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There was a plague that specifically targeted VU players, it wiped most of them out.. but we were able to find a cure just in time to save a few.. Wish that certain people had not found out about the cure.. but cannot always pick and choose who to save.  

3 character accounts and too many worlds for low population makes population even smaller :/

What use do dwarves have for boats Stormy... :P

op game is nearly dead. if you want it back advertise it to your friends, and have them advertise it to their friends. the only way to revive it is by word of mouth from the players who still care to play it.

Agreed bran. I have made a new kd on nirvana and luckily the biggest kd has offered terms rather than feeding. Hopefully we can grow as a kd this era and see how we develop.  Need a good few more kds though on all worlds for what I have seen.

Vu is its own state?! Can I move there?

That's fair, but the game actually got better. AOTD nerds, good mobile site, etc. Over the past couple weeks there have been a good amount of returning older players like yourself and newer players, and mostly around the part of the community surrounding GvE and Evil there has been a lot of activity and positive signs of life.

I'm working on a VUwikia and a handful of people have already offered to help me with it. I have someone I live with who has offered to help me as well, so we as a community can do a lot of work that the admin hasn't done that resulted in the decay of the game we've seen over the past X years.

At the very worst the game can only get better before getting worse, and it only gets worse if the admin sees the game getting better and decides to do nothing to help or stand in the way.

GvE is a mass one on one alliance, that allows newbies to play alongside mid to well experience players. This provides huge benefit to learn and grow and hope that more players return and new players to play.

tl;dr VU got better over the past few years with minor balance changes, a really good mobile version, and GvE is the best thing to happen to the game in years because it's actually playable for noobs.

The big issue right now with GvE is that the team balancing system didn't work well for the first round, but we already have discussed a number of ways to fix that and will present the best ones to the admin before the next round.

21:19:47 Dec 27th 14 - Mr. Soccerguy: With all those Freemium games like clash of clans earning millions.....zeta should make this his job, not just a hobby.

It's so funny that you say this, when I went home for Christmas I actually saw so many commercials for apps (HOW CAN VU HAVE SUCH A GOOD MOBILE VERSION AND NOT BE MONITIZEABLE WITH SOME FORM OF APP!? I mean what makes the game so good DEFINITELY isn't the execution anyways) that were a lot like VU. They obviously make a lot of money or else they wouldn't have had commercials on American Television during Primetime on Christmas, you feel me Soccerguy?

But look at the kind of bullshit Zeta was posting a year ago about how he doesnt want to put in any work unless he sees there being a potential payout down the line or immediate funding with a Kickstarter. It can be, but he needs it to be clearly visible to him because he's him and he gave up on his game.

21:19:47 Dec 27th 14 - Mr. Soccerguy: I'm excited about gameplay, but I was simply commenting on how little activity there is.

I think a lot of the old LGC guys are playing in FW on Mantrax actually, and not that actively.

I imagine they would come back and play things like Fant/GvE were the game improved, there were more players, and the admin was active. I spent some time with LGC in the past and played with Binh and Fordius recently on Fant, but Fordius is going inactive again and I haven't talked to Elsin, Roxbury, Brashen, or any of those guys in years and have no idea how they even feel about the game.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong here but I'm pretty sure Swifty is still around too and put a troll app in to Gim on Fantasia last era.

Make him care you cowardly elf-playing animal

Weird, did not know this thread was started by me. Dang I am forgetting too easily :(

what if the baby is a euphemism for a chick.. cuz why would he be making dinner for a baby..

he cooked for himself while his baby was HUNGRY! WHAT A MONSTER! 

There should be only 3 worlds. 

I'd agree on reducing the number of worlds.
However, I'd like to see some new dynamics added to the game. Something along the lines of a new science type each era, or a science unique to each race that redefines the race, so as an example, Nazzies being able to fly over mountains or forests as certain mil science level, humans developing advanced technologies like river crossing at a certain mil science, or a skills science that can be bought like other sciences, however each race has unique abilities that only their race share.