why limit PS? - Earth Empires Forum

highrock

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Oct 13th 2010, 20:15:27

what's the point in limiting the number of PS to 5? seems like if we removed the limits (and just keep the time penalty), we'd get better grabbing returns and penalize low defense countries more.

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qzjul

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Oct 13th 2010, 21:16:39

or reward high off's and dict's more?

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qzjul

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Oct 13th 2010, 21:17:06

I prefer having some limitations like 5, it seems to make sense to me.

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Marshal

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Oct 13th 2010, 21:29:29

if no ps-limits then countries would get farmed more and that ain't good.

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Grimm

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Oct 13th 2010, 21:40:07

That ^

It encourages smart grabbing over frequent grabbing.

BobbyATA

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Oct 14th 2010, 1:23:09

but you only have 5 generals?? How could you PS more than 5 times with only 5 genberals??? Idiot...

dantzig

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Oct 14th 2010, 1:30:51

I can't think of a good reason to allow more than 5 PSs. In order to have that many PSs out at one time, you either have to be bottomfeeding or hitting a no/low-D country. In either case, you are free to do as many SSs as you like so just do 4 PSs and a bunch of SSs.

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Detmer

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Oct 14th 2010, 2:24:51

5 PS/5 Generals sounds like plenty... the largest country the game has ever seen was a little smaller than the state of Montana (a little larger than Germany). That is about 3,000 times larger than the an average "good" country. How many generals is your population of 300,000 going to have?

This is something that I consider strategic and unbroken.

qzjul

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Oct 14th 2010, 2:27:19

It's true... llaar's 70M acre country was like... less than half the size of texas

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Requiem

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Oct 14th 2010, 11:58:34

If you need generals for PS why don't you need them for standard strikes? Are SS just troops going ape fluff on their own? :p

Detmer

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Oct 14th 2010, 14:10:04

Originally posted by Requiem:

If you need generals for PS why don't you need them for standard strikes? Are SS just troops going ape fluff on their own? :p

More or less but not entirely on their own - generals are present but there is no planning ;)

dantzig

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Oct 14th 2010, 14:17:53

Originally posted by Requiem:

If you need generals for PS why don't you need them for standard strikes? Are SS just troops going ape fluff on their own? :p

You do need them for SS. If all 5 are out on PSs, then you cant do any SSs.

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Pang

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Oct 14th 2010, 14:19:46

The general has to babysit the troops out on PS for 22 hrs or they will descend into anarchy and cannibalism

little known fact about PS's!

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NukEvil

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Oct 14th 2010, 14:20:09

Perhaps another tech type you can research for more PSes per day or something?

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iZarcon

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Oct 14th 2010, 15:04:22

why not remove the limit and start at 20 hours. Each attack after would take two hours longer to come back. So 22, 24, 26, etc.

Or raise limit higher and still use some form of panalty for using a lot of them.

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qzjul

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Oct 14th 2010, 17:20:47

You can only have one general per side of the Pentagon!

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