Age of Tax

[noobium]

**** manswhore.

[Akkadian/Taylor]

Fix: no more automatic land bonus with choice of honor as war win bonus.

[Godly]

The problem is there is not a whole lot of comeback mechanism. Big kingdoms really have no penalty in hitting smaller kingdoms. Basically you can send 150 meter points right between the legs and there isn't much they can do about it unless they're willing to go nuclear and even so it's fairly futile. There is also what can only be described as a bug in which once the relations become hostile, relative KD NW has no impact in gains.

Increasing war win bonuses isn't the answer. The answer should be that kingdoms shouldn't have an explore penalty in EOWCF and it should be reverted back to 96 hrs. You cannot effectively remove ToG & shorten EOWCF/Fort in the same round without it having serious snowball consequences. Fort is fine how it is. This coupled with fixing the what I'll call kd NW bug (they'd argue differently) should help provide a way for smaller kingdoms to come back, be vultured less, and not be as easily bullied.

As I understand the game better than most, and with only 3 serious kingdoms in the top, it was basically whichever two kingdoms fight first lose. I tried to explain that in an earlier post when flogger chose to go after us instead of Emeriti, but it was met with people accusing me of QQ. He basically joined a round to determine who wins by CFing Emeriti and then going AFK. To the kingdom of Pyro: Every time flogger wants to join Pyro, it's because BB won't allow him to go after us and AFK. Every time he joins you, he's just using you for 3 months out of jealousy of our success. If I were you the next time he wants to join, I'd look to pick a leader who is interested in winning a round and not just blocking.

[Bart of Sparta]

The problem is there is not a whole lot of comeback mechanism. Big kingdoms really have no penalty in hitting smaller kingdoms. Basically you can send 150 meter points right between the legs and there isn't much they can do about it unless they're willing to go nuclear and even so it's fairly futile. There is also what can only be described as a bug in which once the relations become hostile, relative KD NW has no impact in gains.

Increasing war win bonuses isn't the answer. The answer should be that kingdoms shouldn't have an explore penalty in EOWCF and it should be reverted back to 96 hrs. You cannot effectively remove ToG & shorten EOWCF/Fort in the same round without it having serious snowball consequences. Fort is fine how it is. This coupled with fixing the what I'll call kd NW bug (they'd argue differently) should help provide a way for smaller kingdoms to come back, be vultured less, and not be as easily bullied.

As I understand the game better than most, and with only 3 serious kingdoms in the top, it was basically whichever two kingdoms fight first lose. I tried to explain that in an earlier post when flogger chose to go after us instead of Emeriti, but it was met with people accusing me of QQ. He basically joined a round to determine who wins by CFing Emeriti and then going AFK. To the kingdom of Pyro: Every time flogger wants to join Pyro, it's because BB won't allow him to go after us and AFK. Every time he joins you, he's just using you for 3 months out of jealousy of our success. If I were you the next time he wants to join, I'd look to pick a leader who is interested in winning a round and not just blocking.

1. Agree EOW CF should be put back to 96 hours. I said this before the round and I still stand by it.
2. Something has to be done about using fort as a conflict-stance (perhaps auto-pushed OOF after X hits on the same KD).
3. Increase max meter to 200 points, increase meter decay to either 1 or 1% per tick (whichever is bigger, rounded up). Other words, at near max-meter you can still make 1 hit/tick.
4. Make in-war raze NW-dependent. 100% damage between 50-200% range, after which it should decline rapidly.
5. Increase relative NW factor on OOR massacring.
6. Decrease NW-factor on thievery/magic damage AND success rate.
7. Either introduce sci-caps or make sci gains steeper until 200 BPA after which the returns flatten significantly faster than is now the case.

[khronosschoty]

People should stop hating on fort. I feel like the best summary for all the fort hate is "we hate how fort kills our gains, bottom feeding nerfs our gains enough as it is".

[Proteus]

The problem is there is not a whole lot of comeback mechanism. Big kingdoms really have no penalty in hitting smaller kingdoms. Basically you can send 150 meter points right between the legs and there isn't much they can do about it unless they're willing to go nuclear and even so it's fairly futile. There is also what can only be described as a bug in which once the relations become hostile, relative KD NW has no impact in gains.

