holy Castle is not a good game
Legacy of Holy Castle is a fatally flawed game.
Initially it seems to start off okay with a bit of balance (protection) for beginners, but after a fortnight of play you will soon find yourself in unprotected combat with very well established players. Note the closed beta player still have their beta castles and thus massive armies and skilled heroes.
The major problem is that established players can send out armies one after another until they either exhaust their supply (very unlikely as they would have faster training facilities), or you are left with no troops to defend your castle.
There is also the hero trick where you hero takes no damage when they attack a castle, In theory, you could drain a castle of defending troops by simply sending a single hero.
This game isn't anything. it is definitely not a medieval simulation in any way shape or form,despite the fact that you have a castle and troops like archers, pikemen, cavalry and hoplite( yes true).
The rudiments of battle are basic and not subtle like a mature game. e.g low skilled hoplites always beat highly skilled pikemen and archers.
Production is the usual exponential growth in costs and resources, but it shows no fine turning.
There are fundamental bugs that should have been picked up in alpha; you create 100 archers, and that takes 100 slots off the capacity of your barracks. then you send those archers off for training to become elite archers and they disappear from your roster. meanwhile, you train another 100 archers and when it is all said and done you can suddenly end up ith extra troops beyond barrack capacity. Hmm.
There is also the scouting bug. One of your type of troops is a scout who can bring you back a comprehensive report on the technology levels of the target castle along with a link to past battles at that castle. Sadly, that link in the report has been broken since the scouting report script was fist written. Instead of fixing it, there is this horrible jinglish post to tell people how to currect the failing url.
Hint, if you are going to target your game in another country, try to employ GMs who speak that language with some fluency. The announcements on the forum are painful to read.
I suspect the game promoter thinks that everyone will buy balance by purchasing gems with real dollars in the online shop, but the amount of gems you need to purchase fails my EQ test; that is for the money I'd have to spend do i get the same experience as i would playing Everquest? Sadly, this game is exceedingly poor value.
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