Hi All,

Since I'm looking at game code - and was discussing FFA in #earthempires - I was looking for the mythical "llaar changes" which was the point to which many FFA players seem to desire. It looks to me like we may not have been implementing things in "changset" case statements and such that far back, because i can't really find any code from that era...

So, if you'd all care to remind me, or tell me what other things/features/stuff would be good for FFA, I can keep it in mind for next reset; I'm going to try to squeeze in some AI stuff in the next few weeks & over the holidays, so I'll be poking around the code base a bit more than usual...

-qz

Pretty sure the non-ghost acre cap will be appreciate by many still playing. Still, I would caution on having too much of a difference in rulses between the servers. I know the servers are diffrerent, but still the basic mechanics of the game should still be really similar. Even a vet like me has been surprised recently on difference in rules between the servers.

building costs is all i care about. fluffs cray cray

PS. Give a hand to QZ. He deals with my and a lot of others comments/suggestions/crticisms/bul****. But despite his busy real life, he and other adminds have provided us a great game to play and is open to a lot more modifications to the game unlike Mehul was. The best chance in keeping this game going is a living, breathing game. Keeps us vets interested in modifying strats to take advantage of the modified rules, and provides oppurtunities for new players to make their mark.

I just changed that ;)

Thanks! =D

Best I think would be take away the ghost acre thing. FFAers can pretty much get around it, and therefore becomes unnecessary busy work.

im doing all x until the new grab formula goes to eff itself

I think a hybrid ghost acer thing is ok - like it applies to 100k + countries smashing each other which will do what you want in preventing "llaar" type massive land countries but allows the average player to not be effected much

Honestly? Revert Dictatorship to the changes it had prior to June 1, 2013. :P

Sad thing is this post would have gotten way more attention a year ago.

Change the landgrabbing. One of the reasons why I stopped playing FFA. too much time to selffarm and compete with those who have all the time in the world to get around it as Papa says

Do away with DRs on land grabs and ghost acres :-D

Just the reset long Dr u mean troy

so... what ghost acre thing? like C:C ghost DR? or just ghost DR?


Dict... what was dict like then; i'll have to look in announcements...


no DR would be disastrous

what Warster said, the reset country to country DR thing...

but half way kidding since that would mean I could build 500,000 to 1 mil acre countries and crash the servers cpu :-P

you need more than 1 mil acres to crash server. you'd need to do alot grabbing to get 1 mil acres (if 5 days spent on start building and 5 days to de- and restock you'd need to grab 20k acres daily).

i think acres are an int, so you'd need 2.1B acres to cause a major problem

or 4.2 if i made it a uint

True, around that date was the patch that started up'ing building costs. Before that 100k was norm for land traders, after that 70k. Now 50k. We adapt, but it was fun to have 100k countries

good luck with getting even half of that (outside alpha), it'd would be over 40 million acres needed to grab daily and last set total land on server was under 30m acres.

i dont understand why you dont just use the 6% the market takes from people to buy new equipment or hire people on staff. i mean it just astounds me! it probly just sits in pangs account as he twiddles it fingers like mr burns

keo got a point, I've spent fluffloads on tax, you should be able to hire some coders to do the dirtyjob for you...