Discussion: what's the surprise uni?

    well..that would be nice
    but id prefer old style ogame


    only epic blue could make me wanna start a new uni

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    Old Design with no DM, one can only hope for it

    Well, let's just put it this way Mafkess.
    There is a reason why all all us old-timers speak fondly of Epic Blue. A time where money earned was secondary to player experience =)


    But no, I cannot for the life of me fathom GF having gained so much insight into the players all of a sudden. Probably we are getting just another "special time-limited" universe with something like 10x economy and 5x fleet and V6 features for a couple of weeks - in short nothing out of the ordinary or even worth spending time on.

    Looking at that screenshot of epic blue bring backs those memories of 99.9% of the class playing game in the school library at break times. :)

    I'm hoping as everyone else is... do a time reset to when uni's first started opening... when u2 and u3 came online. What made them successful? Take Dark matter function out of this one. Maybe a Commander button to help pay for the server. Make it a normal speed for fleet and eco...or at the very worst do x2. Basically take it back to the day when we had 30,000 players joining a universe and if you feel below 10k players it was dying.. Bring back the old blue! I know what we say is not read by GF but its always good to voice your opinion. Worst case the uni would flop and be dead like the rest of them. Best case it brings in a mass new crowd.. players from existing unis flood it.. New players = word of mouth .. also old players would hear and come back and it will bring in even more players. That would help populate the other unis with newer players as well. Most ppl dont just play 1 uni. I know GF doesnt like moving away from dm but leave the commander for income to fund it and i promise you that ogame would turn around and be what it was 10 years ago. I guess its just my mindset... what would i know .. i only started in 2004 and seen the game change so much since i started and i seen the player counts drop over the years. Granted more players means less need to push dark matter. They probably made more money from only selling commander to 30,000 players instead of pushing dark matter on 1,000.

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    I'm hoping as everyone else is... do a time reset to when uni's first started opening... when u2 and u3 came online. What made them successful? Take Dark matter function out of this one. Maybe a Commander button to help pay for the server. Make it a normal speed for fleet and eco...or at the very worst do x2. Basically take it back to the day when we had 30,000 players joining a universe and if you feel below 10k players it was dying.. Bring back the old blue! I know what we say is not read by GF but its always good to voice your opinion. Worst case the uni would flop and be dead like the rest of them. Best case it brings in a mass new crowd.. players from existing unis flood it.. New players = word of mouth .. also old players would hear and come back and it will bring in even more players. That would help populate the other unis with newer players as well. Most ppl dont just play 1 uni. I know GF doesnt like moving away from dm but leave the commander for income to fund it and i promise you that ogame would turn around and be what it was 10 years ago. I guess its just my mindset... what would i know .. i only started in 2004 and seen the game change so much since i started and i seen the player counts drop over the years. Granted more players means less need to push dark matter. They probably made more money from only selling commander to 30,000 players instead of pushing dark matter on 1,000.

    this would seriously make my life I would message all my old buddies to play like the old days with only top 1500 showing in rank. I remember when I first started how big of a deal it meant to get ranked lol that was so so long ago haha. Good times trying to find proxy servers to let us play in programming class in high school I miss those days.



    It should be like the old days. No p2w game like it is now. :thumbdown:
    So please! No merchant, No Officers and No DM. :evilgrin2:

    Old blue was sooooooooooooo cool
    my first uni that i have started to play was uni 4 and I had like 5 million points when redesign came and I just hated it so much that I decided to delete my account.
    And back in the day 5 mill account stand for something and that was so big deal to get it and I only had 2 moons :P.
    We hope old blue uni for your birthday to make people happy but we all know that it would probably be uni with v6 features.

    I agree with all of you regarding the classic Epic Blue design, it was and is what defines Ogame for me. Redesign is nothing more than a cosmetic face lift, but the original always stays with me. Just something about it, like a classic car, nothing new has that character or history about it.

    Why don't they just allow people to choose which design they see the data transformed into? Or is that a stupid idea, too?


    As for this uni, (wish me luck...), I hope it has AI accounts. :ninja:

    Huge fan of destruction!

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    Hmm how about "whole world uni"
    All country users can join, has 100 galaxy.
    Just my hope :biggrin:
    There can be .org users vs .us users.


    Other than the increased galaxies, You make it sound like that would be something brand new.. There is nothing to stop anyone doing that in any of the existing, or incoming servers.. you just need the people wanting to do it.. and at least one person that can speak the local language to help translate PMs / forum posting (when google translated fails ;) ).


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    I agree with all of you regarding the classic Epic Blue design, it was and is what defines Ogame for me. Redesign is nothing more than a cosmetic face lift, but the original always stays with me. Just something about it, like a classic car, nothing new has that character or history about it.


    That's not strictly true.. the redesign wasn't just a cosmetic upgrade, but a complete code over-haul as well. The old design is no longer supported by the new code.
    If you must compare it to Cars, then it would be the Classic Mini (My first car - as an example) compared with the newer BMW mini (like this one). Same name, but new engine, new technology, new design.


    As for this Birthday event / new server.. I've been disappointed by most of the previous events.. most of them focusing on DM related things, or something solely for a certain type of player (i.e those that like jumping on new unis, or small events with limited prizes that benefit 0.001% of the player base etc..), While I'm ever hopeful of a wide range of things to cover the majority of players.. I won't be holding my breath.


    The sky is not the limit it is only the genesis of dreams.

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    Why don't they just allow people to choose which design they see the data transformed into? Or is that a stupid idea, too?



    that is actually a great idea and i think i personally said them it should be choosable


    that would be epic..if they allowed it in old, and new unis




    edit:
    dont think that i have something personally against you
    i just really disliked the idea of auto-recall fs..it changes the game drastically and not in a good way

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    I don't, it was just a crack. At myself really. My ideas are never very popular.


    Btw, I should warn some of you that I've started a new account in Andromeda and I'm coming for you! :missilelauncher:

    Huge fan of destruction!

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