Imperia Online International

HEHE, today we all logged in to pour IO accounts and saw "wonderful" message abount game rule changes. Here what we all got:

"Six Hours Offline Block to be Deployed in IO

On May 3rd, 2010, at 14:00 server time (GMT +2), a new rule will be deployed in IO which is called "Mandatory 6 hours offline block".

1. The rule applies only for players who are above 1000 networth points in all IO realms except the classic and Blitz.
2. The maximum time a player can spend online in the game is 24 hours.
3. When the 24 hours period expires the player`s account will be automatically locked for the next 6 hours. During this 6 hours block the player will not be able to log into his account.
4. If the player completes his 6 hours offline block earlier than scheduled (he wishes to do so), his timer will be reset and will start counting another 24 hours.
5. Upon logging in the system will notify the player for the amount of the offline time and whether his 24 hours timer is reset or not.
6. The player will be able to constantly monitor the time left until his new 6 hours offline block through the game interface."

First of all, congratulation to IO tema for changing rules in the middle of the realm! Very "motivating" aspect to paly IO, coz you'll never know when the rules are changed  *bravo*  I'm very sad, coz I never saw such a thing in forum before - why there was not any topic concerning this issue? Don't you care what IO community thinks about it? What if someone will quit hte game due to that or due to changing rules in the middle of the realm (never knowing when)?
On the other hand, if this rule is for trying to conserve and save someone's health or to put multiaccounters and babysitters on hard times, then it's applausible  *bravo*. But again, not in the middle of the realm and without any approval from IO players, we want our opinion olso be important and heard!  *stop*
And lastly, can someone explain me, how exactly those 24 max online hours will be counted? The system will be similar to that which is in old version realms? For example if you log in at 12:20 for 5 minutes will this be considered only 5 minutes of playing or will it be considered as the whole hour being online? And how those max 24 hours of being online will be counted - will they be counted in minutes (would be better seconds, but IO I think has problems then copunting at such accuracy) or hours accuracy? For example, if I log at 12:20 for 5 minutes and again I log at 13:35 for 10 minutes, how much time of playing/being online will be counted - 2 hours or 15 minutes? Thanks in advance for any clarification ;)

C'mon! Look up - there's a major post about it...

umm, no, i dont think there is a post about this new rule, which does sound alittle different than the old rule..
im under the impression, that its different, cuz now u cant get banned, meaning if u dont go offline for 6 hours, it will just shut u out for 6 hours, after 24 hours... but the way they count the hours im assuming is the same

no post no nothing.

will this aply to realm 50? and if I am not 24/7 online - does this apply to me or for a total amount of 24 hours i play i need to skip 6 hours? (lets say 6 hours one day 9 hours another day 9 hours another day) after that i get banned for 6 hours?

or does the 2. thingie expain that its consecutive 24 hours? :) please correct it if it so :P

No.

No.

And it would seem so @ similar old version.


Havent you trolled forum any? When V4a came out, many many...many people bitched about that alongside them closing classic realms.

Many many many....many people quit :) because they continued with it. However - for every person that stops playing, there are 3 newbies willing to put their money into this game. Thats what matters ;) Its bizness dude. Suuure, admins will ask community what they think of stuff - do you like it? And as long as the opinions are always split down the middle (like it always is - "i like it" "well i hate it" ) what do you think will happen? Well they'll go with the half of the community that is enjoying their new rules :) Their new changes. Duh.


You'll get over it :) Just like everyone else does.

