Feb 25th 2011, 4:48:48
No, it was aimed at DeDLySMuRF.
If it's so easy, why don't more players do it?
I'm not really sure how I feel about something being "too easy". If you're netting, shouldn't the player with the most skill, the best plan, and a bare minimum of luck do well? How would you feel if I theorized that it's too easy for a player to kill with 16 countries? If I said that NBK hasn't had a legit war win because it's just so easy to play in ffa? That your wars aren't difficult enough? Are those fair things to say?
It's easy to purchase technology. You simply type in the amount you want. Does that mean that everyone is going to buy tech correctly? That players won't have difficult approaches? If we make it so you can only buy 1 tech point at a time, will that improve the playing experience just because it's harder to play?
The simple fact is that there is no amount of defense that will protect a 500k acre country that isn't in DR. This is for a number of reasons:
1) The 500k country will pay massive amounts in military maintenance trying to keep perfect defense day after day whereas the countries that wish to grab it don't need to keep massive amounts of jets every day.
2) It is difficult for a 500k country to get lots of weapons tech and it can't switch governments at will.
3) Other players will do whatever it takes with their 16 countries just to make one grab against it. If they get a 100k acre PS, they will be completely satisfied with their set.
4) Netgaining countries eventually need to stockpile resources. That is money that cannot be spent on defense. Bored topfeeders do not need to stockpile.
Because there is no amount of defense that will protect a 500k acre country, I imagine that the player responsible is putting it into DR. This is similar to how some warring clans feel about their countries. Obviously more land is good, but I guess they feel that if they get more land, their techs will be too low and they will be too easily killed off in war. So they run low land, which makes it difficult if not impossible for "other countries on the server to interact with them".
I don't know if that country is fully built. I'm not sure if it's even possible for a 500k acre country to be fully built this early into the set. If it really had no defense whatsoever, then it would be getting grabbed for thousands of acres. DR doesn't take landgains all the way down to 0.
If it's so easy, why don't more players do it?
I'm not really sure how I feel about something being "too easy". If you're netting, shouldn't the player with the most skill, the best plan, and a bare minimum of luck do well? How would you feel if I theorized that it's too easy for a player to kill with 16 countries? If I said that NBK hasn't had a legit war win because it's just so easy to play in ffa? That your wars aren't difficult enough? Are those fair things to say?
It's easy to purchase technology. You simply type in the amount you want. Does that mean that everyone is going to buy tech correctly? That players won't have difficult approaches? If we make it so you can only buy 1 tech point at a time, will that improve the playing experience just because it's harder to play?
The simple fact is that there is no amount of defense that will protect a 500k acre country that isn't in DR. This is for a number of reasons:
1) The 500k country will pay massive amounts in military maintenance trying to keep perfect defense day after day whereas the countries that wish to grab it don't need to keep massive amounts of jets every day.
2) It is difficult for a 500k country to get lots of weapons tech and it can't switch governments at will.
3) Other players will do whatever it takes with their 16 countries just to make one grab against it. If they get a 100k acre PS, they will be completely satisfied with their set.
4) Netgaining countries eventually need to stockpile resources. That is money that cannot be spent on defense. Bored topfeeders do not need to stockpile.
Because there is no amount of defense that will protect a 500k acre country, I imagine that the player responsible is putting it into DR. This is similar to how some warring clans feel about their countries. Obviously more land is good, but I guess they feel that if they get more land, their techs will be too low and they will be too easily killed off in war. So they run low land, which makes it difficult if not impossible for "other countries on the server to interact with them".
I don't know if that country is fully built. I'm not sure if it's even possible for a 500k acre country to be fully built this early into the set. If it really had no defense whatsoever, then it would be getting grabbed for thousands of acres. DR doesn't take landgains all the way down to 0.