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    Hiding islands

    Why are they hidden under protection? I kinda forgot the reason.

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    Because you haven't discovered the world yet...

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    That's a cop out...what's the real strat reason behind it? To hide ghettos?
    Last edited by E_Boko; 05-04-2011 at 23:07.

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    So you don't have situations like:

    "Who won last age? Fratzia? K, everyone find them and kill them while they're small"

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    Ooo ok. Oop everything should be open though right?

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    No. You discover 2 new islands (1 in each direction?) per tick once we're OOP.

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    Yes, it should take 40ish hours for you to see all islands. I can't remember how many islands there were last age... *edit* there were do, so 39/2=19.5*3 = 59 hours
    Last edited by Ordray; 06-04-2011 at 18:27.
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    Man so id have to wait ten hrs to hit my friend? Wtf lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Palem View Post
    No. You discover 2 new islands (1 in each direction?) per tick once we're OOP.
    Is this new? Been every 3h each way as far as i can remember.

    To OP, it also makes farming more difficult
    Last edited by hint; 06-04-2011 at 13:28.

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    Ignore Palem Hint hes wrong, its 2 every 3 hours.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Palem View Post
    No. You discover 2 new islands (1 in each direction?) per tick once we're OOP.
    Nub Mod!!! STRING HIM UP!!! BURN HIM!!!

    But yea it's every 3 hours :P
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    Is it? I'm.....I'm wrong?

    *goes and sobs in a corner*

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    Damn...I guess his sparky pixies pulled one over his eyes.

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    Actually, I'm pretty sure it was more along the lines of countering GBP bank feeding. This too:

    Quote Originally Posted by hint View Post
    To OP, it also makes farming more difficult
    +1. In order to illegally land farm now you'd have to create a farm on your island. A lot more difficult than before.



    Quote Originally Posted by Palem View Post
    So you don't have situations like:

    "Who won last age? Fratzia? K, everyone find them and kill them while they're small"
    Palem, Your scenario just doesn't happen for three reasons:
    1) Former #1 kingdoms can counter it by hiding their kingdom name until later. Only top (read: informed) kingdoms would have an idea of who they are, but can't be 100% sure without a kingdom leak. Personally, I can look at a kingdom's race setup / prov names and have a 9/10 shot of guessing correctly. But then again, I'm Godly.
    2) A ghetto can/will only feed a kingdom like that right back to #1
    3) The other top kingdoms generally don't want to get into a conflict early before draining their explore pool and developing their kingdom plan. They'd rather pick apart the easy 15 province kingdoms with 900 acre 40k nw provs.


    Some of the drawbacks of this include:
    1) Greater safety for banks to come OOP with limited defense. You usually have a decent 15 hours OOP before someone of worth can see you. In my Age 46 #1 round I came out with limited defense and didn't even train any additional defense OOP, and continued to explore trying to bait a GBP hit from the first killer that saw me. Due to NW size differences, I only lost ~150 acres but gained 2800 in a doubleup from GBP. Being 5600 acres 1 day OOP basically ends the round right there.
    2) Harder to make a grab OOP (which helps server strain indirectly) when you only have 6 kingdoms to choose from.
    Last edited by Godly; 06-04-2011 at 18:41.
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    Godly, very interested in how you lost 150 acres and gained 2800. Did you explore most of that, dice it, or hit it, or what portion was each?

    Great info though.

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