Uncapped Colour Bonuses

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

This isn't a major change that would be made, but I feel it's kinda just time for it to happen, as the current system is really outdated. As the title of the forum post says, I want to propose the idea of removing the revenue cap on the different colour bonuses. In the game, we now have five different colours that have reached the cap, those colours being Green, Orange, Brown, Olive, and Yellow.

 

The 75K cap per turn has been in place, as far as I know, since before I started playing back in early 2018, and it's majorly outdated. The mechanics it uses haven't really changed, but the way the game works has changed majorly. Back in 2018, and I'll show my age here, there were no players who had reached 40 cities. The first player to hit 40 cities was Seb, and he did that in May of 2019. Since that time, we now have 3 nations who have 50 or more cities, and 81 additional nations who have 40 or more cities. There are more cities than ever, there are higher infra levels than ever, and the mechanic is still "Average Daily Monetary Net Revenue / Nations" which I think is just outdated.

 

I don't think an uncap of the daily colour revenue would be anything revolutionary, but I simply think five colours being capped, and the mechanic not changing in the past four and a half years plus is just too long, and it should be changed. If someone manages to get it so their colour bonus would give forty million per day if it wasn't capped, let them. They should be rewarded for the work they've put into their colour bonus, and perhaps having it uncapped would give players more to politic about, with people trying to do all they can to get their colour bonus as high as possible, instead of just understanding that the colour bonus basically just gives an extra million per day if they do enough right to cap it.

[Danzek]

Interesting idea, but I think a flat bonus of 1 billion dollars per turn for green would be better. 

[darkblade]

I disagree with this idea. The one's who benefit the most off this change are high tiers/whales (and those who police the bloc as well). This will only increase the disparity of revenue that color blocs generate for nations, and it will also increase the revenue between smaller nations and bigger nations because I guarantee that most smaller nations are on trash blocs that don't produce much because they aren't policed or not back by whales. Here is a little formula that shows how much a single nation makes off the bloc alone, you can also try them out yourself if you want to do some math or verify if my points are true.

Color bloc revenue per year formula: (color bloc turn bonus * 12) * 365
Color bloc turn bonus formula: (avg DNR / nations on color bloc)

Nations on green with no cap on the bloc bonus will make $513,787,140 a year off the bloc alone.
Nations on 100k color blocs make $438,000,000 a year off the bloc alone.
Nations on 75k color blocs make $328,500,000 a year off the bloc alone.
Nations on purple ($18,072 per turn) only make $79,155,360 a year off the bloc alone.

Edited August 22, 2022 by darkblade
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[hidude45454]

5 hours ago, Borg said:

Interesting idea, but I think a flat bonus of 1 billion dollars per turn for green would be better. 

I think this is an excellent idea (no bias btw)

[Nyx]

4 hours ago, darkblade said:

I disagree with this idea. The one's who benefit the most off this change are high tiers/whales (and those who police the bloc as well). This will only increase the disparity of revenue that color blocs generate for nations, and it will also increase the revenue between smaller nations and bigger nations because I guarantee that most smaller nations are on trash blocs that don't produce much because they aren't policed or not back by whales. Here is a little formula that shows how much a single nation makes off the bloc alone, you can also try them out yourself if you want to do some math or verify if my points are true.

Color bloc revenue per year formula: (color bloc turn bonus * 12) * 365
Color bloc turn bonus formula: (avg DNR / nations on color bloc)

Nations on green with no cap on the bloc bonus will make $513,787,140 a year off the bloc alone.
Nations on 100k color blocs make $438,000,000 a year off the bloc alone.
Nations on 75k color blocs make $328,500,000 a year off the bloc alone.
Nations on purple ($18,072 per turn) only make $79,155,360 a year off the bloc alone.

I agree, but I am a little biased since I'm on black and have been for a while. I do think that this would benefit certain alliances a lot more than it would others; nations on green are already receiving a huge bonus and it really doesn't need an increase.

[Sweeeeet Ronny D]

Well if the point of doing the color bonus was to stimulate politics, the more valuable you can make the bonus, the more likely you are going to have people defend their color/ invade better colors, which in turn leads to more conflicts.

[Dorian Grey]

I love this idea, color bloc used to be a bigger factor not so long ago. Just a year ago (5th of july 2021) this is what color blocs looked like:

A pretty big difference compared to them now:

Maybe if we wanted to make it less harsh for smaller alliances/players we could make the color bloc income easier to acquire than it is now up to a certain level (50k?), and after that point it's the same mechanic as it is now. I strongly support the uncapped color bloc, or at least increase the cap to something like 150k, because imo we should reward alliances' efforts to increase the income and police the bloc

[Vanek26]

For the Color Bonus -

Turn Bonus = (Average Daily Monetary Net Revenue / Nations)

What is Daily Monetary Net Revenue as an individual? The Monetary Net Income* at the bottom of your revenue page? 

[Buorhann]

Did someone say Color Bloc war?  It's been a long time since I've done one of those...

[Krampus]

How about we just site-step the issue altogether and give every nation in grumpy and t$ one bajillion dollars?