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do you ever get temp bans for topping old posts?

bots still look down

back ages ago someone had to manually end the set or create a new one

cant remember which but it was bad

also set length varied from about five weeks to three months

but there was maybe two super short sets for some reason, even one ended without notice i think

start it off even with more bad bots that only grow to 2k acres or whatever

250 bots each set so best to subtract them and at least any who never leave protection

last set probably had less restarts at the end though, you can compare active countries at the same point of the set up until about day 40, but last set and this set numbers will probably inflate a little just before the start of war due to late starters who want to war so if wars are of different size or at different time that will change things

but for now shouldnt be an issue

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the devs actually wanted to remove killing entirely which i didnt like

but why not make it so the restart bonuses are inverted

starting off high for blindsides

which is effectively what we see this set with many 0% sdi chem kills getting the least stuff back

then dropping as countries spend more of their resources walling/fighting

instead currently the least prepared countries both got the least stuff back because of no stock, possibly didnt even have anything on markets, were easiest to kill, and came back with something like 5% of the buildings they had before dying if they were chemmed, and a bunch of unbuilt most of which needed to be dropped

why turn off wifi?

https://youtu.be/q49NOyJ8fNA?t=189

pre trump answer

think i was farming untagged multies of lemon chiffon maybe and got warned

think it was lc who died a while ago as someone said above

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some improvement in numbers but its only 19 up on last set so far

thats not exactly huge

is mrcuban the guy who purposefully makes posts like this that are incorrect to get people to correct him?

isnt it SoL who a few times have decided to just kill every single untagged on the server?

well done everyone on a 9 month long successful espionage operation

dragon was replying in sol's irc channel last set during killruns on him, that was probably when things were basically over though

i found it a bit weird but i dont think laf said much about it

would be nice to see if you have dead allies somewhere, perhaps an alert or notice

how about priority settings for messages that treat them differently so a

'weve been attacked' is high and a 'vote for me on something' is low

could be used in combo with other changes to lower entry barrier to warring such as making offline killing more coordinated for new tags

you could have a clan wide offline target message that updated rather than sending many messages for example

from what gerdler said being able to select a currently set tag target like you do a war dec'd target would be nice

its not really a main menu change

although having a 'we have a kill target its this guy' section on the main menu that you can click to attack that guy would actually be a nice change

if your going to do that how about summaries

like x billiion goods for sale

and lost stuff since last login

would be a good thing to have as an alert up the top in some way

how about a confirmation when switching from anything except mono

and even better would be a preview on the confirmation page including showing what the bonuses would be

ie that fascism > other would reduce bonuses by more than just 14% and so on

on the construction page having buttons you can click for 1 turn of bpt would be good, oh seems you have something doing that maybe when that bulk mode button is off or something, i see what gerdler means now it doesnt let you click twice then build it does it instantly

theres some advantage to building all at once in case of earthquakes bpt only changes at the end, but doing turn by turn you can sell food on private

what about a way where you could set macros and put them at the top of the page, like a sell all food button, or a explore/cash/csite until 100% readiness button those sort of things

the research page in particular would be a lot better if you could select desired techs then split a turn teching between them because of the way research allies work

sell tech is missing the sell all button, maybe you can click on the numbers in the can sell column to autosell

no more 10 closes countries in nw dropdown on pacts?

currently if you do >100% on production it just drops the excess from the bottom
would help newbies somewhat if numbers were scaled up if they were below 100 i guess

cant think of a reason anyone would want to have less than 100 but if you did want to include it perhaps set it to auto sell the excess production as though they were turrets on private?

that would also mean you could set it to 0 during indy startups if you wanted for easy auto sell

would be nice to have 24 or 72 hour recent news buttons too, particularly on mobile i wouldnt really want to load a whole sets

last time i made one it happened not sure how, but that was a set laf was xlafx instead

did things as normal and didnt check to see i was actually admin and posted what i made the admin password as then someone else went to add tag admin and couldnt, so when it happens no one not even the first one has admin and so cant change the password

perhaps i used strange character in pass?
cant think of anything else

actually checked and the pass was normal but 14 characters long which may be too long?

admin: sofpactedyesno

be careful with any changes that significantly reduce the cost of maintaining spies

since what you might do is change the amount of acreage that needs to be dedicated to producing spies

the most simplistic fix to spies in general is making total spies matter a lot more than it currently does, then if a 60m nw country is paying 2x as much as a 20m isnt a huge deal

you still pay 2x as much for everything else as well, so if the price was flattened just for spies it would just close the expense/acre tax on high nw countries a little

its only when spies become the vast majority of expenses it would make a big difference

on talk about land dropping the best solution for that is to treat the land dropped as still existing for the purposes of grabbing, basically the topfeed and drop all land suiciding and people never get the land back, if you implemented that and then added in the virtual land counting for spal terms it reduces the benefit of dropping land for spal

for a spy dr op it would be easier to include spy dr and regular dr as well if you wanted in a military spy op than make a new one

the other easy way to nerf spy ops or make being big more important is to limit spy ops based on yournw/targetnw similar to land grabs, it could even be the old pop kill formula inverted, the one where you always killed max hitting up and hitting down reduced pop killed, you could make its so spying down always spied max and spying up was reduced below x%

perhaps exclude certain ops if people really want 7% demo to stay the same and so on

by turns spent do you mean this sort of thing where you drop the initial success chance slightly and increase it every time you get a fail then reset it or something else?

