It's currently 2pm, GMT, and I've just been informed that I've used my allocation of RPCs for the day.
So, fourteen hours into the day, and I can't do anything else for the rest of the day.
This is as a result of the overnight update that changed the RPC limit back to 5,000 per day and 50 per minute. Well, unless you pay 25 Essentia a week and get back to what we had yesterday.
I can't help but think that this is an incredibly short-sighted decision; if you've got a decent sized empire, you're going to be able to burn through your allocation in no time at all, even if you're not using scripts. So it's essentially targetting the high-end players - you know, the ones who've put time and effort into building their empires, and who have been supporting the game already. And now they're expected to pay more, just to carry on. That doesn't seem like a good idea.
I've already been losing a little interest in the game, and this really isn't going to help. It's one thing to voluntarily choose to pay to get an edge, and quite another to have to pay.
Oh, and the dumbest part? I went to log on to sign up. But logging in requires an RPC call, and so I'm effectively locked out of the game for another ten hours.
Well done. You've even made it impossible for me to give you money.
Wednesday, 27 April 2011
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Two months?
It doesn't seem like two months since I lasted added anything. In part, it's been because I've been on holiday, but truth be told, I feel like I'm in something of a rut.
I've been keeping everything upgrading, and I think my last planet is colony number 10 - my empire is now safely ensconced in the top 25 - but I'm really not sure what to do now. Colony number 11 will take a little over two billion happiness, which is going to take a while to accumulate, so I may start working elsewhere. I've got the capacity to start building Space Stations, so I might have a go at that; but apparently it takes Happiness to launch them, so of course it's going to take a little while before we get anywhere. Dammit.
Other than that.... I've been upgrading the PCCs everywhere, which has been very impressive, really - I initally started bumping up the PCC on my shipbuilding world, so I could start sending out the larger Supply Pods; and realised that at high levels, it's a very impressive resource producer - the main reason being it's not limited to 15, as the other resource buildings are, so by the time it's up to level 20 or so, it's significantly outperforming the rest of my resource buildings.
And finally... Thanks to a level 21 Stockpile, my capitol is now producing over 2 million units of everything per hour; and recycling just over one million. Though thinking about it now, it's actually quite tempting to demolish some of the recycling buildings and replace them with resource producing buildings instead. Hmmmmmm.... I should be at a point where I can level up my university again in a couple of days, though it's incredibly tempting to get the Stockpile up to 24 and then do another round of upgrading resource buildings instead.
Oh, and that 2,000,000 per hour production rate? That's without any high level glyph buildings; the glyph buildings there are all low level, and I only built them because I had the plans spare.....
I've been keeping everything upgrading, and I think my last planet is colony number 10 - my empire is now safely ensconced in the top 25 - but I'm really not sure what to do now. Colony number 11 will take a little over two billion happiness, which is going to take a while to accumulate, so I may start working elsewhere. I've got the capacity to start building Space Stations, so I might have a go at that; but apparently it takes Happiness to launch them, so of course it's going to take a little while before we get anywhere. Dammit.
Other than that.... I've been upgrading the PCCs everywhere, which has been very impressive, really - I initally started bumping up the PCC on my shipbuilding world, so I could start sending out the larger Supply Pods; and realised that at high levels, it's a very impressive resource producer - the main reason being it's not limited to 15, as the other resource buildings are, so by the time it's up to level 20 or so, it's significantly outperforming the rest of my resource buildings.
And finally... Thanks to a level 21 Stockpile, my capitol is now producing over 2 million units of everything per hour; and recycling just over one million. Though thinking about it now, it's actually quite tempting to demolish some of the recycling buildings and replace them with resource producing buildings instead. Hmmmmmm.... I should be at a point where I can level up my university again in a couple of days, though it's incredibly tempting to get the Stockpile up to 24 and then do another round of upgrading resource buildings instead.
Oh, and that 2,000,000 per hour production rate? That's without any high level glyph buildings; the glyph buildings there are all low level, and I only built them because I had the plans spare.....
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