Drug Wars – Controversy and drama (again)

takowi (61)in #drugwars • 5 years ago

The latest post from @drugwars did it again: Controversy. (You should check out the comments.)

We got the nice little neat feature to share fights to Steem. Okay so far so good. Checked out the tag #drugwars?
I’m counting 97 posts about drugwars over the last hour. One post was not this posting a fight to Steem feature. One. Only one post.

Okay, I’m not so fast on the critics side regarding that stuff. But this is hurtful. For Steem and drugwars. I don’t expect that much of a high quality posts, far from it. But auto generating one picture just to display the outcome of some fights seems… well… excessive?
I get it, they want to give us the opportunity to share some really amazing battles. Like raiding a big base with tons of units and grabbing a lot of drugs afterwards.
But there is no such thing in that amount. It is simply just the scoreboard. I could even screenshot the scoreboard from any Team Fortress 2 Match at any given time and post that. Same information.

It doesn’t end there. Every post has a beneficiary set to 35%.

20% will go to Drugwars (game)
15% will be for Drugwars-dealer

No surprise: I hate beneficiaries. After realizing what those are I went from dmania (which had 25%) to dlike (10%) to dclick (0%).
Reason is simple, every Steem account is in more or less different systems which are delivering upvotes to the account. Mine for instant is enrolled in @steembasicincome. So every post is getting an upvote to give me a small income. Posting over those platforms is basically just a tax on my income and even 10% is quite a lot over time.

So without getting an upvote from @drugwars while posting over this feature you lost automatically 35% of your money. A reason why I don’t like any kind of beneficiary and upvote system. The upvote is necessary just to get the amount of money back which is giving away to those accounts. One of the reason why I dig dclick so much. No beneficiaries, so no need from dclick to compensate anything, while I still have the opportunity to earn some money through clicks on the ads. (Which is helping me a lot.)

Back to the fighting posts: We got now a lot of those fighting posts, each with 35% fee on it, on the Steem blockchain, sometimes upvoted by the drugwars account. That is not that attractive for any new player, what is that telling me about the game? That it’s only about fighting? Posting those fights to get upvotes? Or what?

Some other issues: The army building and raiding.
It is a whole topic about game design and mechanics. Hard to design, even harder to balance.
For now we only have safe storage and units. It doesn’t cost anything to move those units around, and they will be killed while attacking other units or being attacked.
So this leaves us with just some big players raiding everybody else, while they have no chance of defending themselves.

Upgrading the storage to raise the safe part is not viable, because after a while, the raise in safe is not enough to store even one day of production worth. Just maybe the overnight production, but most of the buildings are more expensive than just the overnight production, so there is no way to move those resources than just investing it into the heist and into units.
Which will be destroyed again by some raiding player, leaving the attacked player behind, over and over.

It certainly helps to be in a gang, but without this feature implemented, the attacker might not notice that fact.

I wish drugwars would stop the share feature for now, until a better solution is found. One where the player is being rewarded no matter what, but without pushing out posts.

For the battle system I’m still waiting for defenses, which are just for that, without any attack feature and some fee to actually attack someone, like using drugs to hand out an attack, so the attacker cannot attack with everything he has to minimize his looses and carry out everything the other player has.

Want to try out the game on the Steemit blockhain? Check it out!
My ref link: https://drugwars.io/i/takowi
Here is the normal one btw: https://drugwars.io)