Oct 31st 2011, 18:34:21
Let's face it.
Land trading is only viable as a strategy if you have tag protection (or in FFA, group protection afforded by your countries). Without the protection, the countries involved in trading would be weakened enough for other countries to take advantage of.
Without considering mod intervention by altering the game, if any alliance wants to stop it as a strategy, it has to be at the alliance vs alliance level.
While Hanlong's approach is the right one, where some changes in retal policy at the alliance level might help to curb it, it is unlikely all alliances would agree to the same policy. PDM's policy is the right one then - you war over it - topfeed/kill the countries that land trade, and back up your policies of "no to landtrading" over their policy of "yes to landtrading".
I honestly do not think any changes will be made by the mods. I'm all for trying out landtrading myself, but there are some in LaF which oppose it quite strongly.
Locket, your argument about beating SS/Bakku's NW record via landtrading is somewhat irrelevant, if someone can do it, I actually want to see it, because my sentiments is that landtrading is a strategy that is far too strong with tag protection, and that it really should be played by a group of strong players to push the boundaries and extent to see just how broken it is to get it nerfed.
Rockman, Bakku/SS's NW records are by no means unbeatable even by traditional means, Eugene/me came within 1-4m NW of Bakku's record just last reset, and neither of us used Decay, neither of us took or gave loans. And yet looking back, both of us can find at least 5 ways we could have improved our finish.