I can not use the manor system because I live in the wrong time zone. I think this is a problem. The manor system should not be only for those who live in NA or play 24/7. This is a whole part of the game that I am missing out on because of the turn in times. How can this be fixed?
Please don't not talk about the problem with 3rd party programs either. That will not get the anywhere, but locked.
When the manor reset time was changed to 8pm CST (or whatever it was at the time) there were a couple of large threads about if being unfair to non-US players and even to East Coast US players.
A suggestion was made that multiple refreshes (or at least two) should happen per day. In one of those posts HGMSpam promised to look into what was possible.
That was a long time ago and he either hasn't found out what is possible yet or hasn't bothered to investigate/update the user community.
I wish I could say that I'm surprised at the lack of regard for the user community, but I am not.
The flaws in the manor system are such that you have to be within two timezones of the server and not want to do any seeds that give popular rewards in order to use it. I have to get up at 2am to have any chance of turning in fruit or buying seeds. It's a shame because it could be such a useful addition to the game when run properly.
There's the very real option of manoring through a friend - I know I have done hand-ins for my clan in the past.
Of course, if you don't want to get to know someone so much that you can trust them with a few million's worth of crop, that's not a good thing.
I ranted on the Manor System in C4 a lot, but in fact, I've now finally figured out how to do it again. And I agree with the policy that everyone using it is taking - let everyone figure out for themselves how to hand in, becaues the more people hand in the harder it gets for everyone. :p
There's the very real option of manoring through a friend - I know I have done hand-ins for my clan in the past.
Of course, if you don't want to get to know someone so much that you can trust them with a few million's worth of crop, that's not a good thing.
I ranted on the Manor System in C4 a lot, but in fact, I've now finally figured out how to do it again. And I agree with the policy that everyone using it is taking - let everyone figure out for themselves how to hand in, becaues the more people hand in the harder it gets for everyone. :p
Tell me ! Tell me! i am on Teon you wount notice it :confused:
Wisper it...
Yeah, I've been lookin into it, but it's confusing with the time differences. Not the time zones, but the time difference between in game time and real time. They say things like 8 pm, so i think "Ok, I'll check at 8pm game time." but no, I guess it's real 8pm CST. Also, the boats, they run on real time. When it says anchored for 10 mintues, it means 10 real mintues. All of this is rather confusing for newbie players like myself.
I agree on the manor system though. They should change it to reflect in game time and have it happen once every few in game days. Like set up a week schedule to do along with the ingame time and say it happens every in game saturday at 8pm or something along those lines.
Since i am trying first time to set up a manor for a castle and ... i get much help ( thx Duke ) ... i realized if you wanna work into the system and try to understand it without just putting in the numbers of other people ... you need to take 1-2 hours of time maybe each day .. maybe if you are well known in that things some more days.
I stayed up 3 days in a row now till 3am ... tried to figure it out for about 30 mins and set it up .. tried this .. tried that ...
sure .. i could prepare it with screenies and things .. but its anyway a pain in my *** to stay up that long.
I am not one of these workless players .. i have to stand up for work at 7am ( ok ok , i just stood up at 8am last days cause i am really finished and was almopst too late 3 days at work ^^ ).
There is still this post from Ash who wanted to reply if its checked.
So .. any news about it ?
Sorry that i am euro player ;)
im quite happy wit hthe time change i can go to work come home sead and turn in when it kicks over none of myt clannies have problems either so if you just cant mannage to be on thoes times ( becouse of your time zone ) theay did make a europenb server with al ltimes for europeins
Even someone with your spelling should understand than few people are ready to reroll their 60+ on an overcrowded Teon.
You might even get to understand that those people were also by then promised a certain feature called "server tranfers".
Then I'll end up by asking you to compare the european population by server with the euro servers ratio.
One is way too big for the other one.
As for the manor updates it is a largely shared feeling that having two reset times per day would help everyone.
It would help everyone to cash their seeds and allow twice the crop buy back, which is way too low at the moment, encouraging bones inflation, which is leading to ppl ebaying which brings more farmers using more bots.
It is a major fact, that propely configured, the manor system IS the solution to all these problems ; aka a way for the average player to grind his mats.
We have a clan on Devianne that rerolled from Teon. :p And of course, it's not like euros have to play Teon. Personally, I would be able to make the handin on Teon a lot less than the one in Devianne. As an easily distracted but dedicated student, I usually have to stay at uni until fairly late in the evening to get my work done - staying up till 3 AM is an inconvenience, but getting home by 6 PM is often an impossibility. :p
and Mizwisfist i dont care nc soft made a server for europens theay shoudent change the times on the outher servers to acomodate a minority of the player base
also you were never promiced server transpherds you werte promesed a update on the topi c of server transphers i am glad that there wont be any it would mess up the servers too much and no if the manor system starts to cut in to the chineses adena farming market theay will just start buying it out liek theay did in innadril in c2 the only way to stop that is to kill them off the server or to have them banned dont fool yourself in to thinking that the manor system has ANY chance to hurt there proffits its a multi milion doller a year market theay can affort to spend 10 mil and buy out al lthe seads for the day acrost the server
It just sucks staying up late till 3 am in the morning and finding out you are beaten again by the automatic players when you try to turn in your crops. .... I give up on the manor thing ...
I think that 2 turn-in times would help the community very much, I know it is not late for most but for a student that must spend 2-3 hours of time per day doing projects/homework etc it is late as i am in bed at almost 9:30 pm EST and the turn-in time for me is 11 pm EST. If say the turn-in times for me would be changed to 11pm EST and say 6pm EST that would ensure for most everyone that they have a chance. Euro would be approx. 10 pm and 3 am depending on loc from what ive heard. Almost all people would be able to make that deadline or slightly afterwards.
and Mizwisfist i dont care nc soft made a server for europens theay shoudent change the times on the outher servers to acomodate a minority of the player base
also you were never promiced server transpherds you werte promesed a update on the topi c of server transphers i am glad that there wont be any it would mess up the servers too much
Personally I like the manor. I have found that I have little problems copeteing against other players to turn in even the hot items. Plus I like the maintinence period which seems to be a random time after 8pm before ppl can sel the crops back. I think this has made it more competitive and easier to turn crops in.
actually, they did alot more than promise, according the the newsletter here May 2004 News letter they stated that they were hoping [/] to bring this to the community in the near future.