Chronic Logic

no post in entire 2012? or am i in wrong forum

seems like the game is dead...... rarely find folks online
AI is too much tough to be fun anymore

Today AI spawned 8 withces and 2 druid in first 2 turns.....
wonder what army can fight that

A simple logic

AI army size == 1000 + 2* Lvl

hence if you are playing lvl 100, then AI total points spawned is maximum 1200. hence if it spwans 2 archangel then there is only 100 points more left

that will limit the possibility of seeing 9-10 witches

2 changes that can be brought which will see a spurt in users

1: refer a friend -->  have a button where you can refer a friend's email id. a auto generated mail will go to my friend. if he joins i get a bonus

2: Site voting/blogs --> click links / add zatikon flag to your website...facebook profile and get bonus


Bonus can be
1: 5K gold
2: referance specific unit --> Arch Gate (spawns one unit every 3 turns ...... unit will be cost 100 or less...life 4 armour 0). if more than 10 referred friends join, it upgrades to veteran arch gate (spwans one unit every 3 turns ....unit cost upto 350..life 4 armour 1).....and later to elite arch gate on 100 refrence joinees (yeah i doubt anyone will get it but then it completes the triology.  spawns one unit every 2 turns, can not be destroyed and unit cost can be upto 550)
3:  1 day free trail of legion/crusade for each friend who joins and reaches level 10.

It also does a very important function :- diffrentiaties a person joining today from a person playing zatikon since 1 year.
there has to be some incentive for the old members to retain and love their login/zatikon character

What if everytime you buy a unit, a pop up comes giving full description of the unit?
will that help


generally i feel games work best if new features and units get unlocked as players progress up the ladder.
this ensures simplicity for newbies and sufficient complexity for vetrens

I am an online gamer since last 11 years. three things which make an online game popular are missing in Zatikon

1: Incentive to vetrens. an player fighting level 1000AI and another newbie are same unless purchased addon packs.  Recomendation: To increase the unit cap of 1000 points for veterans either as award at milestone (lvl 10,50,100,500,1000)...or per 50 level

2: Incentive to come to forum/ form a community : i am not sure....but communities groups increase interaction and provide incentive.......probably someting like "i will be online at 5pm GMT for Co-op:

3: Incentive to invite friends/ spread the word : Some special unit which can not be purchased but unlocked if you invite 5/10 friends who join the game or post /vote in the popular game site

Grrr....maybe i have been in IT sales for too long but unless the players are motivated to call their friends in and make a community, the critical mass will be difficult to attend

Quote from: Chronic Logic - Josiah on August 16, 2011, 05:40:47 PM
Good point, it would be nice to introduce some other possible strategies vs the AI at higher levels.  We will see what can be done.

It is not much fun if AI is very weak...at the same time the game should be winable to hold interest.

My recomendation will be to limit AI spawn (units deployed in one turn) to 1000+AI level.
thus AI should not be able to deploy 5 witches or 5 serpants in one turn.

Also let AI deploy draco/hydra/wyvren etc...

At high levels , it is increasingly becoming difficult to fight AI.
Also there is no ingame incentive for veterans to play the AI...


Change: in single player/CO-op   (where you play AI and not other players),
the total points for the army should be 1000+ AI level rounded to nearest 50 or 100.
This will make it easier for someone to g up to level 500+
also to see unique combo like Wyvren+ draco in ne game

NOTE: this is only against AI....in random it will still be same 1000 for both players. I am not sure how to handle it in constructed.

The game is asking me to download new version from http://www.chroniclogic.com
after downloading and reinstalling..... the same error comes again