Is it just me, or does anyone else notice that it's painfully obvious who is going to win, after the first conflict?

Usually the case with me is that there will be a little skirmish of some sort over the middle tower in the beginning, and the winner of that ends up winning the game.

Takes a lot of fun out of the game, if this is the case with a lot of people.

Perhaps call it "Stick Duel, 1-3 combatants"

thats now always the case, you can still win if you dont capture the middle tower, it just depends on the situation and how you counter-attack it.

Yeah I did make a post about it earlier. There's more emphasis on early game micromanagement than anything else. If you win the initial battle you can win in a hundred different ways.

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thats now always the case, you can still win if you dont capture the middle tower, it just depends on the situation and how you counter-attack it.

Only if the initial victor makes a mistake. Either that or their victory over the middle tower was Pyrrhic (a Pyrrhic victory is a battle technically won, but at such a cost that you may as well have lost).

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Yeah I did make a post about it earlier. There's more emphasis on early game micromanagement than anything else. If you win the initial battle you can win in a hundred different ways.

Where's the post? Perhaps we could take this discussion there?

page 2. "Essential fixes to maintain user interest".
http://forums.stickpage.com/showthread.php?46000-Essential-Fixes-to-maintain-user-interest

I agree that the game is decided at the beginning
If you lost the battle just at the beginning, your enemy get the tower.
Then Middle tower has 20 gold regenerating, it is too much!
Your enemy will be richer than you, then he build more miners than you
his economy rises faster than you, he has a bigger army than you
He may also invest the extra gold on the ghost (means he is still stronger than you lol)

Then he put all his army guarding the tower, camping, he has a stronger army than you because he is richer
and you just fail to capture the tower, focus to stay near to your castle
then your enemy will send many waves of ghosts to weaken your army, your army and economy cannot grow properly because you are SUFFERING from ghosts
and he then grows, grows and grows and finally you are crushed like ants

In my opinion, the middle tower and the ghosts are OP, CrazyJay said it is for people who camped at their castle.... But... what about the people camping the middle?
the money generated is too much.... the ghost spawned too often!


Sometimes you may beat the middle guy, because he is just careless, or you specific in some tactics that his army couldn't counter with e.g. sea of ninjas or archidons
It is just careless or its your luck

you still can win with a good enough strategy.my opponent always take the Obelisk but i still won

As I said the middle one is always richer than you
If you and him have the same ranking but you just made some mistake at the beginning
You lost

Your enemy may be just a noob, or you are just better than him Aiman
I think the middle is OP

maybe. is 1400+ noob?

even with his middle tower,my economy is always better.

And I always capture the middle tower spawning ghosts while building my army...

you will know if you fight me

Then I'll use Spearton rush. Deal?
Edit:Just kidding but if you want to experience, no worries, I'll rush them for your "pleasure".

deal

Edit. still can handle spearton rushers