That made me LOL...

Yeah, "just like this game"... They are so alike!

Thanks, Pang and qzjul for the responses.

To take Fuji's comment a bit further, I think changing the restart formula to have a lower starting point (say 30%) and faster ramping (say .05%) would improve the idea. Along the same lines, raising the non-civ returns for GS would keep troops more relevant. Although there has been lots of GS in the MD/SoL vs SoF war, it has been because people don't much care about dying so they don't carry troops. Increased tech etc losses might change that.



This could be very cool, but even expanding how a clan can cooperate amongst its members (e.g. sending FA within a clan without pacting) or interact with other clans (e.g. in-game interclan war declarations) may make things interesting.

Well, as I stated before - to me the biggest negative is that basing warring almost purely on crippling countries removes the impetus to war from IRC and has led to a decline in real-time interaction between clan mates. That can only lead to a negative outcome for the current EE community.

Also, this community - for better or worse - demands a clearly defined victory to come out of its wars and these changes muddy the water greatly in that regard. I remember when a landkill WAS the only kind of kill - and even then, while wars were difficult to undertake - the winners were clearly distinguishable.

Talking about making changes to the game to increase appeal to a broader user-base, while doing nothing to increase the user-base is akin to polishing doorknobs on the Titanic to improve her seaworthiness.

Meh

I'm open to suggestions heh

Here's one. Make a restart start from the start (re-start). :-)

Sorry for the cheek, but seriously it sounds like the community doesn't like the new format for restarts.

LAST NIGHT I CAME OOP AND USED MY FIRST TURNS TO BREAK A TPA ORIGINAL! BREAKING KILL TARGETS WITH TURN #16 - WHATS NOT TO LOVE!

YAR!

A vocal minority don't, you mean. However, the old practice of killing an alliance, and then targetting their restarts until their players give up and quit is *not healthy for the game*.

No disrespect but I really question what you think is healthy for the game sometimes. I wouldn't want to be in your shoes but I think you need to take every incentive to sucide away first. War and Netting has a place in this game but senseless suciding has no place.

I could recruit like 5 people and completely destroy a netting clan with these changes and ruin their chances at ANW and severely impact TNW and possibly even prevent top 10 with very little effort.

The question is do you want this to be a game about griefing or a game about banning together with an alliance and playing together?

Sure; I did that with the ramping attacks, but that had its own issues. It's very difficult to adjust warring in any way without making it also affect suiciders. We already have a number of anti-suicider measures in that warring clans complain about continually =/

Let's get a focus group together from the community and find a better way to solve the real issue in a way that everyone can live with.

Could do something like that. Would probably have to make some way of getting onto it; perhaps a Karma system for the forums.....

Qz you trying to be a comedian? I like.

I always liked the idea of a set amount of land. Every one starts with the same. Clans with more people would have larger areas. You could still explore and develop the land that you have rights to. If you grow to be able to conquer land good. But all this land that just magically appears. Drops the value of the land.

Would also encourage independent players to form alliances/ clans to protect their assets.

But I am drunk. And nothing good ever comes from that

or be like ffa where warring alliances and kill teams from netting tags work together regardless of pacts to kill off griefers :P

If you want to make life harder for suiciders, create a new mechanism where allies can help in special attacks.

This will automatically penalize the solo-suicider.

If he finds 3 friends to ally up, at that point it is more than a single suicider.

Maybe only make this change in Alliance, where it is supposed to be all about allies.

You know, that's not entirely a bad idea. The biggest problem with it, though, is that it would gum up the works when fast KR's were happening -- having to reference up to 5 other countries during an attack, 100+ hits/second...

Slow down hits as well then.

Make the server all explore.

it already is besides bottomfeeders and landtraders.