Apr 26th 2012, 14:25:44
Firstly, before I begin let me preface this by making it clear where I stand. I am a sol member, nothing more. What Sol's leadership does in response to anything in this post or otherwise is beyond the purview of what I can control. Yes, my country is still alive (come kill it please, I enjoy walling maybe I can beat my old records). I'm just back this restart after about a year and have very little knowledge of the server politics (and don't care to read all of AT either). What I do know however is the nature of this game, and that the current politics are making the game predictable and boring, in the words of some, ruining the game.
Hanlong you +1'd my post on aponics thread, essentially attempting to say you want to improve the server instead of ruining it, so here's my take and my advice as such. Maybe people here will listen and things will change (although I doubt it).
That said, lets look at some numbers;
-SoL countries over 1m: 15/49 ~25% (I ignored the cowards in Vac mode, not like they matter)
-LaF countries UNDER 1m: 5/91 ~6%
Now if you're going for a tag kill great, hurry it up and do it already. Its more apparent that you want to make SoL your land farm for the rest of the set (which is simply a way to ruin the game).
Why do I say this? Looking at the news for the 16 original SoL countries left.
PS/SS (Farming Runs) 7
AB (Wasted Turn Runs) 3
Missile Dumps (For the sake of Missiles) 1 EM
Kill Attempts 3 + 10 (kills In the last 24hrs)
Should I add in the hits on restarts now? You're spending close to the same amount of time farming/crippling (when not needed) as you are killing, if you're goal is honestly a tag kill, teach your war dept how to do it right and use your size to plow through the remaining living solers, you've got the numbers for the turns and the size to waste the resources breaking it down.
Now if your goal is really what you said it was to prevent sol from ruining your netting set, you've done that already. Approach SoL and offer a CF, farm them for a day to get your free land as a reward to hopefully make up for your time lost to net.
Why do it now before a tag kill? Because as opposed to wrecking-balling them as you easily can with sheer size, you make a move for the better as opposed to the past. Sol's few originals allow them to still have tag protection and preform retals, and to even have a war with someone else later in the set if they actually want to. You've said you hit them to prevent them from ruining your netting, which is funny because in turn you ruin your own netting. But at this point, they can't ruin your netting anymore.
SoL's past the point of being able to bring in help if they've got any to actually bring in *shrug*
As I said in the other thread, to better the server...
Because of LaF's size they shouldn't be FSing anyone (except maybe sof I'd need to look at the numbers more closely) and should be taking a risk of getting fs'ed as opposed to pre-empting everything.
Guilds should be looking for fewer pacts as opposed to more pacts and larger coalitions (which form to defend against larger enemies)
One large enemy pacted to another in the classic earth Dp style leads to large groups forming against them (SoF and LaF are dp's?) Its the very history of the politics that make this game so rigid, you've got to shake things up, A LOT and everyone has to be willing to play ball.
Unfortunately If you really want to improve the game the person or people who step up to change it are going to have to take risks, and are likely to get kicked in the gut a few times until they can get the point across.