2012-02-10 Game change affecting Restarts

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Feb 14th 2012, 15:02:37

I remember llaar suggesting it a long time ago but don't recall martian ;)

Good suggestion llaar!

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Marshal

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Feb 20th 2012, 0:03:16

so far i have lost 2 in ffa and only positive i can think so far is land and cs's but negative is expenses (I make less money on turn 70 than orig. country made day 1) and total lack of monwy (3.9m ain't much) so player spends turns mostly by building cs's after has built few farms to get money to build cs's so it takes quite long time before player is back in action (foreign aid is needed still) and player comes oop w/o defense so he/she can get killed quickly again.

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Feb 20th 2012, 13:51:33

do self deleters and deleted countries get the bonuses?

im thinking they shouldnt

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Feb 20th 2012, 17:52:21

doubt game separates deleteds and restarts.

Edited By: Marshal on Feb 20th 2012, 20:59:21
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Feb 20th 2012, 21:40:15

cool

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Feb 20th 2012, 22:59:11

Marshal you can sell stuff and make yourself back into a typical restart with cash!

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Feb 21st 2012, 15:45:03

deleted and self-deleted are treated the same way for these purposes (ie you don't get anything).

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Feb 21st 2012, 17:48:19

Originally posted by Requiem:

Marshal you can sell stuff and make yourself back into a typical restart with cash!

have you restarted under new system? all can be built is farms and cs's and player comes oop totally unprotected or with few k troops and turrets.

restart gets 10% of money in hand so unless dies with 500m in hand then player is screwed quite a while (especially if bushels public price is low).

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Feb 21st 2012, 19:10:43

what you get has nothing to do with what money you had before you died...

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Feb 21st 2012, 19:30:25

I have not restarted under the new system yet...

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martian

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Feb 21st 2012, 20:40:20

you get
$25,000 cash
PLUS
$3,000/turn played

regardless of what cash you had when you died..

oh yeah, we can distinguish between deleted and self deleted :P

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Feb 21st 2012, 21:13:57

so at this point of set its around 4m and 135-142 cs's (no idea why that big range) and has negative income quite a while (during most of turns in hand) and gets positive income just before (~30 turns) gets oop and player gets oop with 100k-300k bushels and with some military or 0 military and bit cash (depending restart build) so if player tags up he/she gets killed by enemy, if doesn't tag gets farmed by other tags unless tags and gets fa packages. with current bushel prices restarting sux.

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Feb 21st 2012, 21:15:53

err; it shouldn't have negative income at all; how would it have negative income?

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Marshal

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Feb 21st 2012, 21:40:18

Originally posted by qzjul:

err; it shouldn't have negative income at all; how would it have negative income?

tax revenues is positive but expenses drag total income negative.

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Feb 21st 2012, 22:30:00

they shouldn't; all you have is land expenses, which aren't that much; i did test this....

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Feb 21st 2012, 22:59:53

with 35 or 36% tax player loses 10kish on 1st turn and then it drops few hundred per turn and around turn 70 its positive and at turn 80 player has around same total income as fresh country has with better def (if uses indy start).

I can provide screenshot tomorrow if needed since I'm sure I'll lose few countries in ffa by tomorrow.

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Feb 21st 2012, 23:35:19

ya here is a snap shot on 0 turns played and a neg. income

http://i257.photobucket.com/...3/kevinhutt/Incomloss.jpg

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Feb 22nd 2012, 2:47:40

Originally posted by ZIP:

ya here is a snap shot on 0 turns played and a neg. income

http://i257.photobucket.com/...3/kevinhutt/Incomloss.jpg

Well according to that screenshot.. you have the wrong amount of population.

Max pop for 1383 @ 35% tax and no res buildings/tech and is mon should be

11,077. Your screenshot shows only 801 population.

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Feb 22nd 2012, 4:52:49

you *should* have max pop when you restart. If you don't then post to B&S and let us know.
I tested this at 100,200,500,750,1000,1500,2000,2500,3000 turns and under no case do you have negative income. And at least on alpha servers one did get max pop. It should work exactly the same on alliance.

if you restart and that's not the case, pm me your country number and we'll look into it.

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Feb 22nd 2012, 9:41:25

Well, this should prove exciting for war... ;o)

'Atta boys' go to ALL who contributed to this brain fart! This one smells pretty good to me! :P

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Feb 22nd 2012, 17:20:00

Originally posted by QM Diver:

Well, this should prove exciting for war... ;o)

'Atta boys' go to ALL who contributed to this brain fart! This one smells pretty good to me! :P

yea, restarts are even more f'ed up than before.

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Feb 22nd 2012, 18:08:05

well you can always destroy all your CS and drop your land...

Finally did the signature thing.

qzjul

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Feb 22nd 2012, 18:08:37

but anyway, you shouldn't have negative income; if there is, post on B&S

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Feb 22nd 2012, 18:26:56

I fixed the bug; the land wasn't being updated properly before pop was recalculated....

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Feb 22nd 2012, 20:56:11

btw, i have idea. Its easy to see, if country is war restart or new country. Just in case someone didnt know.

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Feb 22nd 2012, 21:53:58

yeah we realize with this change it's easy to tell if someone is a war restart or new but pretty much with any kind of restart boost that is going to be the case..

