Things aren't always so Fleezy...

[Williamthefirst]

I did actually say that in game features, such as LA, PA etc should be retained. I raged against co-playing, scripts etc etc (I do not know much of anything like this lol)
One of the top reasons this game does not have a high retention rate of new players is the habit of players smashing them up and taking their villages, so they never come back or get a chance to learn. One of W97's top accounts has nobled forty villages under 1k. This is seen as good game play and is probably to be aspired to.
I will never win

 

[DeletedUser121639]

IMO co-playing is fine, scripts should all be baned tho

 

[Williamthefirst]

Imagine no co-playing, players would not be able to do the old "it wasn't me, it was my co, gone rogue" routine. Everyone knows it is a fib, but it must be swallowed none the less. So it would immediately make players more accountable and this could engender more trust within the game.

 

[Fleezus Clyde]

meh some of us don't like to sleep if our accounts aren't being watched.... conflict of interest.... I'll keep my cos & my sleep TYVM

 

[DeletedUser121451]

Yeah, "it was my co" can easily be countered by "it was your account". Being able to spend 4 hours per day on the game (which is still an overestimation if you have a job and a family and a social life) while others can spend 18 hours per day (because f.e. they're still in school and have no responsibilities) is a whole other level of problem. Without co's or sitters, then you're just growing your villages to be eaten by those that can be online when you can't.

 

[Williamthefirst]

Unwatched accounts is no problem, there is the sit option for that, you would just have to be a little more canny is all.

 

[Fleezus Clyde]

so then you have a bunch of accounts co-playing via sitting.... same issue

Don't take our cos

 

[AuroraMoon]

co-players makes the account sitting option obsolete and tends to be an easy way for players to gain a prebuilt village without doing anything
besides who likes having someone else play a game for them just so they have a chance of winning...

also ill like to note that most co-players that ive seen join an account rarely last more then 2 months
before they suddenly disappear without a word and the player is then looking for another co-player
sometimes makes me think they just change the password after they get a new village.....

 

[DeletedUser121451]

Nah, it's because this game takes up too much time, and playing your own account is more fun than playing someone else's. So they find a new world to play on their own account or they discover that spending time on non-game stuff holds more value than being second fiddle on someone else's account.
If you have to trick someone in order to gain villages, you don't last long in a world anyway, so that doesn't seem like a common practice (and none that I've seen happening around me).