Jul 15th 2012, 5:34:23
LaF/SoF begun the ABs and BRs not because the intent is to farm the countries later.
The reasoning is really simple, we can use 500 turns to kill 1 country, who would just restart. We can also use the same 500 turns to cripple 3 countries.
Currently, the further into the reset, the more restart bonuses the restart gets. It has reached the point where crippling 30 countries is better than killing 10 countries, all of which would regrow to roughly the same size as before they were killed after 5 days, achieving little.
While ABing 30 countries also achieves little, it takes considerably less effort to perform offline ABs and not run warchats at all.
Yes, there are still some countries that are above average and would be better killed off (their restart would be worse off), but these are few enough that LaF/SoF can just run a warchat every few days for them.
To summarise, the AB/BRs are not done in response to self-suiciding. They are done because we believe that crippling is better than killing due to massive restart bonuses. And even then the restart bonuses are massive enough that even restarting is better than playing a crippled country, so why would we kill 10 countries when we can cripple 30, where in many cases, both the killed or crippled country would just restart anyway? We would just have spent a lot less turns to achieve the same effect: causing the enemy to restart.
The reasoning is really simple, we can use 500 turns to kill 1 country, who would just restart. We can also use the same 500 turns to cripple 3 countries.
Currently, the further into the reset, the more restart bonuses the restart gets. It has reached the point where crippling 30 countries is better than killing 10 countries, all of which would regrow to roughly the same size as before they were killed after 5 days, achieving little.
While ABing 30 countries also achieves little, it takes considerably less effort to perform offline ABs and not run warchats at all.
Yes, there are still some countries that are above average and would be better killed off (their restart would be worse off), but these are few enough that LaF/SoF can just run a warchat every few days for them.
To summarise, the AB/BRs are not done in response to self-suiciding. They are done because we believe that crippling is better than killing due to massive restart bonuses. And even then the restart bonuses are massive enough that even restarting is better than playing a crippled country, so why would we kill 10 countries when we can cripple 30, where in many cases, both the killed or crippled country would just restart anyway? We would just have spent a lot less turns to achieve the same effect: causing the enemy to restart.