I like 2 and 5. The arenas (in my opinion) add to the flavour of the game, making it unique out of those I've played. It gives something to SHOOT for. The image verification is a good thing, of course, and 5 would be interesting because it would increase the startup rate and make it easier to START getting UP without having to get people to click your link alot. 3 I'm a bit iffy on... I like the randomness but I also like the security that if I spy somebody and find out their DA I'm PRETTY much garunteed to win if my SA is higher. 4 I'm dead set against, the higher the DA levels the more brutal it is for people without high TBGs to perform well in the game. While TBG is, admitted, the most important part of this game (and thus UP) there are still other considerations. As well... if the number of upgrades were increased this would pretty much eliminate the ONLY reason to be orc or dwarf over being a human. The 25% bonus isn't enough, humans get roughly a 36% bonus to all stats (by rough calculations based off of equivalent guesses) so it would pretty much invalidate non humans/elves.
Among CHANGES I would like to see... adding a function that makes it so that if you don't have enough gold on hand, it takes the gold out of your bank, so that you can use BOTH simultaneously. As well, get rid of the ability to deposit gold (which would be unnecessary through addition of the simultaneous usage.) Also... lower the number of soldiers that can be recruited through link click to about 100. I'd also like to see some advantage added to having officers (besides being able to click them for a paltry amount of soldiers at the beginning) that ISN'T income related. Perhaps military advantage... or a military advantage going the other way. (Say that... if the commander has a superior DA than that of his officer, his officer will gain a 10% bonus on his inbattle DA (no effect on rankings.) Same with SA, and CA.) Just an idea, there. As well... for every officer (up to a maximum of 10) that is the top ranking of their battle arena (meaning they either move up at the end of the round for border/battlefield or stay if in capital) they gain a 10% bonus to their inbattle statistics. *shrugs* I don't know how valid these are, but they are suggestions.
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