Posts by OnionKnight

Hey folks. If you've been around a while, you may or not be versed in universe population trends. Obviously, when a universe first starts, things are chaotic. Hundreds/thousands of accounts created each day, and that makes perfect sense.

What does not make sense is the fact that, especially in 'older' universes, such a high number of accounts are created that 1) will never have anything built on them and 2) will never be logged into a 2nd time. "New" players can easily be monitored with a 3rd-party website, as can the general activity of the entire universe (such as what % of accounts are actually still displaying activity/logging in).

In the early days/weeks/months, it's nearly impossible to discern real from fake, with the volume of accounts being created. However, once a universe gets 6-7+ months old, and less than 3% of the population logs in daily, what's occurring becomes more evident. Accounts being created, never changing the generic name, never building anything, and never logging in again.

It's all-too obvious what is going on. There obviously exists some correlation between a universe's population, and the likelihood of players on that server spending money on DM, but is it actually legal to manipulate the player count in such a way?

Not too shabby for your first post!

FR to the defender...

It's nice seeing that fleet in action, mate! Enjoy those profits...

FR defender

Dude, that's an impressive Reaper count! And you certainly put them to good use!

GLOTR defender

I enjoyed the story! Well done!

Fast rebuild, defender...

It must be rough, thinking that you're about to land this massive hit, only to see your fleet disappear from the 'fleet movement' screen on impact. The fleets represented a significant portion of both of those players' accounts, and neither of them have really played all that consistently since.

Excellent teamwork and tough break/glotr WB/Butch. Y'all may even be rebuilt, by now, lol.

I know that I'm verrrry late to the party, here, but just an incredible ninja. The drop in points several weeks ago now makes sense.

GLOTR attackers, if you so choose to.

Band: Rush

Song: Freewill

Hey folks. Has the idea of events and or competitions between universes ever been floated? Other RTS games utilize a similar model, although I have no idea what implementing that on here would actually entail...

Congrats on the hit, my friend!

Defender- glotr

Nice hit, caesar!

Fr defender

Is there somewhere that lists upcoming mergers?

Woah! Love the hit, enjoy your spoils!

FR defender

How does one end up with well over 2 million colony ships?!?!

Incredible hit, enjoy those spoils and glotr defender, if you choose to...

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Feels like every hit now is just another spy and fly (even if it involves a lot of watching on the background), says a lot about the state of the game unfortunately.

I feel like we are desensitised to the numbers now, but that profit is still amazing, so well done.

FR defender.

Think about 15-18 years ago, .org had over 40 servers and only 2 of them were NOT 1x fleet speed (universes 35, and 40, IIRC). Now, everything seems to be at least 4x-8x. Also, to be fair, of the players who remain, few are the sort who are capable of pulling off anything other than a probe/smash. Many of the ones who are can't be bothered to stare at galaxy view for untold hours.

Amazing hit/profits, and FR to the defender

So, Ogame has this little thing called 'server lag.' When multiple fleets are slated to land at the exact same second, sometimes this lag will result in the fleets landing in a different order than what is stated in the 'fleet movement' screen. For decades, the ideal circumstance was to time your attacking fleet 1 second behind the returning fleet. Reliably being able to move one's whole fleet in under a second is not something most people can do, after all. Granted, this does leave a tiny window of opportunity for someone to 'jump in' ahead of you, but in doing so, this 3rd party would have to risk missing the returning fleet entirely, plus they'd be opening themselves up to other risks, such as being able to be seen on phalanx, etc..

On Universe Hercules, the #2 fleeter destroyed my moon a few months back, and timed his fleet to land on the same second as mine. I logged in with about 4 minutes left, and I had to heckle the guy a little bit, as I knew there would be a good chance that server lag would result in him missing the fleet. It did, and he missed it. The dude went absolutely wild, accusing me of cheating, saying he was going to contact support, and so on. The whole time, I'm just thinking to myself, 'this is fleeting 101, how do you NOT understand this, especially at your rank?'

So, unless something has, indeed, changed from a mechanical perspective, my observation is that server lag is basically works the same as it did back when I started in 05'. Therefore, unless I'm missing something, your team really didn't 'do' anything differently than Jericho, did they? I mean, if this sort of timing is 'the norm' for you guys, there's really no way that you haven't missed out numerous times in the past due to lag.

Regardless, very nice hit and GLOTR

I'll preface by saying that I've been playing Ogame since Universe 4 in 2006.

Is the mindset really 'number 1 or bust' these days? Practically nobody will rebuild after being hit, and I'm seeing incredibly built accounts abandoned by the wayside anytime they experience a mild set-back, in the form of being crashed. Top 10-20 players, some with as much as 50 million points, choosing to scrap the account that could have been completely rebuilt in 48 hours or less. It's not just one or two instances, and it seems to be 'the norm.'

There was a time when you could expect a universe to retain a certain level of activity/play-count for several years, and now we can barely make it 3 months? 20+ year old glitches that won't ever be fixed? Introducing a 'class' system and making 1 of them astronomically better than the other 2?

How are new players even finding this game? On what platforms is this game being advertised on these days? It always amazes me that I'm still running into brand new players in 2025

My take: Ogame seems to have adopted only one-half of the 'standard practices' of today's RTS's. Most of those games also regularly introduce new servers, that will only be competitive, in and of themselves, for a short period of time. The key difference is that they generally have activities and events which pit servers with similarly-ranked players against one another in various competitions. I'm not even certain that such a feature could ever be added to Ogame, but it would be a game changer, literally and metaphorically.

Is having a CR section even worthwhile anymore if the overwhelmingly majority of hits aren't even posted? In the past, most basic HoFs were posted, and if a hit surpassed a certain TD threshold, you could guarantee it would be posted. I can say for absolute certainty that 50+ hits have been made in Universe Hercules, that have surpassed this one in TD, yet only 2 of those 50 were posted.

At any rate, nice hit!

Virus, you are a complete and total moron. I don't know how or why you associated me with any of the accounts listed in your post, but it's a crackpot theory at its absolute best. Enjoy your profits and lack of a personal life.

For those of you who blindly agreed with him and ridiculed me and/or wished bad things upon me without one bit of evidence(because there is none)... you are just as stupid.

Dang, Benz, was the rest of your fleet elsewhere? Seems like you took significantly more losses than you should/could have. Also, there are whispers that the attackers did not get the entirety of the debris, despite their claims...

Either way, solid profits, and FR, Julius.