Feb 26th 2011, 21:55:04
Self Farming happens in this game, always has. Whether you want to accept that in your sheltered minds or not is not really my concern. However, the best course to take care of this 'epidemic', is simply to offer up ideas, and solutions to make it eventually become unnecessary.
Here's a few ideas from a somehwat intelligent person.
Self Farming is mainly done to balloon in networth. Obviously you are not going to be able to build on all that land you have. Therefore, a great course of action is to simply make empty land worthless. Now, I'm not saying take out the networth to land ratio altogether, that'd be stupid. My idea would be to change the NW:Land ratio from having it be all land, to just built land. I would assume that built acres are already worth more than empty acres, so what I would propose would be instead of taking the networth of the empty land, instead divide what you would normally get for that land and just adding a little bit to each building. Say, if you get $1 in NW for every acre, and .2 in NW for every building, it would instead be set to $0 for every acre, and like $.4 for each building.
Eventually the countries that are self farming will be out of reach of their farms, or simply just have a mass amount of undefended unused acres, but either way the person who is self farming would have to weigh the options and the costs of losing building in their farms, lowering the NW and damaging the farm's economy needlessly.
Diminishing Returns;
Now if I understand it, doesn't diminishing returns not come into play with speciaal attacks, but only land grabs? if it doesn't, would it be possible to make it that way? If self farmers are determined to farm their own countries, then this idea would make it very dangerous for them, as they would either have to retal themselves, or simply let their farmer take the chance of not being hit.
Discuss;
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