Ministry of War
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- Release Date: 2010/8
- Publisher: Snail Games, GameStop, Kongregate
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- Genre: Strategy
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Ministry of War (MoW for short), or Civilization of Empires in China is a free strategy browser-based game developed by China-based Snail Games. Ministry of War was firstly released in 2009 in China exclusively for Chinese gamers. Like Heroes of Gaia, Castle of Heroes, the first browser-based strategy game by Snail Games, Ministry of War is nothing but the Heroes of Gaia, or Casvian with four races to be chosen from. Heroes of Gaia is set in a world of swords, elves and magic, and players choose from four races: Humans, Elf, Orc or Undead; while Ministry of War is set in Medieval ages with four MoW civilizations: Rome, China, Egypt, and Persia. To some extent, Ministry of War is just another skin of the same code from Heroes of Gaia.
In Ministry of War, players are able to build their castles, amass armies, form alliances and lead their Heroes on epic adventures to slay fearful creatures of the land. This game can be also described as a browser MMORPG with No downloads and installation.
Ministry of War (MoW) is the world’s most sophisticated browser game, with unparalleled graphics and gameplay. MoW is a true MMO RTS, where you will battle alongside thousands of other players in PvP and PvE warfare. MoW also includes a special Guild vs. Guild (GvG) battle system, where you can vanquish your rivals and become a Guild superpower.
MoW Features
* Build your empire in one of four powerful civilizations: Egypt, China, Persia, or Rome.
* Advance your civilization from the Wild Age to the Imperial Age, as you gain power and influence through commerce, construction, and combat!
* Fight in epic real-time Player vs. Environment, Player vs. Player, and Guild vs. Guild battles, with as many as four players battling simultaneously!
* Lay siege to enemy cities for profit and the glory of your Empire.
* Expand your civilization’s political influence, potentially conquering the entire world!
* Robust Merchant System allows you to build your fortune, as you travel and trade with villages and cities across the known world.
* Gain the upper hand by empowering your Heroes through experience, items, and skills. Don’t just build an army, create the ideal general for your play style!
* Develop massive armies consisting of melee, ranged, cavalry, and siege units, each with their own strengths and weaknesses
* Comprehensive Questing and Tutorial Systems, including building, civilization, hero, and reputation quests.
Ministry of War has a unique feature in the world of browser MMOs: an Endgame. There are four MoW civilizations: Rome, China, Egypt, and Persia. If one of them rises up, through alliances and victories over rival empires, and defeats the other three, the winning civilization will be declared Champion of MoW and the Realm will reset, with spoils to the victors. For this reason, there are no sidelines in Ministry of War. You must form strategic alliances and fight or your empire and civilization, or it may be swept from the Realm. Each Endgame victory will form a unique chapter in the history of MoW.
Build your own Empire
Your empire will evolve from the Dark Ages into a glorious Empire. Each age brings new challenges, abilities, quests, units and structure types. Expand your empire into wild, untouched territory, or pillage a rival for space in the epically huge environment of the known world.
Battle for Dominance
Engage in real-time combat against NPC’s, World Bosses, individual players and guilds for dominance in a world rocked by perpetual conflict. Join forces with other players to create massive allied legions of combined forces, then lay siege to the cities and lairs of your enemies. Train your military units, level up your heroes and troops, upgrade your armor and weaponry, and learn specialized combat skills to gain ultimate mastery in MoW battle.
Explore the Known World
Ministry of War offers a huge world map, the largest gameplay environment of any Free-To-Play MMO browser game. Explore this vast territory and sail the seas to foreign nations . Dispatch your traders to acquire exotic goods and sell them in cities across the known world.
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Terra Militaris is the european version of MoW for those who are interested. Available in German, English, Polish and French and currently in Open Beta. European publisher seems to be gpotato.eu.
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Wow , GP . I Am Impressed., on your view of the game. could you please e-mail me and give me a game (RPG) that you would recommend. I have a group of players that would like to start a new game and not get s..crewed around. Looks Like you know what you are talking about Ty
There are several issues in this game that are major oversights…like not having a sent folder in your e-mail. Not being intuitive enough to inform the player when an incoming attack on their city will occur…eta on an attack and where the attack is coming from or what is being attacked (city or campsite). It is a game that based on attacking others and defending. Hard to defend if all you have is a blinking map.
Chat filter..omg they need a chat filter. During a Contested Zone war (CZ which is a Nation vs Nation battle) when you HAVE to communicate with your guild they spam the *** out of you with individual players marching to attack/defend. This might be fine in a closed beta, but with thousands of players playing every day this can quickly become annoying. In guild chat you will often receive announcements like “Player X has recruited a Mercenary.” Who cares? Keep that stuff in general chat not guild.
