Tue Aug 10, 2010 6:26 pm
goodbye Haypi - I quit
Haypi is tons of fun. I loved growing my army and building my tech advances. It's such a great feeling when you snag an impossible steal in the market or when you planned a fight just right and won just enough well deserved prestige to up a level It's an entertaining game that I put hours into, sometimes to the frustration of my wife. I even bought coins a couple times early on when I got the boots put to me and needed help starting over. 
But I'm done now because my server is a wasteland of abundance. Anyone on the newer servers, this is your future.
I've been playing for months, on server #2. It's an old server with old players, but mostly inactive players. My buildings are all maxed out, same in every city, so resources are plenty. But I have no use for those resources. Resources are SOOOO plenty, both for me and the straggling remaining long term players on s2, that wood goes for 3 cents, iron for 2-3, stone for 1 and crops for 2-3. Pretty measly stuff. I do have some techs I can still level up, but what's the point. I have no real need for an army because there's no one near me still playing. There's no more market snipe'ng (which was part of the fun to me) to buy cheap resources and sell high... nothing sells high and even if it did, I have little to do with the money I'd earn. There's no more sneaking an attack on a neighbor because nearly all the cities near me are empty or have just-as-experienced players always hiding their troops. Server 2 is a wasteland of abundance with nothing to do. I need to spend an hour scouting just to find one person to fight, just to see he's a couple levels under me and I get no prestige out of the deal. Worse, mostly the only remaining players are those who spend big on coins to be top dog, such that they have (what some would call) an unfair advantage of having bought top level gear with hundreds of dollars of coins. Then the contest becomes who can outspend the others.
Even PVP... short term fun dominated by those spending huge on coins. Unless I spend big to arm myself with top gear (which I won't do), I'll at best end up winning some coins... which I no longer need in my normal Haypi account. I've got 80 left in server 2 from the last PVP if anyone wants something.
So I leave the game out of boredom. I hope the developers find a way to keep long term players.
But I'm done now because my server is a wasteland of abundance. Anyone on the newer servers, this is your future.
I've been playing for months, on server #2. It's an old server with old players, but mostly inactive players. My buildings are all maxed out, same in every city, so resources are plenty. But I have no use for those resources. Resources are SOOOO plenty, both for me and the straggling remaining long term players on s2, that wood goes for 3 cents, iron for 2-3, stone for 1 and crops for 2-3. Pretty measly stuff. I do have some techs I can still level up, but what's the point. I have no real need for an army because there's no one near me still playing. There's no more market snipe'ng (which was part of the fun to me) to buy cheap resources and sell high... nothing sells high and even if it did, I have little to do with the money I'd earn. There's no more sneaking an attack on a neighbor because nearly all the cities near me are empty or have just-as-experienced players always hiding their troops. Server 2 is a wasteland of abundance with nothing to do. I need to spend an hour scouting just to find one person to fight, just to see he's a couple levels under me and I get no prestige out of the deal. Worse, mostly the only remaining players are those who spend big on coins to be top dog, such that they have (what some would call) an unfair advantage of having bought top level gear with hundreds of dollars of coins. Then the contest becomes who can outspend the others.
Even PVP... short term fun dominated by those spending huge on coins. Unless I spend big to arm myself with top gear (which I won't do), I'll at best end up winning some coins... which I no longer need in my normal Haypi account. I've got 80 left in server 2 from the last PVP if anyone wants something.
So I leave the game out of boredom. I hope the developers find a way to keep long term players.
