Regnum Alliances

[A_K_M]

Originally Posted by GythaOgg

I don't consider that a fault, it just makes sense for a couple of reasons. If we have your gems, and we're going after Syrtis', then it's bad for you if we get them, so you should try to keep us from getting them. You and Syrtis both have the same goal. As soon as the gates are down, I would expect that you'll be trying to snag a gem or two for yourselves, so I don't think you'll be palsie-walsies with the greens for very long.

Also, if we're invading, all the action is going to be at the gate, you can capture and sit in empty forts as much as you want, but if you actually want to fight, you'll be at the gate, too, and it makes sense for the two weaker (at that moment) realms to team up against the stronger, to have one big long, possibly fairly even fight instead of two very short, lopsided fights.

You could do other stuff, too, like hold bridges, and hunt the stragglers and newly rezzed, but the main action will be at the gate.

Oh no no dont get me wrong, man. Its tactically sound and really fun. Im just sayin we (the community) kinda do ally our selves to the victum realm as long as our gems are gone.

[Malevolence]

Regnum Alliance would be interesting if done my way. People in this Alliance would be premium users only.(People that actualy support ngd with real money)

Think of it as a lobby group, Union or independent game mechanics think tank. This would help persuade ngd to have things we want implemented sooner and faster. At the end of the day we are customers, we should have way more control of what we want from a game we pay into. Personally, I would love to see it become pay to play. But I bet most of you would lose it and find some other free game to complain about but never back up financially.

[_Kharbon_]

Originally Posted by Malevolence

Regnum Alliance would be interesting if done my way. People in this Alliance would be premium users only.(People that actualy support ngd with real money)

Think of it as a lobby group, Union or independent game mechanics think tank. This would help persuade ngd to have things we want implemented sooner and faster. At the end of the day we are customers, we should have way more control of what we want from a game we pay into. Personally, I would love to see it become pay to play. But I bet most of you would lose it and find some other free game to complain about but never back up financially.

Oh noes, please don't do that . I believe that many players, including me, would love to play premium, but don't have the option to buy ximerins as SMS payment is unavailable and I don't own a debit card. Anyway, I don't think Horus would survive a change like this...

[Pimousse]

People bying xims and start thinking they become shareholders... That's just ...lol !

My comment is not adressed to you personally. But if you buy xim and buy a paint, you have your paint, that's all. If paint is buggy, then the "customers godmod" is here.
Xim don't allow customers to force NGD to do what customers wants

[Malevolence]

Originally Posted by Pimousse

People bying xims and start thinking they become shareholders... That's just ...lol !

My comment is not adressed to you personally. But if you buy xim and buy a paint, you have your paint, that's all. If paint is buggy, then the "customers godmod" is here.
Xim don't allow customers to force NGD to do what customers wants

Jeez I was expecting somebody to say just this. I am never disappointed. This is so not what I am trying to say. But w/e. I was thinking this was more a positive thing not adversarial but I forgot to look at the demographics of this community.

Lobby Groups: use various forms of advocacy to influence public opinion and/or policy; they have played and continue to play an important part in the development of social systems(Regnum). Groups vary considerably in size, influence and motive; some have wide ranging long term social purposes, others are focused and are a response to an immediate issue or concern.

[Pimousse]

I really think xim is not a way to influence/force NGD to make what you want, what some customers want. In term of social, we have a forum where we can post our feedback, and NGD listen to this. Sure they can't satisfy all our request. A lobby group is useless then.
Don't like "lobby groups" who will given the voice to xim users anyway.

[Minorian]

Originally Posted by Pimousse

I really think xim is not a way to influence/force NGD to make what you want, what some customers want.

In any healthy business the customers, in this case the xim users, have influence, because we are the consumers, we are paying for a product, if we want something changed, it is in the best interest of the salesman to meet our needs, or risk losing profit.

Just to clarify, I do not mean anything I am about to say in a attacking negative way, this is purely a matter of fact thing.

Non-xim users are not customers, they are just using the game, I assume mainly because they can play it for free, while it is still a good quality game. But, you dont pay, so in a real buisness, you have no say whatsoever. You do not support the company, so naturally your say is smaller/nothing. It may seem harsh, but in a buisness your say means NOTHING. I think non-xim members should be flattered that NGD gives them so much attention, in my buisness I would certainly place paying customers noticeably higher than people that dont support me.

I agree in some way that xim users should have some form of extra influence, maybe when you purchase an amount of $100 xim, your account will be labelled as supportive of the company, and maybe have a higher priority for support? Just an idea, as you really should please your customers before the people that just play the game.

[VandaMan]

Originally Posted by Need_More_Invasions

Non-xim users are not customers, they are just using the game, I assume mainly because they can play it for free, while it is still a good quality game. But, you dont pay, so in a real buisness, you have no say whatsoever. You do not support the company, so naturally your say is smaller/nothing. It may seem harsh, but in a buisness your say means NOTHING. I think non-xim members should be flattered that NGD gives them so much attention, in my buisness I would certainly place paying customers noticeably higher than people that dont support me.

Not entirely true, without the f2p users the xim users wouldn't have anyone to fight against. At least for the most of RO's history, I suppose now just about everyone drops $5 for a horse, but I wouldn't consider them "xim users." Beyond that, RO is in development, and f2p users are valuable to NGD as testers. This is why they do have a say. If RO was finished, and there were enough people willing to pay for it that the servers could have an active population with p2p users only, it would be a different story.

[IgnisGlomp]

Originally Posted by Need_More_Invasions

I agree in some way that xim users should have some form of extra influence, maybe when you purchase an amount of $100 xim, your account will be labelled as supportive of the company, and maybe have a higher priority for support? Just an idea, as you really should please your customers before the people that just play the game.

Ximerin users already have higher priority when it comes to support, and certain support features(?) are only available to Ximerin buyers such as restoring deleted characters.

[Arafails]

Maybe, if there was nine or more realms, alliances could work. But there aren't, so they couldn't.