Academic Pride - Banners of Conviction

By Chadj on March 5, 2012 in Campaigns — Comments (15)

As leaders of the two Academies work to gain control over all shadow energy, strategies toward victory remain ever-changing. With less emphasis placed on controlling each known energy gateway, Architects and Animators instead begin to focus their attention on dominating gateways of particular interest and value. Only through great conviction and total unity under a single banner can either side hope to be victorious over the uncertain tomorrow.

The 'Academic Pride' campaign will begin Monday, March 5 at approximately 4:00 AM PST and will run for one full week. Individual rewards will be provided to top contributors at the end of each round and total energy gains can be tracked on the leader board. You can also view the results of each campaign and round on our global battlegroup campaign page.

During the 'Academic Pride' campaign, the newly introduced Animator High Command and Architect Battle Control dominators will summon more rarely as they now appear only close to your physical location in the game.

As before, the same rules that apply to regular dominators, such as recharging, health values, harvesting, as well as energy & experience gains, will also apply to these new Academy summoned dominators.

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Comments

  1. Myrddyn
    Myrddyn (Enlightened) on 03/05/2012 10:41 a.m.
    *sigh* Even with the dozens of complaints, you're still intent on wanting those dominators in. Ha.
  2. Hiss
    Hiss (Enlightened) on 03/05/2012 11:32 a.m.
    Couldnt agree with you more, Myrddyn.
  3. Impetus
    Impetus (Awakened) on 03/05/2012 12:10 p.m.
    At least they won't show up when we got to AHC's anymore.
  4. Seldon
    Seldon (Enlightened) on 03/05/2012 2:53 p.m.
    They're doing it to improve the play experience of players who don't have enemies near them and apparently aren't willing to talk to their teammates to get help finding them. It's on the FB discussion on the Shadow Cities page from when the campaign was announced. I'm not defending it (by a long shot) but it may be useful to know that this isn't targeted at you or any mages you've ever talked to, because mages who talk to people don't have this problem.
  5. Seldon
    Seldon (Enlightened) on 03/05/2012 2:54 p.m.
    (Whether the category of players they're trying to improve retention for actually exists is a separate question. They clearly think it does, but who knows.)
  6. Hiss
    Hiss (Enlightened) on 03/05/2012 3:16 p.m.
    Better add new content, ie new spells, AND new engine, to improve playing experience... plenty of good ideas on suggestion forums
  7. Anvar
    Anvar (Enlightened) on 03/05/2012 6:52 p.m.
    *sighs*
  8. Annihilon
    Annihilon (Enlightened) on 03/05/2012 9:08 p.m.
    Stupidity at its finest, here is a new mage who just created an account, learned warp, warps to the nearest gateway, turns it the color of the opposite side, and oh look, a quest to dewarp. Young mage dewarps and never gets to touch that gateway again until level 6 when he can beacon. Young mage doesn't understand why his dominators are unpowered and cannot get to the now enemy gateway, and quits.
  9. CbsSolo
    CbsSolo (Enlightened) on 03/06/2012 9:33 p.m.
    The conclusion by the players on the campaign is obvious why not add a new spell or add something interesting. I feel the GA isn't even thinking correctly.
  10. AuraTitanX
    AuraTitanX (Enlightened) on 03/07/2012 12:48 p.m.
    reduce the crashes pls hate it when banished then while going to spider again and it crashed. by the time i went back its dead. lagging when trying to escape via cloudview for eg. in war, would mean death. so pls just update the engine
  11. BotenRomeo
    BotenRomeo (Enlightened) on 03/07/2012 11:24 p.m.
    "as they now appear only close to your physical location in the game"... 1000km from my physical location doesn't seem close. 1) you don't listen to all the complaints about this stuff 2) you don't even do the things you claim you do...
  12. BotenRomeo
    BotenRomeo (Enlightened) on 03/07/2012 11:27 p.m.
    and +1 to what annihilon said
  13. Chiemichan
    Chiemichan (Enlightened) on 03/08/2012 8:48 a.m.
    in addition to what Boten said, my orb was in Cambridge, MA and spawned an abc dominator when I actually live in California. no mission complete or anything of the sort. just sat there and up came the dominator.
  14. SerottaCSi
    SerottaCSi (Enlightened) on 03/10/2012 4:05 a.m.
    This modification is awful. It's time to drop the experiment.
  15. SerottaCSi
    SerottaCSi (Enlightened) on 03/10/2012 4:10 a.m.
    Oh, and I've managed to spawn these dominators on three continents from the comfort of my living room, but really, what does that matter? Even if these worked as advertised, they would be awful.

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