No ingame messages and no allies or allow 1 defense ally so it only gives u at most 50% defense just to even the playing field on ps's

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why no ingame messages? why no allies?

more of skill of the player and not how many friends he can get to play the server and ally with him?

yeah not a bad idea. I don't mind leaving in the def allies or intel allies, but tech ally and offensive ally are very open to abuse. boltar is right that it's good to keep 1 def alliance at least to balance PS.

i don't see the reason to stop ingame messages though. if someone attacks me and i hit back cant i msg him that it's a retal? cant i make friends with people i meet in the game as well? i think you wanna keep messaging and at least one ally, some interaction is good for the game

Ingame messages was to stop people from ganging up on another player. Or atleast slow it down

Intel I'd agree on. And 1d ally. 0 off allies and 0 research allies and 0 trade pacts. Also dis allow fa happening. The purpose of this post was to as crag said have the best country possible on ur own. Example if u match up govs and weapons % with 1d ally giving max 50% defense it will cancel the PS effect and the attacker needs to send more/have more ie a better country.

I'm with you Boltar, though still not sold on disallowing messages. But i do wanna point out, *usually* def allies don't give that much benefit. usually if i have 2m turrets my ally will have 2m turrets, and 500k is only a 25% boost. ie in most cases, it does take 2 allies to counteract the PS benefit. Maybe instead of removing a def ally, just lower the max defensive bonus to 50% or some other amount near there.

most suggestions on this board are suggesting that PS + off allies are too strong

Yeah, that's correct as well.

Top solo players usually make several small PS attacks at once. Since the attacks are small, their offensive ally has a good chance to double their offense, and then it's multiplied by 1.5 again after being doubled. The result is an extreme boost (500k jets attacking with the power of 1.5m) and big oil savings. And the attacker can benefit again and again for each brigade. So that's indeed a problem.

But it's also a problem when people have friends that don't honor the solo aspect of the game. A friend can give a tech alliance to someone, in exchange for nothing, and that player gets free tech. That's just like getting aid, on a solo server. A friend can have jets, offensive ally you, and never attack. Even if the PS bonus is changed, that's still free offense. That's why I would just remove these alliances, they're unnecessary and most top players do not use offensive allies in the first place.

Ya just boost the tpt formula and remove tech allies, OAs are difficult to make equal and change attacking substantially. In game messages are important for anonymous trash talking. There are several better forms of communication friends can use to coordinate (forum messages, ally boards, etc.) that i don't see the benefit of removing messages.

i think more differentiation between servers would be good for the game. make the game play abit different

TPT formula was already boosted once heh;

the point in no tech allies would be so a casher without a tech start needs to buy his own tech/steal it/or grab it. and any other gov who doesnt do tech starts or is a techer. it would make the govs stand alone on its own 2 feet.. the O allies arent valid cause they already get 50% ps bonus.. hence the talk about having D allies that can no longer double ur defense but only give u 50% max.. if u got 1mil defense ur allies can only give u a max of 500k defense to counter the PS advantage. hence make it even and u need a better country to break the defender

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That only hurts the people who are new. If you take way in game messaging that won't matter as most messaging doesn't even go on in game.

yeah agree with Requiem. People wanting to collaborate will go on IRC or MSN or something.

but overall, good suggestion

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ill conceed that.. requiem is right.. maybe have the mods monitor it somehow.. using a filter for certain words sets off highlights or emails to the mods?

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mods are not going to mod in-game messages =/ even filtered ones

(well other than reporting offensive ones)

all things are suggestions ;) id be happy with the ally thing.. and was shooting for the messages thing

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