I have noticed on kill runs the minimum amount of civs killed has changed?

GS kills only 3 civs now?
BR and CMs also seem to have changed...

what change happened or did the minimum civs killed programming get screwed up somehow?

http://forums.earthempires.com/...10-03-major-change-set-12

where you been hiding. under a rock under a house?

its some incredibly stupid thing the netting oriented admins enacted to deter OOP wars.

Welcome online TroyTiger, where have you been? :p

I guess I don't pay attention to forums sometimes. LOL

I also don't think I like the changes very much. :-(

the admins dont care, they dont even play this server they just make stupid blanket changes for all servers because they think theyre fixing the game but in reality are making it worse.

game has been fine for decades now they want to change fluff. way to drive ppl from the game

agreed

I get the idea behind it. OoP wars suck. It's more fun if quality of build actually comes into play in a war, which takes at least a couple weeks to matter.

However, this change does suck even more. It basically gives an advantage to suiciders who suicide OoP, because you only need to cripple to ruin someone's set (at least the netters). So someone can be sitting on turn 200 with 20k tanks and go to town with their 16 countries and it'll take more turns for the rest of us to actually kill them off. Meanwhile, if they're suiciding, they clearly don't care about their country so if they just get crippled, they play through it, because again, they don't care about their country anyway.

I'd be curious to see if the same problem has reared its head in 1a, but I'd assume probably not, because having 16 countries to suicide with is really the main issue here.

I'd rather go back to what it was and see OoP wars than suiciders have carte blanche to do whatever they want in the first few hundred turns.

This attack change is just "stupid" for FFA.

end..

+100 for troy

can I get +200? :-P

yes plus 200 for troy I got cought off guard with some suicides not hitting me but my clan I have been running turns before I noticed it happened TKO is my home and will not be tolerated but it sucks its taking more turns to kill then thay go out of range cause of those humanatarians you like so much Donny =)

at least it doesnt last all reset.

warster you mean these updates?

or the suicides =)

The min returns for gs and br return to 5 and 10 at a certain point in the reset

STOP MAKING THE CHANGES TO FFA. Seriously.

#2) GS / BR Minimum Returns Ramping over Time

We are adjusting the Minimum returns of GS and BR (5 and 10 currently) to ramp to their normal values over the first turns in a reset. THIS WILL BE BASED ON THE TURN RATE FOR THE GIVEN SERVER

The formula for this is:

min(5*MULT,floor(6*MULT*TURNS_ELAPSED/TURN_RATE))

where MULT is 1 for GS 2 for BR, and TURNS_ELAPSED is the turns elapsed since the start of the server, and TURN_RATE is the turn rate in seconds

Express:
Every 40 turns for GS (20 for BR), the minimum will increase by 1, max at 200 turns;

Team:
Every 150 turns for GS (75 for BR), the minimum will increase by 1, max at 750 turns;

Alliance/FFA:
Every 200 turns for GS (100 for BR), the minimum will increase by 1, max at 1000 turns;

Tourney:
Every 250 turns for GS (125 for BR), the minimum will increase by 1, max at 1250 turns;

Primary:
Every 300 turns for GS (150 for BR), the minimum will increase by 1, max at 1500 turns;

This is intended to steer wars to be either later or OOP cripple wars, so people get a chance to play at their first country a while. It will also protect solo servers from any early quick kills.

[TO CLARIFY: The point of this is to discourage OOP wars =/ ]

max at 1000 turns // so we have to go 1000 turns i am guessing before we get to "normal" returns.

1000/72

so bout two weeks into the set before things are back to normal.

"SUCKS"