Hardened public flags indestructible Return to Suggestions

[EdgeShadowwalk]

Can we get back on topic please?

[100killer9]

I'm not entirely sure what there's left to say, but ok.

[TruffleKing]

I'm going to have to agree with the original line of conversation in this topic something does need to change for public flags.

I have been playing for quite some time and had quite a few flags at one point (close to 300) I changed a lot of them to public and had a lot of them taken over by the city I started and another city around me, I lost a quite a few flags over a few wars and gained access to quite a few through friendships in game, but the loss of flags from making them public makes it not worth trying to help out new players by giving them access to areas that normally would have had blocked off to them and so they had something to do besides attacking one of my flags over and over again and/or bombarding me with travel requests. I have been playing for over a year since the first version that came out on the iPod Touch and I was the only player in my area for a very long time (almost 10 months) before I encountered my first visitor. When you play on a iPod such as I do you tend to understand how some people can't just drive down the street and start playing from there and I tend to take that approach with new players as well so I undserstand that there is a NEED for public flags but there needs to be some sort of consequence to those that attack public flags out of laziness/boredom or some sort of incentive to those that make public flags (maybe getting their resources back if someone destroys a public flag, something...). There is already enough trouble with the fact that hardened flags are now taken down just as easily as non hardened ones we don't need to be penalized for trying to let others enjoy the game as well.

[LadyDiana]

Your also missing the fact LadyDiana that a flag in fact is wider in diameter. For your info my relocate is right off a major express way and now i have a city there with indestructible flags from that city. Indestructible anything in this game does way more harm then good. Do you not notice how people complain about not being able to destroy a city? Now imagine all the complaints about not being able to destroy a ton of public flags that are in the way.

And? SO WHAT? So don't build public flags! Nobody is forcing you to build them to your city, and nobody is even suggesting it. So stop insisting otherwise.

What I'm objecting to is that NOBODY ELSE CAN BUILD THEM ANYWHERE without them becoming a target, which is clearly *not* what the devs intended.

Just because you don't want them right where you live doesn't mean nobody else in the entire world should be allowed to have them anywhere. Or it shouldn't, anyway. It clearly DOES mean that to you.

People go burning down public flags in areas they don't live, don't hunt, and don't care about . . . because they can. That's obnoxious, and it takes away from the people who are using them, to say nothing of being a complete jerk to the person that created them, for no other reason that to be a jerk.

[100killer9]

Sigh... LaydyDiana, he makes a valid point and you miss it. He's saying anyone can make their entire kingdom out of indestructible private flags and never have to worry about attacks. Or, someone could build a public flag trail from the freeway to his plot. Now his kingdom is open to attack.
You make a valid point that public flags need to be improved, but not in such a drastic manner.

[9999999333]

Sigh... LaydyDiana, he makes a valid point and you miss it. He's saying anyone can make their entire kingdom out of indestructible private flags and never have to worry about attacks. Or, someone could build a public flag trail from the freeway to his plot. Now his kingdom is open to attack.
You make a valid point that public flags need to be improved, but not in such a drastic manner.

wow, for once i actually agree with you

[LadyDiana]

Sigh... LaydyDiana, he makes a valid point and you miss it. He's saying anyone can make their entire kingdom out of indestructible private flags and never have to worry about attacks. Or, someone could build a public flag trail from the freeway to his plot. Now his kingdom is open to attack.
You make a valid point that public flags need to be improved, but not in such a drastic manner.

He's arguing that there should be no improvement to public flags.

And there is absolutely nothing preventing him making a buffer of private flags around his "kingdom".

If there needs to be discussion about HOW to improve public flags, then fine. Make them confined to interstates, airports and public parks was my suggestion.

But people on an unexpected ten hour layover at an airport shouldn't be told they can't play PK because Edge doesn't want his territory attacked.

[JoeNobody]

I generally disagree with making anything indestructible. Perhaps a change in the way flags are handled is warranted. Public flags are certainly vulnerable to random attacks, but indestructibility seems like the most drastic step.

If a change in public flags is introduced,such as an innate guardian, or somesuch, then I believe a corresponding change in private and normal flags should also be given a new ability.