Aug 22nd 2019, 0:59:54
I haven’t played all the servers, but I don’t see the need based on my experience.
And I’d advocate for making bots do more rational things, not different irrational things (both suggestions are value destructive). I suspect that the result of these changes would be to shift power between strategies for both netting and warring, and if we want to do that we should just change the governments transparently instead of having nuanced, irrational and less transparent bot behavior drive those outcomes.
I suspect that the markets might function better and general and transparently rebalance strategies if bots played more rationally: selling goods and tech based on recent market history as opposed to the single unit on the market at a given price,didn’t buy over 20 tpa, bought weapons tech as a cheaper expense alternative to more military, stocked food instead of tech, had better minimum selling prices (no $280 tanks). I’m probably forgetting 10 other things. This would likely require rebalancing the bot strategies (perhaps fewer techers and more indies).
I also definitely don’t want more warfare tech on express as it will get used for more griefing while also removing a small disincentive to techer griefing (you give up a ton of revenue if you tech warfare today). Plus if you get griefed and want to KR, it also doesn’t matter - I doubt griefers care if their crappy rainbow gets killed or not as long as they have ruined your fun.