Our first server wide learning call took place on 24th January. This call included:
- Review of previous SVS
- Advice for players seeking to earn SVS wings
- Tactics to escape when lag is an issue
- Discussion of useful topics for future
Review of previous SVS
- Positives
- Excellent cooperation to take opposition throne
- Comprehensive win for 209 – credit to all alliances
- Learning for next time
- Prior to throne, need to have agreement in place as to who will reinforce who, and who will fill throne etc (Action – Viking and Hoff to consider a template plan)
- Still many bubble drops, which costs us too much. Emphasise three day bubble to all players
- Lag continues to cause problems – players need to be aware of this risk when porting to other server
- Too many players are trying to get wings by being attacked. This is not a successful strategy (more detail below)
Getting wings
- Many players try to get into top 5 in SVS by getting hit. K40 has made this a very bad strategy, and nobody who tries this approach is succeeding. We all recommend people consider other approaches
- When fighters are moving to one alliance for SVS, we will try to include players who are learning, so they can learn how to fight and win
- Alliances should arrange BOC at the earliest possible slot, to allow more time for 209 fighters to play together
- For next SVS, fighters will gather at ONE alliance (Action – Hoff to speak to ONE about how many places it might be possible to create)
- There was a discussion about penalising players who deliberately lose points, but it was agreed this matter should be discussed by leaders on discord
Tactics to escape when lag is an issue
- Lag has again been very bad during SVS recently. Players had these suggestions:
- When returning home, ask players from your alliance to reinforce quickly in case you cannot bubble
- If you cannot port, try using a random port to move to a different place on enemy server, and then try porting home again
- Manually type in the coordinates you wish to port to
- Reduce quality of graphics or animation – many players report this reduces lag
Discussion of useful topics for future
- Solid defence (to cover wall general, sub generals and research)
- Generals (to cover defence and attack)
- Gear (including refining)
- Dragons (including refining and talents)
Next call. 31st January at 19:00 server time.