The Problems with Linear Strength Gain
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by Lavis Knight
Hello everyone,
With the recent and continuing baby boom in France i post this article hoping to gain support with an issue that will plague both new players and countries:
The nature of linear strength gain
This not only discourages new citizens who shall forever be the same absolute value behind those who started before, but also eventually will cause defense systems to either become more obsolete or in need of constant readjustment, if the defense systems are readjusted upwards this only further trivializes new players.
So this is my suggestion for a STR leveling curve. I propose we keep STR the same values as they are now; however, we should have one golden rule - anyone who has played Erepublik and trained for a year worth of days should be competitive with the top echelon of players.
A year is a long time and certainly you would not want someone who has trained for a year to be hopelessly behind those who have come before, but at the same time one must reward the ones who came before; thus, they sill have an edge just not an absolute edge.
Currently things look like this if we take two players today one who has played since a year ago and one who has started just today and fast forward one year we have:
Player 1 plays for one year his STR is roughly at 18
Player 2 plays for two years his STR is roughly at 32.5!!!
Player 3 stats today his STR is 1....
As you can see player 1 will forever be hopelessly behind and i feel sorry for the player who starts a year from now. The game will become untenable much faster and defense systems will become more obsolete or need to be readjusted which will put player 3 into obscurity.
This will make it more difficult for future baby boom players and recent players to eventually be a significant force in E republik.
I started a topic here in Erepublik Suggest:
http://erepublik.ws/suggest/strength-gain-272
If you agree please to vote it in Erepublik Suggest, if not then i would love to hear counter arguments so perhaps we can come to a better solution.
Thank you,
-Lavis
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This can be fixed with a change how str is applied, so the higher the str the gain is smaller.
So 2 is x2 times 1, but 4 is x1.4 times 2, and 8 is x2 times 2, or something like that.
Unfortunatly WinRAWR any kind of adjustment ends at 4 Strength.
After that everything is the same. I would be happy with any kind of scaling as one trained. Just as you suggested in your comment 😁
no, we don't need the newbies to be more powerful than a day 1 citizen in a month, potentital multi abuse and all
SKR, i did not mean to say someone would be that powerful on day 1.
I mean to express that it would take one year to become comparable and even then not exact. 😁
This goes beyond multi abuse, this goes to the mechanics of the gain itself. If strength gained is not reigned in the game will run into problems in the long term. In both the war module and in terms of the contributions of new countries in players who decide to play for the long term, but started late 😁
Hola, soy nuevo y no me ubico muxo en esto de los fors, queria saber si alguien sabe como construir una dobladora d etubos(pipe bender), vi que un integrante del foro tenia una antigua, me gustatia saber si puede compartir las dimensiones(un planito), lo d ela bomba se cambia por una gata hidraulica y listo.
Gracias de anteforo y muy buen brazo
good article
voted 😃
Even if the difference in strenght remains the same, the damage ratio between the old and the new player DROPS.
The system is fine as it is.
The damage ratio reduction rate could be increased by a simple change like (for example) adding 0.05 strength points at a time instead of 0.04
Drewxyz the damage ratio may remain the same, but as new players join the gap will increase between old and new at an untenable rate.
Right now its roughly always being 16 strength behind, but can you imagine players who will always be 30 strength behind?
I'm about to be 2 years old here. The point would be to have a limit on strength, let's say, 3 years. Nobody could have more than 40 (or 50 or whatever the number) strength.
So, a newbie would be 40 points behind, but in 3 years he knows he will catch the older ones in strength.
Ola Hamijos eFranseses, hos dezeo huna felis estanzia ehn eEspaña