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it has been a while since I last played my colony, but I do remember that there was talk about adding federations to the game, but now it doesn't seem to have materialized, so what happened exactly? It would be nice if maybe for version .74 we got some version of an in-game federation for my colony.

I haven't Heard about it either. Federations only exist as a community on discord, but not in the game itself.

Well, mc encountered a setback. Mc was crashing so much in android phones that the game was blacklisted by google play store. this took a large chunk of bast's profit away from mc, so updates started coming much slower. I even stopped playing mc for a time as well. But then, mc is making a slow comeback in my opinion. It seems that on top of trying to resolve the android issues, he's coming up with new ways to make mc more valuable, like adding a regions feature, which I've actually suggested before. He also plans to add textures that run through the maps of a region.

I think that mc needs to make a full come back before we start seeing things like federations added to the game, since the forum is still pretty dead and there wouldn't be many people to actually fill the federations.

Amorphus said:Well, mc encountered a setback. Mc was crashing so much in android phones that the game was blacklisted by google play store. this took a large chunk of bast's profit away from mc, so updates started coming much slower. I even stopped playing mc for a time as well. But then, mc is making a slow comeback in my opinion. It seems that on top of trying to resolve the android issues, he's coming up with new ways to make mc more valuable, like adding a regions feature, which I've actually suggested before. He also plans to add textures that run through the maps of a region.

I think that mc needs to make a full come back before we start seeing things like federations added to the game, since the forum is still pretty dead and there wouldn't be many people to actually fill the federations.

ah, I see. I was also gone for a while, so I missed this stuff.

Amorphus said:Well, mc encountered a setback. Mc was crashing so much in android phones that the game was blacklisted by google play store. this took a large chunk of bast's profit away from mc, so updates started coming much slower. I even stopped playing mc for a time as well. But then, mc is making a slow comeback in my opinion. It seems that on top of trying to resolve the android issues, he's coming up with new ways to make mc more valuable, like adding a regions feature, which I've actually suggested before. He also plans to add textures that run through the maps of a region.

I think that mc needs to make a full come back before we start seeing things like federations added to the game, since the forum is still pretty dead and there wouldn't be many people to actually fill the federations.

except this is all premium stuff and doesn't help non premium players!

true, true. It still makes bast more money since regions is a very enticing feature. Bast making more money from mc is the main goal, because it allows him to alot more time to developing the game further, which benefits us. I think bast should add more premium things like more in-depth decorations and regions features.

I remember a time when we had to pay a huge one-time price for a game, and what you bought was the entire game. There were no premium contents, or dlc's, or add-free options that came with extra fees, you bought the whole game all at once. At least Bast is letting people play most of the game for free and only charging for a small portion of the features. Call me an old geezer if you want, haha.

I think it's better to just buy the entire game. I don't like it there has to be a difference between premium and not. RuneScape had the same thing and I quit because of it. Not because I can't pay it, but I refuse. Goes against my principles. Other games have stuff you can buy, and it gives an advantage but it's different.

And if ppl want to just support him there are other ways than rewarding with extra game features.

Well said. I agree that it's good to just pay for the whole game, I liked that back when they had games like that. I hate games that nickle and dime you and i hate games that give paying players an added advantage. And I agree that there are better ways to support bast that to pay for the premium game.

What I was saying was I wish that bast would add more features to premium that wouldn't cause a people to have an unfair advantage. Take Decorations for instance, they have no bearing on how fast you are able to produce resources or make money, they are just an extra addition to the game. I really wan't him to add a huge update will all kinds of premium decorations. I admit, currently, the regions feature does provide an unfair advantage, but I'm sure bast will correct this issue in the future.

Amorphus said:Well said. I agree that it's good to just pay for the whole game, I liked that back when they had games like that. I hate games that nickle and dime you and i hate games that give paying players an added advantage. And I agree that there are better ways to support bast that to pay for the premium game.

What I was saying was I wish that bast would add more features to premium that wouldn't cause a people to have an unfair advantage. Take Decorations for instance, they have no bearing on how fast you are able to produce resources or make money, they are just an extra addition to the game. I really wan't him to add a huge update will all kinds of premium decorations. I admit, currently, the regions feature does provide an unfair advantage, but I'm sure bast will correct this issue in the future.

I don't think he ever will. People won't buy premium if all it gives is decorations! People do it for regions because it is a huge advantage. It does pose a problem for the (I think) Largish population of kids playing the game. Im a kid and my parents won't let me buy premium. This puts me a huge disadvantage because I can only go so far on my limited mega map :l

You can expand the borders of your map an unlimited number of times. Theoretically, it can be larger than any regions map.
If your still upset about premium features, though, think of it like the game was not free but cost what premium cost. Its a one time fee, not a subscription or microtransactions; bast has to make money somehow, and the current model is by far the best possible way.