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Thursday, April 14th 2011, 9:42pm

Gameforge said Ikariam was not a war game

Can someone point me to this quote? Please?

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Thursday, April 14th 2011, 9:50pm

Never heard of it.
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Thursday, April 14th 2011, 10:27pm

NRJ said it on the .org forums, give me a few minutes and I'll get the quote for you.

http://board.en.ikariam.com/board13-ikar…ad/#post1217001

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Building game with attacking options, trading options is a good description. It is definitely not a war game.


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Thursday, April 14th 2011, 10:39pm

I know I have been saying it for years. It's neither a war game nor a building game. War is but one element of the game, that's the way it has always been. Sure you can play the game as a warrior/pirate and you can play as a strait builder/trader but both of those take very careful and often difficult strategies. Ikariam is designed to be a well rounded game and you get the most out of it (and get less annoyed by updates) when you play a balanced style. If you fight all the time without putting much time and resources back into infrastructure you will eventually run out gold and be passed up by those building. Conversely if all you do is build and you ignore or even just neglect the martial aspects of the game sooner or later war, or at the very least pirates, will come to you and you find yourself out gunned not just in troops but the knowledge to get the most out of those troops.

The war aspect of the game is there to spice thing up, to allow some piracy and the threat of piracy, and to create and drive a diplomatic aspect of the game.
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Friday, April 15th 2011, 7:46am

my goodness, I so agree with Rattus....this is scary.

What else can be added?



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Friday, April 15th 2011, 3:15pm

Quoted from "ImperialUser"

NRJ said it on the .org forums, give me a few minutes and I'll get the quote for you.

http://board.en.ikariam.com/board13-ikar…ad/#post1217001

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Building game with attacking options, trading options is a good description. It is definitely not a war game.

Thank IU.


Can close this now.

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Friday, April 15th 2011, 3:47pm

I have no problem letting the thread stay open for discussion, if its OK with you tehfallen?
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Friday, April 15th 2011, 9:18pm

Yea that's fine. I was just looking specifically for the quote, but I have no problem if people want to discuss how they view it.


I think you hit it spot on with your earlier post.

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Sunday, April 17th 2011, 7:30am

Quoted from "Rattus"

I have no problem letting the thread stay open for discussion, if its OK with you tehfallen?

Rattus, after a post like yours some of us are struck speechless. You hit the nail on the head.

Take me for example. I am a peaceful builder who raids the occasional inactive for building materials and luxury goods. Most everyone leaves me alone while I proceed with my quiet building. They do this, in my mind, because I have a top 100 military score and keep a floater at the ready in case anyone does come to call. I get my stuff back and more. (Of course, the 100 levels of warehouse in each of my towns means they probably didn't get much to start with.)

The building is the long term goal and fun for me, but the occasional adrenaline spurt while fighting keeps it interesting.

Well balanced in my mind. But don't let me rain on anyone else's thunder, we all play our own way.

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Friday, April 22nd 2011, 9:29pm

I think nrj said it at .org
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Saturday, April 23rd 2011, 1:48am

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I think nrj said it at .org


:read: Imperialuser already stated this in the 3rd post of the thread along with a link to the actual post in question. please be careful that you are adding to the conversation and not just spamming or post hunting or you will be warned.
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Monday, April 25th 2011, 4:57pm

I agree with rattus also, but i prefer to call this game in my own head The Forever Game. A game that never ends. This def halps me out sometimes when having to deal with travel/building times.

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Monday, April 25th 2011, 5:10pm

i agree with the .org guy this is NOT a war game but this is also not a building game nor an interactive game. SOULEY this is a game that mixes all of these elements and thats what makes it fun if itwas just interactive it would be pointless and the website would be abandoned within the year. If this was a war game then new players would be discouraged and would not play becuase all the veterins would kill them im hte beginning and it would be no fun but if this was just a building game it qwould be boring as crap so yea this is ot a war game this is war/building/interactive game.

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