Jul 11th 2011, 1:00:37
Its pretty easy to get 40k acres in Express the way it is right now. The obstacles to large countries isn't the number of turns, its the wearing off of DR, being limited to just attacking a country one time all set or running the risk of them using 360 turns to suicide/kill you, and having to be extra careful who you attack because almost any country using 360 turns of production to produce jets can break you.
If you want people to grow bigger, you need to decrease the frequency of the turns, so that there's less risk of a country 1/8th your networth ending up equal to your networth two hours later, and so that DR and Ghost Acre DR aren't on most of the countries out there.
We'd also need to do something about the rampant killing going on, as it leads to a noticeable decrease in the availability of targets to attack.
Giving people a turn every 2 minutes instead of every 4 minutes would help all-explore countries grow bigger, but it would not help grabbing countries at all. It would, in fact, making grabbing more difficult because more turns would mean more attacks per day, which means that people wouldn't wait for a country to leave DR before hitting it.
Express shouldn't allow people to store up 48 hours worth of turns. Express shouldn't be a server that allows people to play once a day, and to use up to 360 turns at once. Not only does it make it far easier to kill people on express, but it also makes it far easier for people to retal you, which decreases the potential of landgrabbing.