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[50kBTU]

I LOVE THIS GAME.  I ALWAYS use councilors later in the game.  At the beginning, I just buy the WAR councilor, for raiding.  I got the "Construction Councilor for 48 hours" reward maybe Saturday or yesterday.  I decided to activate it yesterday to use it in my 2nd city but it does not work as it is supposed to.  It just updated the slots from 6 to 16, which is not THAT BAD, but actually sucks as it is not fully functional.  If the developers offer such a reward that early in the game, it should be fully functional to give players a taste of what's to come if they purchase the councilors. 

I just saw the "Commander for automatic construction" part.

Not mad or anything.  Just my two cents...

Thanks for a great game,
50kBTU, W17

[edahlbeck]

Would help alot with player retention if we got it from the start

[Barbiedoll]

@ ed: Player retention is actually the reason why the building automation doesn't work from the start.

You want to keep players online and in game for a certain amount of time every day, especially in the beginning. Initially that is done by keeping them building and while they wait for buildings to finish, they are supposed to chat in world chat where the may ask questions and may get alliance invites and then in alliance chat where they an get to know their fellow players and learn more about the game.

Veterans like you of course don't need that and nether do new players who already know people or quickly join an alliance. But for he rest this is how they can get to meet people - if it weren't for the need of everyone having to be online a lot in the beginning, world chat would be pretty dead, new players would not be able to connect and would stop playing quickly.

@50kBTU the construction councilor also allows to queue building for which you don't have the res yet, which can be quite useful in the beginning.