Tiggerz

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Open to US Residents Only

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One day I would like to see a competition for NON US and NON EU players. ie all the International Players who dont fall into the US/EU catagory.

-growl grrr arrf snarl- translation -very true, good read- sums up my scrapper quite well.

A great read, ive a much under appreciated grav/bubble controller who is gonna get dusted off and see some action now.

I have read the aforementioned guide already thankyou. We've done the Alt's thing and respectfully 300k does not get you much of a base. Minimally functional yes, in a very limited fashion.

Not to devaluate the massive cost in time and resources that must go into the creation of some of the impressive bases I have seen, I still feel that the game favours large SG's. I guess I will simply have to come to terms with that like all other small groups who no doubt either deal with it or dissolve in the face of such a massive challenge.

I hadn't considered the problem of people abusing a scaled system, but i am quite sure what you say is correct, it would happen. So thankyou for making that point which more than anything explains why no scaled system.

Thankyou for taking the time to respond, I still feel that the current price-range of items is prohibitive to many and clearly favours large SG's but then perhaps that’s deliberate for reasons which I might not fully appreciate but which ensure subscribers continue to play.

No Doubt you hear this all the time, but this is a serious suggestion. You know I appreciate that the SG system in game and Base system is designed to encourage SG's to be both active and actively recruiting in order to gain Prestige.

However the system is painfully crippling for small SG's. Perhaps designers want to ensure small SG’s work very hard to grow larger, but the simple fact is there may be a limited number of new members on any given server and a great deal of competition to acquire them.

Smaller SG’s have their work cut out for them, if you happen to be a non US based SG starting out the task is even harder as you have a smaller pool of potential recruits to work with. Specially if you only want players in your time zone. After all you want players who are on roughly in the same time period.

So if you happen to be a new small non US/UK SG earning Prestige sufficient to your needs is quite difficult. Thankfully there is coalitions, but even then, it is going to take a small SG with half a dozen members or less ages to build a base that lets them enjoy the full depth of the game.

And lets face it, the whole base building side of the game is something you really want to do cause it’s great fun and rewarding, but it seems scaled to favour large groups who can earn Prestige at a good rate. Now don’t get me wrong this isn’t a whine, I am not saying it shouldn’t be hard work, but if you have a small SG with a couple of members the system really seems stacked against you.

Could not the price of items be tiered to coincide with the size of the SG member base. So that X number of Account holders in a given SG places the SG within a scaled price tier. Done in such a way as to ensure that small SG’s don’t miss out on some of the wonderful aspects of the game.

Just a thought.

Cheers

SG Name: Australian New Zealand Alliance of Champions (ANZAC)
SG Leaders: Le paradox, Sub Zero.
SG Website (if any): Still in Planning
SG Recruiters: Le Paradox, Sub Zero.
Teamspeak/Ventrillo Server: Nil (yet)
SG Peak Hours: +10 GMT (Australasian/Oceanic Time zones)
Other Info: Mature Age Member Oriented.

What we are; n00bs, fun-loving, mature-age, casual, easygoing, Team Oriented above all.

What we are not; Hard Core, Highly Competitive, Experienced.

What we hope to be; Fun, Organised and Enjoyable small SG aimed at the casual to regular mature age player within our overall time zone. We welcome RPG, though dont live and breathe it. The Group is important to us, being part of a team, an SG isnt -in our oppinion- just a stepping stone, it's a group of mates who play, adventure and have fun together.

Our Dark side is (ANZAV) which is also getting organised. We hope to interact with other Aussie/Oceanic groups and players and look forward to being part of the local community. Justice Server Only atm.

Cheers

Tiggerz