Increasing war win bonuses isn't the answer. The answer should be that kingdoms shouldn't have an explore penalty in EOWCF and it should be reverted back to 96 hrs. You cannot effectively remove ToG & shorten EOWCF/Fort in the same round without it having serious snowball consequences. Fort is fine how it is. This coupled with fixing the what I'll call kd NW bug (they'd argue differently) should help provide a way for smaller kingdoms to come back, be vultured less, and not be as easily bullied.

As I understand the game better than most, and with only 3 serious kingdoms in the top, it was basically whichever two kingdoms fight first lose. I tried to explain that in an earlier post when flogger chose to go after us instead of Emeriti, but it was met with people accusing me of QQ. He basically joined a round to determine who wins by CFing Emeriti and then going AFK. To the kingdom of Pyro: Every time flogger wants to join Pyro, it's because BB won't allow him to go after us and AFK. Every time he joins you, he's just using you for 3 months out of jealousy of our success. If I were you the next time he wants to join, I'd look to pick a leader who is interested in winning a round and not just blocking.

There have been plenty cases of two top kingdoms enhancing early age with one farming the other. Flogger has done it to others and he also had it done to him.

Flogger CFed Emeriti because him warring us would have hurt him, why would you willingly engage a war early age when you are an underdog to win? Really makes no sense when you can war and knock out a kingdom you will beat and gain acres from. It was a mistake for CR to push button instead of eating a wave and cfing for 3 weeks.

[Godly]

If flogger CFed you after seeing you spent all of your pool hour 0, he's an even bigger fool than I thought. I was under the impression that he CFed you pre-round.

Giving land to flogger and then getting waved by you was a non-option. We gained land vs flogger and bought time for someone to potentially fight you. Unfortunately, there aren't any other good kingdoms.

The entire start of the round symbolized the ineptitude of the rest of the so-called top kingdoms. There really aren't any outside of CR who was on the opposite side of the world from you and flogger who I guess made the worst CF deal I've ever seen being 3 islands away from a kingdom that had 0 offense OOP. Normally, when you take a foolish gamble as you did, you get severely punished for it. You didn't. Congrats. You aren't good at this game. You just got lucky that no one touched you and the only other good kingdoms were CFed or 24 hours away and then locked up at the start.

See what happens if they remove the island discovery and you try to do that again while I'm in the game. You'll be digging ospecs out of your ass for days.

[Zauper]

There have been plenty cases of two top kingdoms enhancing early age with one farming the other. Flogger has done it to others and he also had it done to him.

Flogger CFed Emeriti because him warring us would have hurt him, why would you willingly engage a war early age when you are an underdog to win? Really makes no sense when you can war and knock out a kingdom you will beat and gain acres from. It was a mistake for CR to push button instead of eating a wave and cfing for 3 weeks.

Flogger forced the war (he wouldn't CF because he didn't have offense on his top and thus needed a war to do anything) but you can't really claim it helped him. 6-7 days lost for 3k acres, woo :p. Put him way far behind the rest of the top. He had a better shot at catching up, given cfs, but still put him way too far behind. Usually if you force war with a top kd early, you have to be able to win convincingly. A, "i gained land by ww bonus and not from hostile+war" war is incredibly weak oop when you can easily whore 3k+ a day.

And godly, flogger couldn't engage them because he also had no offense :p

[flogger]

Increasing war win bonuses isn't the answer. The answer should be that kingdoms shouldn't have an explore penalty in EOWCF and it should be reverted back to 96 hrs. You cannot effectively remove ToG & shorten EOWCF/Fort in the same round without it having serious snowball consequences. Fort is fine how it is. This coupled with fixing the what I'll call kd NW bug (they'd argue differently) should help provide a way for smaller kingdoms to come back, be vultured less, and not be as easily bullied.

