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Dear visualutopia, my name is Tatiana and i'm from Russia, but moved to
the USA three years ago. I came across your photos on one of the social
media platforms, and remembered you because you seem a type of guy I
want :-) You are hot, smart and sexy :-)

I'd bonk you Zeta.

i always thought the most important aspect of the game is teamwork. i probably wouldve quit after my first week if i hadnt discovered the chat. in fact ive stopped playing since the chat died. maybe make improvements to the ingame chat?

Well yes, its only the cities that need urgent update. Everything else looks fine

Talk for you, iloved those graphics :D

yeah but you like playing farmville juan

this game is over ten years old, and it is not broken just old. it was built when flash games and browser based games were it. you didnt need to BUY the game it was Free To Play and your more than free to Donate. now ftp is the vehicle  in game Purchases the model. vu has no shiny gold star to market ticks only work if you know how to use them. idk make half sale at market more intuitive. but again idk in the age of 3$ pre alphas and what ever star citizen costs people still play eve cause its solid and theyre invested. this isnt cookie clicker one of its own marketing points is its slow... strategic... and stable. its not hoiv its not total war its not they are billions or wow or broken its Visual Utopia and its just old and i love it. also chrome works on most smartphones.

Im prolly the one who most bashes this game. But VU is brilliant. There is no other mechanic that is even close to it.

The math is awesome, the curve for early, mid and late... its all amazing.

The problem is that is amateur.

It needs a team.

Sure VU is great :) 

VU needs donations to thrive, so purchase them premo perks, buy a few bt or grab a title.

  drop those VU links everywhere, make a VU discord so we can invite friends from other games :P

fuck it im drinkin now imma tell my shitty joke.

Well, something like this would probably help: 

Allies/enemies color, race/owner note. Various QoL improvements for a number of windows are also needed, I can provide a detailed list if needed (I wrote a script for this back when I was playing).

There's also the need to hide some information from the client-side code, as it can lead to cheating. It's possible to know various info about armies and cities just from the source code. Don't know if this has been addressed during my absence.

I, and a few others have been cawing for an app for years. Same reason as above, people finding the game and easyier to just click on an app. Really like the idea of coloured city names too. Would require formal relations being added but that also would be an improvement imho. 

And I'm a firm PC-user. I'm from 1957.

I have a smartphone - but I'm not using it for anything smart........ Actual I don't like it.

I see what you're saying - the movement of armies on the mobile version can sometimes be a bit clunky in my opinion. 

Still having the same fantasies that I become a billionaire and invest a millions into this game as I had when I was 13 (now 22).

Since this thread seems to be something close to a suggested improvements forum, I figured I'd share some of my not-so-positive views of the game in a sort of short review of my first close to four weeks playing this game. I'll highlight negatives over positives, not because I don't think there are any positives, but I don't see how just saying how good the game is will help change anything.

Cons On Starting Game -

- The lack of description as to what each race offers when you join the game. What I mean is, you make your account, type your details and have to immidietely select a race. I'm glad that I decided to make an account anyway, but I imagine there's a lot of people that would appreciate a brief pro/con description of the races and what they offer so that they can make an informed decision of what race to choose.

- The lack of a tutorial. I'm not saying this game is particuarly complicated. I'm lucky that I'm a quick learner but it certainly wouldn't hurt to have a brief tutorial. It could include a suggested start strategy for new players, what each resource does, how to get optimal productivity in a city, the basic military mechanics and so on. I think this is one of the only games I've gone to play which doesn't give you any indication of how to play other than pages and pages of dull, boring "Guides" to read through.

- The lack of description on the sciences. This really only applies to medicine and magic. What I mean is, if you look at magic, I was considering whether or not to upgrade it but it doesn't give you any indiction what upgrading it does. I finally found a forum and read up on magic and the new spell unlocks and so on, but why not make the game a bit more user-friendly and have links below to tell a new player what upgrading it does? I still have no idea what medicine does.

- A personal forum, I'll explain. So I've already dived into fighting some people and up till the last few days was kingdom-less. However it was quite frustrating that there was nowhere for me as a solo player to document anything. Anything being such as if I want to to add up and then record my attacking and defending points, notes for me to recap my progress for the next time I log on or the results of when I cast eye on the sky on somebody elses army. I know for some people they can just remember a lot of things, but it would be nice to have a facility for writing things down as a solo player.

As Time's Gone On -

- The lack of variety of city designs make the game less visual utopia and more a visual abyss. The massive human city in particular is quite visually unappealing.

- It would be nice as a solo player to be able to display a banner, just like a kingdom, without the need to form a kingdom. I quite enjoyed playing on my own, but it doesn't mean I want to be represented by a green square blob.

- The lack of community within the forums and in-game chat. I'm not sure why they're both so quiet, perhaps it's just because you all seem to know each other already and maybe you have your own out of game communicaiton methods, but it would be nice for someone joining the game, especially when you can't get in a kingdom, to chat to you all a bit more.

In Summary -

The game itself is great, I enjoy the mechanics and finding out how bits work. I think that that game could just be a bit more user-friendly. A lot of my suggestions might seem trivial to someone that's been playing the game for ages but if you want new players to stay, I think you need to make it so that it's easy for them to find out how to play.

Perhaps some "how to play" videos, just an idea.

dear VU. I'm bored with the game now, so decided I am going to crash the servers while I play this years fifa. 

nah, bored with that too.