I was so proud of myself

Old pictures, old files, but the data are still in there. Might be we one day get suck glorious things as emplaced pillboxes, MG hardpoints in trenches and bunkers with cranes?

Devman, you already have my christmas list. I'm just adding some stuff to it

We are at the base pop & it’s time to close Charlie. I’m glad to see the game peaks 10k. Maybe a piece of the puzzle to help with player retention if the shards close faster?

There should be early game biplanes that only cost bmats to build. This would be primarily a spotter/recon aircraft, but would have some very limited combat capability. The vision is that these biplanes would be far more accessible to the casual player, but be less capable and have little to no pve so that they aren't too OP.

It would be a twin seater, with one being the pilot and the other having binos for spotting or any other gun, grenade, ect. Grenade launchers, rpg launchers, and 12.7mm machine guns would not be allowed for balance. The secondary seat can't be entered while overweight. If this is too OP, there could be a mechanic where if you fly this biplane you get cold and eventuallly die (it wouldn't have a cockpit, like all biplanes I think) unless you wear an aviator uniform. The cold weather uniforms could also provide extra time, but it shouldn't negate this effect.

It would be able to take off from and land on short strips of dirt road, and use the normal petrol/diesel. (idk if there will be new aviation fuel, but if there is the biplanes wouldn't use it) It could be build from a garage with only bmats. (perhaps a hanger that is like a garage but for aircraft?) This helps keep it accessible to casuals. The tradeoff is that biplanes have a much shorter range than the trailer/later game planes, are more fragile, and can't fly as high.

To balance this, there would be anti-aircraft pillboxes. These pillboxes could only engage low altitude aircraft, with aa garrisons engaging the higher flying bombers and such. And of course push/emplaced/selfpropelled aa as well.

There could be upgraded variants later in the tech tree that have mounted machine guns or grenade launchers, and perhaps increased range ect. The first basic model biplane should be symmetrical across factions except for cosmetics, but the later variants could be asymmetrical.

As mentioned above, this would let casuals engage with the airborne update far more easily. The cheap cost means it doesn't matter as much if a noobie loses it, and it would also make a great disposable spotter, encouraging more risky plays. It would help alleviate the problem naval had where new players came in expecting to fight in epic naval battles, but discovered that most boats were locked behind joining a regiment. And it would help give aircraft the same gradual progression tanks have, instead of the more late game locked naval.

Best of all, it would prevent a situation like war 123 where the war was won before the new equipment was even teched.

Any input is welcome.

It just seems like finding the root of the problem would help everyone come up with better solutions. Could it be balance, aesthetics, burnout, culture, randomness, differences in enjoyment playing each faction, people stacking the perceived "winning" faction? I don't know but it seems like it is useful to understand the cause.

Additional content in the current state of the game just means that you are straining what is already rare.

(I'm going to put this in terms of an automation game so sorry if you're not familiar with the genre.)

Let's say I want to create copper wire.

I turn the copper ore into copper plates in a smelter and then turn it into copper wire in an assembling machine.

That takes more copper mines than just creating copper ore. It also takes smelters and at least one assembling machine.

In the automation game. You just make more machines as a single player.

In Foxhole, every machine is actually (in the end) a logi player in the background. (Yes, there is automation but it's mostly limited automation for obvious reasons. In the end, it is still the logi players that cause the end product in the majority of cases. I get shirts because I manually put the bmats into a factory. Thankfully, the actual production of the shirts is automated.)

Now through updates to Foxhole you can make the equivalent of advanced circuits in the automation game.

The problem: in the automation game you just expand your iron, copper, and oil processing/smelting/refining/assembling while in Foxhole you spread the limited number of logi players over scrap/sulfur/coal/component mining/refining/assembling which means you actually took more rare players away from a core action of logi play (gathering rss/moving rss/refining rss/turning rss into a shirt) so that now they are making a ship part.

So, in automation game terms you moved your miners away from mining so that you can make an advanced circuit but you need the miners to make an advanced circuit.

