Hello all of you!
One of the reasons I like Imperial Online is that the Admins care about the health of the players, in some Version's there's the 6 hours offline rule. But I think this rule could be improved.The rule right now says you need to be offline 6 consecutive hours. In Version 1 you are able to see when someone was online the last time. There's the flag so it is very easy to see when a person is sleeping and you know in those 6 hours you can attack this person safely. For most people this means a big disadvantage cause their flag shows what timezone there are in, (just google it) but for example Asia, Russia and USA have several timezones so have fun figuring out what the right one is. Now I have 2 suggestions to improve this:
1. Don't show flag, and don't show the online hours.
(very simple to do but I do realise that this status is not in every version/realm and because of that I prefer the second option)
2. When you make a new account in a realm there's an option to chose 6 hours that you'll be offline. They need to be consecutive. In those 6 hours everything will be like you are in holiday; you cannot be attacked, you don't gain resources etc. If you want to change the hours you can change it by using credits and only once in a month. (that way you keep it more exclusive) So basically in those 6 hours you are safe.
Now there's always the question why make 6 hours safe? This game is about exitement bla bla bla..Well true it is but a day have 24 hours and 6 hours is not much. Every person needs sleep and rest every now and then. I guess there are quite some people that agree with me when I say that they worry or even know for sure they'll be attacked cause they are going to sleep. In all realms (except International) people have same timezone, same sleeping times so people there take the advantage to attack you in the night cause they know you're sleeping. You're in a war and you have to wake up in the middle of the night cause you know PersonA or PersonB will pay you a visit. The next morning you are tired and exhausted cause of that. It is not healthy!
Will the exitement go away? Noooo! Some people go sleep at 22, some at 00.00 and some at 02.00 so there are still differences. I think we could give it a shot, less people will wake up in the morning and be upset cause all their army or all resources that they saved for are gone. I think its more exitement to attack during daytime when people have chances to defend themselves and where the spies actually are usefull, it needs more skills in tactics!
Besides that you don't have to put your offline hours during the night, there are people who CANNOT play from their offices cause their bosses don't allow them, they could put those hours when they work for example.
Additionally we could only implent this in a few realms so that people can have the choice to live only for this game....
Let me know what you think about and please don't start to be agressive but come up with arguments why you think its not good or why you think its good idea.. or maybe you have something to add!
Thank you!
