Could a quick-fix really fix the game?
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by mihail.cazacu
An excellent article by the Croatian player Don Croata ("What happened to our game?") prompted me to write this very short piece you are about to read.
Plato screwed up the game so badly that soon he will be the only one left playing it.
Due to all the features Plato implemented, there's no way we would be able to return to the V1 spirit. By now everybody has learned the way to "win" is to form a "SUPERALLIANCE" and score "victory" after "victory" even without burning the credit cards.
If Plato wants to quick-fix the game before no credit card is ever used anymore, he can do so by making impossible to have SUPERALLIANCES.
That can be done simply by placing a limit on the number of MPPS a country, based on total damage that country and her MPP allies would be able to deliver.
To keep the things hyper-fluid I'd say the limit should be placed at 20% of the total damage/influence in the eWorld.
That would mean CoT would probably have to expel only one or two of their weakest members (since they are currently at 21.3😵
while for sure Serbia and Poland would not be able to sign MPPs since together they go over the 20% limit.
A 20% total per alliance would mean there would be maximum 5 alliances in the whole eWorld. In theory 3 such alliances might still cooperate by attacking simultaneously the other 2, even though they wont' be able to support each other directly via MPPs.
However, when 3 need to attack 2, those 3 need to divide their effort against 2 different targets. And when 3 need to coordinate in order to go after 2, there are lots of surprises bound to happen on the way.
Would the game would look like the smaller EDEN fending off the larger Peace, Phoenix, One and TWO?
Of course it would. And therefore it would be as dynamic as V1 was.
The only question to my mind is which would happen first: Plato would be the only player left or the Admins would implement this or a similar quick-fix?
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It's not all about super alliances
But eliminating the possibility to form super-alliances would go a long way to bring the strategy back into the game.
autoatack, no Retreat button, new MPP activation rule, 1RW at a time, strange events which make strong country stronger and weak even weaker - they've brought a lot of stuff to ruin strategy. and by now I haven't seen anything done to bring it back.
You can not limit number of MPPs such easily. People are not stupid, even if they have to split MPPs and divide forces, in the end the mega-alliance would still come out on top.
Problem is that people don't care anymore, because the game is stupid. Mega alliances in the past were stopped by 2 things:
1) the response to a mega alliance were baby-booms in the occupied countries
2) simply people did not want to go into them, since the game became boring
Neither applies in this money driven game.
have to agree with you mate
"the mega alliance would come in top" just like Peace, Phoenix, One have?! If countries can't support each other via MPPs it would be very difficult to support each other with mobile troops only. The only effective mobile operations were EDEN's. And EDEN was the smaller alliance - that forced them to be smarter and better organized.
Well each time EDEN "won", I remember most countries being wipe out a few months after. Same goes the other way around.
All the alliances mentioned by you, in the end, lost because of diplomacy or admin intervention. None had the same members when they were dominating and when they were losing.
EDEN (before TEDEN) and the post-Hungary and Serbian baby boom PEACE (before allowing 29 members) were in fact the only really organized alliances I caught in this game. They were special, but lost due to being greedy.
Attack Poland!
I hope things will change and be more fun, before the vast majority on players quit the game if too boring :/
You can't blame Plato for CoT's failings...
Indeed no. OK, TWO have won the war on CoT, Congrats but ...
if the same path will go on, the game will loose all interest on the both sides "SuperAlliance vs TheRestOfTheWorld", and if TWO is really soooo strong, we'll all have a problem 😉
One way or another we should find back the pleasure to play and fight, close, tactical and epic battles !
And talking about eRep Dev'd hope they'll find better than another contest to create fake enthousiasm.
Make defense stronger, and give bonus to resistance in resistance wars: Problem solved.
Stupid fix maybe, but it is a fix.
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