Getting smashed,Peace time

[Big Bad Orc]

What happens if you get smashed can you get wiped out or you just rebuild try to retake your former glory.Also will you be able to build in peacetime or something to see and upgrade your stuff like have a hour or something a day were you can use that time to be in rts mode but in peace.

[SPARROW94]

well you see once you get completly destryoyed you start with an farm again and the reviere online thingy will pair you up with some the same as you

[Big Bad Orc]

Its going to be painfull going from a great city to a farm people are going to cry while ill burn and enslave there people feed there kiddys to my orcs lol. . Also what about the peace time i hope we get something like that even 20min a day when u can rebuild and build and stuff would be real nice.Im not saying useing that time to build uber armys or anything just u could build something with your workers gather some wood,gold etc.Not be able to build troops.

[ShadowyMoon]

I agree with Orc. There should be some compensations for people that lose a lot so the game is fun to all.

[Big Bad Orc]

Yeah its just i wish to enjoy the game not be rushing and rushing thats all having to build everything in 5 mins or i get stoodover.I just think it would be nice if you could upgrade things like your castle and buildings and stuff with some peace time that maybe depends on achiveing things or something you know.It would be nice to see your castle and towns going about there lifes without it burning all the time lol.

[ShadowyMoon]

There will be a sandbox mode for skirmish btw.

[Ryan Zelazny]

We probably will have a easily-forgiven type of gameplay with the PvE side of the MMO gametype.

Although we might have a "Hardcore" option, like in Diablo 2, where when your conquored you have to start over again.

[ShadowyMoon]

That would be nice and would make everyone happy

[Kostia Kaploon]

maybe in PvP games you'll have like 10 minutes for preperations where players cant attack each other and just build up their armys and stuff. maybe even include an option where when you can click an "i'm ready" botton and when both click it (if before 10 min) the game begins.

[Darvin]

Ten minutes of preparation? Are you kidding me? I like my games to last between 20-30 minutes, so spending a third to a half of my game time just preparing would be super-annoying. No preparation time. At most, a feature in custom games (which I definitely won't be using). I've always found peace time just makes rushing worse. The longer the time before the first battle, the more of an advantage a good build order has.

As for hardcore mode, I've always believed that to counter-act the penalties that experience gain and loot (or, in the case MMORPG, the rate of growth of your empire) should be vastly increased. As a result, the potential gain is higher to correspond with the stakes.