[savm1017]

in reality you cant expect things you want to come instantly. Thats why i think in cybernations recruiting military, building, and researching should take atleast a few minutes. there should also be a queue with a max number of things you can do. It is reasonable, and this way, it keeps the player from logging in only once to do everything he has to.

[EvenStar]

Only a few minutes? Isn't that just going to annoy people?

[Bob Janova]

Yes, if you go down this route then things need to take a meaningful amount of time (e.g. hours). But I don't know if it would help CN. Look at the forum discussion for Galava, which does things this way ... people complain about it quite a lot

[ROMMELHSQ]

no please

[uaciaut]

I'd say defcon should have a say on how fast you buy military forces or what's the max military you can buy. (i.e. defcon should be more meaningful )

[Eomer the Young]

This is a game, not real life... people will just get annoyed at this. The only thing I think it could be useful for is MAYBE military...

[(DAC)Syzygy]

That only works if you do it in hour-steps of at least 6 hours. Fact is that CN is a long-time-game and imho it is designed to be one. Making things available in 'minutes' would put people with a RL who can only check 2-4 times per day at most (maybe 1 time before they go to work, 1 time when they return and 2 times at the evening/night) at a serious disadvantage over people who have nothing to do at all and sit in front of the computer the whole day.

I agree with the general concept of time in the game, but on a large scale like:

Improvements need 3 days to be constructed, Wonders need 10 days to be constructed. Infra can be built at a rate of max 100xfactories per 24hours + 150 if the nation has an interstate system + 350 if the nation has an SDC (at most 1,000infra per day for a fully developed nation).

Events, a special wonder, a new Bonusgood or a combination of Wonder/Microchips/Technology could be used to modify building times a bit (shorten it), Events could be used to prolong it.

I would exclude Military at this time, that would screw up the way wars are fought totally, for doing that the War and Deployment system must be overhauled completely. And I doubt the admin wants that

[Kung Fu Geeks]

no to minutes, no to hours, yes to days.

as syzygy said, if you make it minutes, those that can be on constantly have an advantage, even if you make it hours, those that can be on more frequently have an advantage. Alot of otherstuff is already done by days (navy buy limits, wonder limits, events, war and aid slot expiration etc), so im ok with that.

[Azaghul]

(DAC)Syzygy, on Sep 16 2008, 01:16 PM, said:

That only works if you do it in hour-steps of at least 6 hours. Fact is that CN is a long-time-game and imho it is designed to be one. Making things available in 'minutes' would put people with a RL who can only check 2-4 times per day at most (maybe 1 time before they go to work, 1 time when they return and 2 times at the evening/night) at a serious disadvantage over people who have nothing to do at all and sit in front of the computer the whole day.

I agree with the general concept of time in the game, but on a large scale like:

Improvements need 3 days to be constructed, Wonders need 10 days to be constructed. Infra can be built at a rate of max 100xfactories per 24hours + 150 if the nation has an interstate system + 350 if the nation has an SDC (at most 1,000infra per day for a fully developed nation).

Events, a special wonder, a new Bonusgood or a combination of Wonder/Microchips/Technology could be used to modify building times a bit (shorten it), Events could be used to prolong it.

I would exclude Military at this time, that would screw up the way wars are fought totally, for doing that the War and Deployment system must be overhauled completely. And I doubt the admin wants that

I agree with this, though I don't agree with your infra numbers, which I think are too large to be really meaningful.

I'd support a limit more like 150+40*factories+150*interstate. There needs to be a base so noobs can build infra. When you bought it, you could queue up as much as you want, but it would only construct that amount every 24 hours, the first portion being available in 24 hours, next hours after that, etc. etc.

Also put a 24 or 48 hour build time on nukes.

[Adolf Von Sippycup]

No. This does not have my support.

When was this game supposed to be realistic in all aspects? This is just ANOTHER thing that I have to wait for to build. Wonders are quite enough for me, thank you.

[USNA]

I do and don't like this idea too much. I do like the idea that now standing militaries will be more encouraged but I don't like it because of the fact that this would piss off most of the casual gamers. I would assume most people don't spend most of their lives in front of this game and this would either anger them or convince them that it's time to leave. Personally I think that if we had to go with this it should apply only to the military as it would be sort of pointless for improvements and infra.

[jackyseto123]

Do not support this idea.

[JEDCJT]

savm1017, on Sep 13 2008, 10:32 AM, said:

in reality you cant expect things you want to come instantly. Thats why i think in cybernations recruiting military, building, and researching should take atleast a few minutes. there should also be a queue with a max number of things you can do. It is reasonable, and this way, it keeps the player from logging in only once to do everything he has to.

No. People would get annoyed EASILY.

[master bunny]

NO

[thedestro]

EvenStar, on Sep 16 2008, 10:52 AM, said:

Only a few minutes? Isn't that just going to annoy people?

Haha, couldn't have said it better.

A time-tale for days would be better. However for infra and land etc, is just annoying. It would be the same thing as normal infra, but +3 days which I can only see that serves the purpose of realism. And I don't support suggestions solely because they're more realistic.

However, a few extra days for improv.'s and wonders is good. It allows for some more strategy (especially during war-time) and the purchases aren't so frequent that they just irritate you.

[Adrian LaCroix]

Oh for the love of God, please no. Please.

[LeVentNoir]

Oh god no, no, no.

[Jinnai]

Well we already have this to some extent. Navies are build X/day. However I think in general it's a bad idea.

maybe for wonders requiring X days to be built would be okay...or improvements (mostly to curtail improvement swapping), like 3 days.

That is the only benefit I can see and only with improvements.

This post has been edited by Jinnai: 17 September 2008 - 12:20 AM

[(DAC)Syzygy]

Jinnai, on Sep 17 2008, 08:18 AM, said:

Well we already have this to some extent. Navies are build X/day.

Well I think that is the better way to do it. Tanks, soldiers, Missiles, Airforce, Nukes - your daily production capacities should vary, depending on your nations setup (Improvements, Government, GovPositions, Trades, Wonders, Size, Age whatever). With that, you bring OPTIONS into the game, options for a strategic planning.

[Bob Janova]

Allowing you to build instantly, but up to a daily limit, like the way navies and nukes work, would perhaps be a good idea for certain things (I'm thinking mostly military). However, it would make it that much easier to win a war on the first strike, as your opponents would never be able to (re)build a full army before you kill them again.