PS - the ONLY way its different is you only get locked out for 6 hours if you go past the 24 hour rule. It used to be 10 hours :)

yup, thats what i said, and its kinda obviously much better than the old rule...
and the way u put it, it seems u think its a ban, but its not a punishment.. at all! cuz its the same amount of time ur sposed to stay offline for...
its obviously better, cuz u dont really need to keep track of it as much, and worst comes to worst, it will decide for u, when u get 'blocked' for 6 hours, which will be after 24 hours since the last 6 hour block lol

I think I browse the Forum quite alot.... but I have never seen anything about this change until now.   :head_hurts_kr:

This change doesnt change game dynamics. It just changes the fact that now you(or babysitters) cant be on your account 24/7. Personally, i like that, i suggested that long time ago and i liked that aspect of old rules.
We cant make all people satisfied, there will always be some people for something, some against. There are 100 realms, we cant wait for them to finish or stop them to make changes in them. Especially ones like this, which doesnt change gameplay. Most of people were offline more then 6 h per day. So it doesnt change anything for them.
About question, how the time will be counted, i will answer tomorrow.

the sad thing, i think im part of the few that are not offline for 6 hours :( but thats life... :D

Well its good rule  *bravo*....No babysitting and no imperia checker :D.... *PARTY*

what are we supposed to do for those 6 hours ?? sleep ??? ?  ???  :D
 *freak*

seriously, who do they think we are?! non-imperiaonline.org-addicts?! thats just being silly  *crazy*

Well, I do not care  ... I advise you to send the troops away and goes to bed  *FRIEND*

or maybe, just maybe.. they actually think  *hmm* we have a life..?  *hmm* thats even dumber!!! 

I want to be able to access the Chatroom system without logging into my IO account.

I'd like kinda approve you, but since there is no clear answer - how these 24 hours will be calculated/summed and to tchange that in the middle of the realm I'm not sure, it's very good for those who have already devoted themselves to this game  *xxx* I presonally would like some stability in this game and more clarity, and to know what my whole game won't be ruined by any new rules or changes which would stop me from plauing or restrict my action's freedom



We're looking forward to hear that :)

hmm, this reminds me... the chatroom doesnt work for me... this is the auto adress 'io_public_en' ive tried pressing 'join' and 'public chat' they both take me to the chat room, but it gives me a 'loading, please wait' msg for what seems to be an endless amount of time, i guess it just didnt bother me enough for me to post a topic about it, but since u brought it up lol, can anyone help me with this pretty pls?

Then follows question - why should I put money into this game, when rules can be changed any minute? Anyway, today is not timefor big emotions, we're disappointed but lets' wait for hours counting clarification. If it'll look sucked, I'll split all my bad emotions on IO  :rant:

i asked about this in another topic... It happends to me if I´m in a free wireless network.

Tiger answered

I will like to shine some light on the topic because it seems it is largely misunderstood.

The rule might look like the old one, but actually is so far from it that apart from the name it has nothing to do with it. This rule it the only real countermeasure against babysitting, autocheckers, refreshers and so on.. However its first version long time ago wasn't very well made and was hurting mostly innocent newbs, so we removed it... Recently during the planning stage of the next version of IO (oh, yeah, you heard right:) - http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Imperia-Online/114814521869565?ref=ts (http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Imperia-Online/114814521869565?ref=ts)) we realized we can make this rule work The one we are making now is just what it says - 6 hours off every 24 hours.. no penalty for violating. The time is measured EXACTLY, not astronomically (no more 1 minute into the new hour to count as a whole hour!), so basically if you try to login 5 hours into your block instead of locking you out, it will tell you to wait for another hour and then to login.

No one can convince me that they can go 1 year with less than 6 hours of sleep every 30 hours (24+6). Every player that does use "friendly" help of babysitters or autorefreshers will not even notice the difference, because they always have offline time for obvious physical needs. (and for those very, very few who do have sleep problems... well please, understand it is for the greater good of 99.9% of the players)

So, please, think first how you play and will this affect you at all before criticizing the rule.

