Orientation: Fighting

Day 1,515, 10:13 Published in United Kingdom United Kingdom by Stefan1992
It is of great importance to understand what you are doing before you commit an action. So by following this guide, hopefully you will not make the same mistake so many people have made in the past. Fight smart and know your limits. For a complete list of guides, look at this article or go directly to Orientation on the Wiki.

How the Battle Works

The objective of the battle is to cause your counter (always the blue side) to reach 1800 domination points. How is this achieved? Every time you defeat an opponent, the amount of damage you make is added up to your side. The bar at the top shows the percentage of damage your side has done and the enemy. As long as your side is above 50%, you will receive points every minute. Here is a list of the distribution of points depending on how far into the battle the time is:

• 01-30 Minutes – 10 domination points per minute.
• 31-60 Minutes – 20 domination points per minute.
• 61-90 Minutes – 30 domination points per minute.
• 91-120 Minutes – 60 domination points per minute.

Within each mini-battle there are four divisions, which is based on your level. Below is a chart of those divisions.

• Division I – Level 1-24 (1 Campaign Point)
• Division II – Level 24-29 (2 Campaign Points)
• Division III – Level 30-36 (3 Campaign Points)
• Division IV – Level 37+ (5 Campaign Points)


In each battle, there can be a minimum of 8 mini-battles and a maximum of 15. Each mini-battle ends when all divisions reaches 1800 domination points. This means each mini-battle will last between 90 and 120 minutes. After each mini-battle there is a 5 minute intermission before the next one begins. To win the entire battle, a total of 83 campaign points are needed.

Fighting



This is the button that does it all. The most important part of the battlefield, it is where you commit to increase the damage on your side. But before you push that button, think about this: Do you have enough money to pay for the food to recover your lost health? It is important to know that you lose 10 health for every time you push that fight button. You might originally have 500-600 health that you can gain from eating, and then if you have eaten food, an additional 100 health can be recovered per hour. If you can no longer consume any food, you will have the option to regain 10 health at the cost of 0.5 gold. Don't do that, it is a waste of gold. You may have heard of being able to use hospitals, but these are very hard to find and disappear in seconds. So it’s best to think they don’t even exist. An enemy might take one to eight or more fights to eliminate, depending on the health, strength and weapon of that person.

The amount of damage you inflict depends on your strength and military level. Every time you are promoted a military rank, you gain a 5% damage increase. Fighting in a war against your country's nautral enemy also increases your influence by 10%.

Weapons

This shows what type of weapon either you or your opponent has. The picture on the right represents someone with a Q5 weapon. Each quality of a weapon you have will increase your total damage by 20%, so for example, a Q3 weapon will give you a 60% damage increase. You will always lose 10 health per time you click the fight button, but it will take multiple clicks to defeat an enemy. The type of weapon you have or the enemy has will also affect the amount of times you need to fight to defeat an enemy (although enemies are defeated in one click).

Rewards



Every time you defeat an enemy, your damage is added to the overall influence of your side. You also gain experience points (one for every time you press the fight button) and military ranking points (which equates to 1/10th of your damage). Your overall military ranking has an effect of how much damage you inflict. At the end of each mini-battle, the citizen in each division who did the most damage for their side gains a Battle Hero Medal, along with an award of either 2, 3, 4 or 5 gold, depending on your division. It is very difficult to win this, especially for those in division IV, in which the most experienced and/or rich usually claim the prize. It will usually cost way more than 5 gold to even attempt to get the medal. Even more difficult is the Campaign Hero Medal, which is awarded to the citizen who did the most damage overall at the end of the entire battle (only one medal per side). And you can forget about the Top Fighter medal, which is one by having the top 100 worldwide damage for 30 days, as that is reserved for the elite of the elite of eRepublik.