Solo in the coming age

[Kaz]

Solo doesn't work.

For a while now the idea has been played with to kill the game off. Too many players are asking for or offering aid. Too many players are randomly hitting smaller realms three and out. Too many players are downhitting war after war after war.

This game was supposed to be challenging.

This coming age will be different.

Solo will be moved to the new codebase.

It will had races with Unity/Massacre stats. Feel free to discuss what those races might be over the short remainder of this current age.

Code will be added to prevent you declaring war more than 10% below your networth.

UNLESS

The target has your realm number listed in one of its slots used for warmonger.

OR

The target has more land than you.

When your realm is flagged declaring down it will no longer be eligable to declare down with more acres, for 24 hours after the event. It will still be able to declare on realms using warmonger slot info. It will still be able to declare on realms with networths that are up to 10% lower or up.

These checks only effect declarations. You can still attack whoever for the appropriate amount of turns

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I will also try and get checks for hiding in war declarations built in
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We have also added the Guild news function (for our eyes only) and will be able to easily look into evidence of 'aid'.

If this fails it will be Solo's last age.

[Voice Epsilon]

feel free to comment about the races here
http://www.evernight.com/boards/canon/v ... hp?t=30561

[Kaz]

This age has been much better.

Assuming it stays this way, next age (and subsequent ages if it works) will be:

Dwarven - WarOff(4) - WarDef(5) - Sorc(2) - Scum(2) - note: Have decent Forts
Vampire - WarOff(3) - WarDef(2) - Sorc(4) - Scum(4) - note: Have superior Forts
Droben - WarOff(5) - WarDef(3) - Sorc(2) - Scum(2) - note: Have superior Summon
Elemental - WarOff(4) - WarDef(4) - Sorc(4) - Scum(2) - note: Have +1 sorc, but poor backlash

I think 3 warrior races, one with max defense, one with max offense and one with sorcery defense, should go nicely alongside a Scum, Sorc race that can compete in Solo.

[Karhedron]

The 10% downhit thing does appear to have improved things... but we are still having cases of people simply downsizing all army, declaring, and then forting up and hitting someone who -can- be at times several hundred thousand nw smaller than them once they are forted to strike.

While i accept there is always some fluctuation with regards switching from defensive to offensive forts, people are obviously using this as a work around the new restrictions.

Perhaps basing the 10% difference upon the attackers nw from several hours ago would be more fitting? So that if they do wish to downsize and then declare, they have to accept the risk of being downsized for several hours prior to being able to make the hit, the declaration restrictions still noticing their previous higher nw for a number of hours...

[Torkano]

Why not just go on 10% deviation in land mass.

[Voice Epsilon]

just 10% land mass sounds like a good idea

[Karhedron]

Damn you Tork.

[Sun Ce]

Will this be heading over to guilds game?

Dwarven - WarOff(4) - WarDef(5) - Sorc(2) - Scum(2) - note: Have decent Forts
Vampire - WarOff(3) - WarDef(2) - Sorc(4) - Scum(4) - note: Have superior Forts
Droben - WarOff(5) - WarDef(3) - Sorc(2) - Scum(2) - note: Have superior Summon
Elemental - WarOff(4) - WarDef(4) - Sorc(4) - Scum(2) - note: Have +1 sorc, but poor backlash

[Kaz]

No, the guilds game will remain Human, Elven, Goblin + guest(s)

I think I'll change the downhit declaration to be just land based rather than networth.

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[Dux]

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[Kaz]

Thats the ultimate fix.

Try declaring down now muahahahahahahaha

[Dux]

Fixed...

You are at war with Crumb's Kingdom (3****).

[Exile]

one other suggestion with the war dec situation...earlier this age I was hit by a suisorc realm and since he declared on me his "warmonger" slots weren't filled so I was unable to declare back on him. It ended up not having an effect this war but it's easy to imagine a senario where a small kingdom hits a large one by sorc and then in drops its dec ASAP and the big one is powerless to continue the battle.

[Kaz]

You can't declare peace for 48 hours anyway.

I'd think that if a small player hit a large realm, declared attacked for 48 hours and then declared peace again, that it's not really that much of an issue.

It needs to redeclare to do more damage anyway, unless it can unseen scum you.

[Exile]

The problem isn't so much the damge he can do to you, but the damage you can do in response is limited. Once he hits the peace button, all you can do are 3 hits per day, you have no power to continue an attack against you beyond that, ie the reason you can declare war on a person that has filled one of it's war monger slots against you

[Kaz]

I'm pretty sure the action of declaring war doesnt clear the last hit slots, so they also have to go out and hit a few other realms to remove you from their war slots.

[Exile]

If they declare before they hit then if wouldn't fill any of the warmonger slots would it? in any case a few hours after he hit and PLed me I was unable to declare back. (it ended up not mattering in this case, but it could in the future)