End of Round Approaching and Likely changes.

[Aileron]

The round will end next Thursday, May 31 at about 8:00 PM GST. (Keep in mind that I have dial-up now, so times will vary by a few minutes.) The top three ranked players will be announced. As usual, the next round will begin at 11:00 PM GST. (Does anyone else find this time inconvenient? I would be happy to do the reset mid-day if you guys want.)

 

 

As for next round, these are the announced changes. Nothing is set in stone until June 1st, so if you want something different and your account name isn't a two word name starting with A and D respectively please speak up. (Otherwise, please shut up and stop whining.)

 

Economics:

The price for UP upgrades will be quadratic. The price of the nth upgrade will be 1,000,000 * n^2. If people max out their UP, new upgrades will be added as needed mid-round.

 

The bank will generate no interest. While this shouldn't be a factor if UP is fixed, its still impossible to beat someone who's income comes from the bank.

 

Mercenaries:

Mercs will generate at 1000 per hour. That should be plenty for everyone.

 

****Core permitting, mercenary income will be NEGATIVE two hundred. That's right, you have to pay mercs a salary per turn to keep them around, and you can't get rid of them unless they die in combat. Thus, people won't hoard them, and it would be impossible to hire more mercs than you have soldiers anyway because at that point you would have no income.****

 

Attacking:

Attack size limit is 5

 

Because the size limit is not a strength limit, there are ways to get around it. Thus, a phase limit of 5 will remain to be in place.

 

Repair, which is apparently still broke, will be fixed for the gun-class weapons.

 

Covert:

Covert weapons will be stronger.

 

However, the covert level system will be changed. Instead of the 2^n system, it will have the 25% increase like siege and fortification. The jist of it is at the end of the day, the overall punch of a maxed-out covert weapon will be weakened.

 

Clans:

[Suicide_Run]

You should just post phone the captain nominations until round started, cause you will never know if they actually are gonna play next round or not.

[LiDDiS]

I'll be busy so I'll be passing on the next round :[[[. I nominate SUI or ANI for the penis captain though

[Animate Dreams]

I wasn't planning on playing next round.

 

"As for next round, these are the announced changes. Nothing is set in stone until June 1st, so if you want something different and your account name isn't a two word name starting with A and D respectively please speak up. (Otherwise, please shut up and stop whining.)"

 

Hah, the scrub is acting like he knows what he's talking about. But you know, the players here aren't stupid, they know how many times I've been right... and how many times you've been wrong. Haven't you seen that, regardless of how much they like me, everyone else's ideas pretty much coincide with mine? You're the only one here who doesn't seem to know how to play.

 

Also, you've missed one VERY big thing. If we all were planning on playing next round, I'll tell you what would happen - I'd get captain of the first freq, and Sui would get captain of the second freq. Then EVERYONE would be a Penis. Just one of many flaws in your broken clan system.

Edited May 26, 2007 by Animate Dreams

[LiDDiS]

I guess it's up to your mother then :U, she seems to know a lot about the penis Edited May 27, 2007 by LiDDiS

[Animate Dreams]

I don't think he's playing either, Lid. I'd say it's up to you... but you're not playing next round either, are you?

[scarface.nl]

lawl

 

who will capt the penis

[jacob hunter!]

I'm out next round. I got to get a new harddrive for my computer and it will take like 2 weeks before I get it to Alaska :/

[Dav]

If the higher unit productions are going to be even harder to get this time i hope the weapons cost is increased to compensate.

 

If its not then we will all be able to equip all units with the best again.

[Aileron]

Actually UP will be cheaper. Quadratic grows slower than exponential.

 

 

Last round actually goes to show that you can do prediction curves but you can't predict human nature. It was balanced just so that if everyone stuck with level 2 weapons, they could buy all the UP upgrades, and income would grow faster than the bank accounts. Sabotage would've been worthless because all you could take out would be crappy L2 guns, and with a 90% resell rate would mean it would be cheap to replace.

 

However, some people bought level 3 weapons, everyone else had to buy l3s to keep up, didn't have enough money left to buy UP, and ended up investing the remainder in the bank, and sabotage again became king.

[RedWaller]

I have #1 spy and sentry. So I sab whoever I want whenever I want. And plenty in the bank that I wont ever use. So sab away If you can, il just buy more $

[Dav]

Actually UP will be cheaper. Quadratic grows slower than exponential.

of course, was tired and mixing myself up a bit there.

 

I hope this solved the issue of most troops = win.

[Aileron]

Um, that's just life. In the big RPGs there are a few players with only a couple of troops who generate income by stealing it, but in order to do that they need to *really* look through the field in order to find only the juiciest targets. Per every 1000 players at any given time, there are about two or three who have enough money out in the open to support an all-stealing economy.

 

If you can't go all-stealing, you need income. If you need income, you need soldiers.

 

However, if you don't want to attack/defend with a large force, you can divert soldiers to the other task as needed.

[Suicide_Run]

Aile, can you post the top 3 in each individual category also? As in top 3 atkers/defenders/spy/sentry.

[Aileron]

I can post the leader in each catagory, as there is a screen which shows the leaders.

 

I won't however post the top 3 in each catagory as it involves manually looking through everyone's stats.

[Ill_Whip_You]

Can you post how much attack, defence, spy, sentry bonus and cash the top players have? please =)