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Marshal

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Feb 22nd 2012, 22:29:05

too bad that fix won't be retroactive.

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Feb 28th 2012, 1:48:55

I had to post something - i have been looking at marshal's name for 5 days after announcements, enough

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Marshal

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Feb 28th 2012, 18:17:20

*throws napalm on zip's direction*

iolair

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Feb 29th 2012, 6:50:31

I guess I'll have to try it out ... its gonna be different

Edited By: iolair on Mar 5th 2012, 1:30:19
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nothing to see here ... move along

Marshal

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Feb 29th 2012, 20:46:19

more money for restarts wouldn't hurt.

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Mar 2nd 2012, 13:02:13

once the restart ends I'm gonna make a thread asking for feedback. We aren't adverse to tinkering with the formulae.

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sigma

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Mar 2nd 2012, 15:13:57

cool... my only suggestion, although i haven't gotten to restart yet, would be make the money given as ((land*3)+1500)*land=restart money

Marshal

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Mar 2nd 2012, 17:12:17

Originally posted by martian:

once the restart ends I'm gonna make a thread asking for feedback. We aren't adverse to tinkering with the formulae.

restart or reset?

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Mar 4th 2012, 16:35:32

it would be easy enough to come up with a formula that gives enough cash to build X% of land

since a 500 acre restart can build a lot more than a 5k one in percentage terms

which means the bigger one which already has 500 csites probably has to spend turns building more csites

or just 10 buildings a turn type thing to just increase income a little quicker

Marshal

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Mar 4th 2012, 17:12:37

20 would be nice and 30-50m would be great.

restarting doesn't suck that badly if market doesn't suck as it sux atm at ffa and at alliance.

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Mar 5th 2012, 0:20:50

Originally posted by enshula:

but with more land = more cs. in my testing you can be fully built in ~ 50 turns no matter if it is early or late in the set.
* me thinks

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Mar 5th 2012, 17:12:32

"but with more land = more cs. in my testing you can be fully built in ~ 50 turns no matter if it is early or late in the set.
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That was sort of the objective. We were hesitant to give enough initial cash to fully build up the land because we don't want to have a set up where restarting every 101 turns somehow gets you ahead of or on par to someone who hasn't restarted. (This is why we don't give 70 turns immediately when you restart for example:P )

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Mar 5th 2012, 22:05:48

great change. Wait till more of you die and get a chance to try this out. Just send me your country # and we can see if we can speed things up for ya.

People have been fluffing that most of the changes have been leaning toward the netters, this is a nice change for the fighters.

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Mar 6th 2012, 5:07:13

Is it intended for countries to be able to drop land and have their alliance kill them so they can restart with a better country?

Allowing yourself to be killed should never be beneficial to your country.

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Mar 6th 2012, 5:16:20

Do you have an example of this? With the amount of turns and resources needed to kill the country, how is that beneficial to the alliance?

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Mar 6th 2012, 11:29:26

#856, alliance server

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ZIP

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Mar 6th 2012, 13:25:20

ok forgotten wants to try it out - someone kill him -

there i passed it on for ya

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Mar 7th 2012, 13:14:35

@Son Goku: The reason why we didn't give restarts more than we did was because we were concerned about that.

Under the setup it's extremely hard to be better off restarting than vs someone who didn't restart and played turns. Note that at the very least you lose all your tech and military. I think I could deliberately create a country where it would be optimal to restart (but I guess you could do that under the old rules too) but doing that is worse than simply playing normally and not being in that situation in the first place.

I also fail to see how during war it's optimimal to do this given that you are losing time/turns you could have spent hitting a target (100 turns of potential warring gone).

Also deliberately letting yourself be killed during war means that the enemy tag now has more turns to kill your alliance mates so unless you hate your tag, this isn't optimal either (this remains unchanged from before imo).

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highrock

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Mar 7th 2012, 20:39:16

This is all under the assumption that the goal of war is to kill. From what I see, that is no longer strictly true.

Also, if somebody drops all of their land, does that count as a self-delete or a kill (i.e. do they get their restart bonuses)?

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Mar 7th 2012, 22:47:47

if someone drops their land to be land killed by their own alliance, they shouldn't be able to restart with more land and more CSes.

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Mar 8th 2012, 16:48:26

"Also, if somebody drops all of their land, does that count as a self-delete or a kill (i.e. do they get their restart bonuses)?"

If you drop your land to 0 that counts as a self delete. Fortunately we beta tested everything else before implementing that:P.

If someone drops land to 1 acre and gets killed by their own tag that doesn't count as a self delete. We thought that it would become rather arbitrary and messy otherwise. @forgotten: I agree that it's sort of abusive but at the same time we rigged it so that you are better off not doing that in all situations we could dream up. We aren't going to prevent people from playing the game poorly.. nor do I think there's any reason to implement things to stop people from doing things that might not be optimal game play:P

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Mar 8th 2012, 23:03:44

There are many situations in which it is better to restart (i.e. a parking lot with minimal land/tech).

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Mar 10th 2012, 2:27:48

Originally posted by highrock:

There are many situations in which it is better to restart (i.e. a parking lot with minimal land/tech).

Yep, the cs need to be scaled back a bit.

Moving it to 1 CS per 15 turns played would balance it a bit.

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Mar 10th 2012, 19:38:59

good as it is