[Suggestion] Enemy Ambush event

[Gryphonknight]

[Suggestion] Enemy Ambush event

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Dev skip
Player based suggestion
Low spend depth
Leveraging previous assets
Player engagement
Venting
Getting Idea out of my head
Recording Theory crafting Tournaments/ War

Tournaments

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Edit 4, Now I remember why I hate Tournaments, brought wrong team to first attack, got a bad board, 0 wins 1 loss. With Raids I can reroll until I get a defense I think I can beat and I have 3x attempts to pick the correct team, get a lucky board, or both. I dislike the Beta entrance fee with no guaranteed loot, and the Live service Pay to continue. Wish Devs let you use all 25x attacks regardless of wins, but for X gems you could refight a loss, and 2X gems refight a double loss

Alliance War

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Matchmaking

1:1 matchmaking is an insolvable problem. Devs target “good enough”.

But you could make some changes to war.

Changes

You could add some buffers to spread out some of the concentrations of imbalance that make matchmaking even more difficult than a 1:1 restriction.

6 attack teams AND 6 defense team
This would buffer the problems with revive, HotM defense, and the ( Fabian* strategy for war )

Wars last for 6 days
This would buffer the RNG problem. Everything except war energy, and points, resets every 24 hous.

Sacrifice play
Every 24 hours you can donate 1 war energy to any teammate. Removing 1 from your war energy bar and giving them an additional 1 war energy. Maximum +3 war energy per 24 hours. This would buffer the uneven teammate roster problem.

Wanted Hero Mission Chest
Each killed hero in war counts for the Wanted Hero Mission Chest. This would buffer the war loot problem.

World Energy
Every attack in war, rewards +3 world/ map energy. This would buffer all the above problems.

“Good enough”

But the Devs have moved on. They have a ton of other stuff to work on before they can get to trade which is a huge deal now that Pokémon GO broke the road block to effective MMO trading.

Venting

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Not happy with Tournaments, so do not participate except for my Teeny accounts ( desperately need 3* heroes, and resources for heroes / base )

Not happy with War, only doing it right now to support my Teeny account ( desperately need 3* heroes, and resources for heroes / base )

Devs have reached “good enough” for both tournaments, and war

How to add a new, more player friendly experience?

Enemy Ambush Event

First the server matches you with an opponent player

Then you fight the last PvE they did ( Map Season Stage, Quest, Challenge event, Tower, etc )

Example
1.8-7 if they are farming for recruits in Map Season 1

Then you fight the last attacking team they used

Example
Their 1.8-7 farming team

Then you fight the last defense team they fought ( raid, war, tournament, outpost, etc. )

Example
No Blue, Buff Booster, 4* hero, 3* troop

Attacker restrictions

There could be attacker restrictions, like tournaments, use restrictions like war, or unlimited like raids

Groups

It could be a solo event, alliance event, or multiple alliance event ( 3x alliances have their scores pooled )

Goal

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The goal is to expose players to more of the cool parts of Empires, the sucky parts of Empires, and the average parts of Empire

The more players, and Devs, engage with Empires, the more they understand it, possibly enjoy it, and can offer suggestions about it to other players, and Devs

Reason

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I am researching building a Stronghold from Lv01 to Lv21 ( unlocking Advanced House )

There is so much cool about Empires I have forgotten with my 2017-Sep account

There is so much frustration about Empires I have forgotten with my 2017-Sep account

There is so much average about Empires I have forgotten with my 2017-Sep account

Notes

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2017-Sep

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Super Starter Pack

I bought the Super Starter Pack in 2017-Sep once it was linked to my new Facebook account and my new Game Center account

FIN

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Filter and likes

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Summarize button

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Topic Summaries: The feature where Discourse summarizes long topics is heavily influenced by how much each post is liked

I love the summarize button.

This also works with the summarize filter:

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Filter by user

@Guvnor

Step 3: hit the “X posts in this topic” and it will filter those posts by that user.

If you want to read before, or after, a filtered post, you can look up the actual post number

In the above example it is @zephyr1 9/9 post in the topic. But by clicking the link button, it displays the actual post is #128.

This allows you to go to post #128 and then scroll up or down.

You can also hit refresh page on your web browser, but sometimes that will move you to a random post further up the topic.

So if you are using the summarize filter, clicking the link button will tell you the actual post number.

Most times refresh page will also work, but sometimes not.

Likes

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Subject

[Primer] What do forum “Likes” do? Or use your “Likes”

==New User==

(Discourse New User Tips and Tricks)

To let someone know that you enjoyed and appreciated their post, use the like button. Share the love!

==Highlights==

(What are "Likes"? - users - Discourse Meta)

Likes are central to how Discourse works. So central in fact that there’s no “on/off” button for them because Discourse is not designed to run without likes enabled.

Signaling

• Topic Summaries: The feature where Discourse summarizes long topics is heavily influenced by how much each post is liked. Without that signal the content will be less useful to users who are looking for “the gist” of the topic.

• Top Topics: Likes are used in the calculation of the “Top Topics” filter as a way to allow users to find high quality topics on the forum.

@Edit 2019-Jan-28

This is cool

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If you click the “Summarize Topic” button, the first reply is always the “Solution”:

MASTER THREAD (Solved) - Training Camp Lost food/recruits at withdrawal - #11 by Petri

==Downvotes==

Why no downvotes?

Systems of fact, data, and science can benefit from downvotes, because statements can be scientifically proven to a reasonable degree. Systems of opinion do not benefit from downvotes and are in fact materially and seriously harmed by them, because nobody can prove an opinion. Empathy is the order of the day in opinion systems. Data analysis related to this quote ( linky, linky )

==Color of the Reply count==

(Color difference indication - #2 by mikechristopher - support - Discourse Meta)

If you hover over it - it will explain it - its to do with the high like to post ratio. The more likes the posts get it considers it to be a useful topic

==Miscellaneous==

Interesting posts that came up in the searches:

==Votes and Likes==

(Show both like and vote button on topics - #2 by Johani - feature - Discourse Meta)

The like button - and like count - are only removed from topics in categories where you have voting enabled. Topics in categories where you don’t have voting enabled are not affected.

If you’d still like to show the like button and count in topics in categories that have voting enabled then try to add the following to your theme. . .

Sigh

I wish Discourse.org handled forum links within hidden/ spoiler text better

Until then, I will just have to quote the whole post/ reply

Work around

Quote this entire post and reply to another topic to add this to the other topic

FIN