fact: it is much harder to spy enemy or to attack enemy if there is way for your enemy to get instantly reinforced.
for example: way I destroyed some of attacking md armies using my watchers

fact: weaker players can more easily defend from stronger ones and those who have colonies all around map ( ihmo huge mistake) can more easily play.


partial solution: keep instant reinforce. Just make impossible to reinforce enemy like it is now impossible to attack your alliance mate. Make attacking more realistic by introducing joint ship and troops attack
more here viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2752&p=6866#p6866

would be perfect solution: don't keep this bug and instant reinforce. Make balance of attacking and defending in such way that it pushes people to attack more and thus create game to be more interesting and at same time don't allow few big ones to terrorize all others and thus stopping all others from developing . Also stats which show which player killed how many troops would be great. And maybe some reports for everybody to see showing who killed whose troops and number of killed troops (do not show troops left). more here viewtopic.php?f=3&t=207&p=5838#p5838

Hi,

I have heard about this post from a friend on the Harbinger Server. I am playing only on that server. I started on 2010-03-19 and I am the top player there (probably not for long , but still... )

Let me share my experience with this game so far. When I joined I played for a week or something and the server crashed... as a result I lost my account, but it was a good thing for me because I started again and made fewer errors . Back then there was a much stronger alliance than the rest combined containing a few top players, alliance which was terrorizing the whole server. They attacked anyone who they thought might have some unprotected resources. After a while they destroyed the second most powerful alliance, their domination increasing even more. In time I grew a little and entered top 5 players; and then the real "terror" started: for 1 or 2 weeks all my outposts were attacked every single day, more than once a day, by the top player back then. He had no mercy, I think he thought I will quit. This was the general thinking on that server. Finally I was left alone when I prepared an ambush and he lost a lot of troops. And then the unbelievable happened: there was one guy who showed us the way to stand against a more powerful and aggressive force. We (almost the whole server) worked together and fought back. In about 1 week we prevailed. Now the server is a much more stable place and there is equilibrium. All this was made possible by this "reinforce bug". Otherwise there would still be only one powerful alliance dominating everything.

I think that the "reinforce bug" actually saved Harbinger. Otherwise I think at most half the number of players would be here on Harbinger.
If this bug is "solved" I think there is a big risk that Harbinger will go back to its "dark ages". I don't know about Prime as I'm not playing on that, but I think the "instant reinforce" should be kept in one form or another for Harbinger.

I have got my troops back

admins are fast tnx for that!