Whats with the new SCIENCE

[Ethan]

... most times because they are investing gc into science at times they aren't supposed to...

If I'm war ready at 65% DR, and putting out as much OPNW as you with far better econ... why do you care if I'm still pushing sci until we get an actual target? My last 12 hours will make more gc for the dragon than you put in from your 2 day stockpile anyway. I've *always* fought from pump "build", cause I've always pumped (except in EOWCF) assuming I need to be ready to start retaling on my next login. None of this 40% DR stuff over here... I'm holding at 55% even when nothing is on the horizon and am always over 60% and ready to go once we start looking.
All that extra sci pumping I did means that my 60% or 65% *is* as strong as your 70-75%, 0 income prov. And you don't dare ignore me with my strong econ, so you either chain me anyway or op though my extra T/M defense.

I don't doubt there are selfish players out there doing exactly what you describe, but some of us were doing it right.


Also, relating to your point about "keeping up with the Jones'" - only partially true. I, for example, haven't even bothered with an abduct because the science *max* values at 1/2 to 1/3rd the values I was able to put out. Sure, I could go grubbing for that last scientist, but when they are so weak in absolute terms, why take the risk of being caught army out (and suffer troop losses etc... which, now, with garbage econ due to low sci, it'd take like 2 days to train back). Training them via buildings is even worse, since the building's rate is so much lower on top of giving a much weaker reward.


@Bishop - what on earth do you think I ought to be using econ on? Cause my best plan is to fund gratuitous dragons to try and bully free abduct waves on people, which is even stupider than it sounds, and it sounds plenty stupid. Maybe the CF 20% DR games at the top made econ irrelevant, but it sure never was down here in the warring tier, so I have *no clue* how you think econ helps science.
(And yes, this is a real question, I almost made a separate thread for it. But I've seen a few others asking here as well, so unless it'll be a multi-pager we'll keep it here. I know I'm lame this age compared to my normal standards, and I'd like to fix it.)