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Josey Wales

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Aug 18th 2024, 10:08:48

Slagpit,

1. Large country (GDI member) attacks small country.

2. Small country (non-GDI member) is not allowed to retaliate.

What is the reasoning behind this?

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Aug 18th 2024, 16:06:06

GDI provides protection for a price. If you don't want to pay for the protection, you can choose that, but that doesn't nullify any other country's protection from being in GDI.

If the issue is humanitarians, then that is different - but I think all of these have been explained a number of times in the forums previously.

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Aug 18th 2024, 18:57:50

Originally posted by Josey Wales:
Slagpit,

1. Large country (GDI member) attacks small country.

2. Small country (non-GDI member) is not allowed to retaliate.

What is the reasoning behind this?


It's so suiciders can't randomly suicide, if you stay within 4x the NW of the country that took land from you, then you can retaliate.
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Josey Wales

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Aug 18th 2024, 22:46:11

Originally posted by Tertius:
GDI provides protection for a price. If you don't want to pay for the protection, you can choose that, but that doesn't nullify any other country's protection from being in GDI.

If the issue is humanitarians, then that is different - but I think all of these have been explained a number of times in the forums previously.



Great explanations both. Thank you.

To follow up on your explanation- so essentially, a larger country that is in GDI can attack a smaller country, not in GDI, as many times as the larger country wants, wirh zero fear of any repercussions correct?

If that is the case, do you think that the developers inherently want all countries to be in GDI?

There seems to be very little benefit, if any, of not being in GDI. Just an interesting dynamic.

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Aug 19th 2024, 0:42:57

It's a bad user experience for sure. I have advocated that if someone hits you... you can retal regardless of humans/gdi.

The ol' hit a noob (josey in this case) and jump out of range is kind of lame for the noob (josey).

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Aug 19th 2024, 6:42:47

Yeah I agree with that, once you're hit then you should be able to retal regardless of size.
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Josey Wales

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Aug 19th 2024, 11:10:30

Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:
Yeah I agree with that, once you're hit then you should be able to retal regardless of size.


Seems only fair.

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Aug 19th 2024, 18:50:27

Originally posted by Requiem:
It's a bad user experience for sure. I have advocated that if someone hits you... you can retal regardless of humans/gdi.

The ol' hit a noob (josey in this case) and jump out of range is kind of lame for the noob (josey).


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Aug 19th 2024, 19:08:25

Originally posted by Josey Wales:
Originally posted by Tertius:
GDI provides protection for a price. If you don't want to pay for the protection, you can choose that, but that doesn't nullify any other country's protection from being in GDI.

If the issue is humanitarians, then that is different - but I think all of these have been explained a number of times in the forums previously.



Great explanations both. Thank you.

To follow up on your explanation- so essentially, a larger country that is in GDI can attack a smaller country, not in GDI, as many times as the larger country wants, wirh zero fear of any repercussions correct?

If that is the case, do you think that the developers inherently want all countries to be in GDI?

There seems to be very little benefit, if any, of not being in GDI. Just an interesting dynamic.


Your summary is incorrect. GDI does not prevent any attacks if you've been hit multiple times. Once someone hits you 2x, they have "broken GDI" and it no longer has protection against that country. I think you are once again struggling with the humanitarian range where you cannot hit someone more than 4x your size regardless of GDI. Honestly, it probably protects you more than it hurts you given your skill level, but as Req notes, there have been a number of players who have brought up discussion of whether it continues to make sense.

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Aug 20th 2024, 17:58:31

Yeah Josey would be getting farmed to the ground if it wasn't for the humanitarian protection 😂
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Josey Wales

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Aug 21st 2024, 9:56:29

It’s an interesting game. No retaliation allowed.

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Aug 21st 2024, 13:01:29

It is allowed. You are incapable. Does that help clarify?

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Aug 21st 2024, 14:35:27

My thought is that if you have, lets say, missiles and someone on the edge of humans farms you 5x then jumps out of range it is a _one way_ free pass from humans for the defender to be able to send a nuke to the aggressor (a limited number of attacks based on how many times they were hit), not a two-way street for the aggressor to continue to farm, the aggressor in this case has to choose to jump out of humans risking a limited number of retail hits or stay low enough to continue farming– in both cases the defender could have some possibility of hitting back in some manner.

It has been a common complaint by noobs for a while, search the forums.

It is still, very much, a skill issue that he cannot hit back but it is demoralizing to some individuals when they cant do anything. We will prob always have some % of the player base that is so bad that this happens. And it may cause some of them to quit, I'm sure it has in the past.

We want noobs here too because the whales need them to have fun!

Josey Wales

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Aug 26th 2024, 17:50:02

At a certain point it becomes a waste of time.

There are 72 players in Primary.

The population of Earth is 7.9 Billion.

It’s like a high tech knitting technique that less than 72 people on the planet know how to do.

Lots of luck.

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Sep 1st 2024, 7:46:01

Originally posted by Josey Wales:
It’s an interesting game. No retaliation allowed.


Originally posted by Tertius:
It is allowed. You are incapable. Does that help clarify?



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LOL hahahahaha
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Sep 1st 2024, 7:46:50

Originally posted by Josey Wales:
At a certain point it becomes a waste of time.

There are 72 players in Primary.

The population of Earth is 7.9 Billion.

It’s like a high tech knitting technique that less than 72 people on the planet know how to do.

Lots of luck.


And.....you ain't one of them....
Mess with me you better kill me, or I'll just take your pride & joy and jack it up
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