https://dota2.gamepedia.com/Random_distribution

if you consider the difference between private sell and public sell after taxes its 2.9 when foods at 30 and 35

so 8.814%

then with decay you lose something like 3.081% of surplus if you sell once a day

(just using rough number 78/2*(78+1) so a bit less since some goes away each turn)

of course theres the convenience of auto selling during a startup, but would there be a way to stop auto selling of turrets and possibly switch to jets at the appropriate point?

guess its not really worse having to turn the option of, but maybe an option to only sell troops/turrets on private during protection and not jets would help convenience more

the first public search tool you had to paste scores list in

dont recall what it was called

i think it functioned the same as the ingame 25 country search bypassing the 25x limit rather than the searchable dbs we use these days

at a minimum you should have to stay in tag 72, (maybe 24 i guess, but 72 fits better with alliance/gdi and so on times we already use, 48 for dec war though i guess) hours if you choose to accept restart bonuses

the way it works on ffa/test if you dont want restart bonuses, so you can start at 100 acres again and so on you have to delete your country

so maybe you can already achieve the same thing on alliance by deleting after you restart, never heard of anyone doing it though

youd have to run a tech start

maybe tech phases even in a longer server

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with the email blast thing does that mean the email sending to remind you a round has ended and to make a new country thing works again as well?

the worst change was when decay was changed retroactively during a reset

when one alliance basically used only that and another one basically only went luck

i thought things have been handled pretty well with rulesets applying on new servers

i guess if bots all share one codebase it doesnt help but theres no real reason there shouldnt be a 'main' codebase that can be updated to servers as a new set start if its going to do something crazy

but i cant imagine some sort of retroactive change that helps some people and not others

maybe if bots changed strat, or some strats became out of range due to too little nw or too much defence

praise be to pangea

most of the thinking is probably going into how griefing tags who use the tag gdi feature can be reduced

but one thing which may not be focused on as much is can clans prevent their pacts being violated and thus save themselves from having to pay reps

assuming you can stop your tag hitting pacted allies can someone just drop tag and hit anyway? in which case most pacts still keep responsibility for 72 hours

so can at a minimum the restriction be made sticky for a time period the tag admin decides?

and even better if that time only ticks down while someone is out of vacation to prevent shenanigans, and some pacts include vacation time too

the simplest option could be to just disable vacation for 72 hours on dropping tag

when people have trouble usually the solution is to try another computer

for most people that means their phone

trying the disability help options might help, like the read aloud one

havnt seen suiciders that were obvious multies or something for a while

sof did 684 hits and 435 defends

119 of sofs hits being ss/ps maybe some still on the ones who hit them but there arnt many really small landkill/farming type hits so probably not

thats a lot for a 27 person tag even if they have some late to tag up

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442
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457
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only the first 3 are deleted, didnt compare the last 2 to the first 3 but the last two look like they could easily be multies of eachother, hit sof one after the other twice

hopefully theres a paid way to skip bonuses/captcha while not making too many multies

wasnt expecting the one building unreasonable expectations to be pang :p

one potential abuse i can think of is

clan A no gdi
clan B gdi
country 1 no gdi

country 1 farms clan A
clan B twosteps country 1

clan A is now unable to do anything to clan B
all they can do is kill off country 1

so efectively the suiciders should now grief war clans and troll them rather than netting clans

its sounding like this whole thing is only useful for very edge cases

that being

netting:
allx lazy players
minor grabbing hardly trying
very late set suicider protection
slightly more useful for techers but probably promotes bad play

warring:
opting out of war, until tag dec war comes in
potentially some sort of timing attack where you drop gdi and hit

griefing:
the two step thing

but most of the netting cases will require multiple tags to work, which seems like a bad behaviour to incentive

possibly leading to drama over tags accepting or not accepting duel tags

and thats without knowing how much it costs which might be a lot, even not counting the dec war costs which arnt nothing, and are as much as 5% of gross income at the start for farmer, more of net, and even more for non theo casher

allx is pretty trivial

just average 1 turn growth with explore+building that one turn, so use your bpt

then compare that to cashing

add in added tech, and expensses change a bit if you want to go further

i think odds are this is just more status quo in the immediate term

at least in the first pass, and it will take at least another set for it to do anything, and possibly 1-2 after that until you can declare on a tag in clanGDI with something like a 72 hour warning period

right now
the warrers think the netters will be safe and effectively in their own little game
the netters think it wont be viable to go for the win