small suggestion

I like this suggestion, in theory you are right it wouldn't be too hard to incorporate, or code.

I like this idea too, I think it would be quite helpful.

Thijs,
Interactive mods would be fun if there was the ability for them to "gift" a prize for something like a weekly trivia contest. 5k food each for the first person to correctly answer any of 10 questions. Or have a contest of some sort like the first person to draw a rune from a randomly picked (mod announces the location) 30 day+ inactive village gets a fire rune or 20k iron. Just announce the contest is coming at, for example, tomorrow at 1300 PST and the details will be announced in chat at that time. It will get more people on to see what it is. Of course honor loss will need to be turned off for that village or it wouldn't work for everyone, but these are just suggestions. I am not saying these should be put in place, just something that the mods can do to increase participation and creative fun if they are willing to invest the effort to help the game participation increase. 

I have even seen a Lever of Fortune feature on an interface that can be a free daily pick or lottery that gives out prizes to increase the daily players. It can give out anything from 50 gems to a water rune and you could automate the system to have the prize sent immediately.

Some new spells would be nice. Like one to decrease building times by 25% for 6 hrs. Or maybe one that decreases troop training times by 25% for 6 hrs.

OK my suggestions aren't so small, but they have worked well in another game that I play. I am sure that game started out in a beta version just like this one. Keep developing because we all like this game a lot or we wouldn't be here asking for something more to liven it up for us again.        
Thanks - TAZ

Not really trivia but a similar idea has been vented when stable II started, the mods would get infinite amount of runes and challenge individual players in the same way as in Taz's idea.

We really would like that to be a part of the game, it would create more of a community feeling.

For example, the first one who post a battle report showing a 70% victory with archers only.
Or a 20% victory with knights only.. or something similar...

That would also create a lot more trafic on the forum, more interactivity within the players, a bit more competition on a different level.

Chat could be uses as in Taz's idea but i would prefer the forum (if moderated well)

I like this thread so I am pushing it back up. Still want the "clan news" box on sign in, but whatever...

Since the market travel times totally suck when you need something in a hurry, ie., gems to cast a fire weapons spell on yourself when you have incoming and the player you are getting them from doesnt have fire weapons but the travel time is longer than the attacker's travel time... anyway...

Can we get an exchange option in your market that will allow you to buy/exchange your gold for the other resource that you need?  Dont make the exchange rate 1:1 but maybe something like for gems it would be 15:1 and for iron and food it could be 8:1 and for the others it could be 4:1.

Equipment and runes will still have to go through the market travel times unless you give us a portal option to the person we are trading with that we can pay extra gold/gems for. Or maybe that can be one of the premium options for the paying players, ie., super increased market speeds (but the non-paying players can just pay the extra gold/gems for the portal if they want to)

Hmmm?