PS About doing it in the middle of the realms - as Tiger made a comment - we have many, many realms all running at different stages and we have made the analysis that this is such an important feature that we cannot wait for the end of of every realm to implement it (it will take an year).

more time  offline= more attacks received (high cost of gold for  army save) = more credit = more money for administrators.
 *pardon*

thank u very much, kopa  *rose*.. and u tiger  *rose* and u xoac *rose*
umm, it makes perfect sense to me... i like the rule.. i just wanna thank all the admins and everyone who works to make this place better and bigger.. i know this is what u love doing with ur life, the money is just a bonus :)
so bravo  *bravo* enough roses to fill a vase  *rose*  *rose*  *rose*  *rose*  *rose*  *rose*  *rose*  *rose*  *rose*  *rose*

I do not know how to describe this decision:
wise, innovative, revolutionary, enlightening ..
I'm pleasantly surprised .. keep it up! *bravo* *ok*

hey just get account in all other realms then you can be on for 2400 hours a day  *hahaha* *hahaha*

What other realms. old realms will have old 6h rule which is active from the time game was made. And all other will have new 6h offline rule.

lol...not even IO team knows how it will be counted...it is apsurd....

Exactly, even after Xaoc explanation I have no idea how this system will work and how those 24 and 6 hours will be counted  *hahaha* *hahaha* do I have make break for 6 hours in one-piece after I get total of 24 hours  being online or what? Or do I have to get 6 hours offline (not in one-piece) in total during 30 hours period. Still can't figure it out...


P.S. And please don't change relam version in the middle of the realm, as it might ruin the whole game. Introduce this rule for all relams, well I could agree, but still I dunno get clear view of it will work, but to change the relm version in thew middle of the game would be a bad idea  :( I know you did that last yeaqr when changing from v4 to v4a and I heard many complains about that, but fortunately I was taking break at that time :)

http://forum.imperiaonline.org/int/index.php?topic=20365.0
how the time will be counted is explained here. even before you wrote that message.

Your 6 offline hours must be consecutive(in one piece). Once you make 6 offline consecutive hours you will have 24 hours to play. There will be counter in game which will show how much of these 24 you've used(you will have 24 when you log in after 6 consecutive offline hours and they will start to decrease, after 30 min of playing you will have 23:30 for example). Once your counter reaches 0 the game will throw you out for 6 hours. Every 6 consecutive offline hours will give you new 24 hours to play.

To be concrete, only about not full 7 minutes have passed since then, but thanx, I'll check it out

Maybe I was posting my message all that time?  *THIS*



thanx Krum, looks not so bad at all, but might cause some difficulties wheh you sit by pc for quite long and you're constantly logged in IO (for example all day long :D) :head_hurts_kr:

why don't IO team make anket to see is it realy 99.99% players who want that rule! it is apsurd! if we wanted that rule we would play r1234 and r10! but we didn't!

this rule isnt the same as in realm 1-4 and blitz it is different and quite good especially for babysitters that are online 24 hours  [:-}

Why whine so much for a rule that you don't even be aware of, if you were playing without cheating? How can you be 24h online? In what mode? Do you sleep?

I read this thread from the beginning and i'm really upset. How on earth all cheaters can whine so clearly???  *xxx*

Play the game HONESTLY and you will never realize that this rule EXIST.  *pardon*

i was offline for even more than 6h in one day but NEVER 6H IN THE ROW! and in war NEVER! so don't tell me that you are one of the "best" players and that u like this one...? but i can see that administrator is done with everything! and they don't give a fu.. about us...only about our money anda that is it!! and ADMIN WAS WRONG 99.9% ISN'T FOR THAT RULE! visit croatia1 forum and you will see  :rant: :rant: :rant:

Everyone should be VULNERABLE .And everyone should sleep normally .Domba ,do u wake up every night just to check account?i was always thinking that neversleeping players are myth ...  *black_eye* .How important must be this game, to sacrifice normal sleep hour spree.i really dont get it..

fraggy... i know quite alot of player that wake up ... to check their acc .... It´s not a myth.   *gamer*

It's not a myth if you do it once. But most of "heroes" here do it permanently, 24/24 - 7/7. That simply means that they are CHEATING, and now they are even trying to defend themselves with stupid stories and lies...

