My impression of N-day 2021
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2021 1:21 pm
This is my impression of the event: It was boring because of the megafactions, and one faction controlling thousands of nations through scripts to roll on smaller players, along with just claiming all the spots of the leaderboard on the main page is enough to turn off any casual player. Crabs of the apocalypse won the event hands down, but new players (people that joined between last year and now) have been turned off(see other threads in vault 41). This is not good long term for the community if the outcome this year is going to be normal occurrence going forward every N-day.
From my personal experience, I was in the potato alliance this year. I didn't get why my faction made a deal with the crabs of the apocalypse, the only other major faction during this event since sweeze waltzed in with 1000 nations and capped the catgirls faction. Even if the Augustin Alliance joined as a faction, and I learned they won previous N-Day events, sweeze likely would have solo'd them too or they would have been knocked out quickly because the potato alliance and the crabs of the apocalypse had a pact.
Anyway, I got ordered to make shields for about the first hour or so, then the rest of the time was spent rolling the minor alliances. I had trouble finding targets ( I only hit 1 or 2 this event) and nobody ever fired at me. This was the constant for 8 straight hours until I got bored and logged off to go to sleep. I guess at some point this nation got nuked by 7AM (about ten hours ago) eastern time by the Crabs because they ran out of targets, and before noon (4 hours ago now) there's nobody left and the crabs were spamming the leaderboard because fascists are yucky and it's funny kick them off.
Again, the event was boring and over too quickly because it suffered serious balancing and pacing issues with people using scripts to manhandle entire factions and everybody piling into only a few factions and rolling anybody else before the event is halfway over.
My suggestions for next year's N-day, both for the community and administrator and staff, none of these are linked to another
-Ban scripts from being used for this event. Everything should be manually done.
-Factions should not be making pacts with other factions to avoid attacking each other. This is stupid. If you don't want to attack somebody in another faction, then join that faction.
-Limit membership to factions in some way, either making factions region-locked or require WA membership.
-puppets may need to be banned.
EDIT: - Drew Durrnil's faction cap size: viewtopic.php?f=41&t=510351
Overall, I'm being generous and give this event a 5/10. It's really a 4/10 but since this is a free browser game and it was entirely optional to get involved it got a bump in score from me. This event was meh. I guess it was fun while people could play, but it has some serious problems. If the NS community is reliant upon events like this to bolster player retention alongside regular game content, we're falling short and we can do better.
From my personal experience, I was in the potato alliance this year. I didn't get why my faction made a deal with the crabs of the apocalypse, the only other major faction during this event since sweeze waltzed in with 1000 nations and capped the catgirls faction. Even if the Augustin Alliance joined as a faction, and I learned they won previous N-Day events, sweeze likely would have solo'd them too or they would have been knocked out quickly because the potato alliance and the crabs of the apocalypse had a pact.
Anyway, I got ordered to make shields for about the first hour or so, then the rest of the time was spent rolling the minor alliances. I had trouble finding targets ( I only hit 1 or 2 this event) and nobody ever fired at me. This was the constant for 8 straight hours until I got bored and logged off to go to sleep. I guess at some point this nation got nuked by 7AM (about ten hours ago) eastern time by the Crabs because they ran out of targets, and before noon (4 hours ago now) there's nobody left and the crabs were spamming the leaderboard because fascists are yucky and it's funny kick them off.
Again, the event was boring and over too quickly because it suffered serious balancing and pacing issues with people using scripts to manhandle entire factions and everybody piling into only a few factions and rolling anybody else before the event is halfway over.
My suggestions for next year's N-day, both for the community and administrator and staff, none of these are linked to another
-Ban scripts from being used for this event. Everything should be manually done.
-Factions should not be making pacts with other factions to avoid attacking each other. This is stupid. If you don't want to attack somebody in another faction, then join that faction.
-Limit membership to factions in some way, either making factions region-locked or require WA membership.
-puppets may need to be banned.
EDIT: - Drew Durrnil's faction cap size: viewtopic.php?f=41&t=510351
Overall, I'm being generous and give this event a 5/10. It's really a 4/10 but since this is a free browser game and it was entirely optional to get involved it got a bump in score from me. This event was meh. I guess it was fun while people could play, but it has some serious problems. If the NS community is reliant upon events like this to bolster player retention alongside regular game content, we're falling short and we can do better.