Rotean9 wrote:CC has been "in decline" now for years. Why? the games seem more and more fixed. The dice are awful. High ranked players seem more and more unbeatable. The rudeness and nasty comments seem to get worse every year. The administration seem defensive and inflexible to change and never listen to or address legitimate complaints. When I complain about dodgy dice, I seem to lose every roll for a week right afterwards. Fishy? The games are not fun anymore. I cannot play without a hidden fear that the dice will turn on me or Risk cards will screw me again. Drops always favor higher ranked players. Some players cannot be beaten. Why? I suspect they are using loaded dice. Or someone is fixing the games. Anyways, I am almost done. Risk is an awesome game and there are some great scenarios here. The dice algorithms are the worse in the universe. Why sugar coat it? It's in someone's interests that the status quo remain. The net result? Many old veterans will quit or are considering quitting. The new players, whom are often rude and seem to use dirty tactics like tag teaming, secret diplomacy with "friends" and loaded dice, seemed to proliferate. Many games seemed strangely fixed. They often are decided after the first move. That's fishy. Some players seem to get 20 armies ahead in one turn and its strange. Are they cheating? I suspect some are. How? The dark web? Who knows? Well, maybe I'm old and crusty. or maybe I remember fondly the Golden Age of CC, when the dice were fair, and conversations were fun or limited strictly to the game, and when I lost, I felt that I was defeated by a superior opponent and not by horrid dice, cheating or fixed games. merry Christmas everyone.
Merry Christmas
Re: CC is declining again!
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2021 12:42 pm
by IcePack
6346
Re: CC is declining again!
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2021 12:39 pm
by Davie.K
6,275.....Damn you vaccine success and winter generally beginning to gently subside in the Northen Northern hemisphere.....Still a lot of hardcore lockdown action and slowness in getting those jabs in arms in many countries....Israel and UK you are excused on this....So not sure why the sudden dip......Christmas ? and avoiding family that you CAN see. ?
Re: CC is declining again!
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2021 7:03 pm
by Mr.Vince
So it's probably been mentioned in one of the 182 pages of this thread that I didn't read but are there efforts to modernize the site?
For example, I'm surprised that there isn't a mobile version of the site yet. A lot of people play on their cellphones and if they have the choice between the official app store game or a zoomed in website, they will probably go with the accessible, easy to use option.
There are many other ways CC could be improved upon but is it still being considered and worked on? Or is it a platform that hasn't really changed on which some veterans remain? Don't get me wrong, that's also fine as long as no one has bigger expectations than that. Being on dead games forum is kind of my thing anyway.
Re: CC is declining again!
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2021 7:11 pm
by iAmCaffeine
the only developments this place sees are other completely pointless games for some unknown reason, and things like showing medals in broken formats
Re: CC is declining again!
Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2021 8:05 pm
by TeeGee
iAmCaffeine wrote:the only developments this place sees are other completely pointless games for some unknown reason, and things like showing medals in broken formats
Of course because you know everything that is going on behind the scenes here.
Re: CC is declining again!
Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2021 8:11 pm
by iAmCaffeine
TeeGee wrote:
iAmCaffeine wrote:the only developments this place sees are other completely pointless games for some unknown reason, and things like showing medals in broken formats
Of course because you know everything that is going on behind the scenes here.
actually no, cos im not one of the people that mods leak info too
Re: CC is declining again!
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2021 10:39 pm
by Davie.K
6,181 .... Lost a couple of hundred in pretty much a month...but the last few days for whatever reason it really sped up on the loss front.
Maybe some multi busting purge a few weeks back ?
Re: CC is declining again!
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 9:49 am
by t-o-m
Has anyone plotted this data on a graph?
Re: CC is declining again!
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 10:01 am
by IcePack
t-o-m wrote:Has anyone plotted this data on a graph?
Yes but last time was on page 120-130 I think
Re: Is CC Declining?
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 11:31 am
by jusplay4fun
Here is a graph (page 123 or so)
degaston wrote:Just to remind everyone, it would have been more surprising if membership had not declined. People just aren't as interested in Risk as they used to be.
Re: CC is declining again!
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 11:34 am
by IcePack
That’s the google results / search history.CC’s mirrors that pretty well but someone (can’t remember who... ex mod?) used to have a graph of this. I guessed on page from memory but might find it later if I’m slow at work
Re: CC is declining again!
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 2:27 pm
by Dukasaur
IcePack wrote:That’s the google results / search history.CC’s mirrors that pretty well but someone (can’t remember who... ex mod?) used to have a graph of this. I guessed on page from memory but might find it later if I’m slow at work
Yeah, former mod metsfanmax used to post visual graphs.
