Apr 7th 2014, 20:01:55
Originally posted by DJBeif:
Missed that little gem...how nice and encouraging it would be to hear your leaders telling you that you can't do something with your own country and that you're going to take the fall and can't contribute as much to the alliance because this guy's going to do it all. Trading allows for more people to contribute more to the avg net, allowing people to feel it's worth playing the game personally as well as being part of the clan. It's not an avg net based on a couple people at 200M net balancing out everyone else who's at 30-40M, it's everyone contributing 70-100M together.
It has been pointed out that raising EVERYONE's avg net due to external landtrading doesn't contribute to relative standings. If EVERY clan's Avg NW increased proportionately, then the clan's relative standing didn't change. I've pointed out that I likely won't play (and haven't been playing for the last few resets) unless LaF allows internal trading - this would allow LaF to fully maximize potential internally instead of having to do it externally and non-optimally.
Note my contradictory stance. As a game designer, I firmly stand in the camp that landtrading is bad from a design standpoint. As a player that wants to improve my clan, I would only support landtrading if we go all out for it (internal trade). From a selfish solo player standpoint, I'll rather ghost acres don't exist at all.