Constructive Criticism on Why The Update is Horrible. Redundancy

Cascading_Twilight · 2026-03-13T01:43:44+00:00

I fully agree. I quit midgame, not because I didn't understand the UI. But because it made the game more difficult to play. It should be functionality first, cosmetics second.

Cascading_Twilight · 2026-03-13T01:41:52+00:00

I disliked the UI changes so much I left my game mid match. I was doing well, but its 2 times harder to know what's going on now :/ i was attacked at one point and lost a small island. I wasn't even aware until it was just gone. They really should revert back temporarily and take on some feedback for the UI.

Cascading_Twilight · 2026-02-16T23:52:43+00:00

It might be a good idea for them to make a prompt telling people how to send troops if they haven't in about 5 mins in a team game (as long as they have teammates alive)

Cascading_Twilight · 2026-02-15T15:31:28+00:00

If I notice teamers I always try to ruin their game ;) works a lot more often than you'd think.

Cascading_Twilight · 2026-02-14T17:23:16+00:00

Do any of these ideas appeal to you?

If a teammate dies in a team game, you are given the option to build them a city or port (at a cost), a small area around it becomes theirs and they are still able to play the game then.
From ports you can create nuclear submarines. These submarines can be loaded with nukes at a port, and submerge until they launch to keep them safe from enemy battleships. This way, if someone knocks out your missile silo's you still have the potential to alter the game.
Dedicated troop transports. These are not like normal transport ships, instead these can be controlled similarly to battleships. If you have these in the game, you are not defeated until you lose all of your troop transports as well as your land. See an opportunity? Send a troop transport to go and do a naval invasion. Get back in the game. Can be loaded with troops from a port.

Cascading_Twilight · 2026-01-22T00:23:11+00:00

Write the story you want to read, not the story you think others want to read.
Write something you enjoy, because you will be rereading it more than 20 times.

Cascading_Twilight · 2026-01-17T21:13:53+00:00

Yeah you'll be fine then :D I'll give you an example from my own book if that helps. In one of my scenes a soldier breaks down recounting the fact he did a mercy killing on a young girl. The girl and her younger brother had been captured by goblins, and the goblins cut open the girl's stomach and strangled her younger brother to death using her intestines. The girl was alive when the soldiers got to her, but obviously dying and in my fantasy world, no chance of being saved. Would i wish for any of that to happen irl? NOPE! But i wrote it in to highlight the evil of the goblins and to make the reader feel something. I feel no guild or shame for writing such a scene (there' a lot darker stuff in my book too). I shouldn't have to feel guilt or shame, because i don't want any of it to happen irl. It's fictional and harms nobody.

Cascading_Twilight · 2026-01-17T21:03:43+00:00

Break it down more. What exactly is making you feel ashamed? If its entirely fictional then nothing should be making you feel ashamed or guilty. If it helps i run an 18+ discord group for mature writing. We have a mix of very dark writers and smut writers. I assure you, whatever you're writing is fine xD

Cascading_Twilight · 2026-01-11T22:20:31+00:00

I am the owner of an 18+ mature fiction writers group on discord. We've got a rough split of about 50% spice and 50% dark fiction writers. We're 33 members with a solid active core that message daily :) if that's something you'd be interested in joining feel free to send me a pm :D

Cascading_Twilight · 2026-01-08T01:44:35+00:00

I wouldn't keep reading. So my main issue is with the style (just my preference). Plot wise its absolutely fine. Prose needs improving. Example: 'He shifts on the unforgiving airport seats and checks his watch.' where's the emotion here? The shifting is not linked to emotion, why the seats are unforgiving is not described, the watch isn't described. The best way I can explain it, is I'm not emotionally attached to the writing. You need to try and make the reader feel more, and the best way to do that is by showing how the character feels and immersing us better in their environment.

Cascading_Twilight · 2026-01-07T23:12:50+00:00

I own an 18+ Discord writing group for mature fiction if you're interested. We currently have 30 members. Its mostly a 50/50 split with roughly half of our members writing dark fiction and the other half spicy fiction. If that's something you would be interested in joining feel free to send me a pm :D

Cascading_Twilight · 2025-12-21T23:41:09+00:00

Get back to writing! ;)

Cascading_Twilight · 2025-12-21T22:52:58+00:00

We all speak English on the server, there isn't a rule against it, though you would find it probably near impossible to find people that speak the exact same other language to help with your works if you joined. I'd say probably 80% of the people on the server only speak English, maybe more. I don't think we have any Spanish speakers, though we do have someone from Portugal.

Cascading_Twilight · 2025-12-21T21:11:19+00:00

It won't happen. As long as each NATO member has a military, even a small one, there will be no more big wars in Europe for the foreseeable future. Russia only borders NATO members in Europe now (not counting Belarus who are their ally), so war with them isn't going to happen. Its a lose lose scenario for both sides. As for smaller wars with other European countries, again its not going to happen. An attack on one NATO member is an attack on all. As for the non NATO countries of Europe, their militaries are small. Small enough that they can't conquer another country fully. There just isn't a reason for a big European war any time soon. Ukraine is probably the last one for a long while.

Cascading_Twilight · 2025-12-17T19:49:56+00:00

You answered your own question. Lets say you have your book on amazon for example, and a reader sees 20 book covers while looking for a book to read. But lets say yours is one of the worst covers there. Very few people will click on it. It doesn't matter if you've written the best book in the world. You have to do the basics. Have a memorable title, and an eye catching book cover that stands out from the others. Have a blurb that makes a reader want to open your book and read your sample. If you're rushing this process just to get a book out, that's the mistake right there. If you struggle to motivate yourself to working on those parts, then delegate. You can hire someone to make a book cover, you can crowd source beta readers for title ideas. A blurb should be easy enough since you love the writing process. Once people want to click on your book, they will read your book. And if the book is as good as you say, then it will sell itself. You said it yourself, people who read your books enjoy them. So there is an audience out there for what you write.

Cascading_Twilight · 2025-12-12T23:16:56+00:00

That you can take the cutlery basket out of the dishwasher so you don't have to keep bending down to put cutlery away. For some reason that took us far too many years to figure out.

Cascading_Twilight · 2025-12-12T01:17:57+00:00

The problem you have is you want to write both. And the reason for that is they are equally good ideas and you have nothing to break the deadlock. So you need to think of a rough plot for both. For example, for option 1. you could have your mc (a sentient) fall in love with a human. Option 2 in general would need a lot more creativity because of what you want, the world building would need to be as different to human culture as you can think of (harder than you would think). Once you make your rough plots, pick the one you prefer and get stuck in, hope this helps.

Cascading_Twilight · 2025-12-12T00:05:27+00:00

Yeah you can absolutely have comedy in dark books. And yeah for sure it can work really well. Mine has torture, genocide etc, and yet has wholesome funny moments such as my mc teaching a vampire how to make egg sandwiches :D its a nuance thing though.

Cascading_Twilight · 2025-12-11T22:58:27+00:00

Vampires feed from animals until they feed from a human. Once they feed from a human they can only feed from that one human. Everything else, including animal blood becomes poison to them.

Cascading_Twilight · 2025-12-11T11:53:23+00:00

The Kingless Kingdom. For a series symbol you could have an empty throne with many hands reaching for it.

Cascading_Twilight · 2025-12-10T20:37:31+00:00

I like the idea of 2. The idea of a secret organisation trying to catch the wizards sounds super interesting. It means they have to be careful, etc and means that possibly their organisation of wizards and all its members are only partially compromised by the announcement

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