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Posting here since none of the alliance hc have access to the alliance rep forum...

Really struggling to keep going in this game due to the path PA is going down and honestly unless something changes CT is done with it.

OFC the alliance dropping down to so few members is a factor in it but as a small alliance the direction the game is going just hurts more and is part of the reason why we are small.

Issues I have with the game atm…

Auto war: this is bollocks, if you are a big alliance being forced into 4 day war isn’t really a big deal, chances are you plan for it anyway so great, you get your 4 days of war bonus. If you are a small alliance being picked on by that big alliance then you are screwed, your enemy has 4 days of extra raiding on you, you get farmed harder and there is nothing you can do about it, they are not going to stop because of the bonus.

Auto war should punish the hostile alliance, it should be a deterrent not a bonus, proper war declaration should be used to avoid auto war! This is just promoting bashing/farming!

XP nerfing: every time an alliance uses the game mechanics to win, the mechanics get nerfed to shit without proper thought in how it effects everyone else. Why do we bother attacking now when the score gains are in defending…. This is great for a big alliance that is focused on defence and gets lots of incoming but for smaller alliances that have to scrap defence to be able to attack and struggle for DCs etc this is just yet another penalty on the small guys.

It also means that those who have a crash or the likes of me who starts rush scanner cannot get into the game properly with regards to score. I used to start rush scanner, put a lot of work into quests and covops and then get attacking and be top 200, now doing the same I am rank 500.

Quests: quests should be obtainable and help those who work hard at them to give them a leg up, like scanners, however because of the cov-ops quests, cov-ops became overused and nerfed, this is out of balance, atm the only benefit of being a cov-opper is for the research/cons quest bonus, putting the work in covert ops should pay in itself and the quests should be a bonus not the other way around.

Stats: So we have the nerfing in attack xp, focus on defence, we have BPs set at 5 so we have fewer but larger galaxies and forted so attacking is harder, then for some reason the stats guys seem to think that with all this focus on defence we should get defensive stats every round. You have sucked any joy in the game out, landing an attack is what give us the willpower to keep going! But yay you have this gimmick now of lower eta medium/heavy defence ships… sigh!

Alliance size dropping to 50: why, what’s the point? It makes literally no difference other than to prevent mergers of alliances that have more than 25 members each, will still have alliances with support tags!

To summarise the direction of PA is Attacking is bad, being a small alliance is bad, defend defend defend…. If there is a feature that is exploited to win or cheat then nerf it rather than try to catch/ban cheaters or enforce the rules! Clearly too many people have cheated while attacking/escorting or covert opping so nerf that parts of the game rather than setting up an effective team to enforce rules!

This direction is killing the game!