I cannot control what people are offended by; I can only speak the truth. I like how you try always to be nice :) I admire that in you.

Put yourself in the shoes of a new player.

Express is the perfect place for new members to learn and it is literally turning into 1a without the tags, a complete tasteless massacre of bots where you're only going to succeed if you know all the mechanics and their exploits, more bots is not the answer, more competitive play is, if you have 10 people SS bots to fluffs as soon as they come out of DR, those 10 people are the only ones that will be playing for top 10, if you limit the hits each country can make by default you add more competitive play, you involve more people, fluff even the markets will improve I bet.

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if you have 10 people SS bots to fluffs as soon as they come out of DR, those 10 people are the only ones that will be playing for top 10,

3) Implement Half-Life DR using 72 hour news
    a) Half life of 18 hours * Relative Hit Strength, minimum of 12 hours, maximum of 24 hours (see d for EXPRESS)
        i) ex1. If you hit with an attacking force of 110% of a targets defence, the half-life is 19.8 hours
        ii) ex2. If you fail with 90% the halflife is 16.2
    b) Continuous DR formula: DR_MULTIPLIER = DR_HITS<13 ? MIN( 1, 0.1+((DR_HITS-13)^2)/135) : 0.1
        i) This is a simple smoothed approximation of the existing DR schedule
    c) Hits older than 72 hours are IGNORED
        i) With the exception of ALL-SET COUNTRY:COUNTRY DR, which is calculated with a 168 hour halflife (1 week)
    d) EXPRESS HALF LIFE IS DIFFERENT:
        i) 8 hour half-life (base) for Express (min 6, max 12); 72 hour ALL-SET COUNTRY:COUNTRY DR halflife


So, currently this would be 9 DR, but now it is 11.48.

Alternately, if you are in war, and survived a KR with 100 hits 72 hours ago where attackers were sending more than 133% of the break, with no hits since, you would be at 12.5 DR still, assuming you'd made no hits. Your attacking would reduce those, again based on time.

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Reasoning:

The DR changes are something we have discussed off and on for quite some time; it will remove DR camping, will allow targets in war to be less brutalized by farming after an unsuccessful killrun, and will, we hope, make things slightly more interesting.



As always, please post your thoughts or concerns below.


Regards,

qzjul & the EE Development Team

Reasoning:

The DR changes are something we have discussed off and on for quite some time; it will remove DR camping

Have fun circle jerking the server 👍

This was posted Feb 2nd 2014 and is still in effect exactly as implemented.

It did remove camping, I dare say 99.9% of it.


What is your point? You have spent your last half dozen posts complaining about a practice that was rendered useless early 2014.

What do you want from the game? Your wish seems to have been fullfilled 7 years ago.

I agree, that is why I try to explain to you how DR works NOW, with links to the original announcements back in 2014.

Bots are being SS to fluffs like clockwork and your argument is "nobody camps anymore" all while you at the same time just admitted to the benefits of camping...

I would think that a guy who calls himself "SuperFly" could PS whoever he wants?

if you have 10 people SS bots to fluffs as soon as they come out of DR, those 10 people are the only ones that will be playing for top 10,

Bots are being SS to fluffs like clockwork and your argument is "nobody camps anymore" all while you at the same time just admitted to the benefits of camping...

/head explodes


This server is turning into 1a without the tags, casual players have 0 chance of competing with people that camp to exploit flaws, that's my point.

Some many feelings get hurt when you pee pee on someone's sand box...


Fine, leave it as is and while at it continue to wonder why the community continues to shrink in your quest to "improve" the game.

I'm not playing express at the moment, but last set I got 50k acres with a CI, and this set 10 bots were added and another CI has 50k acres. Grabbing doesn't seem all that difficult, nor getting more difficult with the changes that have been made.

I won my 4th set in express and I had not played EE before(only e2025). I imagine that I would have won faster if I started playing now because the 2nd and 3rd sets I didnt know about bots nor GDI, which are advantages old experienced players no longer have. Slagpit made it so that GDI is automatic, and so that the bots are identified by the game.

These are changes that unequivocally puts new players in a better position to compete than before and they were just done, yet you are still complaining about the direction being wrong.
Is it better if new players cant tell which is the bot so they hit a player hiding as a bot twice and get killed for it every set? That never happened to me or any other experienced player, as you know.

What changes have been in the wrong direction so far KoH?

Once we have a seasonal model for Express then we'll have the option to turn off NPC countries for a season. Could even do something as democratic as letting players vote on it. I don't think that most players will like it though.

There were 46 human players that made it out of protection last round. There used to be 150+. I don't love the idea of bots on their own but they're basically a life support system for dwindling player base.

If there wasn't bots all those people in Primary would play here, how many people played before bots on the last set before they got introduced? My observation is that since bots got introduced more people left.

Once we have a seasonal model for Express then we'll have the option to turn off NPC countries for a season. Could even do something as democratic as letting players vote on it. I don't think that most players will like it though.

Also, same player winning express last set as tournament last set. And how many times have Tmac won primary? he is winning express this round probably.