Hi all,
Been goofing around in this game for a few days now, enjoying it all so far
I note though that I seem to be attacked ONLY when I am offline....I pretty much view that practice as being a "free shot" or a cheap tactic, to hit players while they are offline, to sack them for as much as you can while enjoying immunity from attack. I came online today & found myself hit 3 or 4 times in the hours I was offline!!!!
It's not a unique problem to this game....it happens a lot in other online games & usually ends up driving the victim away from playing. You know how it goes..."not worth it" or "can't get ahead cos I get raided & end up defenceless every day", etc.
So I suggest that the STATUS be disabled. That is, in the RANKINGS screen, you'll note that when a player is online, the status tells everyone they are online. If you disable that, make the decision of when to hit a player a "risk" so that they don't know if they will get beaten off or not, it might break this cycle of attacking only when a player is offline ;) The counters are all fine & well, but at times the raider is a new player looking for easy targets that can't hit back. I was raided today & when I countered, the guy's fleet is so small I couldn't hit back to recoup any of what I lost. That's a bit pointless in my book. If players can raid freely, knowing that their fleet is too small to be countered, what defences does the raided have against such tactics? So I reckon that ALL fleets, no matter how large or small, should be able to be countered effectively