I am against stopping production so my vote is NO!
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I am against stopping production so my vote is NO!
Broadband stop? No way!
If this were an optional feature, a few people might take advantage (myself not being one of them). The default setting must be not stopping production since the majority of us prefer things as is.
Could not say it any better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pavelesque
I could see maybe being concerned about mines collapsing or high value production running unbuffed, but the amount of benefit is so limited compared to the potential problems. The oops maintenances are not frequent or long enough that they concern me, while I have learned not to let anything I care about run during planned maintenance because there's a good chance I won't be able to login until after I get back from work.
I vot no. would rathe have my barracks keep running than save a few mines
Please stop everyone else and quadruple mine :)
I don't think is wise. It would be better to keep things the way they are in this matter.
No.
VOTE: NO..
BUT I'd like a function where I can turn off groups of production or all with suspended buffs to adjust my time line for convenience
like if I turn of all my smelters to gather ore, or turn off Weapon makers to build ore Bars.. be nice to have a grouping switch.. maybe check selections to turn off and on groupings at same time.. now that would rock
A resounding No on this suggestion - for all the reasons already mentioned. I shudder to think that my Barracks, Bookmaker, and PH/RPH would be shut down - much less that an island full of carefully planned production schedules would be totally ruined.
I voted yes just so someone would have to explain why the players voted to suspend time for a function that was supposed to be removed nearly two years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by BB_Endesmor
Just kidding, I still voted no because the disruption for players who have more inflexible schedules would be significantly worse than benefit to people who don't plan for the scheduled and unscheduled downtimes - either of the game or of life in general. While I understand the basic idea that people's consumable deposits for premium items, i.e. industrial iron/gold mine, run out and collapse, but there are better solutions. For example, just making the premium items stop when they reach a deposit of 1 and not collapse would be a significant improvement. I am also afraid that the restructuring of the entire progress-while-offline system to account for the game going offline would introduce the potential for significant errors.
I'd rather see a full island toggle that we can choose to stop all production if/when we wish. Then those who want it to stop during maintenance can do so, and those who want to continue can also do that. And we can also use it when we know we are going to be away on vacation, or if we suspect we may not have access to the game for an extended period (weather impacting electricity, family/work issues, etc.).
Why let production run?
To let lengthy queues produce: Barracks, PH, Bookbinder
Why stop production?
To prevent loss of resources
To prevent loss of buffs
To logon to a known state
The goal here is to give the player finer control of the island, not some binary choice of run or not run.
I love the idea of stopping production on a resource before it collapses.
And why not pause the buff while you're at it.
Then you could let island production run during maintenance.
Making these choice configurable gives the player more control.
Yes, absolutely, yes. I don't know how many times I've lost a special mine to maintenance, scheduled, unscheduled and running over. Yes, please, stop!
Absolutely NOT!!!
It is not even April the first and someone is coming up with a question like this! When you time your explorers, mines, buffs etc according to schedules, you expect those schedules to stay on schedule.
The only advantage to something like this would be to add confusion to the game
No, I want my home island to remain active during regular maintenances
[For clarification: this is in reply to CoffeeCat's post, suggesting a "START/STOP toggle" functionality for the individual player -- missed to hit the "reply with quote" button.]
1000% YES YES YES & thumbs up for this HIGHLY DESIRABLE & ULTIMATELY USEFUL feature request !!! And a clear NO, NO F****** WAY to BB's *totally_braindead* idea of stopping everything during so called "maintenance periods" (which officially don't exist any more anyway, as various players have already pointed out).
Also 1000% YES to stackable buffs / buffing queues. Which imo should have been implemented since ages, as a matter of fairness to those players who actually have a (busy) real life and can't attend to their island 24x7.
No.
No.
And... guess what... NOOOOOO
I waste enough barracks time building troops for silly quests, thank you very much, i don't want it shutting it down for dunno how many hours.
Plus this will ruin all timed buffs...
I am looking for those 27 who voted yes:)
i heard it was trumpQuote:
Originally Posted by Raubhautz
This "START/STOP toggle" could also exist in the form of a Zone Buff. BB seems to love those. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by BluesDawg
BB proposing stuff and making open discussion and vote is a good thing btw. Hope they keep it up!
Please do not stop production.
But having stackable buffs, suggested by others, is a highly desirable feature. Found myself wishing for it yesterday, in fact, and glad to see it posted above. Many of the shorter buffs have an odd end time, and it would be lovely to add another to it, to extend its buff properties, as it will end during maintenance/sleep/player away from the game times. We can stack premium time, so should be able to stack Gold Fever, Piero's Bowl of Pasta, The Mother Tree Ritual, Roasted Duck and more. It actually might add a financial benefit for the Settler team, encouraging buff purchase from the store. I can see someone going on vacation and wanting to leave their island in perpetual buff mode while they are away.
no
noway nohow, NO, NO, NO!!!
This could be a good option, leave it to the players' choice.Quote:
Originally Posted by CoffeeCat
XD ROFL!!! Now, that is rich! Glad I did not just take a sip of coffee!Quote:
Originally Posted by SSSecretSquirrel
their is no need to shut down production will mess up mu over night skunk buff on barracks
No, let it run
Fuelpilot
No, please do not do that. I'd prefer my island to remain active during maintenance.
It would throw off way too many buff schedules, geos, and explorers.
It would also negatively affect those 'produce x' quests for timeline. That would be an extra pain during events, especially Crisis.
I'm not entirely sure if this is a great idea.. I like the idea of MOST things not running (mines, quarries, wood production, farms etc), BUT, I DO want bookbinder, prov houses, villages/university, geos and explorers to continue while maintenance is going on. I am not sure if this is doable, or if it's an all or nothing proposition. A bit more clarification would be awesome, please and thank you.
Please leave this as it is!
I dislike 35 of you more than I did before.
Just say no!
BB you first state that resource extraction would be stopped during regular maintenance then in the actual question you state "Yes, I want all of the activities on my home island to be stopped during regular maintenances" erm all activities include Geo searches, Explorers, buffs and any buildings being upgraded. Your intentions and the question need to be more refined before I could give a Yes or No answer to the survey.
No on stopping production
Yes on a search feature for friends list
Don't stop
No, please do not do that. I'd prefer my island to remain active during maintenance.
Just implement it and make it an option that the player controls. You may want to break it into groups though. Extraction from deposits is a totally different thing than factories, troop production, buff production, etc.
leave it as it is now
Saw this thread late... and am surprised at the poll results...
Is everyone thinking rationally?
I mean I would vote for "stopping" in a heartbeat, because I know
if BB gets 70% votes to *not* stop it, they would roll a dice, and decide to stop it anyway :D
PS - Just kidding..
If you do make this option a part of the game, could you make it optional? I don't like this idea but somebody might.