New Daily Orders Changes

Day 1,483, 05:06 • Published in USA USA • by Gnilraps

Department of Game Mechanics
Day 1,483 of the New World
12 December 2011

ADMIN CHANGES HOW DAILY BATTLE ORDERS ARE CARRIED OUT BY MILITARY UNITS

First of all, it is clear that Admin has no intention of giving the Commander of a Military Unit the ability to override the orders of the Captains. I suspect that would have been the first change everyone would have looked for, so I am reporting it first.

PRIORITY LISTINGS

Plato has added a 5-tiered priority system for establishing an automatically selected Daily Order.

Commanders see 5 dialogue boxes that give him the option of selecting nations to "Fight For" or "Fight Against". In the case that the Ordered Battle ends, the 5-tiered priority list will automatically select another Battle and that new battle will become the new Daily Order until it is manually changed.

A commander can only manually set Daily Orders 5 times in any day, and no longer needs to wait for the current mini to end.

The way the computer selects a battle from the 5-tiered priority list is as follows (quoting directly from Plato):

"the battle that is selected for the daily order is decided after making a sum of the points. the points are "1" priority = 100 points , "2" priority => 50 points, "3" priority =>25 points , "4" priority =>10 points , "5" priority => 5 points;
- in case there is a tie, the battle that is chosen is the one with the lowest id/the one who started first."

What this means is that Soldiers in an MU will not be solely dependant on the Commander or Captain for the availability of an active Battle in which to fight.

Keep in mind the following important details:

1: The computer may select a RW as the next-highest priority. For MU's that pay moving costs, this may create the need for a policy change.

2: Commanders may need to think twice before setting Daily Orders to a battle that is in its last mini. With a limit of only 5 manual changes per day, MU commanders need to remain in close contact with the NSC to know if an important battle is coming.

3: Soldiers fighting in a currently-ordered minibattle and who are working toward their 25/25 will suddenly get cut off if a Commander changes orders during a minibattle.

PRIORITIES OF DAILY ORDERS

Perhaps the most desired change of all was the ability for Commanders to override the commands set by their Captains. No dice.

"The priorities when an order is added are the following;

Priority 1: order added by the captain, can only be changed by him anytime (with a limit of 5 changes per day);

Priority 2: order added by the commander, cannot change the captain order from that regiment, but he can change the orders from the other regiments anytime if the order was set by him or by the battle priorities (with a limit of 5 changes per day);

Priority 3: order added automatic from the list of priorities can be changed by the captain or commander anytime (with a limit of 5 changes per day for each of them)."

In other words, Captains order take top priority, Commanders orders take second priority, and computer-selected orders take third priority, with Commanders/Captains having only 5 manual changes per day.

The long-and-short of it is this:

1: Plato has limited the number of times Daily Orders can be set manually.

2: Plato has not changed the stupidity of allowing Captains orders to override Commanders orders.

3: Plato has eliminated the bothersome problem of a Captain who sets Daily Orders once and then fails to log in for the rest of the day.

4: Plato has made a change that will increase traffic to Resistance Wars unless Commanders are savvy with how they set Priorities.

5: Nations need to make changes to the kind of information they provide so that commanders can more faithfully set their battle priorities.


I am proud to sport the award I recently received from The Irish Community.



And in honor of this award I just set my Military Unit's Daily Orders to Ireland v. UK.

🙂


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