VACATION MODE

[Esoteric Paradigm]

FF,

Vacation mode seriously needs to be fixed! As it is , it is worthless. It is better to just let the AI take you village, or abandon them, and just start over again when you come back from vacation.

As it is, yes, captains can't attack you. Normal attacks still can though. So if you leave for 15 days, you come back to rubble. Say, for instance, you got a Wolf castle with 3 bombards and 17 ballista. You worked hard for that. Now you want to go off with the family for a week. You come back and have that castle demolished with no way to rebuild the bombards or that many ballista. The village is ransacked to the point of only have a caouple wood huts, stone quarries, food buildings left. Cathedral....gone. Church's......gone. You have two options: ID yourself so you can build stuff back again while the AI continues to send regular armies pillaging and ransacking still, or abandon the village anyway and go find another wolf castle to move into.

No, being on vacation mode means you can't even log into the game with cancelling vacation mode. So ZERO chance of rebuilding anything....ZERO chance of placing more archers on your walls. So, why then, can the AI ransack and pillage relentlessly while in vacation mode? What is the point of vacation mode at this point?

I agree entirely - problem is Firefly don't seem at all interested in what we think and certainly don't communicate at all - a very very strange company, esp since this is supposed to be beta.

[Esoteric Paradigm]

Edit to this.....

Was just talking with one my faction mates and he was saying that about halfway through his vacation time (has only been back from vacation for 3 or 4 days now) all of the attacks on his villages stopped. So apparently they did fix it. Early on in his vacation mode he lost 6 villages though.

Firefly should be giving us a regular update on bug fixes!
We should not have to test vac mode or anything else just to see if they have fixed something!
This is ludicrous in the extreme - I can only assume that either Firefly is totally incompetent or they are going down the gurglar.
Regular communication with beta testers is one of the abc's of decent or rather basic game development.