djmoody said:
Given you are very new and have missed the last 3 years.....................
Pretty much every captain and marshall supported a player suggestion via the forums. That suggestion was simple and easy to implement, similar features are already in the game. I know enough about coding to know it would be a few lines of code, no more than 1 hrs work.
A year on and that suggestion hasn't been acted on. It was promised at one point but nothing came.
This was the trigger for most experienced players gave up making suggestions. Why bang your head against a brick wall. If united voice of 100% of players is ignored on a tiny simple issue what the hell point is there making any suggestions?
Hopefully you a a bit more clued up now and might understand some of the things that have lead the player base to be so disenchanted.
FYI that suggestion was the marshal definable view of beacon defence (currently hard coded as Guardian and above which makes it impossible for good leagues to use the rank system to reward player progress).
And to top it all off that was around the times that the time that the forum moderator role got all its direct access to Plarium. While the entire player base couldn't get a no-brainer suggestion implemented, inexperienced forum mods (none of who turned out to be playing the non-Facebook PC version of the game) had a direct line to Plarium to make suggestions. Broken - utterly broken.
Unfortunately, our developers did not support the idea to make Beacons view definable my Marshall.
However, I have passed a similar suggestion some time ago, and they have accepted it.
They will raise the min. Rank which can see Beacons Defense.
I agree that it's not exactly what you and other players have expected, but I hope it will positively affect the situation with spies.
I guess your next question will be about time frames. Unfortunately, I don't have any. It will take some time, that's for sure.
I can also tell you more about the process of implementing players' suggestions if you wish.