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Tiberius

We all have major annoyances in browser-games. What are your biggest annoyances that can break your gaming experience?

Here are mine:

*do note that I primary play strategy games so my annoyances will mostly deal with such.

Horrible forums:

Seriously, without a community a browser-game is dead, and a forum is the pillar of a community. Yet; some forums are horrible. The skin is horrible, limited options, or just a barebones barely functioning forum. While I understand such a forum may be temporary in the beginning, I have seen some games have the same horrible forum for months or years when they can easily get a SMF forum or even a forum on invisionfree even. Horrible forums mind boggle me.

Hyper-inflation:

I find this a big problem in space themed games. There is no limit on how many planets you can colonise and ships you can build. It is ridiculous to see players having hundreds of planets under their control and hundreds-of-thousands of ships. Players spend months or years building up to this level. The only factor slowing them down is time, or rather lack thereof. These players have a monopoly on in-game power and I feel it causes the game to stagnate. I feel it also lowers strategy as you can simply keep building. I much prefer if the amount of planets you can colonise was limited to around 5-20. The amount of ships you can build should be limited to some sort of economic power of your planets. It makes you act more prudently as there is a limit to your forces.

Ogame clones:

Name changes and minor modifications still make an Ogame clone. I don't think I really need to go further with this one.

Badly implemented races:

Most games I've played that included races were merely a percentage bonus to an aspect of your empire. Nothing more. No unique technologies, units, etc...

Bad management:

Finally; bad management is the biggest killer of games. Not updating, adding little or no new additions, bad moderation, and bad programming.

And that is it for me. Tell us what your biggest annoyances are?

Beatrix23

Pretty much agree with everything you said. There is this nice strategy like browser game, I been plaing for almost a week now. Its very unique to say the least: http://us.bigpoint.com/games/xhodon/

Choose England Troll server. Its the only English server, others are German and it started out like 2 weeks ago. Basicly you get put into different leagues. So it will always be fair. Also you are limited to 1 palace for a long time. I also played Ogame,tribalwars,travian,ikariam, astroempires, etc...I liked Xhodon the most.

paramime

I think you forgot to list the many mafia clones.

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sliferx94

I hate games like My brute, Limited time of play i can only fight 3 times a day i hate that alot.

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marcelo

i hate:
turn based games
claimed 2d graphics but in reality its just sprites moving 1 step in a still background
inflation of prices
nothing else to do but combat (mybrute etc etc)

forlorngames

Communities
I need to play games with nice/mature players. NO matter how good the game is if the players you share the world with are jerks it makes your gaming experience horrid.

Some people seem to think the Internet is a free pass to being offensive because no one can catch them like in the real world .....

Arkeus

If I have to play one more RPG where I continuously refresh to battle, and it consists of reading 30 lines of text to see who won with no interaction, I shall scream! I mean, sure, I enjoyed it like 7 years ago... But you think we could do better now!

Tiberius

Thanks! I'll give this game a shot. Who are you in the game? I played Tribal Wars, Ikariam, and Astro Empires for a time. Didn't really care for Tribal Wars and Astro Empires, but I did play Ikariam for a time until I my life got too hectic.

I was thinking of listing it, but I figured it is nearly a universal sentiment I decided to forgo it.

Never played My Brute before despite the millions of threads about it.

You reminded me that I hate games that are nearly unplayable unless you purchase a premium account. Add that to my list.
Turn-based games don't bother me so much. Unfortunately most turn-based games I've played are clones of a game, of what game, I do not know. The game-mechanics of said clones are prone to hyper-inflation. Good luck trying to catch up to anyone who has a couple of months headstart.

Graphics don't bother me--unless they are horribly implemented graphics--or lack of. If I find the gamechanics and community enjoyable I'll play it.

I don't bother games that offer nothing but combat. I much prefer games that can reasonably support politics and diplomacy.
I like you.

I avoid communities that are immature and full of jerks. I've acted as a "bad guy" in several browser-games (never out of the game however), not out of malice or just because I can, but every game needs opposition. I have no quarrel in providing that opposition. Makes the game funner and makes the community more dynamic.

I wouldn't count on it unfortunately.

Quote session is over!

Beatrix23

My ingame name is Krijs. And your name would be? If you got any questions let me know, also if your interested in a guild. I might get you in. If you remain abit active that is.

Tiberius

My name is Ivan_Tiberius. Seems to be an interesting game so far.