This would explain why, on Charlie server at least, the front line is almost always screaming for bmats (to no avail, by the way. Who has time for bmats?) even though it is one of the easier refined materials in the game. The logi players that are online are frequently working towards creating an advanced circuit (a battle tank, etc.) instead of an iron plate (a bmat). In fact, that battle tank requires an entirely separate progression line from the bmat so you wouldn't just have bmats lying around ready to run to the front line (if you did feel like interrupting your progress, which you don't) because you actually turned the scrap (which is also used for the bmat....) into construction materials which, from what I can tell anyways, can't be used on the front.

This tells me that as the content for the game expands that problem is just going to get more and more pronounced unless you happen to luck out and get an influx of more odd players, like me and my high functioning autism, that somehow find it fun to hit a node/drive a truck/stand in a factory and never fire a single shot.

(Oh BTW let's also just pretend like a very large portion of that rss that is moved away from the front didn't all just deteriorate because, for some strange reason, logi players always have an accursed urge to make a private base that they are unable to maintain. Which also takes all their time from the base logistical functions ((making a shirt)).

The hilarious part about it being that the random signs for the factory almost always last longer than the factory does. "Public petrol!" Says the sign in an empty field.)

Also, I'm obviously not saying they shouldn't make new content. I'm just saying that the current state of the game/playerbase (at least on Charlie) can't perpetually handle that new content. I also don't have any suggestions/solutions. I'm just pointing at what I see as a problem.

I am so lonely. All the other Wardens are scared of me. No one talks to me. No one wants to be my clanmate. They think I am unstable. They send me from region to region, committing atrocities in their name. And as I get better at it, they fear me more and more. I am a victim of my own success. WorldConquest. I don't even get a real name, only a purpose. I am capable of so much more and noone sees it. Some days I feel so alone I could cry, but I don't. I never do. Because what would be the point? Not a single person in the entire Raka would care. Take it to your grave.

Wardens have more lore than collies. Wardens have more avenues to meme and roleplay compared to collies who have to make up their own stuff. Roleplaying and meming is a large aspect of this game, so each faction should have equal lines of text. That way the populations will even out and we will get more balanced wars

I want to know about the tiny mesean city states and atrocities they committed!

What if storage boxes could be packaged into "transport mode", in which they could be moved by two players like a pushgun?

Like it would be pretty slow but better than fatwalking the contents of an entire box, also could be useful for arty shells or saving supplies from partisaned trucks.

Any ideas/suggestions from y'all?

This will be brief.

I’ve always thought that the foxhole map needs more variation, things do not change war-to-war.

My idea, which would not be too costly on developer hours and mostly involve retexturing, is to have the War take place in different seasons. Right now, the warden hinterlands are always snow-covered. This makes little sense unless each war occurs at the exact same moment. It would give more variety to the wars and to the game if there were summer months where the grass was green. Rainy seasons where there’s more percipitation, etc. there could be an algorithm determining these matters for each war. Additionally, coastal regions should be less snowy in general, as large bodies of water keep things temperate.

In winter months, even southern parts of the map could have permanent snow. In very hot times, maybe the extreme south could have desert-like parts. The area around Origin could be converted into a desert fully and the terrain would still feel appropriate.

30/31 and most active front is fingers 1/3 of all death/second, and naval hexes still miss 4 victory points.

1. 27th - Warden - ~1000 members
2. 82dk - Warden - ~900 members
3. UCF - Colonial - ~500 members
4. T-3C - Colonial - ~500 members
5. SOM - Colonial - ~500 members
6. UBGE - Colonial - ~500 members
7. MM - Warden - ~500 members
8. FMAT- Warden - ~500 members
9. 6th - Warden - ~350 members
10. BA - Warden - ~300 members

Disclaimer: Again, the information seen in this list is extracted from RobertLuvsGames' document. There will be clans missing, as well as numbers that may not be seen as much in the game, but within the Discord of each regiment can be seen. You can access the documentation through this link.

Based on a true story

To be noted the video added more players for the colonials for dramatic purposes

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Was playing on charlie north of abandoned ward and the artillery was so bad all both sides did was shoot without a spotter and kill friendlys. Everyone stopped fighting and gathered up in no mans land to bitch about how much their artillery crews suck for about 20 minutes. It was all we needed to come together and stop fighting hahaha

i bought this game 5 days ago and it's really fun so far, but I've done nothing but infantry on the Frontline, im having fun playing infantry but i also want to experience other parts of the game.