Jan 8th 2011, 17:57:46
Originally posted by ponderer:
LCN is down to 34 countries in its tag (from 60 at the start of the war). Rage is at 25 (from 28) and SOL is at 64 (from 69).
SOL and Rage don't need outside FA to win this war. They'll win by attrition. Any edge LCN had from nw advantage at the beginning of the war is gone, and not due to great fighting by SOL and Rage, but poor fighting from LCN. To be an effective fighting alliance in this game, your members need to keep fighting from the beginning until the end of the war, regardless of how many times they need to restart. Restart rate more than anything else is what separates fighting alliances from netting alliances, and is why, unless the netting alliance has a decisive numerical advantage, netting alliances can not stand up to warring alliances in this game. There are two solutions to this: 1) move back to having hybrid fighting/netting alliances instead of specialists (unlikely - fighters like to fight and netters like to net), or 2) make killing a country much harder.
Even if all 26 of your members who haven't restarted and re tagged at this point do so now, it's probably too late. You're out numbered more than 2.5:1 at this point.
The FA helps, but it really isn't necessary. By not restarting, LCN's membership is essentially surrendering.
SOL and Rage don't need outside FA to win this war. They'll win by attrition. Any edge LCN had from nw advantage at the beginning of the war is gone, and not due to great fighting by SOL and Rage, but poor fighting from LCN. To be an effective fighting alliance in this game, your members need to keep fighting from the beginning until the end of the war, regardless of how many times they need to restart. Restart rate more than anything else is what separates fighting alliances from netting alliances, and is why, unless the netting alliance has a decisive numerical advantage, netting alliances can not stand up to warring alliances in this game. There are two solutions to this: 1) move back to having hybrid fighting/netting alliances instead of specialists (unlikely - fighters like to fight and netters like to net), or 2) make killing a country much harder.
Even if all 26 of your members who haven't restarted and re tagged at this point do so now, it's probably too late. You're out numbered more than 2.5:1 at this point.
The FA helps, but it really isn't necessary. By not restarting, LCN's membership is essentially surrendering.
That's what I've saying for awhile now. Killing needs to be made a lot more difficult if war alliances want more variety in who they war. Most people don't have all day to stay online to stonewall. If you want to encourage other people to war you need to make it so that strategy and country building becomes more important than time availability. I think kills need to be weakened and disabiling/strategic grabbing needs to be a bigger part of war.