Who is against 6 hours offline rule is simply a cheater. That's all!

agreed. cuz you simply cant do it all the time, and if you do, its really bad for you, this should be the oppurtunity to feel relaxed and know that u can sleep, cuz u anyways cant check ur account... oh and were all human beings ;)

and im stoned/wasted  *xxx*

tiger my good man if you have all realms you can just log into 1 of those. figure you would get that  *hihi*

well, obviusly i didnt read that right then :)

wait i didnt get any notice on new rule
where is the message?
im playing in realm 63

and i dont get this thingy
i have one account
i dont babysit or whatsoever, so does that mean i will not be affected by the new rule?
cuz i spend only 24hr on my one account.

or does this thingy mean if i log on 24 hr then i automatically have to leave game for 6 hrs
not sure if the enemy is attacking and stuff. in this case i totally dont get the point to do that

anyway i want to say something
instead of changing these pretty useless thingy, why not changing the battle system or army upkeep system
and also gold mine system.. i hate to spend most of the game time sending out army to gold hunt to goldmines that is really boring
but i need to do that to keep up with the upkeep effectively
and what is more great about is most of the players now when they leave game they put 0 workers!!!!
and now i have to spend out attacks to just get 20k gold or 50k gold.
and it's competitive now and sometimes u get 5 gold LOL!!!

if i make money with imperia i can think better system
the game is not made to encourage attacks, although it's "war game"
and many people got tired of this, not enjoying the game, and leave (already many left)
and i also think distance need to be fixed, there are not so many people in realm 63 already
and the map is BIG!! so u send attack but usually (cuz people still stay are mostly active + good players) you get 5 gold.
if u r lucky u get 9. and lose about 1m gold for army upkeep
so people dont attack and farm, and market price drop like hell and now u need to live on hiring on free economics.

Ok, today new rule was introduced to IO, but I have one suggestion for it which if fixed would be very nice from IO team  *rose* The problem is that for now this new timer is in very inconvenient part of the screen. Maybe not all the palyers will have this problem due to resolution and monitor diameter, but for me personally this timer is "invisible". In order to see it, I must scroll down through the window, coz it's at the bottom of the screen. I think it would be more convenient to have it always before your eyes because now you could simply miss the moment when it reaches zero  *xxx* another thing is that this new timer needs to be refreshed (F5 or reload page) to see the exact left hours - not a big problem, but we'd like to see everything in real time as we are used with current IO clock. Thats all for now, I would be verry happy if my wishes were fullfilled  *pardon*
Here's the screenshot of how the problem looks like and where the timer could be put on the sreen:


(http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/4391/timer.th.png) (http://img718.imageshack.us/i/timer.png/)

new rule is fantastic well thought out well implimented and  no chance for mistakes and not over penalised for making a mistake.

Today in the morning I had 24 hours left till the mandatory 6 hours offline block. I was logged in for maximum 30 minutes and when returned home, logged in and the counter tells me that it's only 22:24 hours left? How could it be? Does IO team as always changed counting time pricipes or there is something wrong????????? Or does it mean that 24 hours counter begin to go down since the first logging in? :( It's sad, I thought that being online hours will be summed, but it looks that it isn't :(

nah, sorry dude, it just goes down after first login... that would be insane if we had 24 hours to be online

Wow!!! I can't believe my eyes.  You actually made a rule against babysitting and cheats...big congrats to the IO team.  It took me a while to post because I wanted to see how it works, and I give it my seal of approval.   *bravo*

Yet being the moany git I am, I think maybe you could even go a step further.  Those players that went over the 24 hr rule could get a symbol next to their user name, so everyone knows they babysit and are logged out for the six hours, just like when you are banned. 

Let's face it, you can't do it by accident as to go over the 24 hour rule is near impossible considering the warnings you get when you log on and the time ticking down on the screen.  Why the symbol?  Well by the time other players realize your troops have been home for a while and the time it takes their troops to hit the fort, the 6 hours could be over.  With the symbol it will make the game a little more interesting to see if you could hit those cheating ****** in time!!!!!    *hahaha*

i dunno, i think the whole point of this new rule, is that its not a ban.. its a "mandatory 6 hour offline block"
and besides, its very possible il be up 1 day for 30 hours, and i happend to have been checking my account every 4-5 hours... so it doesnt mean im a babysitter, it just means i dont have the same sleeping routine as most ppl