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A cap might be ok, but purchasing won't happen. There is already too much incentive to sit in fw, not going to allow people to farm sci in it also.
While science drafting is frankly an inferior system, this could work, given the following conditions:
1) The caps be set at a reasonable level.
2) The science drafting system be improved to make the caps reachable
Why? We all know that people will continue to pump science, Bishop. If you set the caps at 500 BPA in each category, it won't do anything to fix it. If the caps were... 100 in each category? Given 7 categories, that's 700 BPA, or 9 and change days from 0 BPA to cap. So.. 150 BPA in each category for a cap would be reasonable, if you were to reduce the cost of science generally -- somewhere between 1/3rd and 1/2, generally. This would leave you with two options:
1) Truly being 'committed' to science, by being able to and running a decent sci rate all age in order to get and maintain caps
2) Pumps to cap science.
Rather than the status quo, where instead you have to be committed to pumping science.
Also, you could fix the "stock gold in FW, then buy the minute you're OOW" issue with purchasable science by delaying the return to normal science prices by say 12 or 24 hours, giving them the same exposure to plunder/rob ops.
On a sidenote, obviously the rate at which science scales per BPA would have to be adjusted in order to maintain balanced personalities and buildings, such that the cap provides an appropriate bonus that makes sage/libs competitive without being overpowered. But that's easy to do, because you can calculate the exact bonus of each.
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My problem with the current science system is that it encourages sitting around and pumping for weeks on end, which is boring. Anything we can do to get rid of a 2-week boredom pump is a good thing :) On the other hand, if you make it too easy to get, everyone will have it, and it will be pointless. So ... I dunno. I can't say how to fix it, but removing science sounds bad, and the current boredom pump system is bad too.
Capped system solves this.
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Edit: I don't agree with the poster who says it is unbalancing though. It *is* a tradeoff in it's current state.
Really? What's the tradeoff? If you don't have it, you are disadvantaged. If you have it in substantial quantities, sage/libs are overpowered. etc.
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What I think might help is to discourage the higher rates (3 BPA / hour "Extreme", etc.) and encourage more of a longer-term commitment to incorporating it into your economy. Maybe have a bonus on science the longer you keep it on a certain setting? Kind of the way OME goes up really slowly if you set your wage to 200%?
1) It takes 48 hours. That's not slow, in the context of a 3-month+ long age.
2) Why wouldn't this make extreme more profitable? Keep it on extreme for a month, and it would go up to 9+ books/hour? You just made the gap larger, not smaller.
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That way, it encourages someone to set it to "Active" or whatever and leave it there - thus making Science a long-term commitment (which is what I think the devs wanted) and also discouraging pumps (because maybe 2+ weeks on Active give you the same benefit of the first hour of "Extreme"). I dunno - just a thought off the top of my head.
See above.
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We're also heading into our 7th war and all the good players in kd have great sciences with but a single sci pump in all age (1.5 weeks of pure sci). Sure, if you want 2k bpa or more you need serious pumping, but 1k+ is good enough to compete vs most kd's.
1. It doesn't let you compete vs those with 2k+
2. You're probably a static kingdom.
3. As before -- full SOTs/SOSs if you're going to make this claim.
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- Add an op/spell that can steal science books in normal relation.
My friend makes a province, runs high thieves, pumps science, drops thieves, I mass rob science from him, rinse and repeat. Too abusable.
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2. Btw, I think learn attacks is a valid way of getting science. Current science system is fair I think. Warring kingdoms will find other warring kingdoms more or less same amount of bpa. Land/NW whore will find other Land/NW whore more or less science same amount of bpa. And both categories cares nothing about the other categories.
This is a silly argument. "Well, we don't need to worry about competing with people with more bpa than us, we can just ignore them" .... until they start razekilling you to pick a fight, right?
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I know science isn't capped now but the exponential cost acts almost like a cap. I know I'm not the most active science pumper but I'm no where near 20% pop. I'm between 9 and 12 normally with all the growing.
Case in point.
