Aug 8th 2013, 7:44:47
The NW Ratio penalty really needs to be removed. A country that is 12x the size won't be able to really kill off a suicider country without extreme losses. At the extreme end, every attack you make, you lose 27.7% of your attacking force per hit (364% of 8%).
Now consider you're doing say 1 BR hit on a country and the break is 110k jets to break 100k turrets. If the attacker loses 27.7% jets per hit, and the defender loses 5% turrets per hit, and the attacker ONLY sends the minimum break for every hit (+ 10% to account for the pang factor), then after 40 hits.
Attacker losses: 535k jets
Defender losses: 87.2k turrets
Old Attacker losses (flat 8% attacker loss): 154k jets
This is problematic in that it now takes almost 6x the resources (if jets and turrets are equally priced on the market) to kill off a suicider that hovers at the bottom NW range. I haven't even factored in the oil cost yet.
Now consider you're doing say 1 BR hit on a country and the break is 110k jets to break 100k turrets. If the attacker loses 27.7% jets per hit, and the defender loses 5% turrets per hit, and the attacker ONLY sends the minimum break for every hit (+ 10% to account for the pang factor), then after 40 hits.
Attacker losses: 535k jets
Defender losses: 87.2k turrets
Old Attacker losses (flat 8% attacker loss): 154k jets
This is problematic in that it now takes almost 6x the resources (if jets and turrets are equally priced on the market) to kill off a suicider that hovers at the bottom NW range. I haven't even factored in the oil cost yet.