The lag during CZ can literally kill your army. You lose control and then watch someone exploit your lag. I applaud their attempts to allow you to control the battles, however I think trying to make a java applet handle it and not download part of the client on your computer and utilize your memory and CPU was a huge over site. They could do much more. You could make these battles epic, by seeing massive armies fighting it out, putting them in formations that were utilized by the real Romans, Egyptians etc. Instead you are limited a maximum of 8 “units” or groups of units. Oh and having a hero..one guy who can take out 600 people is also just wrong.
The Market needs to be a user driven economy and not the ***ed up one they have in place (half a million for 20 or 30 k iron..give me a break). Not hard..how many MMORPG’s have this?
Upgrading your city: After level 10 you can upgrade your cottages but your population does not increase. Why upgrade something if there isn’t any real benefit from it? Also, after level 10 you use more resources then you ever hope to produce upgrading your resource fields. Again, then why upgrade them? You get glory, but that is about it. When you get to castle age your resource fields essentially become worthless and you have to plunder others A LOT to continue to make headway in the game.
Territory: This part of the game seems to do nothing but breed guild infighting and civil war.
Campsites/building other cities: You basically can’t. You can build a campsite but it doesn’t really do much. You don’t receive any glory for building it up. You don’t have all the buildings that are available to you in your main city and you can only build up the campsite to a certain point. You are only allowed an archery range and a barracks and can make low level troops. You can’t even funnel resources from your campsite to you main city. It has no strategic advantage what so ever. Furthermore, you can’t abandon the campsite or move it. Once you’ve built one you’re stuck with it.
Game play is so much more then graphics, its psychology…and that is where they failed the most.
Item Set Completion: people love to have complete sets, it’s natural in all of us. They have limited quests and no other “sets” to collect. There are some achievements but you need an astronomical amount of carnage to do so. Most people will give up when faced with that. They need more rewards that increase in difficulty through time, and aren’t impossible from the get go. Take a hint from Mafia Wars, you win so many arena fights you get a badge.
Social Reciprocity: It is when someone gives you something and you feel compelled to give back. A simple way to do this in this game is by guild members giving resources to others in the guild. People will feel a stronger tie to the guild and therefore more bound to the game. At this time there is no player to player resource trading. The guild is almost worthless except for some tips and tricks. There is no way for me to see if someone attacked a fellow guild member so I can exact justice unless we are informed after the fact. I can’t help a guild member with resources to recover from being plundered. You can’t even ask the guild to help you if you are being attacked. It is a game that IS based on attacking others and defending. Hard to defend FROM AN ASSAULT if all you have is a blinking map and no other information, not even an eta. Even Farmville utilizes social reciprocity to keep people playing.
Variable Interval Reinforcement: Are horrible in this game. You take on a lvl 30 lair and get a lvl 10 necklace. WTF. In the tavern they try to utilize this by who you can recruit. A hero/merchant/missionary with a white name is worthless, green name is two steps from worthless, blue name is good and purple is god like. I received my purple merchant after playing for almost a month. I know several people that have none and several that have a lot. This makes for a huge inequality.
Obviously you can link all of these together. Make a random drop item part of a set, which you can only complete if there is some social reciprocity involved.
All of these boil down to this:
Emotional Investment. The more emotionally invested you are, the more face time you will put in, the more you will want to be successful and the more likely you will drop some coin on the game. There was nothing really, besides the CZ’s, to bind us as a guild together. So you had to invest yourself into your city and your personal game play. When you hit a certain point, that you are getting up there in rank, and there are fewer and fewer rewards given you start to lose interest. That is when your attachment to the guild should kick in and keep you playing…but you don’t have it. You may have helped save a CZ, but this is a very arbitrary thing. Not as strong of a bonding experience as everyone chipping in to help fend off invaders from your city. And if you are lucky you aren’t secretly pissed off about someone taking your territory.
You will always have those people who spend their lives on the game and can blow everyone out of the water. They will inevitably pick on the lower players and try to run them off. You have to design the game and create a strong emotional investment to mitigate this. Otherwise, your number of players will peak at the launch and decline as time goes on until you have nothing but socially inept inverts that need to go outside or get laid.
Wow , GP . I Am Impressed., on your view of the game. could you please e-mail me and give me a game (RPG) that you would recommend. I have a group of players that would like to start a new game and not get s..crewed around. Looks Like you know what you are talking about Ty
GP, i was a highly ranked hobowar player for 2 years, loved travian but someone ruined it for me. I have internet coins and enough time to play one game properly, like war dino i wouldl like to know your recommendations ?
Scammed out of 60€ on this game. Don’t bother with it. Its constantly being hacked and they are constantly resetting servers to older days because of it and customers lose items they purchased. I requested a refund and never got a reply to my ticket even.
should play imperial warfare, based on same game with better service and no op heroes. no hacking, just not enough players yet…