BoganGod wrote:So the debate has been settled and the conclusion oh nobel sage is what?
- cracking down on players who can play but have personal tics, flair and character.
An allegation that has often been made but doesn't stand up to scrutiny. For every person whom I have ever heard to complain that there's too much censorship on the site and we're driving away freethinkers, there's another person who has complained that there's not enough censorship on the site and we're driving away people who are looking for a clean, family-friendly environment. I've been a mod here a long, long time; I've heard a lot of complaints on both sides, and while I've never kept a formal accounting I'm pretty sure it's almost exactly 50/50. We're almost exactly in the middle-of-the-road between those who would like less moderation and those who would like more moderation. That tells me we're doing a good job of staying balanced.
- Deceptive and cheap tactics with auto-renew of membership
These did piss off a lot of people. However, in response to complaints the owner did clean up the wording to make it more obvious that these are annual subscriptions, and now that almost all gaming sites do it this way, there shouldn't be too many more who get caught off guard by it.
- Useless star system that contributes nothing to players except for spam
The star system isn't useless, although it hasn't been brought to its full potential. It's the general currency for creating autotournaments.
- No recognition of loyalty
True enough.
- A stupid and slow support ticket system
I can't speak to this. It doesn't seem stupid or slow to me, but I don't have enough experience with it to talk much. As far as I know KA answers all tickets within 24 hours except on weekends. How much faster do you think it should be?
- A deliberately stupid approach to playing on mobiles. Seriously how hard is it to make this playable on android and ios?
Not being a techie, I really don't know how hard it would be. All I can say is that three different people have tried to make a workable mobile app for CC, and all have failed. This seems to me like presumptive evidence that it's not as easy as it sounds. For one thing, CC maps are a lot larger than a phone screen. In order to zoom smoothly from a full map view to a meaningfully zoomed view to they would all have to be converted from their current PNG graphics to SVG graphics, and I think this would pretty much mean going back to the drawing board on all of them. Nobody has the time for that. Most of the original mapmakers are long gone. You'd pretty much have to recruit a whole new generation of artists.
