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Yes, from my understanding those numbers are then divided by constants to determine casualties. And this might be getting to something I've actually suspected in the past, that casualties may not be determined by combining the power of tanks and soldiers, but by applying the full force of the RNG power twice, once to tanks and once to soldiers. If that is the case, as I've suspected before, then that is a very large detriment to tanks (or more specifically a detriment to using both tanks and soldiers), since every time both tanks and soldiers are used, the player is facing potentially twice the amount of power loss just for the privilege of using tanks. And indeed, one of the consequences of such a formula would be massive casualties for the person going up against a small number of soldiers and a large number of tanks, since tanks do large amounts of damage and take relatively fewer amounts of casualties. The tank power would be applied twice, once to enemy soldiers and once to enemy tanks. The obverse would not be true. Both enemy soldiers and enemy tanks would each do damage only once to tanks instead of twice to tanks when there are 0 soldiers. The enemy would have double the casualty ratio comparatively.

It's a range of 60%, or 40% to 100%: So casualties can swing wildly for both the attacker and the defender with varying ratios between the two from battle to battle. But once again, I still can't say for sure if this may be happening since we don't have access to the complete formula. In the scenario where all soldiers are killed, the excess kills should be transferred over to tanks in some amount. Is it though? I can't answer that. Part of the problem may be that you seem to be approaching this under the assumption that you need soldiers to win the battle. You can initiate a battle with 5000 tanks and 50 soldiers and still come out the victor because soldiers and tanks are both sufficient on their own to win. Tanks are effectively their own soldiers. Only 50 actual soldiers are required to initiate a battle, not 1 soldier per tank.

I'm pretty sure it's the 800 2000 tanks that led to killing 10k soldiers. You lost 33248 power. He lost 22896 power. The battle was approximately 80k power vs 462k power. So 80k killed 22896. He lost around 7% of his strength. You lost 41% of yours. Here is an incomplete formula for battles and casualties: http://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/4806-battle-mechanic/#entry73245 You may be right about excess damage being dealt not transferred over to the other available ground unit once a unit type runs out, though I can't tell from what's been posted.

How about a soft cap on spy ranges instead of a hard one? You could do something like: if (Attacker's NS >= Defender's NS), then: spy odds = ( Defender's NS / Attacker's NS ) * (Normal spy odds) that or increasing cost: if (Attacker's NS >= Defender's NS), then: spy cost = ( Attacker's NS / Defender's NS ) * (Normal spy cost) Or both.

So just doing some math... for a nation such as myself that has 11-12k soldiers and gets around 17k in cash each battle, now I would get 6-12k? That's definitely not more money being looted, unless I'm not understanding the formula correctly. Edit: if the * victory multiplies it by 3 for an immense triumph and makes it 18k-36k, then nevermind.

I don't think so. I mean we are trying to incentivize war. If it's +2-3% to the victor for 15 days and -3-4% for the defeated for the same period of time, that seems reasonable considering the damage a war does. It would also push people to go for ground battles rather than just missiles. The % can obviously be adjusted up or down here to be reasonable. Edit: Actually I think the percent should probably be higher. For instance a nation that has 3 mil daily income would get 1,350,000 w/ a +3% bonus over 15 days. He/she is highly likely to suffer much more than that in damage during a war. Double Edit: Though perhaps too high a percentage would undermine treasures... unless treasures gave an alliance bonus...

An alternative to stealing land/infra would be stealing income. A defeated nation gets -X% income for 15-30 days. The victorious nation gets +X% income for 15-30 days. Obviously this wouldn't be a 1:1 ratio. X% for the defeated might be less in $$$ quantity than X% for the victor. But at least it scales with range. You could also do something like -X% for the defeated and +(0.75)(X%) for the victor.

you'll shoot your eye out, kid

This should be moved to tech support. I'm sure sheepy will reverse the damage.

The way you have it set up with being able to buy an ad for 1 credit or 1 mil allows people to circumvent the 6 credit/mo limit by letting people with surplus credits offer to make ads for people in exchange for cash. A person can offer to make an ad for $900k on the market. Someone pays that nation $900k and a credit is used to put up the ad. This also works currently with flags or pips. If you keep adding cosmetic bonuses in this manner, more opportunities will arise and will further undermine the effort you made to limit credit redemption/sales.

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Yes, that is the difference. 100% of tanks can be lost in a single battle when operating at 50% efficiency... as opposed to losing 50% of one's tanks in a single battle at 100% efficiency. Using more tanks is also using more resources, but that is not very significant in the grand scheme.

All tanks participate but are only worth half their normal combat value so that all defending tanks could potentially be destroyed in a single battle. You couldn't accomplish the same sort of thing when fighting only half a person's planes. That's not to say one way is better than the other, but it does add some opportunity for thinking strategically.

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I've gone ahead and made all games (except for the slot machines) free to play. The minimum wager/pot for all games is now 0, so anyone can play for free if the wager/pot is set to 0 at the start of a game.

You win some, you lose some You also doubled your money before going broke, lel

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Sure. But having that be the top alliance who would probably never help the initiators of wars (warmongers) over the defenders would with time cause fewer overall wars due to the incentives and power balance and such.

Orbis needs wars. Any warmongering alliance gets a +1 in my book. Edit: From my perspective, GPA wasn't a threat because they could turn out to be warmongers, but because they could use their weight to prevent wars from happening by being the deciding factor (that presumably would punish the initiators of wars).

If you limit the market buying/selling you limit people being able to acquire credits for cosmetic bonuses, too. If credit creation was hard capped, a player could still buy more credits on the market for the rest of the month. Edit: and if you want all those cosmetic bonuses, you can spread them out over two months, instead of one. That or buy credits on the market if you're impatient. It's unlikely that pattern of credit usage would be a regular thing every month for one player.

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Probably not since it's not redirecting anywhere off-site, though some programs allow you to block an image url from loading by right clicking on the image and selecting that option.