As I understand the game better than most, and with only 3 serious kingdoms in the top, it was basically whichever two kingdoms fight first lose. I tried to explain that in an earlier post when flogger chose to go after us instead of Emeriti, but it was met with people accusing me of QQ. He basically joined a round to determine who wins by CFing Emeriti and then going AFK. To the kingdom of Pyro: Every time flogger wants to join Pyro, it's because BB won't allow him to go after us and AFK. Every time he joins you, he's just using you for 3 months out of jealousy of our success. If I were you the next time he wants to join, I'd look to pick a leader who is interested in winning a round and not just blocking.

First paragraph completely agree.

Second paragraph, huh? I don't log much in peace time, and hope others can handle that. Then whatever war we're in I assign every hit usually. Dunno what you're talking about. Haven't been able to log utopia at work for a year and a half now, so I can't micro everything as I usually like, and also have a social life outside of work, so I'm not quite as dorkly as you'd like. I'm usually home 2 nights a week unless its a war. So I can't organize waving ghettos or randoms how I did when we won all the time. Sorry that disappoints you. I can't commit to 4-5 days straight of organizing everything come war time without taking a break come non-war time. I've got darts to throw a few times a week and I live in los angeles so 4 million chicks to hit on.

I CF'd emeriti cause emeriti had a good OOP setup and yours was weaker. Stop blaming me for not doing some game theory and being the only one of the 3 "serious kds" to not realize you should have dumped your pool OOP. Had I CF'd you, you woulda just farmed out to emeriti OOP and I'd be in the same place. 2 of the "good kingdoms" did the same thing. You didn't. You were clearly wrong. Stop *****ing and just learn for next age.

[flogger]

So, how many kingdoms can you name that won the age with a brand new kd? I can come up with one other and that was Dreams.

Pretty much every time I joined a war kd all the top kds made fun of we won the first age we played. Pulse and Bio, for example. I imagine if I played in freakstyle next age, they'd be pretty strong contenders. Although ppl like dorje and ASF usually have pretty good OOP setups and I can lose minute one if I have a weaker setup.

[flogger]

The best part of that age might have been the leaders channel with Flogger, Binar, me and Elit. It was pretty lol and it was unfair to the rest of the server. Had we got along better it would have been total domination for many ages to come.

My perspective of that was Elit said he'd back you up on something, then Petrefied told Elit he was going to dealbreak him cause Pet was mad Elit got a war both him and Pet wanted, Pet told Elit he could have the war, then Pet got mad Elit farmed that kingdom. So Elit had to back out of backing you up on waving some kd you wanted Elit to wave cause Pet was threatening him with dealbreak and you ended up pissed at Elit instead of Pet. I ended up understanding Elit's choice as he was ****ed by Pet, and you couldn't be talked down from being pissed at Elit, so both you and Pet ended up being pissed at Elit, and I was the only dude who understood Elit's perspective because I do think he got ****ed by Pet being unreasonable there, and he ended up turning that into getting you against him.

There were probably plenty of times Elit erred, but that wasn't one of them, from my perspective.

[Korp]

Pretty much every time I joined a war kd all the top kds made fun of we won the first age we played. Pulse and Bio, for example. I imagine if I played in freakstyle next age, they'd be pretty strong contenders. Although ppl like dorje and ASF usually have pretty good OOP setups and I can lose minute one if I have a weaker setup.

Those are all established kds beforehand though. :). Swea was a ghetto with like 3-4 players before.

[Bart of Sparta]

Pretty much every time I joined a war kd all the top kds made fun of we won the first age we played. Pulse and Bio, for example. I imagine if I played in freakstyle next age, they'd be pretty strong contenders. Although ppl like dorje and ASF usually have pretty good OOP setups and I can lose minute one if I have a weaker setup.

Win us a crown next age and I believe you :)

[LoRD_SaMPuaN]

Pretty much every time I joined a war kd all the top kds made fun of we won the first age we played. Pulse and Bio, for example. I imagine if I played in freakstyle next age, they'd be pretty strong contenders. Although ppl like dorje and ASF usually have pretty good OOP setups and I can lose minute one if I have a weaker setup.

we expect any potential recruits to spell the kd name properly before we consider taking them or not..

[MyNameIsMatija]

we expect any potential recruits to spell the kd name properly before we consider taking them or not..

Good tactic against spies too.