spar more and die more.

[Eclipse]

Originally Posted by shrimps

Why not remove k/d or any show that someone is better and just have it based on word of mouth. That way if you're good you're good and everyone knows, if you suck you just suck.

We should go back to the system before they started counting gang points, im not saying remove gang points but don't focus so much on the whole "P" menu.

i liked how the old party system building used to display all the information

[punkrules]

I agree with Eclipse. Why not give the old system one last chance? It's not like we have anything to lose.

1) Two gangs, lead by Souls vs Dusk/Corey (plenty of personal conflict and drama.)
2) Old gang bases.
3) Rank ups should be earned not handed out.
4) Access to MVP gang guns based on Rank, limited access as well.
5) Old party system returned, allow ANYONE to raid, gang member or not.

There's too much focus on control and order with our current system, it should be frustrating and chaotic. I miss being mauled by 8 random newbs with Uzis after defending a base against 10 gang members coming from all doors.

Also this random spawn thing is just awful.

[shrimps]

Yeah, it's just rush die rush die, there's no planning or anything. If you're defending you should get a chance to heal to continue defending the base. With this most deaths are from just random warp next to you with 0 hp and you die.

[Tim_Rocks]

Should max heal you if you can take out the opposing gang.

[Godzilla]

suggestion; make a better betting system, betflipping is boring, I wanted to see how long it would take me to lose all of my money; result was;

well it took less than 24 hours to lose every single dollar in my bank through betflipping, had a few good laughs a long the way letting other people call for me, good job to koho though for not losing a single flip while I was asleep, that was impressive, atleast you're decent at something I suppose

[shrimps]

Go betflip the NPC. I think odds are like 65/35?