Mar 1st 2011, 14:44:34
If possible, could you help me work through the pros/cons of some of our ideas without mindless flaming?
Goals:
- Encourage landtrading while discouraging farming
- Create a sensible policy that fits PDM's position in the current server environment
- Increase the potential for fun and innovative gameplay
- Emphasize simple, clear-cut rules and eliminate clauses that read like a hack lawyer's attempts to cover his own ass
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1. With changes to the grabbing formula and my experiences grabbing over the last few sets, I haven't seen a good argument for continuing the debate about what 'topfeeding' might be. Why do we need to keep throwing around this outdated term?
2. Min-max strats that push low def / no off are boring and uncreative. If you get hit while doing this you don't deserve your land.
3. Farming your clanmates is stupid, whether it's for landtrading or to have someone else take your retals.
4. 48-hr retal window seems like the sweet spot for the current server environment. Are there still clans pushing 72? I'm not sure.
Speaking to these points, what is wrong with PDM's current policy of country:country L:L and clanwide escalating? Clanwide L:L does not encourage landtrading but does encourage lazy min-maxing. It also takes a strategic element out of target selection.
A new thought this set was that if a country starts doing SS L:L, all hits must be SS, rather than doing multiple SSes, then buying mil strat and equalizing NW and doing a fat PS. That also discourages landtrading.
PDM needs to take out its harmful ops as acceptable retals policy. LaF claimed we harmful opped them but could not supply any evidence. It just complicates fluff needlessly.
I think we'll continue to fight for our missiles as acceptable retal policy for the time being. Our intention is to only do SS/PS retals, but we need some kind of leverage in the classic LaF scenario of farm away the small clan's retal capacity. We don't do these in conjunction with L:L.
Declaring war seems like a totally acceptable action to me. Can someone lay out a case for why I shouldn't believe this?
Thoughts/concerns/additions/ideas?