blah land grabbing is only going to get worse now people are doing DR`S on each other and not forgetting L:L retals its a waste of time and effort doing them>

DRing someone is just another tool of the game.

don't be too sure about that. Country : Country retals are in PDM's retal policy already and others like the idea too

Quite so, quite so.

But how allance-wide retals prevent land creation, by the way?

cause if the country carn`t break ya they just get some one who can end of land creation.

the purpose of retals is to deter grabs on your tag, not to create land.

What are you talking about? Both the grab and the retal *create* land, by ghost acres. Doesn't matter if it is a country/country or alliance retal.

Yup.

If country:country retals became policy, which (as I might have mentioned in my last post) I would not support in a server based off of strength in numbers, I think there would have to be a redefinition of what is "standard retal policy." If we can no longer depend on strength in numbers, we're going to have to find some other way, no matter how distasteful, to keep predators off of our backs. And if that requires missiles, so be it.

actually ponderer's bot idea sounds awesome. i just started playing again after a long break and i'm shocked at how hard land is to get nowadays. the things people are doing are both ridiculous and boring. all-explore is the worst thing to happen to this game.

back in the good old days i don't remember very many people running all-x countries. you either bottomfeed, middle feed, or top feed, and that made the game way more fun. bottomfeeding the multies was the best part.

Staff already said that some form of bot was on the horizon

Should we make the bot randomly kill off a few alliances each set to make it more realistic?

As long as it doesnt hit the tags LaF wants to farm, its all good ;)

a random ape fluff factor must be included

LOL @ Slagpit.

I still think making land a marketable commodity (i.e. you can sell it on the public market - just like in real life!) would bring much vitality back in the game (although it would change the way the game is played, no doubt!)

I like it.

I think that, also, is being discussed on another thread. I'm not sure what the consensus on that one is, though.