Please read my long post before replying.
Dividing the units in factions seems interesting
now but it would not be so good
in the long run. In Play Store you can find thousands of games like this, with better graphics (which most players like more) but much worse mechanisms (which I like more). The thing I want to say is also about the uniqueness of the game, which will attract players around the world instead of other games, and increase the popularity of the game.
The historical timespan of AoWW is only 6 yrs. In WW2 there were USA, UK and Russia on one side, and Germany, Italy and Japan on the other side fighting together. (There were also many other countries but they were not so powerful.) So you can clearly divide factions. Even factions named Allies and Axis are made which are combinations of other factions.
But the historical timespan of AoD is 450 yrs. If you even look at Europe only, in one battle Britain allied with France, and in another vice-versa. In the European War of Religion there were there were some allies and enemies and in the 30-Yrs War there were different, so was the 100-Yrs War. In the English Civil War it was only with England. This list will be endless. In this way AoD is quite similar to AoD (but not so much to AoWW) as both of them focuses on historical eras and not single wars. Different wars had different formations and allies. Thus it would impossible to make factions like those in AoWW, as it would highly limit a player in choosing units. (This will also have effects in app growth.)
That's why I was of the opinion the remove factions completely; but since much of the things have already been done and cannot be changed much, I suggested to change the mechanisms of factions like this way.
MaharajaInfernape wrote: ↑Sun May 23, 2021 6:45 am
- At the time of creating a game, when the faction icon is clicked, it will show a long drop-down list (containing 10-20 factions) with checkboxes.
- By default all the factions will be marked. The player can unmark the each faction individually which are not to be allowed in a match.
And here
is the image how it will look like.
It will drastically increase the range of variety of mechanisms in the game by allowing players to choose multiple factions at a time, and thereby also improve the game.