Originally
posted by
mrcuban:
Bots already have allies... At the moment what competitive edge do netters have to have when they can farm AI countries for 350k acres and have a net finish with next to 0 defense?
There are two countries with 350k+ land, so how is it not competetive? Why are there not 20?
Your arguement is not valid. Grabbing is obviously still competetive, what does it matter that 4 guys are over 300k acres? what matters is where they are in relation to the rest of the players in the game.
Originally
posted by
archaic:
Wouldn't bots retalling reduce their DR and actually increase returns (assuming you didn't get broke by a bot and lose 4k acres to an AI retal - which would be E P I C!)
Yes. Exactly what I meant. If it's more costly to grab bots, the more skilled players will have an even bigger advantage, which I think is great. I want grabbing to be more complex in every way, so that countries form up from best - second best -...- twentieth best and so on. Right now because grabbing is not complex enough you can grab like a god with the wrong strategy and fail to get T10, because a mediocre grabber will still grab almost as much as you and he might have been lucky enough to pick 'the correct strategy'.
Lower the bot numbers to 200 and DR will distinguish the great grabbers from the mediocre ones even further. If bots then start retalling it will make the great grabbers soar way past everyone else. But I think it's harder to make bots retal than to lower their numbers from 250 to 200. So might want to start with the action that takes 2 minutes rather than wait for what could take a year.